Leicester City v Tottenham Match Preview

Evening Standard

Dan Kilpatrick preview Tottenham’s Premier League clash against Leicester City on Monday August 19. It comes as Spurs’ boss Ange Postecoglou admited Yves Bissouma has to rebuild trust after revealing he will miss the club’s Premier League opener at Leicester due to suspension following his laughing gas misdemeanour.Bissouma posted a video on the social media platform Snapchat last weekend inhaling a balloon believed to contain nitrous oxide – widely known as laughing gas.

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00:00Inside the Tottenham training ground ahead of the new season in which Spurs begin at

00:04Leicester, which has been really overshadowed by Tottenham, is that Ian Kosuma is suspended

00:09from their Open game at Leicester City after filming himself inhaling laughing gas at the

00:15weekend.

00:16Andrew Postacoglou is saying Kosuma now had to rebuild trust with himself and the squad

00:21and that he had let himself down.

00:23I understand Kosuma is training as normal, it's a one game club sanction so he will potentially

00:28be available for Spurs next match, that's against Everton in a week's time, but he won't

00:35play at the King Power Stadium.

00:37That opens the door to summer signing Archie Gray potentially making his competitive debut

00:41at number six, although Rodrigo Bentancur would be a more experienced option to come

00:46in there next to Pape Sarr.

00:49Dominic Solanke, another summer signing, is expected to start up front, particularly as

00:53Postacoglou has said Richarlison still needs match minutes over the next few weeks after

00:59returning from injury only recently.

01:02The Spurs manager in confident mood ahead of the big kick-off I'd say, he talks about

01:06his squad being better prepared for the challenges ahead this season than they were last time.

01:10He obviously expects Spurs to improve and click into gear and be more consistent than

01:15they was over the course of his maiden season in charge.

01:19He said it had been a better pre-season than last term as well, which was disrupted by

01:24various things including cancellations, some of their pre-season friendlies.

01:28So Spurs are in decent shape, particularly considering not many of their players are

01:33at the Euros.

01:34They should be well set for a good start against Leicester City, although they will have to

01:38do it without Yves Bassema who is suspended for a game.

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