Southampton 3-0 Leicester City: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 22 January 2017
Result
Southampton 3-0 Leicester City
Premier League · Sunday 22 January 2017, 12:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Southampton 3-0 Leicester City: match report
Southampton won against Leicester City 3-0 in the Premier League on Sunday 22 January 2017. The half-time score was 2-0.
James Ward-Prowse opened the scoring in the 26th minute. Southampton's goals came from James Ward-Prowse (26'), Jay Rodríguez (39') and Dusan Tadić (86', penalty). Leicester City did not score.
Discipline: Southampton received no yellow cards; Leicester City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Southampton were 13th on 24 points from 21 and Leicester City 15th on 21 points from 21. Southampton went on to finish that season 8th with 46 points, and Leicester City 12th with 44.
Southampton lined up in a 4-3-3 and Leicester City in a 4-3-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Cédric Soares of Southampton (8.2), ahead of Nathan Redmond (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Southampton wins, 5 draws and 2 for Leicester City.
Key events
- 26'Goal · James Ward-Prowse
- 39'Goal · Jay Rodríguez
- 85'Yellow card · Wes Morgan
- 86'Penalty goal · Dusan Tadić
Head-to-head
Team news
Southampton line-up (4-3-3)
Fraser Forster, Cédric Soares, Maya Yoshida, Virgil van Dijk, Ryan Bertrand, Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, Oriol Romeu, James Ward-Prowse, Nathan Redmond, Jay Rodríguez, Dusan Tadic
Leicester City line-up (4-3-1-2)
Kasper Schmeichel, Danny Simpson, Wes Morgan, Robert Huth, Christian Fuchs, Danny Drinkwater, Wilfred Ndidi, Nampalys Mendy, Shinji Okazaki, Jamie Vardy, Demarai Gray