Jamie Vardy’s 57th-minute equaliser sees Leicester win a point despite Spurs’ first-half dominance. Check out the best facts, stats and Opta data from this Premier League match with our Leicester vs Tottenham stats page.
Tottenham put in a dominant first-half display at Leicester on Monday night, but allowed the Foxes to get back into the game and secure a point. Pedro Porro met James Maddison’s pinpoint cross head to open the scoring for Spurs on 27 minutes, before Jamie Vardy’s 137th Premier League goal levelled the scores in the 57th minute and won Leicester City a valuable point.
Our Opta match centre delivers you all the Leicester vs Tottenham stats from their Premier League clash at the King Power Stadium on Monday night.
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Leicester 1-1 Tottenham: Post-Match Facts
- Since the start of 2018-19, his debut season in the competition, no Premier League midfielder has been involved in more goals away from home than Tottenham’s James Maddison (50 – 25 goals, 25 assists).
- Leicester City have now avoided defeat in their opening game of a league season in each of their previous six campaigns (W3 D3) since losing 2-1 to Manchester United in 2018-19.
- Tottenham have drawn their opening game of the Premier League season in successive campaigns for the first time since 2001-02 and 2002-03 under Glenn Hoddle, while it also ends a run of six successive wins against newly promoted sides in the competition.
- This is the first time Leicester have avoided defeat when trailing at half time at home in the Premier League since a 2-2 draw with Burnley in September 2021; the Foxes had lost their last nine such games before today.
- Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy has now netted nine Premier League goals against Tottenham, only against Arsenal and Watford (11 each) has he scored more against a side in the Football League.
- Only Mohamed Salah (9) has scored more Premier League goals on MD 1 than Jamie Vardy (8), while aged 37 years and 221 days, only Teddy Sheringham (39y 133d) for West Ham United against Blackburn Rovers has scored on MD1 at an older age in the competition’s history.
- Jamie Vardy has now scored 103 Premier League goals since his 30th birthday. This is the most of all players in the history of the competition, and 10 more than the next highest, Ian Wright (93).
- Of players with at least 40 assists in the Premier League, only Andrew Cole (62% – 45/73) has a higher proportion coming in away games than Tottenham’s James Maddison (60% – 25/42).
- Since his Premier League debut in February 2023, Spurs’ Pedro Porro has been involved in more goals than any other defender (17 – 7 goals, 10 assists), with the Spaniard netting in three of his last four games in the competition.
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