Southampton - Leicester City in Premier League: Statistics, line-ups, fixtures, the latest developments and reports. Check out our broad guide!
- Leicester City have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Southampton and Leicester City.
Southampton form and stats
2 victories, 3 draws and 1 defeat. That’s what Southampton have to build on here at St. Mary's Stadium in the Premier League.
No payout for Southampton in their previous match, an away game at Liverpool that ended in defeat 0-4. As you see from the result above, Southampton suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one. Midfield player Nathan Tella got a match rating of 7.01 in that game, the max score being 10. Tella hit two key passes.
A defeat was the result before that one, 1-2 away at Norwich City.This is expected to be a close game, with Southampton perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Southampton as a small favourite), we find six games. Southampton has won one of these, drawn one and lost four.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Southampton, as the Premier League home game vs Brighton & Hove Albion is only three days away.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Southampton here at St. Mary's Stadium in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (5 from 6 games). Southampton are not conceding a lot of goals here at St. Mary's Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 6 matches.
Leicester City form and stats
As the visiting team in Premier League matches, Leicester City have produced an overall stat of 2-2-2 so far.
Leicester won their last game, 4-2 versus Watford played at home. As you can tell from the result, the match against Watford was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today? Midfielder James Maddison was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 9.25. Maddison scored one goal, signed up for two assists, hit five key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Before that, Leicester City secured a home win against Legia Warszawa with the score 3-1.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found nine similar matches played by Leicester in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Leicester City, three draws and four defeats.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Leicester City manager B. Rodgers as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Aston Villa.
Leicester are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 9 times in 6 away games so far. Leicester City struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 11 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the previous ten meetings): Southampton won two games, three matches ended with a tie and Leicester City have five wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / fiveTop Goalscorers
  J. Vardy 9 goals |  Y. Tielemans 3 goals |   J. Ward-Prowse 2 goals |
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| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 11 | 5 | 2 | Scored | S | 3 | 9 | 20 |
| 18 | 4 | 1 | Conceded | C | 2 | 11 | 23 |
| 85% | 83% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 54% | 33% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 85% |
| 46% | 17% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 83% | 69% |
| 38% | 17% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 38% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 17% | 23% |
| 46% | 33% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 69% |
| 38% | 50% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 31% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 23% |
| 6.3 | 6.8 | 8.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7 | 4.7 | 5.2 |
| 5.2 | 4.5 | 7.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 9.5 | 7.2 | 6 |
| 1.8 | 1.7 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12.4 | 13.5 | 8.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 9.8 | 11.9 |
| 3.4 | 4 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.7 | 4.8 |
| 25% | 21% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 41% | 32% |
| 12.2 | 10 | 14.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17 | 16.8 | 16.1 |
| 4.2 | 3 | 3.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 4.8 | 5.3 |
- All of Leicester City's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Leicester City have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Leicester City have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Leicester City have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Leicester City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Chelsea | 13 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 31 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 26 | 30 |
| 2 | Manchester City | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 27 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 20 | 29 |
| 3 | Liverpool | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 39 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 6 | 28 | 28 |
| 4 | West Ham United | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 24 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 23 |
| 5 | Arsenal | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 11 | -2 | 23 |
| 6 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 20 |
| 7 | Tottenham Hotspur | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -6 | 19 |
| 8 | Manchester United | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 21 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 11 | -1 | 18 |
| 9 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | -2 | 18 |
| 10 | Leicester City | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 23 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 11 | -3 | 18 |
| 11 | Crystal Palace | 13 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 19 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 16 |
| 12 | Brentford | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 16 |
| 13 | Aston Villa | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 18 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 13 | -3 | 16 |
| 14 | Everton | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | -4 | 15 |
| 15 | Southampton | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 14 | -7 | 14 |
| 16 | Watford | 13 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 18 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 12 | -6 | 13 |
| 17 | Leeds United | 13 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 11 | -8 | 12 |
| 18 | Burnley | 12 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 | -6 | 9 |
| 19 | Norwich City | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 16 | -20 | 9 |
| 20 | Newcastle United | 13 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 29 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 16 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 13 | -14 | 6 |
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