Leicester City kicked off their return to the Premier League with a 1-1 draw against Tottenham Hotspur on Monday night with Jamie Vardy scoring the Foxes’ first goal of the campaign.
Steve Cooper will have been really concerned with his first competitive 45 minutes as Leicester City manager as his new side struggled to get started.
Tottenham instantly settled into a passing rhythm in the Premier League opener and broke the deadlock through Pedro Porro after 29 minutes, having threatened to do so from the first minute.
Against the run of play, Leicester levelled through a Jamie Vardy header from an inch-perfect Abdul Fatawu cross in the 57th-minute after the 37-year-old declared himself fit to play earlier in the week.
Cooper’s side were much improved after that goal and competed well as they weathered a late Tottenham storm to take their first point of the new campaign.
Here are three things you might have missed in the draw.
Jamie Vardy hilariously taunts Tottenham fans about Leicester City Premier League title
Vardy loves to be the pantomime villain, thriving when opposition fans try to put him off his game.
The irony is that away fans only provide Vardy with more incentive to score against their side by giving him stick and the veteran striker had the last laugh against Tottenham on Monday night.
Sky Sports cameras cut to Vardy as he was about to be substituted when he taunted the Spurs away following by pointing to the Premier League badge on the sleeve of his kit and holding up a finger to signal one, before pointing to the Tottenham support and holding up a zero.
This was in reference to Leicester’s famous Premier League title win in 2016, where they pipped Tottenham to first place leaving the North London club’s search for a first league win since the first division became the Premier League to continue.
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