‘Breath of fresh air’ – Mark Lawrenson shares his Leicester v Spurs score prediction

Tottenham Hotspur’s opening game of the 2024/25 season is coming up on Monday night, and pundit Mark Lawrenson reckons the Lilywhites will bag a fairly comfortable win against Leicester City.

Dominic Solanke is the key

The King Power Stadium will host the fixture between the two sides, as the newly-promoted Foxes deal with injury issues and a managerial change.

Spurs, meanwhile, have new players to bed in, but one of those new signings could be the key to their success, according to Lawrenson.

In his regular column for Paddy Power, Lawrenson said: “I’m going to go for a big 3-0 win for Tottenham. I like the manager Ange Postecoglou, he’s a breath of fresh air, and I was shouting for him to go and manage Liverpool when Jurgen Klopp announced he was going.

“I love the way he plays and he takes no s**t. They’ve signed Dominic Solanke from Bournemouth… He’s a goal scorer and he’s from near London so I would think, looking at Tottenham now, they’re a much better bet to finish higher up the league than this time last year.

“Ange is a players’ manager. He is what he is, if he’s made a mistake he says so. I know one or two people at the club and they say the players absolutely love him. He’s like their mate, but he’s not their best mate which is a really good way of running things. Solanke will get enough chances to be a success.

As for Leicester, Lawrenson added: “Leicester are struggling for strikers and defensively they were ordinary in the Championship, which you can be and still get promoted.”

Leicester will want a repeat result

Leicester may be the underdogs for the upcoming tie, but they did demolish Spurs the last time the two sides met. A 4-1 home win came for the Foxes in February 2023, just months before they were relegated.

The proposition is far different now, though, with Postecoglou in a strong position and Leicester needing to settle in the Premier League again.

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I think we can get a 3-0 win, too, to be honest. We might concede a goal, given our propensity for attacking football that can leave us exposed, but Leicester are missing some key forwards that could really give us an extra advantage.

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