Tottenham Hotspur vs Leicester City: Premier League preview, team news, stats and head-to-head

Tottenham have won five of their last six Premier League home games against Leicester (L1), scoring at least three goals in all five of those wins.

After a 1-1 draw in August, Leicester are looking to avoid defeat in both Premier League meetings with Spurs in a single campaign for the first time since their title-winning season in 2015-16. Back then, the sides drew 1-1 in August before Leicester won 1-0 away in January.

130 goals have been scored in 35 Premier League meetings between Tottenham and Leicester, which is the highest goal per game. match ratio that has been played at least 30 times (3.71).

Since the start of December, only Southampton (8) have lost more Premier League games than Tottenham Hotspur (7), while Saints are also the only team to have conceded more goals (25) than Spurs (22).

Leicester City have lost their last seven Premier League games and could equal their league record for consecutive defeats in this fixture, losing eight games in a row between March and April 2001.

Tottenham have lost their last three Premier League games, most recently four in a row in April/May 2024. They did not lose four in a row at all between 2005 and 2023, when Ange Postecoglou potentially became only the second Spurs manager to lose. four in a row twice, along with David Pleat in 2003-04.

Since Ruud van Nistelrooy took charge of Leicester for the first time on December 3, only Brentford (176) and Southampton (169) have faced more shots than the Foxes (154). The 17.1 shots they have faced per game under the Dutchman, is still marginally lower than they did under Steve Cooper this season (17.6).

Leicester’s Ruud van Nistelrooy is only the fourth manager in Premier League history to suffer a run of seven consecutive defeats in his first 10 games at a club, joining Alan Ball at Man City in 1995 (8 in a row), Mick McCarthy at Sunderland in 2003/2005 (10 in a row) and Terry Connor at Wolves in 2012 (7 in a row).

Only Chelsea’s Cole Palmer (62) has created more chances in the Premier League this season than Tottenham’s Dejan Kulusevski (56). The Swede has also scored in four of his last eight games, netting four goals, although he has ended up on the losing side in three of those matches.

Leicester goalkeeper Jakub Stolarczyk is the first goalkeeper in Premier League history to concede multiple goals in each of his first five appearances, taking 11 goals in total. The last Foxes keeper to concede 2+ goals in six consecutive games was Ron-Robert Zieler in the 2016-17 campaign.