The Foxes’ gaffer was understandably feeling robbed, it looked as if his boys were heading towards a 2-1 victory. However, Leicester City buckled to some classy invention from Tottenham, who deserve credit for fighting to the death. It was this character that Leicester City lacked.
Rodgers’ line about we gift-wrapped the Tottenham goals is wishful, thinking. Tottenham didn’t fluke a win, in fact, we had the highest expected goal ratio of any Premier League side this season so far.
Leicester City had 12 shots on goal, of which only 4 were on target.
Whereas, Spurs had 25 shots, and 10 of those were on target. Perhaps Brendan became distracted, listening to his supporters singing ‘Tottenham get battered, everywhere they go”, opposed to actually watching the game
Spurs’ passing accuracy was marginally superior, and the visitors also edged possession, 54.43% to 45.57%.
Looking at City’s possession, it would be more accurate to say that the Foxes had a compelling half-hour or so, and then went slowly but surely off the boil.