Postecoglou has found a replacement for Kane in Dominic Solanke

DEBUT: Postecoglou has finally replaced Harry Kane in Dominic Solanke, the scorer of 19 Premier League goals for Bournemouth last season, is that man and his enthusiasm cannot be doubted. Picture: Michael Regan/Getty Images

Ange Postecoglou sides tend to pick up silverware in his second season in charge. This, though, is Tottenham we are talking about. A club that has forgotten what metal polish smells like.

Spurs missed out on Champions League qualification last season despite a stunning start to life under the Australian. Spurs remained Spursy however and failed to cope with a perfect storm of injuries and suspensions from November onwards.

And so it proved here when a mountain of first-half domination led to just one goal - and Leicester duly punished them after the break by netting an equaliser with their first real chance of the evening. Great start, not so good finish.

At least Postecoglou has finally replaced Harry Kane, a year after he departed for Bayern Munich, although as the Aussie said himself it is pretty much impossible to replace a generational player, with more than 200 goals.

Dominic Solanke, the scorer of 19 Premier League goals for Bournemouth last season, is that man and his enthusiasm cannot be doubted.

Postecoglu wanted a frontman who was mobile as well as physically strong and the England striker - he was capped once in 2017 - looked the part from the off.

First he stole in behind the home backline to send a diving header goalwards and then met a cross from further out with his head. Both efforts were saved, comfortably enough, but the intent was there.

Solanke's influence waned after the break however, just like his new team did as a whole - and the same applies to the mercurial ex-Fox James Maddison.

It's a big season for the man who made himself a household name at Leicester and was included in England's last World Cup pool.

He didn't get a minute in that though and Gareth Southgate showed that he didn't really rate him anyway by leaving him out of this summer's Euro squad.

An ankle injury picked up in November led to three months out and he never really recovered that early form. Back on his old stomping ground however and Maddison began a man transformed as well as with much to prove to England's new manager, interim or not.

His former team-mates seemed oddly reluctant to get stuck in, allowing him the freedom to float into dangerous spaces - and float in the cross that saw Pedro Porro open the scoring.

Steve Cooper, the Leicester manager, must have addressed this at the break because Maddison was unable to continue in the same vein - a microcosm of the previous season.

His number came up in a flurry of late substitutions and although Foxes fans met that with ironic cheers they also clapped him as a mark of appreciation of a string of successful seasons in a blue shirt.

Success for Leicester this season is nothing but survival. It looked almost impossible after 45 minutes so passive had Cooper's men been on their top-flight return. Add the prospect of a points deduction that is all but certain to arrive at some point for previous over-spending and City might have been forgiven for throwing in the towel.

They didn't though - did Cooper just repeat the old Manchester United mantra of 'lads, it's Spurs'? - and Jamie Vardy's opportunist equaliser, Leicester's first real chance in almost an hour, changed everything.

The King Power erupted and suddenly everyone believed when previously there had been absolutely nothing to believe in.

They know about miracles in this part of the east Midlands of course, and the fans paid emotional tribute to Craig Shakespeare, Claudio Ranieri's right-hand man in that 5,000-1 Premier League title win in 2015-16.

Shakey, who died earlier in the month, was given a sensational send-off - and so were the current Cooper crop on the final whistle even though it was only a point they had picked up. It felt like a win, and for Spurs there was the further blow of a serious injury to Rodrigo Bentancur, taken off on a stretcher late on.

Big Ange has much work to do, there's no doubt about that.