Leicester will get their quality tested when Southampton comes to visit on the 23rd of April. The Saints are of course desperate to get all points, but as it looks with Leeds winning 4-3 away to Middlesbrough, Southampton looks out of top two race.
There are a number of concerns to look at regarding the line-up as we do believe Hamza Choudhury will keep his place as well as Conor Coady, they are both eager to get more minutes and should in no way be rested as they have not played much this lately.
We do believe that the midfield will be excactly the same and hopefully Jamie Vardy will start up front, with Patson Daka an alternative, but his form has been far from standard in his latest starts so he must be looking to lift his level heavily if being called on.
Southampton will be without Bazunu, Larios and Stewart. Also uncertainty regarding Stuart Armstrong. This will hopefully give Leicester the edge needed to get something out of this game.
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Match Pack – Stats & Facts
Table Position
LEI: 1
SOU: 4
Injuries / Uncertainties / Suspensions:
LEI: Souttar
SAI: Armsrong, Bazunu, Larios, Stewart
Head to Head:
Last Three
Premier League; 20.08.2022, King Power Stadium, 1-2 (L)
Premier League; 22.05.2022, King Power Stadium, 4-1 (W)
Championship. 15.09.2023, St. Mary’s, 4-1 (W)
Possible Line-Up’s:
Leicester City:
Hermansen, Choudhury, Coady, Vestergaard, Faes, Ndidi, Winks, D-Hall, Mavididi, Vardy, Fatawu
Southampton:
McCarthy, Walker-Peters, Harwood-Bellis, Bednarek, Bree, Aribo, Smallbone, S Armstrong, A Armstrong, Adams, Fraser
Predicted Result: 3-1 (Win)
Players In Both Camps, Southampton
Focus On; Southampton
Nickname: The Saints
Manager: Russell Martin
Captain: Jack Stephens
Chairman: Dragan Solak
Kit Supplier: Hummel
Kit Sponsor: Sportsbet
Stadium: St. Mary’s Stadium
Capacity: 32,384
Wikipedia
Southampton Football Club is an English professional football club based in Southampton, Hampshire, that competes in the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football. Its home ground since 2001 has been St Mary’s Stadium, before which it was based at The Dell. The team play in red and white shirts. They have been nicknamed “The Saints” because of the club’s beginnings as a church football team at St Mary’s Church. Southampton shares a long-standing South Coast derby rivalry with Portsmouth, in part due to geographic proximity and both cities’ respective maritime histories.
Founded in 1885, the club joined the Southern League as Southampton St. Mary’s in 1894, dropping the St. Mary’s from their name three years later. Southampton won the Southern League on six occasions and were beaten FA Cup finalists in 1900 and 1902, before being invited to become founder members of the Football League Third Division in 1920. They won promotion as Third Division South champions in 1921–22, remaining in the Second Division for 31 years until they were relegated in 1953. Crowned Third Division champions under the stewardship of Ted Bates in 1959–60, they were promoted into the First Division at the end of the 1965–66 campaign. They played top-flight football for eight seasons, but won the FA Cup as a Second Division team in 1976 with a 1–0 victory over Manchester United. Manager Lawrie McMenemy then took the club back into the top-flight with promotion in 1977–78.
Southampton were beaten finalists in the League Cup in 1979 and finished as runners-up in the First Division in 1983–84, three points behind Liverpool. The club were founder members of the Premier League in 1992 and reached another FA Cup final in 2003. Relegation ended their 27 year stay in the top-flight in 2005, and they were relegated down to the third tier in 2009. Southampton won the Football League Trophy in 2010 and won successive promotion from League One and the Championship in 2010–11 and 2011–12. After an 11-year stint in the top flight, during which they were EFL Cup runners-up in 2017, they were relegated in 2023, read more
Kit:
Created in partnership with hummel, which is celebrating its 100-year anniversary this season, the shirt is a remake of the iconic 1987-89 jersey worn by Matt Le Tissier, Alan Shearer, Franny Benali, and Wallace brothers Danny, Rod and Ray.
This classic shirt has a slight twist as each of the 2023/24 season kits celebrate a different element of our club crest. The kit has been launched under the campaign ‘For the Badge’ as we look to acknowledge and celebrate the history of the crest.
The 2023/24 home shirt focuses on the Hampshire rose, with over a thousand small roses subtly printed into the shirt in a diagonal pattern. On the reverse of the shirt, at the nape of the neck, the Hampshire rose proudly sits symbolising the city of Southampton.
The shirt is matched with black shorts, featuring white chevrons of hummel’s iconic design trademark and white socks complete with red chevrons.
Arch-enemy: Portsmouth
Honours: Southampton are not a heavy collecter of trophies, with the 1976 FA Cup as the only major title won in their history.
Domestic
1st Division / Premier League
Winners: –
Runners-up: 1983/84
2nd Division / League Championship
Winners: –
3rd Division / League One
Winners: 1921/22, 1959/60
FA Cup
Winners: 1975/76
Runners up: 1899/00, 1901/02, 2002/03
League Cup
Runners up: 1978/79, 2016/17
Europe
European Cup Winners Cup: 1977/78
European Inter City Fairs Cup (UEFA Cup): 1969/70, 1971/72, 1981/82, 1982/83, 1984/85, 2003/04, 2015/16, 2016/17,
Did You Know? This is obviously a question that most Southampton fans will know the answer to but the club plays their home matches at St. Mary’s Stadium. The club has had a few different stadiums in their history, with them being at the Dell from 1898 to 2001. It was 2001 when the club moved into their current stadium and have remained there ever since.
Most Appearances: (M) Terry Paine (1956-1974), 815
Most Goals: (F) Mike Channon (1966-1977) (1979-1982), 228
Other Famous Players: Matthew Le Tissier, Ivan Golac, Ron Davies, Kevin Keegan, David Watson, Virgil Van Dijk, Gareth Bale, Wayne Bridge, Luke Shaw, Theo Walcott, Claus Lundekvam, Jo Tessem, Alan Ball, Peter Crouch, Ricky Lambert, Sadio Mane, Martin Chivers, Pierre Emil Hojbjerg
Record win: 11-0 v Northampton Town, (Southern League), 28 December 1901
Record defeat: 0-9 v Leicester City (League), 25 October 2019, 0-9 v Man Utd (League) 2 February 2021
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