Four things we learnt from Tottenham's frustrating 1-1 draw with Leicester

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Tottenham Hotspur were tied to a score draw at the King Power Stadium after Jamie Vardy's second-half equaliser was enough for Leicester City to secure a point on the opening day of the season.

The visitors started the game on top but failed to capitalise on several opportunities in the first half, and the opening fifteen minutes of the second half, leaving Vardy to pounce on a Cristian Romero mistake and cancel out Pedro Porro's opener.

It felt like the same old story for The Lilywhites in Leicester on Monday night, having been pegged back and left downbeat as they headed back to London - it certainly feels more like two points dropped, rather than a point gained, especially when you consider how the match panned out.

Spurs also lost Rodrigo Bentancur, who had impressed throughout his spell on the pitch, to a nasty head injury in the second half, and VAVEL wishes him a speedy recovery.

Here are four things we learnt.

Spurs left to rue missed chances

Despite dominating the majority of the affair, Tottenham were unable to take all three points from their opening day fixture.

In the first half, it was Ange Postecoglou's side who were in full control. They had registered ten shots at Mads Hermansen's goal, whilst having 73% possession, nine corners, seven successful crosses and 22 touches in the opposition box.

Compared to The Foxes, these numbers are staggering. The hosts had just one shot on target and one touch in the Spurs box, whilst not registering a single corner or successful cross.

With six minutes on the clock, Bentancur's near post flick was superbly cleared away by Wilfried Ndidi with Dominic Solanke lurking just behind the Nigerian, before Brennan Johnson saw his volley saved by Hermansen.

It was Spurs new £60m man who should have scored at least once on his debut. In the first 45 minutes, the former Bournemouth striker saw a free header at the back post comfortably saved by Hermansen, before he hit a shot straight down the throat of Leicester's Danish goalkeeper in the early moments of the second half.

Arguably the best chance of the game fell to substitute Richarlison, in the ninth and final minute of additional time. Lucas Bergvall delivered a sumptuous free kick to the front post, where the Brazilian was on hand to meet it. Many fans inside the away end believed the net was about to bulge, but they were wrong, as the forward headed over when all it needed was a glance towards the back post.

The squandered chances meant that maximum points were not taken on match day one, and it left fans with a familiar feeling of frustration, as Tottenham failed to win an important first Premier League game.

Plenty of positives to take

Although both the players and staff will come away feeling they should have done better to ensure three points, there were also many positives.

The North Londoners put on a good show on the opening night of the season. For large parts, they played the free-flowing, attacking, high-pressing football we saw at the start of Postecoglou's reign. That led to many chances, but unfortunately not enough were seized to take the game away from, Leicester.

Debutant Dominic Solanke looked sharp, and linked play well despite never playing a game with his new teammates before, whilst James Maddison also looked back to his best. The Englishman, returning to his old stomping ground, was a handful for Steve Cooper's defence, and it was his wonderful cross which saw Porro give the away side the lead on 29 minutes.

Dejan Kulusevski - who came on in the 79th minute - had the second most touches in the opposition box (11) of all players to play in the Premier League on the weekend, second only to Bukayo Saka, who played eighty minutes and registered 15.

The Swede impressed heavily during pre-season as he scored and assisted three times each, and he looked sharp off the bench as Spurs pushed for a winner. No doubt will he be pushing to be involved from the start when they face Everton on Saturday afternoon.

Bergvall bright on debut

Making his Premier League debut as a late substitute following a run of impressive cameos in pre-season, Lucas Bergvall, again, was a bright spark.

In his time on the pitch, Bergvall had 39 touches and completed 25 out of his 26 attempted passes, whilst the former Djurgårdens IF playmaker also made one key pass, created one big chance and successfully completed two of his three dribble attempts.

Every time the Swede got on the ball, he looked dangerous and you got the sense that if Tottenham were going to snatch a winner, he would be at the forefront of the attacking move. Whenever a defender had the ball at their feet, it was always Bergvall who came searching for possession as he looked to be the spark for The Lilywhites.

With Rodrigo Bentancur unavailable for Saturday's clash with Sean Dyche's Everton, perhaps the midfielder will be called upon as Postecoglou is forced to reshuffle his midfield three.

Wide players frustrate

It was a frustrating evening on the whole, but even more so for the players who featured in the wide areas for Tottenham at the King Power Stadium.

The visitors had plenty of joy down the flanks, getting to the bye-line on plenty of times during their dominant spells before the interval. Last season, we saw so many goals scored from these types of areas, thanks to the pinpoint low crosses from Brennan Johnson, Heung-Min Son and Timo Werner.

However, on Monday night, the attacking trio were completely ineffective in these positions. These crosses were either deflected out for a corner or cleared by the robust Leicester back-line, meaning a number of good opportunities came to nothing.

Brennan Johnson lost a physical battle up against former Leeds United defender Rasmus Kristensen and was subsequently replaced by loanee Timo Werner with eleven minutes of the ninety to go, but the German also had no success down the right wing.

Heung-Min Son was gifted a glorious chance late on, with the ball played across to where the South Korean international was waiting on the left-hand side of the penalty area, however, he took a poor touch and was tackled, wasting a golden chance to score the winner.

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