Brendan Rodgers: “It felt totally different to Brighton,” he tells the BBC. “I thought we played really well today and created loads of chances. The boys showed great bravery and courage today.
“We kept bouncing back from our own mistakes. It was self-inflicted today, it was our own mistakes - two from corners and two mistakes. I thought our two centre-halves were outstanding - I feel for the players, 6-2 feels really harsh. It is individual mistakes at set-pieces. We continue to do every we can, we work on it every day.
“I always do believe we can overcome it. You didn’t see a team today that is short of confidence, that is always a good sign. Once we went 4-2 behind it was difficult for the players.
“I will always fight on, but I understand the game and six straight losses isn’t good for anyone. But I thought we really dominated the game, especially in the first-half, but once the first goal went in there was maybe a wee sense of deja-vu for the players but they kept fighting and showing their spirit.”
James Maddison: “It’s tough to kind of debrief it in my head so soon after but obviously people will check the scoreline, see 6-2 and think Leicester got battered again but I don’t think that was the case,” he tells Sky Sports. “First half I thought we were outstanding, we worked so hard on the training pitch this week because we know we need to produce better results nad performances because we haven’t been of late.
“In the first half, it seemed like the Leicester that we know and the Brendsan Rodgers side we know. The high press was working well, we had many chances to score and then obviously Son comes on, produces a couple of moments of magic, the game gets stretched and it ends up 6-2. That looks a bit of a ridiculous scoreline so it’s hard to take.”
Match report: Tottenham Hotspur 6-2 Leicester City
Premier League: “As ways to end a goal drought go, this takes some topping,” writes Sam Dalling from White Hart Lane. “With Tottenham already having come from behind to lead a pulsating clash 3-2, substitute Son Heung-Min curled a finish past a flailing Danny Ward. It was only the start.”
More from Son: ““My finishing has been poor this season,” he says. “I’ve also been a little bit unlucky with an own goal, two offside goals and hitting the crossbar. I knew goals were coming and I wasn’t worried. I’ve always had great supporters, team-mates and coaches behind me.
“I like to shoot from outside the box - I’ve practiced that since I was a kid. Even now after training, if I have time, I try to practice from that position and hitting the top corner. I’m really glad the ball finally went in.,
“I was pretty sure I was onside for the hat-trick. I’m glad I’ve been able to help the team, that is really important and I can go to national duty with new energy.
“I’m getting emotional [about the support of my teammates] to be honest. There has been amazing support and I’ve always felt like I’ve disappointed my team-mates and fans with my performances. They have always been supporting me.”
Son speaks: “It was a tough moment,” he tells Sky Sports. “I was really frustrated to be honest because of course[apart from not socring] I could have done much better than what I did in the last couple of games. So I was disappointed of course but while the team was doing good, individually I was not really happy. But today we’ve got a great, great win and I’ve got the match ball, which means my frustrations are going away.”
Full time: Tottenham Hotspur 6-2 Leicester City
Peep! Peep! Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep! Having started on the bench, Son Heung-min finishes the game a hero, having come on to score a 14-minute hat-trick. He walks off with the match ball under his arm, politely applauding the Tottenham fans as he leacves the pitch.
Tottenham go second, level on points with Manchester City, while Leciester City remain anchored to the bottom of the table with just one point from their first seven games. It’s their worst run for eight years.
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90+4 min: Lloris dives low to his right to save a rasping 200yard drive from Maddison. It’s all over.
90+2 min: “Ole! Ole! Ole!” cheer the Tottenham fans as their players play keep-ball to run down the clock. They’ve been far from their best this evening, making a lot of mistakes but have still managed to batter Leicester due in no small part to Son’s appearance off the bench.
90+1 min: A low drive from Tielemans from distance is smothered by Hugo Lloris.
89 min: With an international break very much ahoy, you have to wonder if this second successive hiding for Leicester City could spell the end for Brendan Rodgers at the King Power Stadium. Should he pick up his P45, it won’t be Heung-min Son’s fault, but the substitute’s 14-minute hat-trick could prove the final nail in Rodgers’ coffin.
GOAL! Tottenham Hotspur 6-2 Leicester City (Son 86)
Son scores what looks like his third, firing home with a low shot that goes in off the diving Ward’s elbow. Was he offside? It’s tight – it looks like Jonny Evans might have been playing him on. We go to a VAR check and after a lengthy delay it’s given. What a return to form from Son!
