Leicester vs Southampton tips and predictions: Saints go down swinging at King Power
Leicester City welcome Southampton to the King Power Stadium on Tuesday night for a game with major implications in the Championship promotion race (2000 BST).
Leicester City are a football club from Leicester, England, who will be playing in the Championship for the 2023/24 season.
Known as The Foxes, Leicester play their home matches at the King Power Stadium. They are most famous for winning the 2015/16 Premier League under Claudio Ranieri after they had been widely tipped as relegation candidates before the season began.
Leicester became a consistently competitive force in the Premier League, spurred on by goals from Jamie Vardy and the tactical astuteness of manager Brendan Rodgers.
Under Rodgers, Leicester twice missed out on Champions League qualification with final-day defeats - finishing fifth in 2019/20 and 2020/21. But he did get his side over the line in the 2021 FA Cup as the club won the famous competition for the first time in their history.
Leicester struggled and after a winless run of six games, including defeats against relegation rivals Southampton and Crystal Palace, the board sacked Rodgers in April 2023.
In 1907/08, Leicester finished as Second Division runners-up and gained promotion to the top flight of English soccer for the first time. They did not settle well and were relegated at the first attempt, suffering a club record 12-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest along the way.
In 1928/29, Leicester finished second in the First Division, losing the league title to The Wednesday (later renamed Sheffield Wednesday) by a single point.
After Arthur Rowley's 44 goals helped Leicester secure promotion to the top flight in 1957, they remained there for 12 years - the longest stint in the division in the Foxes' history.
Martin O'Neill took over as Leicester City manager in 1995. He won promotion to the Premier League via the play-offs in his first season and this proved to be a sign of things to come.
Leicester were relegated to League One in 2008 under Ian Holloway, just four years after they had last been dumped out of the Premier League.
Leicester made two play-offs over the next four seasons but failed to get promotion to the Premier League on both attempts. Under Pearson, the Foxes lost the 2009/10 play-off semi-final against Cardiff City on penalties.
After Pearson left to manage Hull City, Leicester went through stints under Paulo Sousa and Sven-Goran Eriksson before Pearson returned in 2011. He led Leicester to another play-off in 2012/13, but they lost in the semi-finals to Watford following Anthony Knockaert's late penalty miss.
On October 27, 2018, shortly after take-off from the King Power Stadium following a match against West Ham United, a helicopter crash killed five people including Leicester owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, also known as Khun Vichai.
His consortium had purchased Leicester eight years earlier and led them from the Championship to the top of the Premier League. Khun Vichai was honoured throughout the soccer fraternity following his tragic passing.
In May 2021, Leicester City won the FA Cup for the first time in the club's history after beating Chelsea 1-0 in the final.
Belgian midfielder, and man-of-the match, Youri Tielemans scored a fantastic long-range cracker to secure the victory, but the Foxes were also indebted to goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel for several crucial saves.
They followed this up by beating Premier League winners Manchester City in the Community Shield on August 8, 2021. Kelechi Iheanacho scored the only goal of the game late on from the penalty spot.
The landscape of the club changed in the summer of 2022, with financial constraints seeing a number of players leave and their replacements were not of a similar calibre.
They started the 2022/23 campaign terribly, losing six of their first seven games, before picking up form and heading towards mid-table.
However, a run of six games, including defeats against relegation rivals Southampton and Crystal Palace, proved too much and the board sacked Rodgers in April 2023.
The East Midlands derby with Nottingham Forest is widely viewed as Leicester's primary grudge match.
The city of Leicester is widely known for the Leicester Tigers rugby team, arguably the most prestigious rugby union side in the country. However, in recent years, their soccer club has gained fans from all over the world, largely due to their 2015/16 Premier League triumph.
Leicester have supporters groups across various continents and are also famous for the Foxes Pride organisation, which works with the LGBT community and club supporters.
Leicester City are the 17th most valuable football club in the world according to Forbes, with a value of $925 millionmillion as of May 2022.
Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, the son of the deceased Khun Vichai and current CEO and chairman of King Power, is Leicester City's chairman and in 2021 had a net worth of $2.15billion according to Forbes.
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