Leicester scored three second-half objectives to return from behind and stun 10-player Southampton, denying them a primary Premier League win of the season after a gripping 3-2 success at St Mary’s.
The outcome means Saints have set a membership file for the longest winless run of their whole top-flight historical past, having didn’t emerge victorious from any of their final 21 Premier League encounters.
Inside 5 minutes, Joe Aribo had crashed a header onto the crossbar and inside seven minutes, the hosts had taken the lead. Kyle Walker-Peters led the cost after a fast free-kick and dropped the ball off to Ryan Manning, who squared for Cameron Archer to coolly slot in and ship a wave of each aid and perception round St Mary’s.
Aribo completed off an analogous transfer, with Walker-Peters the architect, to double the lead earlier than the half-hour and Saints flew out of the traps after the break, seeking to end off the job so as to take their foot off the pedal considerably.
Leicester nonetheless had not had a shot on course by the hour, so three factors had been inside their grasp. Till they weren’t any extra.
Abdul Fatawu had a near-immediate affect, attending to the byline and hanging a ball up that Facundo Buonanotte helped in on the far publish. Then, he rattled the crossbar with a shot from distance and examined Aaron Ramsdale shortly after the ball was stored in play.
Nevertheless, VAR noticed that, after the save, Ryan Fraser had held again Jamie Vardy and denied him a goalscoring alternative. Anthony Taylor went to the monitor and returned quickly after, with a purple card for Fraser and a penalty award to Leicester.
Vardy slammed house the spot-kick to degree the sport and, from there, Saints had been, understandably deflated. It appeared as if they might maintain on for a degree, however with one of many closing kicks of the sport, Jordan Ayew was discovered unmarked at a nook.
He squeezed a shot previous Ramsdale and into the underside proper nook to spark a refrain of boos and a mass exodus from the house followers.
Martin: Fraser’s sending off modified the sport – however winner was preventable
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Southampton boss Russell Martin was left annoyed together with his facet’s defending as they let a two-goal lead slip
Southampton supervisor Russell Martin:
“We have a man sent off and it changes the context of the game completely. We started the game brilliantly, played so well. I thought we started the second half really, really well and looked like we were going to score a third goal. Then they scored against the run of play.
“Even at 2-1, it was OK, it was nice and it settled down a bit, then Ryan will get despatched off and it adjustments all the things. They scored a penalty after that, the lads defended with absolute spirit, struggle and togetherness.
“We brought Kamaldeen [Sulemana] to give us one moment in the box and he had it and didn’t make the most of it. Then we conceded. Someone doesn’t do what they’re asked to do from a corner, again, same as at Ipswich.
“We do [a lot of work on set-pieces] and we must always have scored one right now. We defended brilliantly towards the most effective set-piece workforce in Europe towards Arsenal and right now, we had been all the way down to 10 males, one particular person had one job to try this would’ve stopped that objective and so they did not.
“The concern is that the person didn’t do it. It’s not about detail or lack of work. It would be a concern if we had a lack of detail, a lack of work, but it’s about taking responsibility and doing what you’re asked to do.”
On whether or not he fears for his job after one other defeat: “No. I had a brilliant chat with Dragan [Solak, Saints owner] and the guys yesterday. We had a board meeting.”
“It was planned, so you can relax. I wouldn’t give you any details if we were sitting top of the Premier League.”
Cooper: Comeback confirmed how collectively Leicester are
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Leicester Metropolis supervisor Steve Cooper hopes coming from 2-0 all the way down to win 3-2 at Southampton will propel his facet on to having a ‘memorable’ season again within the Premier League
Leicester supervisor Steve Cooper:
“It ended up being a brilliant day and will hopefully be memorable for the season. We didn’t defend the goals well enough in the first half, of course, but I always felt we were in the game.
“We missed a few possibilities within the first half from set-pieces, we hit the woodwork and thought we must always have completed higher within the first half, I used to be additionally fairly assured the sport might change.
“We asked the players at half-time, after the tactical things and some of the messages, to really believe in themselves, to really back themselves and to stick together – and that’s what we did. Today’s a really good show of how together we are.
“It is a good win for the supporters. It is the primary away win of the season, we have gone back-to-back and we have to take all the things out of the sport right now, study, proceed to enhance, proceed to try and we’ll proceed to get higher as effectively.”
