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City's Youngsters Beaten By Saints In PL2 Opener

The Leicester City Development Squad were defeated 2-1 by Southampton in the first Premier League 2 game of the season on Friday evening.

2024-08-16T22:10+01:00

by Matthew Temple

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16 Aug, 2024

City's Youngsters Beaten By Saints In PL2 Opener

The Leicester City Development Squad were defeated 2-1 by Southampton in the first Premier League 2 game of the season on Friday evening.

Matthew Temple

2024-08-16T22:10+01:00

City's Youngsters Beaten By Saints In PL2 Opener

The Leicester City Development Squad were defeated 2-1 by Southampton in the first Premier League 2 game of the season on Friday evening.

Matthew Temple

2024-08-16T22:10+01:00

City's Youngsters Beaten By Saints In PL2 Opener

The Leicester City Development Squad were defeated 2-1 by Southampton in the first Premier League 2 game of the season on Friday evening.

Matthew Temple

2024-08-16T22:10+01:00

City's Youngsters Beaten By Saints In PL2 Opener

The Leicester City Development Squad were defeated 2-1 by Southampton in the first Premier League 2 game of the season on Friday evening.

Matthew Temple

2024-08-16T22:10+01:00

Two second-half Southampton goals from Joseph Whitmarsh and Princewill Ehibhatiomhan cancelled out City's opener at LCFC Training Ground, which was found just before the interval through Chris Popov.

The new PL2 season dawned for Leicester on home turf in Seagrave as the Saints made the trip to the East Midlands to face a Leicester side which included new summer signing Michael Golding from Chelsea.

Chris Popov scored his first goal of the season against the Saints.

It took all of 41 minutes for the deadlock to be broken, which was done by Welsh forward Popov, assisted by Amani Richards, providing the lead for the hosts heading into the break.

Little over the hour mark, the scores were back level again when Whitmarsh was teed up by Derrick Abu, before the same provider set up Ehibhatiomhan for the winner with just over 10 minutes left on the clock.

Michael Golding in action for the Under-21s.

With game one of the new term concluded, the Foxes quickly switch focus to the EFL Trophy, when they face Burton Albion on Tuesday evening at Pirelli Stadium (7pm BST kick-off); Leicester forming part of Southern Group F with Northampton Town and Notts County also in the group.

The details...

City: French; Cover, Godsmark-Ford, Wilson-Brown (Wormleighton 46'), Ali (Briggs 46'); Raikhy (Ewing 46'), Braybrooke; Richards (Monga 74'), Golding, Wanya Marçal; Popov.

Unused sub: Bausor.

Goals: Popov 41'.

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