Tottenham vs Leicester LIVE: Premier League result, final score and reaction as Son Heung-min hits hat-trick

Spurs have won six successive Premier League home games, their best such run at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

A seventh consecutive home league win would be their longest streak since a sequence of 14 victories at White Hart Lane between November 2016 and May 2017.

Today’s venue is the impressive Tottenham Hotspur stadium. Can Spurs continue their winning streak at home against the Foxes?

Antonio Conte has given Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Yves Bissouma a timely boost by telling the summer recruit he will be counting on him after the international break.

Mali international Bissouma has struggled for minutes since his £25million move from Brighton, starting only one of the club’s opening eight matches and failing to be used off the bench during Tuesday’s 2-0 loss at Sporting Lisbon.

While the 26-year-old is likely to be named among the substitutes for the clash with Leicester on Saturday, Conte has explained Bissouma’s slow start at Spurs and also promised he will be used more during a seven-week spell from October 1 where they will play 12 times in the Premier League and Champions League.

Leicester boss, Brendan Rodgers, says that despite his team’s poor run of form he is backing his players to continue to show the courage and spirit needed to get them out of this tight spot.

“What’s important is that we continue to be brave. We have to continue to show that bravery,” said Rodgers,

“Sometimes when you’re not quite on your game, you can maybe lose that aggression, but you can’t afford to do that. You’ve got to still press the game and be aggressive.”

Tottenham have won seven of the nine most recent Premier League meetings.

They could win four consecutive league matches against the Foxes for the first time.

Leicester have lost four of their last five top-flight fixtures away to Spurs, conceding at least three goals in each defeat.

Antonio Conte makes four changes to the Tottenham team that lost to Sporting CP in the Champions League this week. Davinson Sanchez and Clement Lenglet come into the back three with Ben Davies and Cristian Romero dropping out.

Dejan Kulusevski is given the nod ahead of Son Heung-min who is rested and Ryan Sessegnon comes in to replace Emerson Royal with Ivan Perisic set to move over to the right wing-back role.

There are also three changes for Leicester City. Wout Faes and Timothy Castagne come in to replace Luke Thomas and Boubakary Soumare with Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall replacing Kelechi Iheanacho.

Tottenham XI: Lloris; Sanchez, Dier, Lenglet; Perisic, Bentancur, Hojbjerg, Sessegnon; Kulusevski, Kane, Richarlison

Leicester XI: Ward; Justin, Faes, Evans, Castagne; Ndidi, Tielemans, Dewsbury-Hall, Maddison, Barnes, Daka

Consecutive fifth-placed finishes and FA Cup glory will seem a long time ago for Leicester, who have endured a torrid start to the campaign.

A frustrating summer, which saw the Foxes lose key men and replace them with just one outfield player, has carried over into the start of the season and five successive losses leaves them bottom of the table, with Brendan Rodgers coming under pressure for the first time in his reign.

The fixtures have not been kind as they have already played Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United and another tough test awaits as they visit unbeaten Tottenham.

Rodgers says he has the backing of the board, but with an international break looming, the Northern Irishman would not want to suffer another heavy defeat.

Brendan Rodgers has refused to write off Jamie Vardy but believes the Leicester star must accept his new role.

The former England striker is yet to score this season and has completed 90 minutes just twice with the Foxes winless and bottom of the Premier League.

He was a second-half substitute in the 5-2 defeat at Brighton with boss Rodgers preferring Patson Daka and Kelechi Iheanacho.

But ahead of Saturday’s trip to Tottenham, Vardy, who has 164 goals in 391 games for the Foxes, is still at the forefront of the manager’s mind.

Despite being unbeaten, Tottenham have been scratchy so far this season and the midweek defeat to Sporting was perhaps not unexpected.

They may still have enough quality to beat a Leicester side short of confidence which is why we have them coming out on top today.

Prediction: Tottenham 2-1 Leicester