Matter of stats | Spurs vs Leicester (WSL) | All eyes on Bethany England…

Bethany England will look to continue her fine goalscoring form against Leicester City on Sunday (12.30pm UK) – and she has a Barclays Women’s Super League record in her sight.

Our captain has racked up five goals against the Foxes in her career and only has a better minute per goal rate in the WSL against Yeovil Town (37 minutes) than the East Midlands side (63 minutes).

Despite her impressive goalscoring record against Leicester, Bethany last found the back of the net in this fixture just over two years ago and it was a stunning strike to win the game 1-0 at Brisbane Road.

The forward will look to kick-start the new year how she ended 2024, where she netted four goals in five games, including a brace against Everton last month to pick up a valuable three points.

And if the Bethany can pick up where she left off, she has a chance of creating WSL history this weekend.

The 30-year-old, who now has 79 WSL goals in total, only trails Vivianne Miedema (81) by two goals in the all-time WSL top goalscorer charts, with the Manchester City forward not featuring until later in the evening.

Last time out against the Foxes

Match stats

• We’re unbeaten in six previous meetings with Leicester City in the WSL (W5 D1), the most we have faced an opponent without ever losing in the competition.
• Leicester City have lost on each of their three away trips to us in the WSL by the same 1-0 scoreline, going behind after two minutes in their most recent visit in March 2024.
• We’ve have won four of our last six WSL home matches (L2), as many victories as across our previous 14 league games on home turf (D5 L5).
• Leicester City are winless in their last 10 away games in the WSL (D4 L6), while they haven’t scored on the road in the last 397 minutes, since Jutta Rantala scored against Liverpool in September.
• Leicester City rank bottom for total shots (68) and goals scored (3) in the WSL so far this season while their 4.4% conversion rate is the third worst in a single season in the competition’s history, behind only Yeovil Town in 2017-18 (2.2% - relegated) and Birmingham City in 2019-20 (3.7%)
• We’re the only team to register 25+ shots in multiple home games in the WSL this season (26 v Everton and Crystal Palace) while only Man City (38) have recorded more total shots on target at home in the competition this term than us (37).
• Only Leicester City (16.0) are allowing more passes per defensive action (PPDA) in the WSL this season than us (14.3), while the pair are two of three sides yet to score in the top-flight in 2024-25 following a high turnover (also Everton).
• Bethany England, who scored all three of our WSL goals in December, only has a better minutes per goal rate in the top-flight against Yeovil Town (37 mins) than Leicester City (63 mins – 5 goals). England (79) now only trails Vivianne Miedema (81) by two goals in the all-time WSL top scorer charts.
• Against Chelsea last time out, Leicester City’s Missy Goodwin (21y 322d) became the youngest player to open the scoring in a WSL game against the reigning champions since Liverpool’s Rinsola Babajide against Arsenal in March 2020 (21y 241d).