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Son Heung-min was dropped to the bench for Tottenham's Premier League game against Leicester. He came on to score a spectacular second-half hat-trick and ...

Conte has indeed decided to drop Son Heung-min to the bench, with Dejan Kulusevski and Richarlison starting in attack alongside Harry Kane. UK: Sky Sports will show the match on its Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League channels. Ndidi has been filling in at centre-back recently and Leicester are a weaker team without him in the engine room, as some fairly dismal results suggest. Maddison has Spurs scrambling with a fine crossfield ball and Sanchez slides in on Justin, somehow avoiding making contact until the wingback gets into the area. He was a delight to watch throughout Saturday's game at Spurs and did not deserve to be on the end of a hiding. Lloris launches himself to his right and produces a superb save to deny Tielemans. 27th minute: Into the net again, but Sanchez is penalised for a foul on Ward. Kane trots back to have a word, presumably along the lines of asking what on earth is going on. Maddison flips one into the box and Daka gets to the header ahead of Sanchez. Some majestic play from the likes of Perisic and Maddison and the sort of defending that will leave Brendan Rodgers tearing his hair out and Antonio Conte...nevermind. Barnes and Daka shift a flowing Leciester attack in that Maddison looks poised to convert. Once upon a time, England would have fallen over themselves to pick a schemer so adept at drifting between the lines in the final third.

Son Heung-min and Harry Kane can expect time on the bench this season in a bid to help Tottenham Hotspur reach a 'superior level', according to Antonio ...

“The only thing I ask of my players is to give me the possibility and don’t drop the level when we make this rotation. When we start to play after the international break 12 games in a row, for sure I will make rotation. If you think like this, you are not probably going to fight for something important in my opinion. “I think the club is really happy for what we are doing with the players, with the staff and for sure I don’t want compromise. Not to stay at Tottenham because, ‘there I play every game, every game, every game’. That ended an eight-game run without a goal for Son.

Son Heung-min ended his scoring drought in stunning fashion with a sublime hat-trick as Tottenham Hotspur crushed Leicester City 6-2 to move joint top of ...

The opening goal after 55 seconds was a first of the season for Grealish, who has come under criticism this week for his failure to both score and provide assists since his 100 million pound ($170 million) move from Aston Villa last year. He was not finished though. “I have been disappointed, the team has been doing really, really good, but I was disappointed with my performance,” Son said. He replaced Richarlison in the 59th minute and 14 minutes later he cut on to his right foot and sent a shot screaming past Danny Ward to spark wild celebrations. Bentancur seized on a mistake by Wilfred Ndidi to restore Tottenham’s lead in the 47th minute with a shot off the post, but Son went on to steal the show. But he responded in emphatic fashion to steal the limelight, curling an unstoppable right-footer into the top corner, then a left-footer into the other side and completed his hat-trick with a goal initially ruled out for offside.

Tottenham Hotspur v Leicester City is go ... 1 min: Leicester get the ball rolling in the last of today's three Premier League games.

James Maddison gets to the ball in front of Dier, hooking the ball over the defender and into the back of the Spurs net. The Uruguayan advances, picks his spot and fires the ball home off the upright to leave Ndidi standing with his head in his hands. 44 min: Danny Ward has been unconvincing in the Leicester goal tonight and throughout the eartly stages of this season but he saves his team’s bacon on this occasion. Leicester took the lead through a retaken Youri Tielemans penalty, only to concede back to back goals from corners. 49 min: Showing little sympathy for his teammate in his hour of need, Jonny Evans picks out Ndidi, who is being tightly marked by Hojbjerg, with a hospital pass out of defence to the midfielder’s feet. He glides a little right before bending a shot from distance around Faes and past the despairing dive of Danny Ward. “I was really frustrated to be honest because of course[apart from not socring] I could have done much better than what I did in the last couple of games. “I like to shoot from outside the box - I’ve practiced that since I was a kid. I’m glad I’ve been able to help the team, that is really important and I can go to national duty with new energy. Even now after training, if I have time, I try to practice from that position and hitting the top corner. “In the first half, it seemed like the Leicester that we know and the Brendsan Rodgers side we know. James Maddison: “It’s tough to kind of debrief it in my head so soon after but obviously people will check the scoreline, see 6-2 and think Leicester got battered again but I don’t think that was the case,” he tells Sky Sports.