It’s back, the thing all of us have been crying out for months on end, it’s here, the Premier League is finally back. With the arrivals of Archie Gray and Dominic Solanke, Tottenham fans are ecstatic over the concept of these two linking up in N17. Our Midlands opponents have brought in the likes of Buonanotte and Caleb Okoli to bolster their squad and improve their hopes of survival in their maiden season back in the Premier League.

Tottenham are heavy favourites for this fixture with Opta Analysts favouring them with a whopping 56.8% chance of victory, whilst Leicester sit with a percentage of 20.7% which is less than the possibility of a draw between the two sides which sits around 22.5%.

Newly appointed Leicester manager Steve Cooper’s last competitive game in a manager role was against Tottenham Hotspur were Nottingham Forest would lose 3-1 to the now Europa League side who face the Foxes and are the pick to win this clash according to many world renowned betting companies across the world.

Tottenham and Leicester have shared many players in the past including, Harry Winks, James Maddison and the man who will join the Foxes imminently, Tottenham born and bred, Oliver Skipp! There have been just 18 players who have made a competitive appearance for Tottenham and Leicester City, with the first being goalkeeper Ian Walker who joined Leicester in 2001 after a 12 year stint at the Lilywhites.

Over pre-season, Leicester suffered defeats to Palermo, Augsburg and RC Lens. Whilst their opponents Tottenham Hotspur suffered just 2 defeats to Bayern Munich (x2)

Predicted Lineups for our opponents and Tottenham Hotspur are as followed: Tottenham – Vicario; Porro, Romero, Van de Ven, Udogie; Bentacur, Sarr, Maddison; Kulusevski, Solanke, Son

Whilst our opponents Predicted Lineup stands as: Hermansen; Pereira, Faes, Vestergaard, Kristiansen; Ndidi, Winks; Fatawu, Buonanotte, Mavididi; Cannon.

Written by: thfc_jam on X.