Leicester City ended their seven-match losing streak and escaped the Premier League relegation zone with an unlikely 2-1 away win over Ange Postecoglou's under-fire Tottenham.
Match report
Ruud van Nistelrooy's warriors knew defeat in north London would see them equal their worst ever run in the competition, and they fell behind shortly after the half-hour mark.
Richarlison – making his first league start of the season after struggling with a hamstring injury – escaped Wout Faes and James Justin to nod home Pedro Porro's cross.
However, two goals in the opening five minutes of the second half turned Sunday's match on its head, with Jamie Vardy tapping in just 57 seconds after the restart.
Bilal El Khannouss then put Leicester ahead with a curler from just outside the D, after the impressive Bobby De Cordova-Reid pounced on sloppy play from Rodrigo Bentancur.
Porro saw Vardy's free-kick deflect and hit the crossbar just after the hour mark, but it was close enough for Tottenham to equalize as they slipped to a fourth straight league defeat.
They remain 15th in the league, with Postecoglou under increasing pressure ahead of next week's trip to Brentford.
Leicester, meanwhile, overtake Wolves to move into 17th in the table, with 16th-placed Everton next ahead of the Foxes on Saturday.
7 – Tottenham have failed to win any of their last seven Premier League games (D1 L6), their longest winless run in the top flight since a nine-match spell between May and October 2008. Defeated. pic.twitter.com/cUoEGWue3T
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Data debrief: Spurs on worst run since 2008
Tottenham have now gone seven Premier League games without a win, drawing one against struggling Wolves and losing the other six.
It is their longest winless run in the league since they went on a nine-match streak between May and October 2008, a run that led to Juande Ramos being replaced by Harry Redknapp.
Postecoglou will hope he doesn't pay the poor price by being sacked, but this defeat marks a new low in their terrible season.
This is the first time Tottenham have lost at home to a team who had lost their previous seven league games since 1912, when they did so against Notts County.
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Setups
Tottenham XI: Son, Ben Davies, Bentancur, Richarlison, Kulusevski, Porro, Pape Sarr, Dragusin, Kinsky, Gray, Bergvall
Subs: Reguilon, Bissouma, Austin, Lankshear, Moore, Callum Olusesi, Damola Ajayi, Yang
Leicester XI: Jordan Ayew, Vestergaard, Vardy, Bobby De Cordova-Reid, Winks, Wout Faes, Justin, Soumaré, Jakub Stolarczyk, Victor Kristiansen, Bilal El Khannouss
Subs: Coady, Daniel Iversen, Mavididi, Patson Daka, Skipp, Woyo Coulibaly, Okoli, Kasey McAteer, Facundo Buonanotte
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