Match Pack: Away Fixture, Premier League, Southampton, #SOULEI, your exclusive preview update
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Leicester will be out after all three points, when visiting Southampton tomorrow on the 19th of October. The Saints are of course desperate to get points on board, being on just 1 point so far.
Leicester will be without Hamza Choudhury, Patson Daka and Jakub Stolarczyk, all still out with injuries, but it looks as everyone came back from international duty without any worries.
There could be changes to the line-up, but we do see it as possible also to keep the team that played in the win vs. Bournemouth, so our prediction would be that Steve Cooper will play the same team.
Southampton do miss Gavin Bazunu, Ross Stewart, Jack Stephens and William Smallbone, all reported to be unavailable with injuries.
Twitter: #LEISOU
Match Pack – Stats & Facts
Table Position
LEI: 15
SOU: 19
Injuries / Uncertainties / Suspensions:
LEI: Daka, Stolarczyk, Choudhury
SAI: Bazunu, Stewart, Stephens, Smallbone
Head to Head:
Last Three
Premier League; 22.05.2022, King Power Stadium, 4-1 (W)
Championship. 15.09.2023, St. Mary’s, 4-1 (W)
Championship; 23.04.2024, King Power Stadium, 5-0 (W)
Possible Line-Up’s:
Leicester City:
Hermansen, Justin, Kristiansen, Faes, Okoli, Skipp, Ndidi, Bounanotte, Vardy, Mavididi, Ayew
Southampton:
Ramsdale, Bednarek, Harwood-Bellis, Walker-Peters, Sugawara, Aribo, Fernandes, Downes, Manning, Dibling, Archer
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:Puma
Kit Sponsor: Robllbit
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:
The one off Southampton Legends shirt 2024-25 is made up of red and white stripes with the addition of stripes made up of alternate diagonal red and white pinstripes.
The sleeves are coloured red as is the Puma logo beneath the collar. In the centre of the chest is the Southampton FC crest. In the centre of the front was the logo of CSM the match day sponsor.
The matchworn Saints Legends shirts will be auctioned off raising money for Saints Foundation, The Russell Martin Foundation and Sophie's Appeal.
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? Southampton have won one major trophy in their history; they won the FA Cup in 1976. In the final, they beat Manchester United 1-0 in one of the greatest ever FA Cup shocks, as Southampton were a second division team at that time.
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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