Leicester City 2-0 Southampton: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 16 January 2021
Result
Leicester City 2-0 Southampton
Premier League · Saturday 16 January 2021, 20:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Leicester City 2-0 Southampton: match report
Leicester City won against Southampton 2-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 16 January 2021. The half-time score was 1-0.
James Maddison opened the scoring in the 37th minute. Leicester City's goals came from James Maddison (37') and Harvey Barnes (90+5'). Southampton did not score.
Discipline: Leicester City received 2 yellow cards; Southampton received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Leicester City were 4th on 32 points from 17 and Southampton 8th on 29 points from 17. Leicester City went on to finish that season 5th with 66 points, and Southampton 15th with 43.
Leicester City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Southampton in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Youri Tielemans of Leicester City (8.4), ahead of Kasper Schmeichel (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Leicester City wins, 3 draws and 3 for Southampton.
Going into the match Leicester City's last five read W-D-D-W-L and Southampton's W-D-D-L-D.
Key events
- 15'Yellow card · W. Fofana
- 37'Goal · James Maddison
- 44'Yellow card · I. Diallo
- 45'Yellow card · Marc Albrighton
- 59'Yellow card · Ryan Bertrand
- 90+5'Goal · Harvey Barnes
Head-to-head
Team news
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- Nathan Redmond
- Oriol Romeu
- Danny Ings
- Dennis Praet
- Jannik Vestergaard
- Michael Obafemi
- Mohammed Salisu
- Moussa Djenepo
- Nathan Tella
- Mohamed Elyounoussi
Leicester City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Kasper Schmeichel, Timothy Castagne, Wesley Fofana, Jonny Evans, James Justin, Wilfred Ndidi, Youri Tielemans, Marc Albrighton, James Maddison, Harvey Barnes, Jamie Vardy
Southampton line-up (4-4-2)
Alex Simon McCarthy, Kyle Walker-Peters, Jan Bednarek, Jack Stephens, Ryan Bertrand, Stuart Armstrong, Ibrahima Diallo, James Ward-Prowse, Will Smallbone, Theo Walcott, Ché Adams