Tottenham Hotspur vs Leicester City Preview

January 13, 2016
By: Deke Hardman

Harry Kane

Wednesday evening’s Premier League action from White Hart Lane sees Tottenham Hotspur face Leicester City, just three days after the pair met in the third round of the FA Cup.

That tie ended all square with a late Harry Kane penalty earning a draw for the North London outfit though both sides will be keen to take the spoils here as they look to keep the pressure on league leaders Arsenal.

Spurs are unbeaten in four, taking ten points from twelve and a win here would see them move to within a point of their opponents.

Kane, who came off the bench at the weekend is set to return to the starting XI along with Dele Alli, Hugo Lloris, Erik Lamela and Jan Vertonghen though Clinton Njie remains out with a knee problem.

Tottenham’s number ten is favourite to open the scoring at 4.5 (7/2) with most bookmakers ahead of Christian Eriksen, who is an 8.5 (15/2) chance with Bet Victor.

The hosts are widely available at 1.8 (4/5) for the win, with the visitors as highly priced as the 5.1 (41/10) on offer from 888 Sport. The draw can be backed at 3.9 (29/10) with several firms.

The Foxes have stalled somewhat in recent weeks, stringing together four winless games though only one of those have ended in defeat.

They will return to the top of the table if the win and Arsenal are beaten by Liverpool though anything other than three points will give Manchester City the opportunity to leapfrog them should they beat Everton.

Top scorer Jamie Vardy is set start, N’Golo Kante is fit and new signing Demari Gray could make his league debut though Jeffery Schlupp and Matty James are out.

Vardy is 7.5 (13/2) to get the first goal of the game, with Riyad Mahrez priced at a generous 10.0 (9/1) with a number of companies.

As well their draw on Sunday, the sides shared the spoils in the reverse league fixture back in August.

Both teams have scored in each of their last eleven meetings so you may be tempted to take advantage of Stan James’ offer of 1.83 (5/6) for that to be the case this time around while the same firm offer 1.9 (9/10) for there to be over 2.5 goals in the game.

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