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85 min: Picked out by Kane with a ball across the face of the Leicester penalty area, Son looks up, picks his spot and curls the ball around James Justin, goalkeeper Danny Ward and into the top bin. That’s a splendid finish.
GOAL! TOttenham hotspur 5-2 Leicester City (Son 84)
Son scores his second. And it’s another beauty! For the second game in a row, Leicester are 5-2 down.
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83 min: Harry Kane spoons the ball over the bar from distance when he should probably have played Son in for a fairly straightforward second goal. He’d spotted the Korean’s run but elected to shoot himself.
81 min: Teed up by Son, who had been played in behind, Romero somehow shoots wide from six yards out with the goal gaping. His blushes are somewhat spared by a late offside flag for Son, who was several metres off when he made his run.
79 min: Harry Kane gets past two defenders, cutting in from the left. His cross into the Leciester penalty area cannons off Wout Faes and into the path of Bentancur, who outmuscles Ndidi. His low shot is saved by Ward.
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78 min: I think Ivan Perisic, who was substituted earlier in this half, was booked for running on to the pitch and joining in the celebrations of Son’s goal.
76 min: Leicester double-substitution: Iheanacho and Vardy on for Daka and Dewsbury-Hall.
74 min: Leicester lose the ball in midfield and Hoejbjerg plays it forward to send Son running at the backpedalling Evans and Faes. He glides a little right before bending a shot from distance around Faes and past the despairing dive of Danny Ward.
GOAL! Tottenham Hotspur 4-2 Leicester City (Son 73)
What a goal! Son ends his goal drought in fine style.
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72 min: Throw them all in the Tower, I say.
70 min: There’s a minute’s applause from the fans for Queen Elizabeth II but unlike at Molineux earlier this afternoon, the players don’t stop to join in.
69 min: Spurs substitution: Dejan Kulusevski off, Yves Bissouma on.
68 min: Harvey Barnes is unable to steer his header on target in a crowded penalty area after being picked out by James Maddison.
65 min: Maddison raises his right hand, which is apparently the signal to his teammates that he’s going to hit his corner quite low and hard, straight to the head of Tottenham defender Clement Lenglet at the near post. Woeful.
64 min: Daka tries to play Barnes in behind with a deft little flick around the corner but the midfielder runs into traffic. Leicester win a corner, which James Maddison trots across to take.
63 min: Kulusevski goes down grimacing and holding his ribs after being dispossessed by a robost Wout Faes challenge. He’ll live.
61 min: Patson Daka is booked for deliberate handball after trying to punch a James Maddison cross goalwards at the near post. His effort went wide.
60 min: Tottenham double-substitution: Son and Romero on for Richarlison and Davinson Sanchez.
58 min: A brilliant save from Hugo Lloris, who denies Patson Daka. He leaps to his right and keeps out a header from the Zambian striker, who had jumped higher than Sessegnon to get on the end of a looping cross from Maddison.
56 min: Kane plays a long, low diagonal pass to Kulusevski on the right side of the Leicester penalty area. Wout Faes forces him to shoot with his weaker right foot and his scuffed effort from a tight angle trundles harmlessly towards Danny Ward.
55 min: Tottenham substitution: Emerson Royal on for Ivan Perisic.
54 min: Leicester struggle to play the ball out from the back, unable to find a way through the Spurs press.
52 min: Tottenham corner. Perisic sends the ball to the near post, where Dier helps it along with a skimmed header into the gloves of Danny Ward.
49 min: Showing little sympathy for his teammate in his hour of need, Jonny Evans picks out Ndidi, who is being tightly marked by Hojbjerg, with a hospital pass out of defence to the midfielder’s feet. Desperate not to make another critical mistake, Ndidi is forced to hack down Hojbjerg, who was first to the ball. Yellow card.
GOAL! Tottenham Hotspur 3-2 Leicester City (Bentancur 47)
Oh dear. Wilfred Ndidi gets caught dawdling on the ball halfway inside his own half and is robbed by Rodgrigo Bentancur. The Uruguayan advances, picks his spot and fires the ball home off the upright to leave Ndidi standing with his head in his hands.
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Second half: Tottenham Hotspur 2-2 Leicester City
46 min: Play resumes with a Tottenham kick-off, Harry Kane getting the ball rolling in this second half. There are no changes in personnel on either side.
