Leicester v Spurs - the stats

On Sunday afternoon, we head to Leicester for our final outing of the 2020/21 season - here, we take a look at the key numbers and statistics behind the match...

Leicester v Spurs

We have an even head-to-head record when it comes to taking on Leicester City in the Premier League. Having faced the Foxes 29 times in the competition to date, each side has 12 wins to their name, while there has been five draws. In the last two seasons though, it is Sunday’s hosts who have had the upper hand.

Heading into the 2019/20 campaign, we had been the side enjoying this fixture more often than not, having been on a run of just one defeat in the previous seven games (W5 D1). However, we head into this encounter with two defeats from our last three meetings. Despite the recent disappointments against the East Midlands outfit though, we do frequently hit the target on our travels up the M1 as in out last 14 trips, we have only failed to find the back of the net once. At the other end of the pitch, we have kept just two clean sheets in that run.

While our aforementioned goalscoring exploits against the Foxes also demonstrates our opponents' similar struggles to register shutouts in this fixture, their defensive fragilities against us are even more prevalent when consecutive clean sheets are taken into account. While we last kept Leicester from scoring in back-to-back games at the turn of the Millennium, it has been 47 years since they managed that feat against us (December, 1973-January, 1974).

As well as that, the feat of a league ‘double’ over us is also something that Leicester haven’t recorded in a while. They may have taken the spoils in our initial meeting this season back in December at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with a 2-0 win, but they haven't won both league games in a season against us since 1998/99. That year though, they also recorded a 2-0 victory in N17.

Final day

Over the last 10 seasons, we have enjoyed our final day encounters. In the past decade, we have lost just once on matchday 38 - we have taken all three points on seven occasions and drawn the other two.

Leicester, meanwhile, having won their final league game in seven consecutive seasons between 2008/09 and 2014/15, have failed to secure victory in any of their last day outings since, drawing three and losing two - one of those defeats coming against us in May, 2018, as we earned a 5-4 victory in a thriller at Wembley.

Harry Kane was on target that day with a brace. Those strikes for Harry are two of seven goals he has registered in six final day appearances in his Premier League career to date - only Andy Cole, Les Ferdinand (both nine) and Matt Le Tissier (eight) have scored more such goals in the competition. Our number 10 has scored on each of his last three final day appearances including in our most recent such game - a 1-1 draw with Crystal Palace in July, 2020.

A fox in the box

A former Fox himself, having spent a month on loan at the King Power Stadium in the second half of the 2012/13 season, Harry Kane has scored more Premier League goals against Leicester than he has versus any other opponent (14 in 11 games). Half of those goals have come in six outings at Leicester’s home, including a four-goal haul in May, 2017.

Like Harry, Heung-Min Son also has a strong record in the East Midlands having been directly involved in six goals in three starts (three goals, three games), while both of Dele’s Premier League goals against the Foxes have come in away games, scoring in December, 2018, and August, 2015.

For Leicester, it is forward Jamie Vardy who holds a strong record in front of goal against us. The former England international has found the back of the net five times in his last six top flight appearances against us. His fellow front man Kelechi Iheanacho though is the man in form in recent months, as he has scored 12 Premier League goals since February.

Meanwhile, Foxes chief Brendan Rodgers has overseen victory in seven of his last eight matches against us, losing one - a 3-0 defeat at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium during his current spell with Leicester in July, 2020.

Form guide

Following back-to-back victories against West Brom and Crystal Palace at the end of April, the Foxes have had a rather mixed bag of results, a draw against Southampton and defeat to Newcastle before beating Manchester United and losing to Chelsea.

Their last home game was the aforementioned reverse against Steve Bruce’s Newcastle where the north east side fired home four goals at the King Power Stadium. The Foxes haven’t lost consecutive games at the King Power in the league for seven months since defeats to West Ham and Aston Villa in October. Brendan Rodgers' side have lost eight Premier League games at home this season - double the number of losses they suffered at the King Power last season. They haven’t endured nine or more home defeats in a single campaign in the competition since 2001/02.

We, meanwhile, have lost just one of our last four Premier League away games (W1 D2), however that defeat did come last time out when we suffered a 3-1 reverse to Leeds at Elland Road.