Leicester City vs Southampton Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Leicester City

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Leicester City won’t want a repeat of their last result here after the 1-0 Championship defeat last time out to Plymouth Argyle.

In that game, Leicester City had 70% possession and 17 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. At the other end, Plymouth Argyle had 5 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Mustapha Bundu (21') was the scorer for Plymouth Argyle.

It’s been seldom in recent times where Leicester City have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, Leicester City have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 matches, letting in 9 goals along the way.

Coming into this meeting, Leicester City have not won at home in their last 2 matches in the league.

Southampton

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Southampton go into this clash following a 3-0 Championship win against Preston North End in their previous fixture.

In that game, Southampton had 77% possession and 23 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. For Southampton, the goals were scored by Ché Adams (19', 29') and Stuart Armstrong (33'). Preston North End got 1 attempts on goal with 1 on target.

Throughout their six latest matches, Russell Martin's Southampton have turned their attacks into goals a total of 11 times thus yielding them the goals scored per game average of 1.83.

Heading into this contest, Southampton are undefeated in their previous 2 league matches away from home.

👥 Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head meetings going back to 30/04/2021, there is nothing to separate the two clubs with Leicester City winning 2 of those games, Southampton 2 and 2 being drawn after 90 minutes of play.

A combined total of 20 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 12 of them from The Foxes and 8 netted by The Saints. That’s an average goals per game of 3.33.

The last league encounter between these clubs was Championship match day 6 on 15/09/2023 when it ended Southampton 1-4 Leicester City.

That day, Southampton had 55% possession and 19 shots on goal with 8 on target. The scorer was Samuel Edozie (25').

For their opponents, Leicester City had 15 attempts at goal with 8 on target. Jamie Vardy (1'), Kasey McAteer (18'), Wilfred Ndidi (45') and Stephy Mavididi (67') scored.

The referee was Bobby Madley.

ℹ️ Team News: Leicester City

The Leicester City manager Enzo Maresca does not have any fitness concerns to speak of before this match with a fully healthy group to pick from.

It’s our opinion that The Foxes will probably use a 4-2-3-1 system for the game, beginning the first half with Mads Hermansen, Hamza Choudhury, Wout Faes, Jannik Vestergaard, James Justin, Harry Winks, K. Dewsbury-Hall, Issahaku Fatawu, Yunus Akgün, Stephy Mavididi and Jamie Vardy.

ℹ️ Team News: Southampton

Southampton boss Russell Martin has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Juan Larios (unknown injury) and Ross Stewart (Muscle injury) are not able to play.

From our viewpoint, The Saints seem most likely to make use of a 4-3-3 system, choosing Gavin Bazunu, T. Harwood-Bellis, Jack Stephens, Jan Bednarek, Ryan Manning, Will Smallbone, Flynn Downes, Stuart Armstrong, David Brooks, Adam Armstrong and Che Adams.

💡 Prediction

It seems to us that Southampton will surely find it tough to score against a Leicester City side who should create many chances to win well.

We can see a commanding 3-0 margin for Leicester City at the end of the 90 minutes.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 04:07 19/04/2024