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Team news

Leicester City will be without Jamie Vardy for "a little while" and fellow injured striker Patson Daka for "a few months", according to manager Steve Cooper.

Defender Conor Coady is sidelined for at least the first month of the season because of a hamstring problem.

Tottenham midfielder Yves Bissouma will miss the game after the club suspended him following footage that emerged of the player inhaling laughing gas.

New signing Dominic Solanke is expected to make his Spurs debut, with Richarlison still lacking match fitness following a calf injury.

Match facts

Head-to-head

  • This fixture has produced 128 goals in 34 Premier League meetings. It has the highest average goals per game (3.76) of all Premier League fixtures to have been played more than 20 times.

  • The previous fixtures in the 2022-23 season both saw wins for the respective home sides. Spurs won 6-2 before Leicester claimed a 4-1 victory at the King Power Stadium. James Maddison scored in both matches for the Foxes.

  • Leicester's 13 wins against Spurs is their joint-most Premier League victories over one team.

Leicester City

  • The Foxes are unbeaten in their past five opening day fixtures (W3, D2).

  • Leicester are winless in five Monday Premier League matches since a 4-0 victory over Steve Cooper's Nottingham Forest (D2, L3).

  • New manager Cooper's last Premier League game in charge was Nottingham Forest's 2-0 defeat by Spurs in December last year.

Tottenham Hotspur

  • Spurs have lost just one of the past eight opening matches (W5, D2), a 1-0 defeat by Everton in 2020.

  • Ange Postecoglou's side, alongside Arsenal and Manchester City, took maximum points from the three promoted sides last term.

  • Spurs were top of the Premier League after 10 games last year, taking 26 points from a possibly 30.

  • They won just three of their 13 league away games last season (D4, L6); one of those victories came against Steve Cooper's Nottingham Forest.

  • Son Heung-min has nine goals and four assists in 14 matches against Leicester. The South Korean only has more goal involvements against Southampton.

  • Dominic Solanke could become the first player to score on his Premier League debut for Spurs since Steven Bergwijn netted against Manchester City in a 2-0 win in 2020.