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Football Daily | Wounded Foxes and an unhelpful FA Cup trip to their Saintly tormentors
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Leicester City have a proud tradition of beating the odds. At the start of the 2015-16 Premier League season, the bookies rated them as no better than 5,000-1 long shots to win the title, only for the Foxes to send shockwaves around the world by doing exactly that in what is regarded as one of the greatest upsets in the history of sport. Five years later, they lifted the FA Cup despite having been priced up at the comparatively miserly – but still hefty – odds of 16-1. Earlier this week they were at it again, somehow contriving to defy the laws of probability by surrendering a three-goal half-time lead at home against Southampton and snatching the most unlikely of defeats from jaws of victory that weren’t so much gaping as unhinged like that of a snake. A capitulation that came just four days after they had been docked six points for financial shenanigans, it left them just one place above the drop zone and staring down the barrel of back-to-back relegations to League One.
Saints fight back from 3-0 down to stun Leicester
Southampton's four second-half goals mean Leicester have now conceded 51 in the Championship this season
Southampton produced an outstanding second-half comeback from three goals down to secure a 4-3 win against Leicester and deny interim Foxes boss Andy King his first victory.
Leicester were five without a win in the Championship going into the rearranged midweek fixture and just outside the relegation zone on goal difference following their six-point deduction earlier this month, but goals from Divine Mukasa, Patson Daka and Abdul Fatawu saw King's side race into a three-goal lead inside half an hour.
Ross Stewart was introduced at half-time for a shellshocked Southampton and the Scot put the visitors on the scoresheet after 61 minutes before captain Jack Stephens' goal eight minutes from time set up a frantic finish.
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Southampton vs. Leicester City: FA Cup betting odds, prediction, pick
Leicester City has an instant chance to avenge a horrible loss to Southampton when the teams meet in the FA Cup fourth round on Saturday, Feb. 14.
These sides only met four days ago in a match at the King Power Stadium. Leicester took a three-goal lead but then capitulated, allowing four goals after the 60th minute in a shocking 4-3 defeat.
The loss left the Foxes just outside the Championship drop zone, staring down the possibility of a second straight relegation.
Southampton comes into the rematch sitting in ninth place in the Championship, just one point outside of a playoff spot.
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