- Oct 17, 2006
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SPURS 5-4 LEICESTER
Kane (2), Lamela (2), Fuchs (og) Vardy (2), Mahrez, Iheanacho
Spurs: Lloris (C), Walker-Peters, Alderweireld, Wanyama, Rose, Dier, Sissoko (Son), Lamela, Eriksen, Lucas (Dele), Kane. Kane (2), Lamela (2), Fuchs (og) Vardy (2), Mahrez, Iheanacho
Following Vertonghen's late withdrawal Wanyama starts and Sanchez on the bench
Leicester: Jakupović, Simpson, Morgan (c), Maguire, Fuchs, Gray, Silva, Iborra, Mahrez, Iheanacho, Vardy.
Substitutes: Hamer, Benalouane, Hughes, Choudhury, Barnes, Diabaté, Ndukwu.
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What a game! We finish third in the 2017-18 Premier League table. Well played lads!
89 mins Yellow Card: Silva
84 mins Sub: Barnes for Iheanacho.
83 mins Sub: Son for Sissoko.
81 mins Yellow Card: Choudhury
77 mins Sub: Sanchez for Lamela
75 mins GOAL Spurs 5-4 Leicester : Kane
Kane takes a touch in the box, steps beyond a challenge and curls delightfully inside the far post on his right foot.
73 mins Sub: Dele for Lucas
72 mins GOAL Spurs 4-4 Leicester : Vardy
Vardy in down the left side of the box, smashes high into the net from a tight angle.
60 mins Sub: Diabate for Gray.
59 mins GOAL Spurs 4-3 Leicester : Lamela
Break on, Lucas picks it up in the middle, no through ball on, plays it wide to Walker-Peters who slides it across from the right for Lamela to convert from six yards.
55 mins Sub: Choudhury for Simpson.
54 mins Yellow Card: Wanyama
52 mins GOAL Spurs 3-3 Leicester : Lamela
Rose bursts down the left, in to the feet of Lucas, smart flick to Lamela, eight yards out, ball hits Maguire but Lamela steers in.
46 mins GOAL Spurs 2-3 Leicester : Fuchs (og)
Lucas out to Walker-Peters on the right, low cross tapped by Lamela in the centre.
46 mins GOAL Spurs 1-3 Leicester : Iheanacho
Iheanacho onto a loose ball in the middle and arrows into the top corner from 25 yards on his left foot.
15 mins GOAL Spurs 1-2 Leicester : Mahrez
Ball worked across the box from Gray to Silva to Vardy, set back for Mahrez to blast in from just inside the area.
6 mins GOAL Spurs 1-1 Leicester : Kane
Ball breaks to Kane in midfield after Lucas wins possession, he races forward and drills past Jakupovic on his left foot inside the near post.
3 mins GOAL Spurs 0-1 Leicester : Vardy
Vardy glances home a header from Mahrez's wide free-kick.
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REFEREE : Craig Pawson
TEAM FORM: Spurs D L W L W Leicester L D L L W
We have won just one of our last five EPL meetings with Leicester (D2 L2) winning 6-1 at the King Power Stadium in May 2017. Leicester haven't done the double over us since 1998-99 campaign. Of all the teams we have faced at least 10 times at home in the EPL, only against Chelsea (19%) and Man Utd (23%) do we have a lower win rate than they do against Leicester (36% - won 4/11)
The foxes have lost both their previous games against us at Wembley, losing 0-1 in the 1961 FA Cup final and 0-1 in the 1999 League cup final. They are winless in their last six EPL games in London (D3 L3), losing 0-5 at Crystal Palace in their last such match.
We are guaranteed a top 4 finish for the 3rd consecutive Premier League season, its the first time we have had three top flight finishes in 4th or higher since a run of five campaigns between 1959-60 and 1963-1964.
The last team to beat both north London sides in consecutive EPL matches were Man Utd who beat us 3-0 and Arsenal 8-2 on August 2011. Against no side has Harry Kane scored more EPL goals than he has versus Leicester City ( 9, level with Stoke). Those nine goals include two hat-Tricks, one in a 4-3 win at WHL and one in a 6-1 win at the King Power Stadium. If he scores three or more in this game, he will be only the second player to score three hat-tricks against the same EPL opponent (After Luis Suarez vs Norwich) and the first to score one against the same opponent at three different grounds.
Kane has 28 EPL goals this season, two more will see him score 30 in a campaign for the first time, while it will also be only the second time that two players have score 30+ league goals in a season since 1993-94 (Andy Cole and Alan Shearer).
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