Southampton..(H)..up next.

[Alan Frost]

On 10/01/2021 at 20:44, daddylonglegs said:

Think we played brilliantly against Stoke but can’t see us winning this. At home we’ve been really poor and Southampton are great defensively & on the counter attack.

 

Would snap your hand off for a draw. 

I think we need 3 points. OK no one can guarantee that but we need them looking at games in hand for Man c, Man u and maybe even Villa.

[Ecdysiast]

26 minutes ago, KFS said:

2-2

of course it's a Tutu....Thanks

[BirminghamFox]

1-0 tight win

[cruzFOX]

5 hours ago, BirminghamFox said:

1-0 tight win

I’ll take any kind of win this weekend!

[Gevans_97]

Our next 3 games (Saints, Everton, Chelsea) are going to be tough and will go a long way to opening up the top end of the table. 1W 2D would do us nicely in my opinion. Most important thing is making sure we don’t lose these, essentially all three games are 6 pointers.

[jeffschlupp]

Vardy, Maddison, Ricardo and Ünder all in training today ahead of this one. Would imagine that means at least the first two are fully fit and available.

 

Leaves only Praet absent.

[ARM1968]

2-1. It is written. 

[fuchsntf]

I want a brilliant win, with VAR disgusting all of Southampton, PMQT, MOTD, Not forgetting Roy Keane....I Dont care, just a win...!!

[whoareyaaa]

I don't think they will sit back so it may suit us having them attack us

[North Leeds Fox]

They have had their game changed midweek to Shrewsbury instead of leeds. They will go for it i would imagine so hopefully we can pick them off on the break. 

[sacreblueits442]

43 minutes ago, whoareyaaa said:

I don't think they will sit back so it may suit us having them attack us

...we are poor with a full press, intelligent players on their team, they will be well organised!!!

[Guest Chocolate Teapot]

1 hour ago, jeffschlupp said:

Vardy, Maddison, Ricardo and Ünder all in training today ahead of this one. Would imagine that means at least the first two are fully fit and available.

 

Leaves only Praet absent.

Where did you find this out?

[Hales]

26 minutes ago, Chocolate Teapot said:

Where did you find this out?

Training video is out. I didn't see Timmy either? Hard to tell with hats and snoods though!

[Guest Chocolate Teapot]

42 minutes ago, Hales said:

Training video is out. I didn't see Timmy either? Hard to tell with hats and snoods though!

Hes there. Just watched it.

[Guest Chocolate Teapot]

Didn't spot gray in the video though

[AKCJ]

Not beaten these at home since the title winning season. It's turned into a pretty huge game IMO. Need to make sure we're at the top of our game.

[foxfanazer]

I'm bloody working while this is on! Could be a really entertaining game as well

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

If ever there was a test of our top 4 credentials...

[Guest Danny Clender]

Remember that game against Southampton?

 

Ok, not the last game we played Southampton, that was horrible, no, I’m talking about the one before where we beat them 9-0, yeah that’s the one.

Utterly unforgettable to any Leicester Fan, yet the complete polar opposite for any Saints fan.

 

Buggerishly, I missed this game as I was away working.

I was staying in a remote’ish “hotel” and 4G wasn’t an option, so I had to make do with the hotel’s bootlace thin wi-fi. Fortunately, the wi-fi signal was just enough to feed the BBC Sports App showing me the Live Updates.

The first opportunity I had to check the score it displayed 5-0…eh? errrrr let me just check that again. We’d recently beaten Newcastle 5-0 over 90 minutes, so to be 5-0 up after 45 minutes seemed closer to an App glitch rather than reality. I quickly scrolled down through the updates and errr…yes it was absolutely right. I then spent the second half thumbing a refresh every 5 seconds. Obviously, I wish I’d have watched the actual game, but I doubt I will ever enjoy watching a Leicester game on a live update blog as that one.

 

It was a huge moment in both teams seasons. For us, it was like eating a McDonalds Breakfast, we gained such a high rush, but we then suffered a major crash soon afterwards, we never came anywhere close to enjoying such a moment for the rest of that season.

For Southampton, it was a pivotal and Hasenhüttl did well afterwards. Instead of retiring to his Austrian rabbit hutch, he stayed and won his reputation back and has since managed his team to where they are today, fair play.

 

Here is a little trivia surrounding the number 9 from that game.

 

9%.

At 9%, bizarrely and unexplainably, it was Special Brew that the Southampton team drank before the game, allegedly.

 

9 Minutes.

The first person to leave St.Mary’s that night was recorded at 9 minutes. Nothing to do with having a bad feeling about the game, just a highly strung individual who is paranoid about getting stuck in traffic. She was the only Southampton supporter that didn’t request a refund that night.

