English Premier League: Leicester show class in Tottenham victory
Two great strikes to take the game away from one of the title contenders, who are well out of the race by now. Leicester enjoying the Vardy party and Tottenham sent home thinking after a 2-1 home victory.
Leicester have been racking up the results after their manager miss and on the other end, their opponents are in all sorts of bad form. Vardy’s goal set the pace for the foxes as they showed more drive than the visitors.
It took Leicester City two world-class chances to score two world-class goals. One, sure brilliance and the other, something we seen before from the little winger, Riyad Mahrez, but still a treat to witness.
Leicester vs Tottenham match stats:
Leicester City | Stat | Tottenham |
| 37% | Possession | 63% |
| 7 | Total Shots | 18 |
| 4 | Shots on Target | 6 |
| 4 | Corners | 9 |
| 2 | Offsides | 1 |
| 7 | Fouls | 10 |
| 1 | Yellow Cards | 2 |
| 0 | Red Cards | 0 |
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Pochettino and his men, struggling tremendously to get back on the horse and ride majestic in the Premier League. The horse’s shoe missing this time was the accuracy on goal, with chance after chance missing the target.
A bad night in front of goal doesn’t even begin to describe it.
Spurs played well enough to take the game away from the home side, but one goal was all they could make up during the 90 minutes and 18 shots taken.
The Spurs manager shared his frustration after the match, after being displeased with the display on the pitch.
"“It’s difficult to analyse the game in the way that we started, so sloppy.“Our performance in the first half disappointed us a lot.“It’s not about tactics or a different system or the selection or the starting XI. The collective performance was so poor.“I think in football, first of all you must compete, you must fight, you must be focused and then of course your quality will appear. But Leicester showed more than us.”"
Not a happy man – clear as daylight how badly it was as a collective effort and rightly put by the Spurs’ manager.
Their next trial and hopefully not an error is a trip over to the Hornets nest – Where they will take on a Watford side totally bruised and battered after the Man United defeat.
Joyful words from Leicester City’s manager, Claude Puel:
"The goals from Jamie and Riyad were fantastic and this is amazing for the future.“It was a very good game and it’s important to continue this hard work on the pitch in the training sessions.“It’s just one game but it’s promising.“It’s important to play with the same confidence and quality no matter the style.”"
Taken from Sports Illustrated.
Foxes keep the den clean collecting four points from the possible six after their defeat at home to Man City.
The momentum is with Puel and his side to go and collect a number of victories to put get their season back on track again. They have a tough encounter come the weekend – they play Burnley at home.
Let’s hope Vardy and the boys don’t party too hard so they ready for the weekend’s fixture.