Comments and predictions for Leicester City vs Southampton: Sowing sorrow at King Power Stadium
The match between Leicester City vs Southampton in the English Premier League takes place at 22:00 on May 3. Nghe An Newspaper analyzes performance, football commentary and predicts the score.
Latest Leicester City vs Southampton team information
Leicester's Facundo Buonanotte (concussion), Bobby De Cordova-Reid and Ricardo Pereira (muscle) all left the pitch in the defeat to Wolves. Buonanotte and Cordova-Reid join Abdul Fatawu (knee) and Stephy Mavididi (muscle) on the injury list, while Pereira will be assessed ahead of the game.
Coach Van Nistelrooy confirmed that goalkeeper Mads Hermansen will be out for the rest of the season due to groin surgery, and Jakub Stolarczyk will start in his place.
James Justin is likely to replace Pereira on the right flank and will play alongside Wout Faes, Conor Coady and Luke Thomas in defence. In midfield, Wilfred Ndidi and Boubakary Soumare could partner him.
In Buonanotte's absence, 15-year-old Jeremy Monga will get his first start, but Kasey McAteer and Jordan Ayew could be given priority on the wings. Bilal El Khannouss will play as an attacking midfielder behind Vardy.
For Southampton, Albert Gronbaek (heel) and Charlie Taylor (hip) are both ruled out, but Paul Onuachu is back in training and available after missing the Fulham clash with an ankle injury.
Rusk will have to decide whether to continue with Ross Stewart up front or replace him with Onuachu or Cameron Archer. He is also considering bringing in highly-rated youngster Tyler Dibling, who has come off the bench in the last three games.
Mateus Fernandes and Kamaldeen Sulemana could continue to start up front, while the midfield will still be Flynn Downes and Lesley Ugochukwu, leaving William Smallbone and Joe Aribo on the bench.
Leicester City vs Southampton latest expected lineup
Leicester City:
Stolarczyk; Justin, Coady, Faes, Thomas; Ndidi, Soumare; McAteer, El Khannouss, Ayew; Vardy
Southampton:
Ramsdale; Harwood-Bellis, Bednarek, Stephens; Walker-Peters, Downes, Ugochukwu, Manning; Fernandes, Sulemana; Stewart
Latest football commentary Leicester City vs Southampton
Leicester were relegated after losing to champions Liverpool two weeks ago and recently suffered their 24th defeat of the season when they were beaten 3-0 by Wolverhampton.
Club legend Jamie Vardy – who is set to leave the club – missed a second-half penalty as Leicester continued to struggle to find the net. Manager Ruud van Nistelrooy admitted the performance was “not good enough”, with his long-term future at the King Power Stadium still uncertain.
Leicester have conceded 49 goals in 21 games under Van Nistelrooy. If they concede again on Saturday, they will become the second-fastest team to concede 50 goals under a manager in Premier League history – level with George Burley at Ipswich Town and behind only Danny Wilson at Barnsley (19 games).
The Foxes are currently 19th with 18 points – seven points above bottom-placed Southampton and three behind 18th-placed Ipswich. They also have the worst stats in the league this season: shots (299), shots on target (98) and an expected goals (xG) of 29.2 – the lowest in the Premier League.
Leicester return to the King Power Stadium this weekend, having lost their last nine Premier League games without scoring a goal (0-22 on aggregate). In the history of English professional football, only Wolves have failed to score in 10 consecutive home games (from December 1984 to April 1985).
Southampton looked to have secured a moral victory when they led Fulham 1-0 last weekend, but were beaten by a 92nd-minute Ryan Sessegnon goal as they battled back to win the game. It was their 27th defeat of the season.
The south coast side have dropped 28 points from leading positions – the most in the league – and with 80 goals conceded, this is their worst season since 1971-72 (also 80); they previously let in more in 1967-68 (83).
Despite not winning any of their first four games under caretaker manager Simon Rusk (D2 L2), Southampton now average more points per game under Rusk (0.5) than they did under Russell Martin (0.31) and Ivan Juric (0.29).
Southampton have allowed the most shots (605), the most on target (234) and the highest xG against (78.8) in the Premier League this season, and are looking to avoid losing their last four games against Leicester – something that has never happened before.
However, if Southampton fail on Saturday, they will be guaranteed bottom of the table – the third time they have finished bottom of the table (after 2004-05 and 2022-23), equalling Sunderland's unwanted record.
Latest Leicester City vs Southampton score prediction
Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the results of the match.Leicester City vs Southamptonas follows:
- Sportsmole:Leicester City 1-2 Southampton
- WhoScore:Leicester City 0-2 Southampton
- Our newspaper predicts:Leicester City 1-2 Southampton
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