English Premier League
Spurs: Sanchez failed Conte’s test vs Foxes

Tottenham Hotspur returned to successful methods in emphatic trend on Saturday afternoon, with Antonio Conte’s aspect operating out 6-2 victors over a poor Leicester Metropolis aspect on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Nevertheless, issues may hardly have gotten off to a worse begin for Spurs, as Davinson Sanchez clumsily lunged in on James Justin with simply 4 minutes on the clock, leading to Simon Hooper pointing to the spot – with Youri Tielemans changing on the second time of asking to present the guests an early lead.
Because it turned out, this early setback appeared to kick Spurs into life, with Harry Kane levelling the rating with a close-range end simply 4 minutes later, earlier than Eric Dier’s Twenty first-minute glancing header noticed Tottenham take the lead for the primary time within the match.
James Maddison’s good end from Timothy Castagne’s cross then restored parity with simply 5 minutes remaining of the primary half, earlier than Rodrigo Bentancur as soon as once more put the Lilywhites forward with a cool end from exterior the Foxes field within the forty seventh minute.
From this level on, there can be no means again for Leicester, with Son Heung-min’s second-half introduction effectively and actually placing the sport to mattress, because the South Korea worldwide – who had failed to find the back of the net this season previous to the Foxes conflict – bagged a particularly spectacular hat-trick to seal all three factors for Conte and his aspect.
Nevertheless, whereas the way of the comeback will undoubtedly have happy the Italian supervisor, the efficiency of Sanchez will definitely be an enormous trigger for concern for the 52-year-old – because the Colombian effectively and actually failed Conte’s check on Saturday afternoon.
Certainly, after being handed a shock begin forward of Cristian Romero on the appropriate of Tottenham’s three-man backline, the 26-year-old can have carried out little or no to persuade his supervisor that he ought to be an everyday fixture within the Spurs XI, along with his aforementioned problem on Justin seeing the defender dubbed a “calamity” by Adam Brooks.
The £25.2m-rated centre-back additionally provided little in additional basic defensive metrics, making simply two clearances and one sort out over the course of his 59 minutes on the pitch, along with having fun with simply 43 touches of the ball – eight fewer than Hugo Lloris – and committing an additional foul after his concession of the early penalty.
These returns not solely noticed the £65k-per-week defender earn a particularly disappointing SofaScore match ranking of 6.4 – the bottom obtained by any Tottenham participant to characteristic within the match – however may have additionally seen the 26-year-old blow his final massive probability to impress Conte, who should certainly now be satisfied that Sanchez just isn’t of the usual required for Spurs.