Tottenham suffered a 2-1 home defeat against Leicester City in the twenty-third round of the Premier League. Richarlison opened the scoring for the Spurs in the 33rd minute, but Jamie Vardy and Bilal El Khannous came back to win the game in the second half.
The team managed by Angelos Postecoglou wanted to move away from the lower positions in the table, where they sit in fifteenth place. However, this defeat marks their fourth loss in the last five matches, without the Argentine defender Cristian Romero due to injury.
Tottenham's goal now is to avoid relegation, as they are eight points above Wolverhampton, in eighteenth position. Their next challenge will be against Sweden's Elfsborg in the Europa League.
On the other hand, Leicester achieved three vital points that allow them to move out of the danger zone in the table and keep alive their hopes of staying in the Premier League. The team is in seventeenth position and will face Everton in a direct relegation battle in the next round.
Richarlison scored for Tottenham with a header from a pass by Pedro Porro, but Leicester reacted quickly in the second half. Vardy equalized the score, and El Khannous turned the match around with a shot from outside the area, sealing the victory.
Vardy celebrated his goal with a controversial gesture recalling the league title that Leicester took from Tottenham in the 2015/16 season. This defeat leaves Tottenham in a complicated position in the Premier League, while Leicester achieves an important victory that moves them away from the relegation spots.
