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| Event | Premier League 2021-22 | ||||||
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| Date | Sunday 22 May 2022 | ||||||
| Venue | King Power Stadium, Leicester | ||||||
| Player of the Match | Ayoze Pérez | ||||||
| Referee | Jonathan Moss | ||||||
| Attendance | 32,003 | ||||||
| Weather | 21 °C (69 °F) | ||||||
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Leicester City v Southampton was a match which took place at King Power Stadium on Sunday 22 May 2022.
Leicester secured eighth place in the Premier League with an entertaining final-day victory over Southampton at the King Power Stadium.
Goals from James Maddison, Jamie Vardy and two from substitute Ayoze Perez ensured James Ward-Prowse's penalty for Saints was a mere consolation.
The Foxes' opener was tinged with controversy as referee Jon Moss - in his final game before retirement - wrongly awarded the ball to City after a stoppage, rather than Southampton.
Maddison punished Lyanco's error from Kasper Schmeichel's ensuing long clearance to put the hosts ahead with his 18th goal of the season.
Vardy ensured he finished one goal behind Maddison for the season by drilling home his 17th of the campaign inside Alex McCarthy's near post to double the lead.
Ward-Prowse pulled one back from the spot after Youri Tielemans' foul on Stuart Armstrong but Perez steered in crosses from Maddison and Ricardo Pereira to seal the points.
After a first half in which Leicester duo Timothy Castagne and Vardy wasted the only chances of note, the game sprang into life with a refereeing decision that infuriated the visitors.
A collision between Oriol Romeu and Vardy caused the game to be halted with Saints in possession - but Moss instead handed the ball back to Schmeichel on the resumption.
In fairness, the goal need not have resulted had Lyanco not fluffed two headers from the keeper's route one ball, presenting Vardy a golden chance that McCarthy stopped only for Maddison to slot in the rebound.
"When you have the ball and the ref stops the game you get the ball back," said aggrieved Saints boss Ralph Hasenhuttl. "Today it was different - it's hard to understand.
"The first goal is the decisive moment in this game. We speak about respect and fair play but it's not acceptable.
"The offer I made of 'let us score a goal from kick-off', they [Leicester] didn't take. It would be a sign and a message to everybody but they didn't do it.
"It was very unnecessary. I don't want to be a bad loser - we deserved to lose because they were the better team - but such a situation changes everything."
Saints' protests delayed the restart and they never really shook off their sense of injustice.
Lyanco made some amends for his earlier error by denying Harvey Barnes with a fine tackle but was then left on his backside when Vardy cut inside to fire home Leicester's second.
Ward-Prowse's penalty, taking him into double figures for the league season, briefly put the result back in doubt but Perez's coolly taken double again highlighted Saints' defensive deficiencies as they finished 15th for a second successive season.
It is a measure of the Foxes' successes in recent years - successive fifth-place finishes, a first FA Cup in the club's history, a Champions League quarter-final appearance and, of course, their unforgettable Premier League triumph - that some will regard this season as a disappointment.
For the majority of clubs, an eighth-placed finish and reaching a European semi-final would be a campaign to be proud of but Leicester have made such a habit of challenging the established guard that this season has certainly been a slight comedown.
However, there have been positive signs in the second half of the season, the Foxes winning eight of their final 13 home league games to secure a fifth successive top-half finish.
Had Vardy been fit throughout, the Foxes might have challenged for the European places again - they collected 41 points from a possible 72 with him in the side and just 11 from 42 when he was absent.
Southampton's season, meanwhile, has mirrored their 2020-21 effort - shoots of promise ultimately undone by a very poor second half of the campaign, this defeat their eighth in their final 12 games, winning just one.
They have coped, to an extent, with the loss of Danny Ings in attack - as Ward-Prowse, Che Adams and Armando Broja, among others, have chipped in - but their back-line has shipped 60 or more goals for a fourth successive season.
Match[]
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| 22 May 2022 16:00 GMT |
Leicester City 
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4–1 |  Southampton
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King Power Stadium, Leicester Attendance: 32,003 Referee: Jonathan Moss |
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Maddison  49'Vardy 74'Pérez 81', 90+6'
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Ward-Prowse 79', Pen'
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Match Stats[]
| Overall | Leicester City | Southampton |
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| Goals scored | 4 | 1 |
| Total shots | 12 | 7 |
| Shots on target | 6 | 2 |
| Ball possession | 51% | 49% |
| Corner kicks | 3 | 3 |
| Fouls committed | 10 | 5 |
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| Leicester City F.C. matches - 2021-22 |
| 2021-22 Premier League |
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| 2021-22 FA Cup |
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