Tottenham Hotspur vs Leicester City - who is the better team?

Currently Tottenham Hotspur has a better 1vs1 performance index with 94. Tottenham Hotspur has 70 goals and Leicester City has a total of 51 goals. Our opinion is that currently Tottenham Hotspur would win the match.

• At the moment Leicester City has the better defense. Through the entire team they have a total of 1624 interceptions and 88 blocks.
• In Leicester City the two top defensive players are Wout Felix Lina Faes and Timothy Castagne.
• In Tottenham Hotspur the two top defenders are Pierre Emile Hojbjerg and Eric Dier.
• Based on this statistics we believe that Leicester City has currently the best defense.

Evaluating the strength of a teams midfield is not easy. At 1vs1 we look at a value called Pass Progression Value (PPV). We measure the ability of players to play the pass into dangerous zones and to create chances. Tottenham Hotspur has a PPV value of 0.24 and Leicester City has a value of 0.23. Within the team of Tottenham Hotspur Ivan Perisic has a total value of 0.6 and in the team of Leicester City the best player is Youri Tielemans.

• To analyse the best strikers of teams we look at the amount of goals, shots on goal and an interesting metric called expected goal value (Xg value – measure who the probability of a chance to turn into a goal.)
• Tottenham Hotspur has scored in this season so far 70 goals and 39.42 shots on goal. Leicester City scored 51 and 38.02 shots on goal.
• The two best players of Tottenham Hotspur are Harry Kane with 30 goals and Heung min Son with 10 goals. Their expected goal value per 90 minutes is 21.41 and 10.85.
• The two best players of Leicester City are Harvey Barnes with 13 goals and Kelechi Iheanacho with 5 goals. Their expected goal value per 90 minutes is 7.86 and 5.38.
• Our opinion is that Tottenham Hotspur has the better offensive players than Leicester City.

Based on all statistical information we believe that currently Tottenham Hotspur is the better team. Please feel free to discuss with us – the comment box is below. We will be happy to reply.