Leicester City vs Tottenham Hotspur

Hollister11

Leicester City vs Tottenham Hotspur
Friday - 3:00 pm

Bottom at Christmas and in the middle of a wofeul run, No one can see anything other than an away win when the Foxes welcome Mauricio Pochettino's in-form outfit

After occupying the dreaded bottom spot at Christmas, Leicester City will be hoping to kick start their own great escape when they welcome Tottenham to the King Power Stadium on Boxing Day.

In contrast, Spurs come into this clash in fairly good spirits after securing three consecutive victories and are favourites to make it four in a row in this one.

The hosts have drawn four of their eight Premier League fixtures on home turf this campaign.

Things are all looking rather bleak for Pearson at the moment, with his job under increasing pressure after failing to oversee a single victory since September’s memorable 5-3 win over Manchester United.

Devo from Dublin

Spurs -1........

Choo Chooooooooooooooooooooo

All Aboard!!!!

Hatch99

Early goal would be great, COYS

yiddo59

Tweet by WHL announcer Daniel Wynne

Daniel Wynne @danielwynnethfc · 1h 1 hour ago
Leicester haven't won a PL game in December since beating Villa in 2001 and we haven't lost on Boxing Day since 2003! (I know, I'm sorry!)

slegs

I think we will win this comfortably (for once)

1-4 with Kane getting 2 and Lamela scoring again. Soldado comes on for the last.

2nd Row Donkey

false dawns and false hope and all that but I think we'll win by 1 or 2.

tom1ie

we'll know a lot more about this team after todays game and the united game. heres hoping for 6 but ill settle for 4 points. anything less and were not ready for top 4 talk.

KingdomYid

Team for today:

THFC Team: Lloris; Walker, Fazio, Vertonghen, Rose; Bentaleb, Stambouli; Lamela, Eriksen, Chadli; Kane.

Hatch99

KingdomYid wrote: »

Team for today:

THFC Team: Lloris; Walker, Fazio, Vertonghen, Rose; Bentaleb, Stambouli; Lamela, Eriksen, Chadli; Kane.

What ye reckon, chadli or Eriksen no 10?

Hammar

Good to see Stambouli get a start in the PL.

Minjor

0-1 Kane.

Hammar

great stuff from Chadli and Lamela

mass_debater

Any streams?

KingdomYid

Stambouli and Bentaleb having shockers, our midfield is so poor these days. Also the inclusion of Rose has unsettled our defence.

mass_debater

Half time can't come quick enough

KingdomYid

mass_debater wrote: »

Half time can't come quick enough

Shocking stuff, our players not interested.

KingdomYid

Hatch99 wrote: »

Early goal would be great, COYS

That early enough for ya

tippspur

We're poor since we scored.

mass_debater

Ffs Fazio

Hammar

Jesus,this is not looking good right now.

Pacing Mule

Hammar wrote: »

Jesus,this is not looking good right now.

How about now !?

mass_debater

Need another to put this game to bed

Pacing Mule

Sweet Jesus. It hasn't looked good since we scored !

mass_debater

Squeaky bum time

Hammar

Great 3 points if we hold out,but United and Chelsea will annihilate us if we play this badly.

Minjor

Leicester were very unlucky to lose that.

KingdomYid

Got away with the win but shocking display overall, not happy.

Danny Rose caused us all kinds of problems today and I believe we look a lot more solid with Davies at LB.

tippspur

Don't know how we won that but great to get another 3 points.

mickman

I presume Davies was rested for Sunday and not dropped

Another win !

h2005

We keep winning but some time our luck has to run out. Lloris must be worth 30 points to us!

tippspur

mickman wrote: »

I presume Davies was rested for Sunday and not dropped

Another win !

Definitely rested I'd say,I think Bentaleb could do with a rest after today.

Dublin Spur

undeserved I think but another win nevertheless - great stuff

Hatch99

Not convincing, but great win all the same, I'd take 3/6 now, COYS

irishmover

Will get a hiding from Man United and Chelsea. We'll remain on 30 points for a little while I reckon.

Hollister11

How many times do you finish games 2-1 ?
It might be worth betting on each weak after Chelsea and UTD games

2nd Row Donkey

Hollister11 wrote:

How many times do you finish games 2-1 ? It might be worth betting on each weak after Chelsea and UTD games

6 times now I think (according to some other poster on the soccer forum)

ziedth

Massive to win that today with everyone else winning today. If we could get a point over the next two I'd happily take it. 2/3 would be brilliant but I'd accept just not getting hammered

Hollister11

Are you happy with poch ?

mass_debater

Hollister11 wrote: »

Are you happy with poch ?

I think he needs time to bring in some of his own players so his rotations aren't as varied, he likes to continuously rotate, which is good, but needs player that suit his system

golfball37

Sorry but there's no way we should fear utd, I can't believe people are just writing us off. I'll consider the season a disappointment should we finish below them.
They've been as lucky as us on their recent run.

pleasant Co.

golfball37 wrote: »

Sorry but there's no way we should fear utd, I can't believe people are just writing us off. I'll consider the season a disappointment should we finish below them.
They've been as lucky as us on their recent run.

I think many are going purely on results, not having actually watched the games which isn't really surprising.

2nd Row Donkey

golfball37 wrote:

Sorry but there's no way we should fear utd, I can't believe people are just writing us off. I'll consider the season a disappointment should we finish below them. They've been as lucky as us on their recent run.

Couldn't agree more.

Lots of guys over on the fantasy football forum are dead set on dropping Eriksen/Chadli/Kane because of the upcoming united/Chelsea games but I think we have every chance of Getting goals. Might just be a case of out scoring them.

Hammar

Lads in fairness,i don't think anyone is saying Man U are invincible,but jaysus,can you imagine giving Rooney/Falcao/Van Persie and co the chances Leicester got yesterday, they would put 4/5 past us.
We have to be far better than we were yesterday.

irishmover

Hammar wrote: »

Lads in fairness,i don't think anyone is saying Man U are invincible,but jaysus,can you imagine giving Rooney/Falcao/Van Persie and co the chances Leicester got yesterday, they would put 4/5 past us.
We have to be far better than we were yesterday.

And judging by how brittle our back line has been all season, not just for a game or two it would take the team to play the game of their lives to come away with anything the next two games.