PREMIER LEAGUE FRIDAY: We preview Friday’s Premier League encounter between SOUTHAMPTON v LEICESTER with a recommended BETDAQ bet and extended match stats.
8pm The football just keeps on coming this week and we have Friday Night Football to enjoy as Southampton host Leicester. Brendan Rodger’s men are flying high this season in third place coming into this weekend’s fixtures. Obviously it’s a massive help to them that Manchester United, Spurs and to a lesser exact Chelsea and Arsenal have dropped a lot of points already – but Leicester have played impressive football and deserve to be sitting in third.
The match odds at the time of writing currently trade; Southampton 3.15, Leicester 2.44 and the draw is 3.55. Leicester look like cracking value at 2.44. They have won their last two away games against Southampton in the Premier League, and they have only dropped points when they have come up against the so called “Top Six” this season. Southampton are without a win here all season.
Southampton sit just outside the bottom three, but only a goal difference and have shipped seven goals in their last two home games, losing 4-1 to Chelsea and 3-1 to Bournemouth. Given that Leicester have been in excellent goal scoring form, over 2.5 goals looks worth consideration at 1.98. That price looks at least ten ticks too big but we can’t get away from the Leicester price at 2.44 for our best bet. They have been excellent this season and can get the job done in style here.
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Leicester to beat Southampton at 2.44.
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MATCH STATS
- Southampton won their last Premier League match against Leicester (2-1 in January), and are looking to secure consecutive wins over them in the competition for the first time since 2001.
- Leicester have won their last two Premier League away games against Southampton, more than they had in their first 11 such games against them (W1 D5 L5).
- Southampton have been shown five red cards in Premier League games against Leicester, more than they have vs any other side. They had a red card against the Foxes in both games last season – they’ve never had a player sent off in three consecutive games against an opponent in the competition.
- Leicester have never won a Premier League match on a Friday (P7 W0 D2 L5), playing more games on that day of the week without winning than any other side in the competition.
- Southampton are winless in six Premier League home games (D3 L3), including all four so far this season (D1 L3). They failed to win any of their first five home games last season, and could become just the third side in history to do so in consecutive top-flight campaigns (Bury in 1904-05/1905-06 and QPR in 1973-74/1974-75).
- Since the start of last season, Southampton have won just 24 points from their 23 home Premier League games (W5 D9 L9), the fewest of any side to have played in both seasons.
- Leicester City have won a league-high seven points from losing positions in the Premier League this season, coming from behind to win their last game against Burnley.
- Southampton have kept just one clean sheet in their last 18 home league games, conceding at least once in each of their last nine. They’ve conceded first in all four Premier League home games this season – only in January 1997 have they conceded the first goal in five consecutively at home in the competition.
- Southampton’s Danny Ings has scored five goals in his last four games in all competitions, netting in four consecutive games for the first time ever in English football.
- Jamie Vardy averages a goal every 113 minutes in the Premier League for Leicester under Brendan Rodgers, his best ratio under any permanent manager at the club in the competition. He’s netted 15 goals in 19 games since Rodgers’ arrival – only under Claudio Ranieri (29) and Claude Puel (23) has he scored more Premier League goals, playing more than 50 games for each of those managers.
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