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Victory Over The Saints Lifts Spirits

Legendary striker Jamie Vardy’s 199th Leicester City goal and a Jordan Ayew effort helped seal a first home Premier League win since early December as Southampton were defeated 2-0 on Saturday.

2025-05-03T17:17+01:00

by Sam Stevens

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03 May, 2025

from King Power Stadium

Victory Over The Saints Lifts Spirits

Legendary striker Jamie Vardy’s 199th Leicester City goal and a Jordan Ayew effort helped seal a first home Premier League win since early December as Southampton were defeated 2-0 on Saturday.

Sam Stevens

2025-05-03T17:17+01:00

Victory Over The Saints Lifts Spirits

Legendary striker Jamie Vardy’s 199th Leicester City goal and a Jordan Ayew effort helped seal a first home Premier League win since early December as Southampton were defeated 2-0 on Saturday.

Sam Stevens

2025-05-03T17:17+01:00

Victory Over The Saints Lifts Spirits

Legendary striker Jamie Vardy’s 199th Leicester City goal and a Jordan Ayew effort helped seal a first home Premier League win since early December as Southampton were defeated 2-0 on Saturday.

Sam Stevens

2025-05-03T17:17+01:00

Victory Over The Saints Lifts Spirits

Legendary striker Jamie Vardy’s 199th Leicester City goal and a Jordan Ayew effort helped seal a first home Premier League win since early December as Southampton were defeated 2-0 on Saturday.

Sam Stevens

2025-05-03T17:17+01:00

Set to leave the Club this summer, after a glorious 13 years, Vardy’s powerful 17th-minute half-volley broke the deadlock between the two already-relegated sides at King Power Stadium. Ruud van Nistelrooy’s men doubled their lead in the 44th minute. Ayew’s sixth goal of the season was a well-taken strike, rifled into the bottom corner from 20 yards out, after seeing an initial free-kick blocked – enough to confirm a fifth league win of 24/25.

Although inconsequential to our divisional status, this success at least moves Leicester to within a point of 18th-placed Ipswich Town and ends a damaging run of nine consecutive home games without scoring. There were also outings, from the bench, for youngsters Jeremy Monga (15), Jake Evans (16) and Michael Golding (18), the latter duo each making home debuts after impressing for the Club’s Academy sides this term.

Vardy hits 199

There was work to do early doors, as Jakub Stolarczyk – one of five changes, in for the injured Mads Hermansen – got down well to parry Taylor Harwood-Bellis’ downwards header. That was the extent of the concern which Saints caused the Polish stopper before the break, mind you.

Seventeen minutes in, we were ahead – as Vardy edged closer to a double century of Foxes goals. Luke Thomas, marking his 100th game in City’s colours, spun on the spot down the left channel. The Academy graduate – one of five in the matchday squad – then released Bilal El Khannouss to gallop forwards.

The Moroccan was away, past Kyle Walker-Peters, before skidding in a cross for Vardy. Leicester’s man of the moment, ahead of his departure this summer, the 38-year-old Foxes icon slammed his left boot through the ball, rocketing it into the top corner to go within one goal of the 200-mark before his 13 years are up in LE2. He's won the Premier League, FA Cup, Community Shield and two Championship titles here, but that feat would undoubtedly mean the world to our greatest-ever player before he bids goodbye later this month.

Ayew makes it two

Before City could build on their advantage, we had a 12-minute stoppage on Filbert Way after referee David Webb went down injured after a coming-together with Ayew. Not the top-flight debut he’d have hoped for, but Vardy at least saw the funny side, reaching down to blow Webb’s whistle before he could receive treatment. Fourth official Sam Barrott was eventually drafted in to complete the game.

Once the action was finally back underway, the Foxes continued to probe Southampton’s defence, the visitors now under the interim management of Simon Rusk. When El Khannouss won a free-kick on the cusp of the penalty area, you sensed it was a decent opportunity to double our lead.

Up stepped Ayew to take and, while the wall initially did its job, the Ghanaian was alert to belt the rebound through a congested 18-yard box and into Aaron Ramsdale’s bottom corner. There could have been more for the home side too, with Kasey McAteer testing the ex-Arsenal stopper from a tight angle, before an El Khannouss cross clipped his bar.

Seeing out the win

Into the second half, the visiting Saints fans were momentarily on their feet, thinking their side were back in the contest. It started when Paul Onuachu had the chance to glance a header goalwards. Stolarczyk, though, made a sterling save and, although Mateus Fernandes converted the rebound, he was in an offside position.

Ndidi’s close-range hit, applied to an El Khannouss corner, was deflected behind too, while Vardy unusually was the man to take a 76th-minute free-kick from 25 yards out, forcing Ramsdale into a decent stop at his near post. El Khannouss, a menace throughout, also raked wide in the latter moments after bursting through the middle.

This win doesn't change anything in the table and comes at the end of a truly disappointing campaign for City, but it nevertheless ends several sequences and gives the fans some cause for optimism as we approach the final three games of this term.

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