A superb long-range strike from James Maddison gave Leicester City a 2-1 win over Tottenham Hotspur at the King Power Stadium.
Match Report
James Maddison's superb long-range strike helped Leicester City come from behind to beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 following VAR controversy at the King Power Stadium.
Harry Kane's brilliant improvised finish saw Spurs head into half-time with the advantage on Saturday but a spirited Leicester, who had seen an Ayoze Perez goal chalked off early on, fought back following the interval.
After a Serge Aurier strike had been ruled out by VAR due to the tightest of offside decisions, Ricardo Pereira got the Foxes back on level terms when he arrived to convert Jamie Vardy's low cross.
Match Events
15' OFFSIDE! Ndidi's goal disallowed
Tielemans hits a powerful shot from distance that Gazzaniga spills into the path of Perez! He goes over as he tries to divert it in, before Alderweireld makes a hash of his attempted goal-line clearance and Ndidi turns it in! However, VAR is consulted and Perez was offside when Tielemans struck his shot, meaning the goal is disallowed!
29' GOAL! Leicester 0-1 Tottenham (Kane)
Son pulls off a clever backheel and Kane gets a nudge form Soyuncu and he drives into the box. He loses his footing and goes down, but somehow clips the ball into the far corner past Schmeichel! That's a very clever finish.
58' Son misses a golden chance!
Son just can't find the target! He drifts into another promising position, this time on the left, before fizzing a left-footed effort narrowly wide of goal!
67' OFFSIDE! Aurier's goal disallowed
Aurier has the ball in space on the right and lashes a low shot past Schmeichel and into the net to double Spurs' lead! However, a lengthy VAR check rules the goal out for offside against Son! It's the tiniest of margins, but it's given!
69' GOAL! Leicester 1-1 Tottenham (Pereira)
Vardy races down the left and cuts it across goal for Pereira at the back post to fire home via a slight deflection off Rose! It's 1-1!
85' GOAL! Leicester 2-1 Tottenham (Maddison)
MADDISON SCORES A STUNNER! He gets the ball outside the box and rifles a wonderful, dipping effort into the bottom-left corner past a scrambling Gazzaniga! Great strike! Leicester now lead 2-1!
Mosanya
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Tottenham really made a book about not winning a trophy 😂 😂 😂
Buschester-United
656
VAR can be your enemy and your friend but for Leicester city it's both.
iradukundaeric
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Its official : after 3 years VAR have terminated their contract with Spurs[Crylaugh][Crylaugh]
AdrianCruzz
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Foxes eat the Spur chicken[Crylaugh]
mj_oliver
259
2-0 up against Arsenal 2-0 up against Olympiakos 1-0 up against Leicester Spurs failed to win any of these three matches this month.
Brilliantbo¥
231
Bottleham Hotspur....
Morphie
189
lol
TheLowestLevelOfHell
189
Things we learnt from this match Liester are still great Eriksen is not on form Wanyama is just Tottenham’s mustafi Kane is a beast
SMHellas
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I am sick to death of VAR. It's pure crap. Son was not offside, if you can't tell at first glance that he's offside there's no clear advantage. A toenail being ahead of the last defender is not an advantage. The rule exists to prevent players gaining an advantage by being ahead of the last defender when the ball is played to them. Spurs were robbed here
Xavier Doctor
172
So is this the team you said would be challenging for Premier LEAGUE and Champions LEAGUE Titles. Have fun with that, paper thin squad who don't know when to fight to the last point and you have grand delusions of Wining a title we can't win atm. It's amusing listening to some of Poch's interview and you can bet he's going to not point out the obvious bad things in this match and just gloss over it as per usual
FrancisTochukwu
141
Wednesday: throw away a 2 goal lead Saturday: throw away a 1 goal What a spurry weekend 😫😫
ambulance
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Nesaiknruy_Legend
35
Routine win for Leicester, always expected either a draw or win for them.... expect Leicester finishing top 6...