Russell Martin Manager
In a match where second-half goals from Facundo Buonanotte and Jamie Vardy overturned Southampton’s halftime lead secured by Cameron Archer and Joe Aribo, the game concluded with a narrow victory for Leicester City. Following Leicester’s late winner, Southampton’s manager Martin expressed his disappointment.
Russell Martin said, “We do a lot of work on set pieces and we should have scored one today. We defended brilliantly against the best set-piece team in Europe last time out against Arsenal. Today, we are down to 10 men and we have a few subs on but one person had one job to do that would have stopped that goal and they didn’t. The concern is that the person didn’t do their job. It’s not about detail or a lack of work. It would be a concern if we had a lack of detail. We started the game brilliantly, we played so well, I didn’t enjoy the last 15 minutes of the first half because we turned the ball over too much. We came out in the second half and started the game really well. We looked like we were going to score a third goal and they scored against the run of play. We had to make a change with Yuki and we don’t defend well enough at that point. It’s disrupted the team a little bit. Even at 2-1, it’s ok, it was fine. Ryan gets sent off and it changes everything. We defended really well after Vardy scored his penalty. The lads defended brilliantly will spirit and togetherness. We brought Kamaldeen on to give us one moment in their box. We had it and he didn’t make the most of it. We concede because someone doesn’t do what they are asked to do from a corner again, which was the same against Ipswich.”