Half-time: Tottenham Hotspur 2-2 Leicester City
Peep! Both teams adjourn to their dressing-rooms with positives and negatives to ponder. Leicester took the lead through a retaken Youri Tielemans penalty, only to concede back to back goals from corners. Harry Kane headed home the first, while Eric Dier got the second. WIthout playing particularly well, Lec iester restored parity with the pick of the half’s four goals; a fine finish from James Maddison, who was teed up by Timothy Castagne.
45+1 min: Spurs lose the ball inside their own half again, Leicester advance and Daka tees up James Maddison. He blasts the ball, low and hard from a quite tight angle, straight at Hugo Lloris, who keeps it out.
44 min: Danny Ward has been unconvincing in the Leicester goal tonight and throughout the eartly stages of this season but he saves his team’s bacon on this occasion. An inswinger of a free-kick from Perisic is headed goalwards by Davinson Sanchez but Ward stretches to tip the goalbound effort on to the bar.
GOAL: Tottenam Hotspur 2-2 Leicester City (Maddison)
Leicester are level! Castagne bullies Ryan Sessegnon out on the right flank and gets a cross in. James Maddison gets to the ball in front of Dier, hooking the ball over the defender and into the back of the Spurs net.
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39 min: Danny Ward dawdles over the ball after receiving a backpass from Wou Faes and almost gets mugged by Harry Kane. He gets away it, but only just.
38 min: Wilfred Ndidid takes his turn to shoot high over the bar after Tottenham give the ball away just outside their own penalty area again.
37 min: Now Harvey Barnes shoots over, the ball breaking his way in a decent position after uncertainty in the Tottenham defensive ranks. I think he was offside, so his effort might not have counted even if it had gone in.
36 min: James Justin gets the better of Ivan Perisic, rounding the Croat before squaring the ball. Harvey Barnes gets a touch but is unable to steer the ball goalwards.
33 min: Leicester continue with their brand of sterile (lack of) domination, invited on by Tottemnham but giving their hosts very little to worry about. Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall shoots over the bar after a headed clearance from Tottenham ld to the ball clankeding off Rodrigo Bentancur’s shin and breaking his way.
31 min: It’s hearts-in-mouths time for Leicester fans as Spurs win another corner. On this occasion, Perisic’s delivery is poor and fails to clear the first defender.
29 min: Wout Faes plays Patson Daka in behind the Spurs defence but the Leicester striker shoots early and too weakly, straight at Hugo Lloris. That’s a woeful effort from a position of great promise.
27 min: From a Spurs corner, Danny Ward catches the ball, only to lose it in an aerial challenge with Davinson Sanchez. The ball bounces into the goal off Ndidi but Leicester get away with it as the ref blows for a foul on the Leicester goalkeeper.
24 min: Leicester advance but eventually come unstuck by trying to “Arsenal” the ball into the net. Tielemans tries to set up Maddison, who plays the ball back to the Belgian. Both could have shot but neither did.
GOAL! Tottenham 2-1 Leicester City (Dier 22)
Leicester concede from another corner! Ivan Perisic whips the ball into the penalty area, where Eric Dier uses the pace of the ball to guide a near post header in at the far post.
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21 min: Tottenham corner after tenacious work from Richarlison, who puts the ball out off Castagne.
19 min: Leicester are enjoying plenty of possession but doing very little with it. Tottenham seem content to hold them at arm’s length, waiting to hit them on the break. It’s pretty boring to watch but Antonio Conte will argue it works, so the aesthetics are irrelevant as long as the plan is effective.
17 min: Castagne sells Maddison short with an underhit pass, allowing Tottenham to nick the ball and set off upfield.
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14 min: Kane loses the ball cheaply to Ndidi near the halfway line, gifting possession back to Leicester. Their players ping it around for a sustained period without making much ground until finding Tielemans on the right flank. His cross towards the far post is plucked from the air by Hugo Lloris.
13 min: Richarlison sweeps the ball wide to Perisic, who advances, cuts inside and tries a shot himself. It’s blocked.
11 min: It was Dejan Kulusevski who picked out Kane with the cross from the right after Tottenham had taken the corner short, all the better to help create a better angle from which the winger was able to find Kane at the far post.
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GOAL! Tottenham Hotspur 1-1 Leicester City (Kane 9)
Spurs are level! Harry Kane gives Timothy Castagne the slip at the far post as Spurs take a short corner. The cross comes in and he heads home from about two yards out. That’s a terribly soft goal for Leicester to concede but it’s no surprise as they are hopeless at defending set pieces.
