Southampton vs Leicester City betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the Premier League match on October 19th, 2024

Southampton will be playing against Leicester City in a Premier League football match scheduled to take place on Saturday, October 19th, 2024, at 14:00h (UTC), in England, check the Southampton vs Leicester City betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Southampton vs Leicester City will occur

The game is set to be played in the St. Mary's Stadium stadium, in the city of Southampton, with a capacity for 32384 spectators, who hope to help the team to surprise in this match.

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Introduction to the Southampton vs Leicester City betting tip 2024/2025

The Premier League has had fewer goals than the previous season. Last season the tournament had an average of 3.28 goals scored per match, while now the competition has an average of 2.87 goals per match played.

Southampton last match

Southampton comes from a loss in the last match played. On that occasion the opponent was Arsenal, in a match valid for Premier League, and the match ended 3-1. Coach R. Martin's team lined up with this formation: 5-4-1.

Before the match all forecasts pointed to a defeat. The odds of their win, 13.00 were the best proof of this.

This was certainly not the best performance of the season for the defense. Taylor Harwood-Bellis leads the departmental disaster: with his late interventions and bad passes he allowed many chances to the opposing team's attacks.

Leicester City last match

On the other hand, the visiting team arrives at this match after a victory in the last round. In a dispute valid for Premier League, Leicester City, who used a 4-2-3-1 formation, faced the AFC Bournemouth team with a final score of 1-0.

The odds for the home team to win before the match were 3.50, so it was logical to expect a fairly even match.

Southampton vs Leicester City h2h

Leicester City was in 1st place in the Championship while Southampton was in 4th place, the last time these teams faced each other. Leicester City team entered the field with the 4-3-3 formation, the same tactic Southampton used in the match.

The last preceding match between these two teams was from 23-04-2024. The match was valid for the 2023/2024 season of the Championship, and it ended with a 5-0 win for Leicester City.

The Leicester City team has accomplished more consistent results in the past five games, than Southampton its counterpart.

G. Beswick and A. Nunn will be assisting the referee A. Taylor in this football match.

Southampton

Premier League leaderboard now

With 1 point won, Southampton is in 19th place on the leaderboard, which leaves the team in the Relegation zone. The team's campaign so far is 0 wins against 6 losses, plus 1 draw.

This means that Wolverhampton Wanderers team, in 20th place, is close behind in the 8th round with the same score.

Southampton analysis

After round number 7 in Premier League, Southampton has 4 goals scored and 15 conceded.

In terms of form, the team comes from a 2 losses streak in the Premier League, which is not a good omen for this next match.

Southampton seems to be facing a problem in scoring goals, as they have recorded a low number of goals and a high number of matches where they failed to score. This could be an indication that they are struggling to generate good scoring opportunities and need to improve their attacking performance.

The average number of shots toward the net of Southampton can give us useful indications about the team's offensive abilities, and its goal average. The team counted 3.43 shots into the opponent's goal for each match played.

The Southampton team, knowing that teams with ball possession above 50% typically have some control over the opponents, usually tries to control the game with an average ball possession of 57.86%.

One of the team's signings for the season still seems to be in a slow pace of adaptation. Yukinari Sugawara played another underwhelming game in the club's last appearance, against Arsenal. He failed to show the expected security and did not help Southampton to come out with the victory.

Leicester City

Premier League leaderboard now

Leicester City arrives in this game with 6 points, and in 15th place in the Premier League, having won once in total and lost 3 times, making a total of 3 draws.

Which means that in the 8th round, the team is ahead with an advantage of 1 point over Everton team who is in the 16th place.

Leicester City analysis

The goal difference is on the negative side for Leicester City, which after 7 rounds has conceded 12 but has only scored 9.

Increasingly more in tune with his teammates, Facundo Buonanotte, who arrived at the club this season, made another fine performance in the team's last game. The midfielder was very good in the game against AFC Bournemouth, being a key piece for Leicester City.

Best goalscorer from Leicester City

At the individual level, in this competition's offensive sector, it is worth mentioning James Justin. The Defender has already scored 2 goals in the competition, being extremely important for Leicester City, who have benefited from his performances several times to achieve essential triumphs.

For bettors some entries may be relevant for this game, namely:

Goals Top Betting Tips

Between 75-90 minutes is a good time to bet as some study have shown this to be the time where most goals occur.

Taking into consideration that Leicester City scores an average of 1.67 goals per match when playing away, we should consider the under 2.5 betting market, especially because this team usually does not concede goals when playing out of their stadium.

Currently, at Bet365, the odds for the Total Goals Under 2.5 market are quoted at 2.1.

Corners Top Betting Tips

Something to explore in order to get favorable betting results is noting the average of 3.36 corners per game which one can get by combining the number of corners of both teams.

Cards Top Betting Tips

Southampton has an average of 2.6 yellow cards per game over the 7 rounds, while Leicester City has an average of 2.4. In other words, these teams together are averaging 5.71 yellow cards per match. Therefore, it might be a good option to bet on the 'Over 4.5 cards' option in this duel.

This is a match with several good betting entries to have some return on sports betting.

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