 

9 cm’s of Rain.

9 centimetres of rain fell during the game. On the back of a successful 5-0 drubbing of Newcastle in such similar conditions, Sir Lewis Hamilton claimed “They are the only team that can compete with me in the rain”

 

Joe 90.

“Joe 9-0” Unfortunately nobody will ever see this fantastic idea Specsavers had for a commercial scripted around this game. Southampton said they didn’t find it funny.

 

999

Directly linked to the game, Hampshire Constabulary allegedly received 9 emergency phone calls that night ranging from GBH, Murder, Burglary, Arson and oddly Sheep Rustling, A Communications Officer for the Constabulary later confirmed the Sheep Rustling alerter wasn’t a Southampton fan and the case remains open.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 14 January 2021 by Danny Clender

[daddylonglegs]

1 hour ago, Chocolate Teapot said:

Didn't spot gray in the video though

FFS was really backing this game to be the turning point for him as well. 

[goose2010]

couple of rumours that they have 1 or 2 key players having to isolate. Their press conference is at 2pm today so will be interesting who it is, if its true at all. 

[Bert]

This is a team we should be beating. They’re a very good side and having a great season. But we are better. How many of their players gets in our starting eleven? 

[UHDrive]

Just throwing it out there but with how Southampton attack I'd consider starting Fofana and Cags in defence and if we need more width later in the game them bring on Evan's in a back 3.

[honeybradger]

4 minutes ago, UHDrive said:

Just throwing it out there but with how Southampton attack I'd consider starting Fofana and Cags in defence and if we need more width later in the game them bring on Evan's in a back 3.

Evans has been really good in the last couple of games tbf but him and chilwell were targetted heavily by southampton's press in their 2-1 win, i think we need to start cags and fofana cos theyre more press resistant and better passers so that we dont get caught on the ball like we did last time.

[nwl fox]

1 hour ago, Danny Clender said:

Remember that game against Southampton?

 

Ok, not the last game we played Southampton, that was horrible, no, I’m talking about the one before where we beat them 9-0, yeah that’s the one.

Utterly unforgettable to any Leicester Fan, yet the complete polar opposite for any Saints fan.

 

Buggerishly, I missed this game as I was away working.

I was staying in a remote’ish “hotel” and 4G wasn’t an option, so I had to make do with the hotel’s bootlace thin wi-fi. Fortunately, the wi-fi signal was just enough to feed the BBC Sports App showing me the Live Updates.

The first opportunity I had to check the score it displayed 5-0…eh? errrrr let me just check that again. We’d recently beaten Newcastle 5-0 over 90 minutes, so to be 5-0 up after 45 minutes seemed closer to an App glitch rather than reality. I quickly scrolled down through the updates and errr…yes it was absolutely right. I then spent the second half thumbing a refresh every 5 seconds. Obviously, I wish I’d have watched the actual game, but I doubt I will ever enjoy watching a Leicester game on a live update blog as that one.

 

It was a huge moment in both teams seasons. For us, it was like eating a McDonalds Breakfast, we gained such a high rush, but we then suffered a major crash soon afterwards, we never came anywhere close to enjoying such a moment for the rest of that season.

For Southampton, it was a pivotal and Hasenhüttl did well afterwards. Instead of retiring to his Austrian rabbit hutch, he stayed and won his reputation back and has since managed his team to where they are today, fair play.

 

Here is a little trivia surrounding the number 9 from that game.

 

9%.

At 9%, bizarrely and unexplainably, it was Special Brew is what the Southampton team drank before the game, allegedly.

 

9 Minutes.

The first person to leave St.Mary’s that night was recorded at 9 minutes. Nothing to do with having a bad feeling about the game, just a highly strung individual who is paranoid about getting stuck in traffic. She was the only Southampton supporter that didn’t request a refund that night.

 

9 cm’s of Rain.

9 centimetres of rain fell during the game. On the back of a successful 5-0 drubbing of Newcastle in such similar conditions, Sir Lewis Hamilton claimed “They are the only team that can compete with me in the rain”

 

Joe 90.

“Joe 9-0” Unfortunately nobody will ever see this fantastic idea Specsavers had for a commercial scripted around this game. Southampton said they didn’t find it funny.

 

999

Directly linked to the game, Hampshire Constabulary allegedly received 9 emergency phone calls that night ranging from GBH, Murder, Burglary, Arson and oddly Sheep Rustling, A Communications Officer for the Constabulary later confirmed the Sheep Rustling alerter wasn’t a Southampton fan and the case remains open.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If @Danny Clender doesn't win the day with this post, I'm resigning  

Edited 14 January 2021 by nwl fox