Southampton and Leicester City will face on Saturday the 4th of March at 5:30 pm in the 26th week of the Premier League. The match will be staged in Southampton at the Staplewood Training Ground. The appointed referee is Robert Jones.
Southampton is in the 20th place in the table with 18 points. It comes from a 1-0 loss against Leeds United in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has won 5 times, draw 3 times, and lost 16 times.
Leicester City occupies the 14th place in the table with 24 points. It comes from a 0-1 loss against Arsenal in its last match in the Premier League. As of now, it has won 7 times, draw 3 times, and lost 14 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Southampton
Southampton has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (9 times or 37.50%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (9 times), 4-4-2 (7 times), 5-3-2 (3 times), 3-4-2-1 (2 times), 3-4-1-2 (once), 3-1-4-2 (once) and 4-3-3 (once).
Rubén Sellés Salvador is expected to play against Leicester City with the following players: Gavin Bazunu, Romain Perraud, Jan Bednarek, Armel Bella-Kotchap, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Mohamed Elyounoussi, James Ward-Prowse, Roméo Lavia, Stuart Armstrong, K. Sulemana and Paul Onuachu.
In case that the line up is confirmed, the average age of Southampton would be 25.45.
Rubén Sellés Salvador will probably not be able to employ Mohammed Salisu and Che Adams because of injury.
Juan Larios López and Valentino Livramento will definitely miss the match.
Leicester City
Leicester City has mostly adopted the 4-1-4-1 line-up most used during the season (11 times or 45.83%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-1-4-1 (11 times), 4-2-3-1 (7 times), 4-4-2 (2 times), 3-5-1-1 (2 times), 4-3-3 (once) and 3-4-3 (once).
Brendan Rodgers is expected to play against Southampton with the following players: Danny Ward, Victor Kristansen, Wout Faes, Harry Souttar, Timothy Castagne, Daniel Amartey, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Dennis Praet, Harvey Barnes and Kelechi Iheanacho.
Granting that this will be the line-up, the resulting average age of Leicester City would be 26.50.
There are doubts about the presence of James Maddison.
Ryan Bertrand, Jonny Evans, James Justin and Youri Tielemans will definitely miss the match.
