Tottenham Hotspur vs Leeds United; Premier League
Tottenham Hotspur vs Leeds United. Premier League.
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Tottenham Hotspur 3
- H Kane (29th minute pen)
- H Son (43rd minute)
- T Alderweireld (50th minute)
- M Doherty (sent off 92nd minute)
Leeds United 0
Tottenham vs Leeds preview, team news, stats, prediction, kick-off time
Lucas Moura and Carlos Vinicius expected back for Spurs while Liam Cooper remains doubtful for Leeds; follow Spurs vs Leeds with our live blog on Sky Sports website and app; watch free match highlights shortly after full time on Sky Sports' digital platforms and YouTube channel
Saturday 2 January 2021 12:47, UK
Team news and stats ahead of Tottenham vs Leeds in the Premier League on Saturday; kick-off 12.30pm.
Team news
Tottenham should have Lucas Moura and Carlos Vinicius back after they missed last week's game with Wolves. The pair were also due to miss the match with Fulham.
Gareth Bale and Giovani Lo Celso are out with respective calf and hamstring problems.
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Leeds midfielder Jamie Shackleton could be handed a rare start if Mateusz Klich fails to recover in time from the thigh strain that forced him off during the 5-0 win at West Brom in midweek.
Skipper Liam Cooper remains doubtful after missing the last two games with an abdominal injury, so Kalvin Phillips may have to continue in central defence.
Robin Koch is recovering from knee surgery and it remains to be seen whether fellow centre-half Diego Llorente can return to contention after his recent setback.
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Opta stats
- After a run of eight defeats in nine Premier League meetings (D1) with Leeds between November 1997 and November 2001, Spurs have won four of their last five against them in the top-flight (D1), with this their first such game since January 2004 (1-0).
- This is the first meeting between Tottenham and Leeds in any competition since January 2013, when the Yorkshire side won an FA Cup tie 2-1 at Elland Road.
- Tottenham lost their first league game of 2020 (0-1 vs Southampton), last losing their first league game in consecutive calendar years in 2008/2009. When starting the new year at home, Tottenham are unbeaten since 1997 (1-2 vs Man Utd), winning nine and drawing one since.
- Leeds have won their first league game in just one of the last seven calendar years (D4 L2), beating Rotherham 3-0 in 2017.
- Following their 5-0 thrashing of West Brom, Leeds have now won four of their eight away games this season, one more than they managed through their entire last Premier League campaign in 2003-04 (3).
- Leeds have won one of their last 22 away league games in London (D6 L15), a 3-1 win via a Kemar Roofe hat-trick in December 2017 vs QPR. The last time the Whites started a calendar year with an away league win in London was in 1992, winning 3-1 against West Ham and going on to win the top-flight that season.
- This will be Spurs boss José Mourinho's first ever meeting with Leeds in all competitions. He's won all four meetings with Leeds boss Marcelo Bielsa by an aggregate score of 15-2, doing so in LaLiga with Real Madrid against Athletic Bilbao in the 2011-12 and 2012-13 campaigns.
- Spurs boss José Mourinho has only lost one of his 27 Premier League home games against newly-promoted sides (W21 D5) - 0-1 v Bournemouth in December 2015 while in charge of Chelsea.
- Leeds will be the 30th different opponent Tottenham striker Harry Kane has faced in the Premier League - he's scored against each of the 29 sides he's faced so far, the only player to score against 100% of the opponents he's played against in the competition (min. 2 faced).
- In his first 15 Premier League games, Leeds United's Jack Harrison has created 31 chances in open play, the most by a Premier League player in his first 15 matches since Dimitri Payet in January 2016 for West Ham (37), and the most of any Englishman since 2003-04 (when Opta began collecting this data).