We've got to pull out all the stops: Spurs v Leicester City, 19 July at 4pm.

We've got to pull out all the stops; Spurs v Leicester City, 19 July at 4pm.

We seem to have found a settled side in the nick of time and have started to play a better, although it is too late for us to make the Champions League.

I also have this feeling that Leicester are going to miss out on a Champions League place. Granted Leicester were more like their old selves against Sheffield United on Thursday, but they are not consistent enough.

What is in the Foxes' favour is that they know they will have a chance of making the Champions League places when they host Manchester United on the final day of this extended season.

We will be ensured seventh place at least if we win our final two games. But we need Wolves to drop points if we do not want to worry about who wins the FA Cup Final.

Our last two games; Leicester (h, 19 July), Crystal Palace (a, 26 July)

Wolves next two games are Crystal Palace (h, 20 July), Chelsea (a, 26 July.

TEAM NEWS

Dele Alli will miss his fifth match with a hamstring injury and may not feature again this season. Lucas Moura is in doubt after picking up an injury against Newcastle.

As for Leicester City, well, they continue their quest of Champions League football without James Maddison, Ben Chilwell and Christian Fuchs, who are all ruled out for the rest of the season. Caglar Soyuncu is suspended, while Marc Albrighton is an injury doubt.

These injuries to Leicester doesn't mean they are any less dangerous. They can still fight like a wounded animal caught in the corner… and they are not called Foxes for nothing. We, on the other hand, have spurs on our cockerel, which can give a nasty gash when threatened.

It looks like we have started getting our act together at the right moment in time.

MATCH FACTS

Head-to-head

We have lost just one of our past eight home league games against Leicester (W5, D2), a 1-0 defeat in January 2016.

Leicester can complete their first league double over us since 1998-99, following their 2-1 victory in September.

There have been 28 goals scored in the past six Premier League meetings, at an average of 4.7 per game.

Tottenham Hotspur

We can win four consecutive Premier League matches for the first time at our new stadium. A stadium that will lack support, just an eerie feel reverberating around the stadium.

We have lost only one of our seven Premier League fixtures since the restart (W4, D2), a 3-1 defeat at Sheffield United on 2 July.

However, we have triumphed in only two of our 13 Premier League matches against teams in the top eight of the table (D3, L8).

We have conceded just five goals from set-pieces, fewer than any other side in the division.

Son has scored six goals and assisted three in his last 10 Premier League appearances.

Jose Mourinho has won all four Premier League home fixtures as a manager versus Leicester, by an aggregate score of 10-2.

Leicester City

Leicester City are guaranteed a top-four finish if they win their remaining two matches.

They are winless in their last seven Premier League away games (D3 L4), their longest such run since a sequence of 15 matches ended in February 2017.

The Foxes have failed to win their final away fixture of the season for the past 11 seasons since beating Blackburn 4-2 in 1996-97 (D3, L8).

Leicester (67) are one short of equalling the club Premier League record for most goals in a single season.

Jamie Vardy has scored five goals and assisted three in his last nine Premier League games against Spurs, with four of his five goals coming away from home.

Vardy needs just one goal to match his best Premier League return of 24.

Brendan Rodgers has won each of his last six Premier League matches as a manager versus Spurs, by an aggregate score of 20-5.

So there you have it, the stage is set for a critical showdown for both teams—the fighting cockerel (with spurs) against the mangy fox battling it out this Sunday. Gunfight at the OK Corral, Muhammed Alli against Joe Frazier… ok, let us not exaggerate… nobody is going to be punched into surrender or shot to death… but a win would be a significant result for us.

I've heard that we should be allowed back into the stadium on the 1 October (announced by good ol' Boris… or not, depending on your political viewpoint). I wonder how that will work and who will be able to go (if you still have to social distance).? There was talk about putting season ticket holders into a lottery for a place. And what about Premium members who have already paid for that season? So many questions! No doubt in the next couple of weeks we will be fully updated.

I am off to limber up and pick a good wine for Sunday… or should that be a lager? Decisions, decisions… who would have thought that watching Spurs in lockdown mode would be so tiring with all these decisions? If I was an Arsenal or Chelsea supporters, I wouldn't have to engage my brain… but then again I doubt very much I would have a brain to engage if I supported one of those teams. To you all:

We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when

But I know we'll meet again some sunny day

Keep smiling through, just like you always do

Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away

So will you please say Hello, to the folks that I know

Tell them I won't be long

They'll be happy to know, that as you saw me go

I was singing this song

We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when

But I know we'll meet again some sunny day

Yiddo!!!!!!

Take care and best Regards, Glenn




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