Southampton 2-2 Leicester City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 17 October 2015
Result
Southampton 2-2 Leicester City
Premier League · Saturday 17 October 2015, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Southampton 2-2 Leicester City: match report
Southampton drew with Leicester City 2-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 17 October 2015. It was 2-0 at half-time.
José Fonte opened the scoring in the 21st minute. Southampton's goals came from José Fonte (21') and Virgil van Dijk (37'). Leicester City scored through Jamie Vardy (66') and Jamie Vardy (90+1').
Discipline: Southampton received 2 yellow cards; Leicester City received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Southampton were 9th on 12 points from 8 and Leicester City 8th on 13 points from 8. Southampton went on to finish that season 7th with 63 points, and Leicester City 1st with 76.
Southampton lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Leicester City in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Virgil van Dijk of Southampton (8.5), ahead of José Fonte (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Southampton wins, 3 draws and 2 for Leicester City.
Key events
- 21'Goal · José Fonte
- 22'Yellow card · Victor Wanyama
- 37'Goal · Virgil van Dijk
- 66'Goal · Jamie Vardy
- 76'Yellow card · Ryan Bertrand
- 90+1'Goal · Jamie Vardy
Head-to-head
Team news
Southampton line-up (4-2-3-1)
Kelvin Davis, Cédric Soares, José Fonte, Virgil van Dijk, Ryan Bertrand, Steven Davis, Victor Wanyama, Sadio Mané, James Ward-Prowse, Dusan Tadic, Graziano Pellè
Leicester City expected line-up (4-4-2)
Kasper Schmeichel, Robert Huth, Wes Morgan, Jeffrey Schlupp, Marc Albrighton, Danny Drinkwater, Jamie Vardy, Shinji Okazaki