Pre Match Southampton v Leicester

[FOX Franks]

Ward-Prowse playing the match that puts him as the player with the all time highest number of appearances for Southampton. What better time to score a last minute winner.

That has to be worth a tenner doesn’t it

 

[Lako42]

Ward-Prowse playing the match that puts him as the player with the all time highest number of appearances for Southampton. What better time to score a last minute winner.

That's the spirit, thinking we'll be in the game in the last minute.

Good on ya

 

[Miles Away]

Ward Prowse, first goalscorer. Free money.

 

[Jeff]

Head-to-head

• Southampton are looking to complete the league double over Leicester for the first time since the 2007-08 Championship season, while they last did so as a top-flight club in 1986-87. The Foxes were relegated in both of those campaigns.
• Leicester are unbeaten in their last five league games away to Southampton (W3, D2), scoring 18 goals in the process.
• The Foxes have been victorious in just six of their 43 league matches away at Southampton, the most recent of which was the 9-0 thrashing in October 2019, the biggest away win in English top-flight history.

Southampton

• Southampton have lost 10 of their last 12 Premier League games.
• Their 16 league defeats in the current campaign matches their final total last season.
• Saints are aiming to avoid equalling a club record of nine successive Premier League home games without a win, set from December 2017 to April 2018 (a streak that included a 4-1 defeat versus Leicester).
• They have amassed just six points at home this season (W1, D3), which is the fewest of any side in the top four tiers of English football.
• Southampton have conceded the first goal in 18 top-flight matches this season, more than any other side.
• James Ward-Prowse is set to play a club-record 330th Premier League game for Southampton, overtaking Jason Dodd.

Leicester City

• Leicester's Premier League away games this season have produced a league-high total of 49 goals.
• They have won eight of their last 10 league matches against sides starting the day bottom of the table, with their only defeat coming at Norwich in February 2020.
• Ten of Leicester's goals this season have come from outside the box, the highest figure of any Premier League side.
• James Maddison has scored five league goals against Southampton, more than he has against any other opponent. He has scored in his last three appearances against the Saints.

 

[H T B]

Foden just scored for Man City, BT then put up a table of most goals scored in first half
Man City top with 32
Then us on 23
Wow!

 

[Jeff]

Foden just scored for Man City, BT then put up a table of most goals scored in first half
Man City top with 32
Then us on 23
Wow!

We'd be fifth in the table if only the first half counted.

 

[Miles Away]

did I hear a stat we’ve conceded first 8 matches in a row? Sounds right.

That’s a bit mad.

 

[Jeff]

did I hear a stat we’ve conceded first 8 matches in a row? Sounds right.

That’s a bit mad.

We haven't. Seven games if you count just league games, fewer than that if you include cups.
The last time we scored first in a league game was KDH at Anfield. We scored all three goals in that game...

Conceding first does seem to have solved one of the problems we had earlier in the season - dropping points after leading games...