- Cameron Archer and Joe Aribo put Southampton two objectives up within the first half
- Facundo Buonanotte and Jamie Vardy ‘s penalty levelled it earlier than Ayew’s strike
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A superb second-half comeback from the fabulous Foxes has left Saints boss Russell Martin on the brink.
Martin, with out a win all season, will need to have thought he had lastly cracked it when his facet raced right into a two-goal lead at half-time.
However the sport turned after the introduction of Abdul Fatawu, who wreaked havoc down the Leicester proper and impressed a memorable comeback for Steve Cooper’s facet, the primary time Leicester have ever come again from a two-goal deficit within the Premier League.
It means Southampton are with out a win within the prime flight for 21 video games, since they defeated Leicester in March 2023, the season they completed backside.
Martin mentioned: ‘We’ve a person despatched off and it modified the context of the sport utterly. We began the sport brilliantly, performed so nicely.’
Jordan Ayew accomplished a sensational turnaround as Leicester beat Southampton 3-2
Cameron Archer gave the hosts the lead with a close-range end inside eight minutes
Joe Aribo (left) put the ending contact to Kyle Walker-Peters’ nice work down the left facet
The Saints boss was livid that Leicester’s 98th-minute winner got here from one other set-piece, with Saints right down to 10 males after Ryan Fraser was despatched off for fouling Jamie Vardy within the build-up to Leicester’s equaliser simply 12 minutes after approaching.
‘At this time, we’re right down to 10 males and we’ve got a number of subs on however one individual had one job to try this would have stopped that aim and so they didn’t.
‘The priority is that the individual didn’t do their job. It’s about taking duty and doing what you’re requested to do.’
Southampton had raced right into a two-goal lead after Cameron Archer transformed Ryan Manning’s low cross and Joe Aribo did likewise from Kyle Walker-Peters’ wonderful run and pull-back.
Abdul Fatawu made progress down the appropriate earlier than Facundo Buonanotte bundled the ball in
Vardy transformed powerfully from the penalty spot for his third aim of the season
It might have been even higher for Martin with Aribo additionally hanging the crossbar from Manning’s nook within the fourth minute and Mads Hermansen someway stopping Flynn Downes’s close-range volley.
Because the half wore on, Leicester rallied and a curling shot from Bilal El Kannouss in opposition to the far submit, with keeper Aaron Ramsdale nicely crushed, virtually supplied them with a means again into the sport.
The sport modified as soon as Fatawu got here off the bench. He supplied the help for Facundo Buonanotte to attain and rattled the bar himself after a wonderful run and shot quickly afterwards.
Cooper mentioned: ‘He’s an thrilling younger participant. He did brilliantly for us final 12 months and he’s shortly going to turn out to be an thrilling Premier League participant as nicely.’
Winks discovered Ayew unmarked on the sting of the field and the ahead fired into the underside nook
Fatawu additionally had a hand within the equaliser, after Ramsdale saved his header on the far submit earlier than Fraser was despatched off for pulling Vardy again as he tried to grab on the equaliser. Vardy transformed the spot-kick with aplomb and Leicester had been again stage.
Southampton regarded to have held on however, with the ultimate kick of the sport, Ayew related with Harry Winks’s low nook and the ball squirmed past Ramsdale and the away finish erupted.
