Tottenham Hotspur 6-2 Leicester City: Son Heung-min ends barren start with 13-minute hat-trick

Son Heung-min ended his objective drought with a scintillating 13-minute hat-trick as Tottenham ruthlessly punished Leicester’s newest defensive horror present.

Spurs trailed to Youri Tielemans’ early penalty however took benefit of the Foxes’ failings at set-pieces as Harry Kane and Eric Dier nodded residence from corners to show the sport round.

James Maddison’s fabulous first-time end briefly drew Leicester degree once more, however Wilfried Ndidi’s mistake allowed Rodrigo Bentancur to steer Tottenham again in entrance earlier than substitute Son stole the present.

Victory maintained Spurs’ unbeaten start to the Premier League season as they climbed to second, degree on factors with leaders Manchester City.

Leicester, in the meantime, stay on the foot of the desk, nonetheless looking for their first win, regardless of having led in 4 of their seven matches to this point.

As in any respect Premier League video games this weekend, followers noticed a minute’s silence for the late Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and a Seventieth-minute spherical of applause in honour of her 70-year reign.

Son shines as Conte name proved proper

Son had failed to attain in eight video games in all competitions for Spurs up to now this season nevertheless it was nonetheless a courageous choice from boss Conte to drop final season’s joint-Golden Boot winner.

In equity, he couldn’t have requested for higher opposition to open his account, given the brittleness of the Foxes’ backline however the high quality of his first two strikes stood out.

Both had been curled into the highest nook from the sting of the field – the primary with his proper foot, the second with his left – because the 30-year-old proved the outdated adage that type is momentary however class everlasting.

Even an misguided offside flag couldn’t deny him the match ball as VAR replays confirmed he was simply onside when he strode clear to beat Danny Ward for his third objective and Spurs’ sixth.

While Son’s beautiful cameo will hog the headlines, there was lots extra for Conte to be grateful for after seeing his facet report a seventh successive win at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Five completely different gamers offered assists, with Ivan Perisic’s dead-ball supply complementing Dejan Kulusevski’s crosses from open play, whereas Bentancur contributed his first objective for the membership.

But they might want to lower out defensive lapses resembling Davinson Sanchez’s pointless problem on James Justin that handed Leicester their early lead, Tielemans tucking residence on the second try after VAR noticed Hugo Lloris had encroached off his line in saving the preliminary spot-kick.

Foxes’ fiascos hitting new lows?

When it involves defensive debacles, nevertheless, no top-flight staff is a patch on Leicester, who’ve now misplaced 4-2, 5-2 and 6-2 on the highway this season, conceding a joint-high 19 targets general.

It will not be a brand new phenomenon both – they’ve stored simply two clear sheets in 19 video games, conceded 25 set-piece targets because the start of final season and dropped 11 factors from profitable positions this time period alone.

While boss Brendan Rodgers, enduring the longest shedding league run of his profession after six successive defeats, mentioned earlier this week the membership’s hierarchy had been “very supportive”, that persistence certainly has a restrict after a haul of only one level from seven video games.

The dithering Ndidi’s error to assist Bentancur put Spurs 3-2 up at an important juncture of the sport characterised their insecurity, whereas deadline-day signing Wout Faes endured a chastening debut.

Until Son’s introduction and Leicester’s collapse, the Foxes arguably created as many possibilities because the hosts within the first hour, with Lloris notably saving properly from Maddison and Patson Daka with the sport within the stability.

But the Foxes’ gifted attackers, even the once more wonderful Maddison, merely can’t cancel out the amount of targets shipped on the different finish.

It might have been extra too. A Daka personal objective was dominated out for a foul by Sanchez on Ward, who additionally tipped a header from the Spurs defender onto the bar later within the first half.

Player of the match

Son Heung-MinSon Heung-Min

Leicester City

1. Squad quantity10Player identifyMaddison

2. Squad quantity8Player identifyTielemans

3. Squad quantity7Player identifyBarnes

4. Squad quantity20Player identifyDaka

5. Squad quantity22Player identifyDewsbury-Hall

6. Squad quantity3Player identifyFaes

7. Squad quantity2Player identifyJustin

8. Squad quantity27Player identifyCastagne

9. Squad quantity6Player identifyEvans

10. Squad quantity9Player identifyVardy

11. Squad quantity1Player identifyWard

12. Squad quantity14Player identifyIheanacho

13. Squad quantity25Player identifyNdidi

14. Squad quantity42Player identifySoumaré

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