Leicester City 4-1 Tottenham Hotspur: Foxes come back for impressive victory

Nampalys Mendy's extremity was his archetypal since a Ligue 1 onslaught for Nice astatine Bastia successful 2015

Leicester City came from down to triumph for the 2nd clip successful a enactment arsenic they humbled a dreadful Tottenham.

But the resurgent Foxes netted doubly successful little than 2 and a fractional minutes to crook the crippled connected its head.

First Nampalys Mendy scored lone the 2nd extremity of his full vocation erstwhile helium crashed a first-time screamer into the apical country from the borderline of the box.

Soon after, Wout Faes' tackle connected Harry Kane connected halfway ricocheted into the way of Kelechi Iheanacho, who squared for James Maddison to score.

Spurs defender Eric Dier stood disconnected Iheanacho, who stroked a changeable into the bottommost country for a Leicester 3rd earlier the break.

Harvey Barnes had a extremity disallowed by the video adjunct referee for offside but Spurs failed to larn their acquisition and the winger slotted successful a 4th from James Maddison's walk 10 minutes later.

To headdress disconnected a genuinely rotten day for Spurs, they mislaid goalscorer Bentancur to a genu wounded suffered arsenic helium tackled Mendy aft an hour.

The Foxes are present 13th, six points supra the relegation zone, portion Tottenham stay fifth, 1 constituent down the apical four.

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The Foxes are flying again

The World Cup killed Leicester's momentum, with 4 wins retired of 5 beforehand and 4 defeats successful a enactment afterwards.

But added to a gully with Brighton and 4-2 triumph astatine Aston Villa, this triumph implicit Spurs shows that they person present recovered.

With Maddison good and genuinely backmost from injury, and respective caller signings, positive Iheanacho scoring for a 3rd crippled successful a row, Brendan Rodgers volition beryllium delighted.

It had looked acceptable to beryllium a atrocious day erstwhile Kristensen diverted a country into the way of Bentancur for the opener.

The Denmark Under-21 defender had a agleam game, that 1 infinitesimal aside, clearing a shot disconnected the enactment moments earlier that extremity and popping up successful some boxes with tackles and passes.

But past Mendy produced his unbelievable strike, his archetypal successful English football, arsenic helium ran onto Bentancur's clearance to leather a changeable past Forster.

Faes had already been booked for tackling Kane truthful helium whitethorn person taken a hazard erstwhile helium tackled the aforesaid subordinate successful the centre circle. But the escaped shot flew astir 30 yards to Iheanacho to acceptable up Maddison for his 2nd extremity successful 2 games.

Iheanacho enactment them successful power earlier the interruption from Harry Souttar's shot - and they had chances successful the 2nd fractional earlier 2 clever Barnes finishes, 1 which did not basal and past the 1 which did.

This indispensable present beryllium considered the astir entertaining Premier League match-up. Since Leicester's promotion successful 2014 their games against Spurs person produced 76 goals, the astir of immoderate fixture successful the part implicit that time.

To amended the enactment ambiance adjacent more, Rodgers was capable to bring connected right-back Ricardo Pereira for his archetypal quality of the play pursuing an Achilles injury.

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False dawn for Spurs?

Tottenham had appeared to crook a country aft a squad gathering pursuing their 4-2 nonaccomplishment astatine Manchester City a period ago.

Wins implicit Fulham, Preston and champions City came afterwards.

Conte missed that City triumph arsenic helium recovered successful Italy and helium astir apt wishes helium was inactive astatine location aft witnessing this capitulation up close.

First-choice keeper Hugo Lloris missed the archetypal of galore games here, with the nine skipper ruled retired for astatine slightest six weeks with a genu injury.

Veteran Forster started successful goal, lone his 2nd league crippled since joining Spurs successful the summer.

It was each looking truthful bully erstwhile Bentancur scored - though they had to hold 2 minutes to observe aft a agelong VAR cheque for offside.

But that was 1 of conscionable 4 shots connected people each afternoon.

Harry Kane, their all-time apical scorer, had to hold until the 90th infinitesimal for his lone changeable of the game. Son Heung-min, who scored a hat-trick successful the reverse fixture, lone had 1 effort himself.

Pedro Porro, their caller signing astatine right-back, had a disappointing debut arsenic helium struggled with Barnes' pace.

Bentancur added to an already agelong wounded database erstwhile helium was wounded successful a collision with Mendy and needed oxygen - though helium was capable to locomotion disconnected with assistance alternatively of needing the stretcher which had been sent on.

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