{"id":949770,"date":"2026-05-10T05:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T05:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/949770\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T05:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T05:14:16","slug":"tottenham-hotspur-vs-leeds-united-live-premier-league-preview-team-news-stats-head-to-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/949770\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur vs Leeds United LIVE: Premier League preview, team news, stats &#038; head-to-head"},"content":{"rendered":"<li mode=\"responsive\" data-item-index=\"0\" class=\"ssrcss-1hoh2fu-StyledCarouselItem eovm8902\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-6ddzdq-FactCard e1essogq2\">Spurs have won eight of their last nine Premier League games against Leeds, including the last five in a row since a 3-1 loss in May 2021.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li mode=\"responsive\" data-item-index=\"1\" class=\"ssrcss-1hoh2fu-StyledCarouselItem eovm8902\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-6ddzdq-FactCard e1essogq2\">After winning three of their four away league games against Spurs between 1997 and 2001 (D1), Leeds have now lost each of their last six visits.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li mode=\"responsive\" data-item-index=\"2\" class=\"ssrcss-1hoh2fu-StyledCarouselItem eovm8902\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-6ddzdq-FactCard e1essogq2\">Following victories over Wolves and Aston Villa, Tottenham Hotspur are looking to win three consecutive Premier League games for the first time since February 2025.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li mode=\"responsive\" data-item-index=\"3\" class=\"ssrcss-1hoh2fu-StyledCarouselItem eovm8902\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-6ddzdq-FactCard e1essogq2\">Since the start of December, only six teams have picked up more Premier League points than Leeds United (32) and only Man City (1), Man Utd (3) and Bournemouth (3) have lost fewer games than the Whites (4).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li mode=\"responsive\" data-item-index=\"4\" class=\"ssrcss-1hoh2fu-StyledCarouselItem eovm8902\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-6ddzdq-FactCard e1essogq2\">In their four games under Roberto De Zerbi, Spurs have won possession in the final third 5.3 times per game on average \u2013 that\u2019s the most of any manager with 4+ games at a single club in the Premier League this season, and much higher than they managed to do so under both Thomas Frank (3.7) and Igor Tudor (3.8).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li mode=\"responsive\" data-item-index=\"5\" class=\"ssrcss-1hoh2fu-StyledCarouselItem eovm8902\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-6ddzdq-FactCard e1essogq2\">Leeds United have scored three or more goals in eight different Premier League matches this season, the most by a newly promoted team since Leeds themselves did so in 2020-21 under Marcelo Bielsa (10 times, a record in a 38-game season).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li mode=\"responsive\" data-item-index=\"6\" class=\"ssrcss-1hoh2fu-StyledCarouselItem eovm8902\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-6ddzdq-FactCard e1essogq2\">Leeds are unbeaten in their last six Premier League games (W3 D3) and have already had a seven-game unbeaten run this season from December to early January. The last newly promoted team to have two runs of 7+ unbeaten games in a season were Middlesbrough in 1998-99.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li mode=\"responsive\" data-item-index=\"7\" class=\"ssrcss-1hoh2fu-StyledCarouselItem eovm8902\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-6ddzdq-FactCard e1essogq2\">No team has won fewer home Premier League points this season than Tottenham Hotspur (11), who have lost 10 home games for a second consecutive season. Only in 1991-92 have they lost more home league games in a season (11).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li mode=\"responsive\" data-item-index=\"8\" class=\"ssrcss-1hoh2fu-StyledCarouselItem eovm8902\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-6ddzdq-FactCard e1essogq2\">Among players to play 200+ Premier League minutes since the start of February, Leeds United\u2019s Noah Okafor has the best minutes per goal ratio, netting six goals in just 408 minutes (one every 68 minutes).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li mode=\"responsive\" data-item-index=\"9\" class=\"ssrcss-1hoh2fu-StyledCarouselItem eovm8902\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-6ddzdq-FactCard e1essogq2\">Across the last three seasons, Tottenham\u2019s Richarlison has scored or assisted on average every 109 minutes in the Premier League (25 goals, 9 assists). Among players with 3,000+ minutes in that time, only Mohamed Salah (goal\/assist every 91 mins), Erling Haaland (91) and Alexander Isak (102) have done so at a more frequent rate.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spurs have won eight of their last nine Premier League games against Leeds, including the last five in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-949770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116548578040645971","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}