On Feb 23rd, Leeds United and Southampton will play a match in Leeds in a meeting of these two evenly matched Premier League teams. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 11 degrees, which is great football weather. Leeds United sits at 12th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 0-1 loss against Wolverhampton Wanderers. Illan Meslier scored the first goal for Wolverhampton Wanderers on an own goal in the 64th minute, and that was all the excitement the two teams could muster In the end, Leeds United couldn’t muster any offence and Wolverhampton Wanderers ran away with the shutout win. Leeds United is looking for direction having 5 win and 5 losses in their last 10 matches, while southampton is fresh off their 1-2 loss against Wolverhampton Wanderers. Danny Ings scored the first goal for Southampton in the 25th minute, but Rúben Neves got the equalizer for Wolverhampton Wanderers in the 53rd minute But luckily in the 66th minute, they were able to complete the comback with a goal by Pedro Neto. They’re hoping to improve on their recent performance, having lost 7 of their last 10.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season.
Danny Ings has been the most effective weapon for Southampton lately. The English attacker has netted 2 goals in his last five matches. Both Patrick Bamford and Jack Harrison have been the hottest scorers for Leeds United in the last five each having scored 2 goals each
Marcelo Alberto Bielsa Caldera’s squad will be without Llorente, Robin Koch, Liam Cooper, Kalvin Phillips, Adam Forshaw, Tyler Roberts and Ian Poveda-Ocampo, while Kyle Walker-Peters, Oriol Romeu, Danny Ings, Stuart Armstrong, Che Adams, Moussa Djenepo, Jannik Vestergaard, Jan Bednarek, Michael Obafemi, Alex McCarthy, Theo Walcott, Nathan Redmond, Ibrahima Diallo and Will Smallbone are unavailable to play for Southampton.