These are meant to be the hardest fixtures of all; a Saturday lunchtime start at a tricky opposition after a debilitating European jaunt on Wednesday evening. And Spurs had to do it without goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, whose wife Marine gave birth to their third child this morning, and without an away victory against a current Premier League club since December.
So it proved for Tottenham Hotspur yesterday. They took the lead at the King Power stadium and would have had another but for VAR at its most hair-splitting. But just when Leicester seemed to have run out of steam, Hamza Choudhury found the irresistible James Maddison 20 yards out. Maddison took two steps forwards and fired low past Spurs’ stand-in goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga, whose reactions…
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