Southampton 2-2 Leicester City: result and report

Premier League · Wednesday 1 December 2021

Result

Southampton 2-2 Leicester City

Premier League · Wednesday 1 December 2021, 19:30 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Southampton 2-2 Leicester City: match report

Southampton drew with Leicester City 2-2 in the Premier League on Wednesday 1 December 2021. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Jan Bednarek opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Southampton's goals came from Jan Bednarek (3') and Ché Adams (34'). Leicester City scored through Jonny Evans (22') and James Maddison (49').

Discipline: Southampton received 1 yellow card; Leicester City received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Southampton were 16th on 14 points from 13 and Leicester City 10th on 18 points from 13. Southampton went on to finish that season 15th with 40 points, and Leicester City 8th with 52.

Southampton lined up in a 4-4-2 and Leicester City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Jonny Evans of Leicester City (7.7), ahead of Ché Adams (7.5).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Southampton wins, 3 draws and 4 for Leicester City.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · Jan BednarekSouthampton · 1-0
  • 22'Goal · Jonny EvansLeicester City · 1-1
  • 34'Goal · Ché AdamsSouthampton · 2-1
  • 48'Yellow card · Oriol RomeuSouthampton
  • 49'Goal · James MaddisonLeicester City · 2-2
  • 55'Yellow card · Ademola LookmanLeicester City
  • 82'Yellow card · Wilfred NdidiLeicester City
  • 90+3'Yellow card · Kiernan Dewsbury-HallLeicester City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Southampton 3, draws 3, Leicester City 4.

Team news

Southampton line-up (4-4-2)

Alex Simon McCarthy, Tino Livramento, Jan Bednarek, Mohammed Salisu, Kyle Walker-Peters, Nathan Redmond, James Ward-Prowse, Oriol Romeu, Nathan Tella, Ché Adams, Adam Armstrong

Leicester City line-up (4-2-3-1)

Kasper Schmeichel, Timothy Castagne, Jonny Evans, Çağlar Söyüncü, Luke Jonathan Thomas, Boubakary Soumaré, Wilfred Ndidi, Ademola Lookman, James Maddison, Harvey Barnes, Jamie Vardy