Leicester win and highlight Spurs’ defensive problems

The fans of City of Leicester a game like this afternoon at King Power Stadium which served the ‘foxes’ to defeat the Tottenham Hotspur in 23rd day of Premier. Nampalys Mendy, James Maddison, Kelechi Iheanacho, and Harvey Barnes are the protagonists after returning from the first goal of Rodrigo Bentancur and give the three points to Brendan Rodgers’ team, which puts the distance in the ‘red zone’ of the classification, marked by Everton (18 points).

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It took a few minutes Leicester to acclimatize to the game. In the first plays, the advanced pressure of Tottenham causing local defense errors to be exploited Bentancur. The Uruguayan was too conditioned after receiving a yellow in the first change for correcting a mistake Pedro Porro. It was the debut of the Spanish international in the ranks of Tottenham and he soon realized that he had reached the Premier.

After ten minutes the clearest chance began to appear. A foul was thrown by Perisic need the hand of Ward to send the ball into a corner. Kristiansen The shot took the ball under the sticks. Second corner kick, which this time was taken advantage of Tottenham. Bentancur got a rebound from Kristiansen himself in the small area to beat the motivated at 14′. VAR had to prove the correct position of the Uruguayan.

Deadly minute for Spurs

It was then, with the score against, when Leicester dispelled their fears. in 23′ Mendy tied the rivalry at a flag goal. The Senegalese midfielder, who showed a real physical display, put in a real whip from the edge of the area after a clearance from Bentancurwho released the ball again.

Two more minutes passed and a turnover of Ben Davies served on Faes to connect quickly Ihenachowho gave assistance to the captain Maddison to determine perfectly. Conte’s team was in trouble, suffering harassment from King Power Stadium.

In addition to the first part, a great iheanacho reappeared. Both visiting loss under construction and the Nigerian controlled a ball from souttarbrought inside and put it as he wanted after he tricked Dier with pretense The afternoon is suffocating Fraser Forster.

He Leicester He continued to stalk the visitor’s goal at the start. well instructed by Faes and souttarthe ‘foxes’ have no doubts about coming out with quick transitions and putting pressure on the team’s developing game Countwhich was obviously touched.

And it is that the game can not get worse for him Tottenham. One of their best players Bentancurretreated wounded knee and entered Pape Sarr. Meanwhile, Harry Kane He still hasn’t faced his favorite victim (scored 20 goals against Leicester).

After game time, the VAR He intervened again to cancel out a goal on Harvey Barnes. iheanacho put a pass into space which the English winger took advantage of to get up to speed and cross the ball Forster. It was seen in the replay Barnes slightly forward.

Harvey Barnes ended the game

But in 81′ it was perfectly valid. Maddison connected to Barnes, who dropped the ball and adjusted to a band from outside the area. He Tottenham is still incomplete and Forster suffering an afternoon to forget.

In the last stretch they entered Emerson, Richarlison and Danjuma but they did not change anything from the attack of the Tottenham. back too Ricardo Pereira after recovering from his serious knee injury. In the defeat this afternoon, the motivated lose another chance to fight for the positions of Champions and they continue in 5th, one point behind newcastle. For his part, he Leicester Add three important points to get out of the danger zone and move up to 13th position.

LEICESTER

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TOTTENHAM

4 – Leicester:ward; Castagne, Souttar, Faes, Kristiansen; Mendy, Dewsbury-Hall, Tete, Maddison, Harvey Barnes; Iheanacho.
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1 – Tottenham:Forster; Porro, Tanganga, Dier, Davies; Hojbjerg, Bentancur, Perisic; Kulusevski, Heung-Min Anak, Kane.
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Thethe objectives: 0-1 Bentancur (14′), 1-1 Mendy (23′), 2-1 Maddison (25′), 3-1 Iheanacho (45+4′), 4-1 Harvey Barnes (81′).
The
Thecards: Leicester’s Faes, Maddison, Dewsbury-Hall, Barnes and Souttar shown yellow. Also with Spurs’ Bentancur and Dier.
The
TheReferee: Michael Salisbury.
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Thehappenings: 32, 184 spectators at the King Power Stadium.

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