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8 min: That challenge by Davinson Sanchez to give away the penalty was utterly daft. There was no need for it and all he had to was stay on his feet as James Justin cut into the Tottenham penalty area. Instead, he dived in, brought down Justin and conceded the penalty.
GOAL! Tottenham Hotspur 0-1 Leicester City (Tielemans 6pen)
Leicester lead! Youri Tielemans steps up again, goes for the same side of the goal but hits the ball much higher. Lloris goes the right way again but doesn’t get a touch and Leicester City are one up.
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Saved! Hugo Lloris dives low to his right to save Youri Tielemans’ effort from 12 yards. Did he stay on his line? I don’t think so. We’ll have a retake.
Penalty for Leicester!
3 min: Davinson Sanchez needlessly brings down James Justin on the edge of the penalty area, right on the line. Spot-kick!
3 min: Harry Kane picks up the ball and runs directly at the Leicester defence, advancing into their penalty area. He’s dispossessed by a combination of Wilfred Ndidi and Jonny Evans.
2 min: Richarlison plays the ball wide to Ryan Sessegnon in an advanced position. A reasonably promising Tottenham move ends up being halted by James Justin, who beats Dejan Kulseski to a Harry Kane pass out on the right.
Tottenham Hotspur v Leicester City is go ...
1 min: Leicester get the ball rolling in the last of today’s three Premier League games.
Not long now: Brendan Rodgers and Antonio Conte lead their teams out on to the White Hart Lane pitch, where the players of both teams line up around on the centre-circle. Club legends Emile Heskey and Ledley King lay wreaths in the middle of the pitch ahead of a minute’s silence that’s largely well observed but interrupted by a few angry shouts from the crowd. There follows a rendition of the national anthem.
Those teams: Son Heung-min has been dropped to the Tottenham bench, making way for Dejan Kulusevski in one of four changes to the Tottenham side that started against Sporting in midweek. Ben Davies, Emerson Royal and Cristian Romero are also out, with Davinson Sanchez, Clement Lenglet and Ryan Sessegnon coming in.
Brendan Rodgers makes three changes to the side that lost against Brighton last time out. |Belgian defender Wout Faes makes his debut for the club, while Timothy Castagne and Kiernan Desbury Hall also start. Luke Thomas, Boubakary Soumare and Kelechi Iheanacho all drop to the bench.
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Tottenham Hotspur v Leicester City line-ups
Tottenham Hotspur: Lloris, Sanchez, Dier, Lenglet, Perisic, Hojbjerg, Bentancur, Sessegnon, Kulusevski, Richarlison, Kane.
Subs: Doherty, Skipp, Son, Gil Salvatierra, Emerson, Romero, Forster, Tanganga, Bissouma.
Leicester City: Ward, Castagne, Faes, Evans, Justin, Ndidi, Maddison, Tielemans, Dewsbury-Hall, Barnes, Daka.
Subs: Vardy, Albrighton, Iheanacho, Perez, Amartey, Praet, Iversen, Thomas, Soumare.
Referee: Simon Hooper (Wiltshire)
This weekend in the Premier League: As well as flying flags at half-mast in tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, a minute’s silence will be observed at White Hart Lane before a rendition of the National Anthem. Wearing black armbands, players will be led out by their managers, while crowds will be asked to applaud through the 70th minute.
Early team news
Lucas Moura appears to be Tottenham’s only absentee through injury and remains sidelined with a tendon injury. While nobody likes to see an unhappy Heung-min Son, the clamour for the out-of-sorts South Korean striker to be dropped has intensified in recent games but Conte may keep faith in last year’s joint Golden Boot winner, even if it means restricting the in-form Dejan Kulusevski to an appearance off the bench again.
Leicester also have an almost fully fit if not firing squad, with long term absentees Ryan Bertrand and Ricardo Pereira their only confirmed absentees. Dropped to the bench for their most recent game against Brighton, Jamie Vardy will be hoping to start ahead of Patson Daka or Kelechi Iheanacho.
Premier League: Tottenham Hotspur v Leicester City
Bottom of the table with just one point to their name, Leicester City travel to White Hart Lane with their manager Brendan Rodgers under immense pressure ahead of the international break. His side face a Tottenham team that has been blowing hot and cold this season, even if they have been picking up positive results their performances occasionally do not merit.
With four league wins to their name already this season, Spurs are white-hot favourites to make it seven games out of seven unbeaten in the current campaign but their manager Antonio Conte will surely be satisfied with little else but outright victory. Kick-off is at 5.30pm (BST) but stay tuned in the meantime for team news and build-up.
