Leicester City ended their seven-game losing run and escaped the Premier League's relegation zone with an unlikely 2-1 away win over Ange Postecoglou's under-fire Tottenham.

Ruud van Nistelrooy's strugglers knew a defeat in north London would see them equal their worst-ever streak in league action, 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 – got away from Wout Faes and James Justin to nod Pedro Porro's cross home.

However, two goals in the first five minutes of the second half turned Sunday's game on its head, with Jamie Vardy tapping home 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 some sloppy play from Rodrigo Bentancur.

Porro saw a free-kick deflect off Vardy and hit the crossbar just after the hour mark, but that was as close as Tottenham came to an equaliser as they slipped to a fourth straight league defeat.

They remain 15th in the league, with Postecoglou under mounting pressure ahead of next week's trip to Brentford.

Leicester, meanwhile, overtake Wolves to go 17th in the table, with 16th-placed Everton next up for the Foxes on Saturday.

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 competition since they endured 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 does not pay the price for the poor run by being dismissed, but this defeat represents a new nadir in their terrible season.

This is the first time Tottenham have lost at home to a team that had lost their previous seven league games since 1912, when they did so against Notts County.