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 (N1), scoring at least three goals in all five wins.

After a 1-1 draw in August, Leicester are looking to avoid defeat in both Premier League games against Spurs in a single season for the first time since their title-winning 2015/16 season. The two teams drew 1-1 in August before Leicester won 1-0 away in January.

There were 130 goals scored in 35 Premier League games between Tottenham and Leicester, the highest goals per game rate of any game 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 the 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 game, having lost 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 have not lost four in a row at all between 2005 and 2023, with Ange Postecoglou possibly becoming only the second Spurs manager to lose four times in a row, alongside David Pleat in the 2003/2004 season.

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

Leicester’s Ruud van Nistelrooy is only the fourth manager in Premier League history to suffer seven consecutive defeats in his first ten games at a club, joining Alan Ball at Man City in 1995 (8 in a row) and 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, kicking four goals, despite coming on the losing side in three of those games.

Leicester goalkeeper Jakub Stolarczyk has become the first goalkeeper in Premier League history to concede multiple goals in each of his first five appearances, scoring 11 goals in total. The last Foxes goalkeeper to concede more than two goals in six consecutive games was Ron-Robert Zieler in the 2016–17 season.