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Team news

Leicester midfielder James Maddison is fit to face Southampton in Saturday's Premier League clash at the King Power Stadium.

Maddison sustained a knock during City's 1-1 Carabao Cup semi-final draw with Aston Villa on Wednesday night, but after undergoing tests boss Brendan Rodgers has confirmed he is clear to play.

Daniel Amartey will undergo surgery on an ankle injury next week and is set for a lengthy spell on the sidelines, while fellow defender Wes Morgan is expected to return to training next week after sustaining a groin injury in last weekend's FA Cup win over Wigan. Wilfred Ndidi is out for a few weeks after undergoing a successful knee operation.

Southampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl has no fresh selection concerns and could revert to the starting XI which beat Tottenham on New Year's Day. Hasenhuttl made 10 changes to his team for last weekend's FA Cup third-round victory over Huddersfield.

Right-back Yan Valery, who has been suffering with an infection and not featured since late November, remains sidelined.

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Opta stats

• Leicester earned the biggest away win in English top-flight history in the reverse fixture against Southampton, winning 9-0 at St Mary's in October. They last did the Premier League double over Saints in 1999-2000.
• Southampton won this exact fixture 1-0 last season - they've never won back-to-back away league games against Leicester before.
• The most goals a team has scored against an opponent in a single Premier League season is 12 - Blackburn against Nottingham Forest in 1995-96 and Tottenham against Wigan in 2009-10.
• Since losing 9-0 to Leicester, Southampton have conceded just 13 Premier League goals in 11 games - in this time, only Liverpool (7) and Leicester (11) have conceded fewer.
• Southampton have collected 16 points from their last eight Premier League games (W5 D1 L2), one more than in their previous 20 games in the competition (W3 D6 L11).
• Ayoze Perez has scored a hat-trick in last two Premier League appearances against Southampton, including in the Foxes 9-0 win in October. No player has ever scored 3+ goals in three consecutive games against an opponent, with Luis Suárez against Norwich the only player to score three hat-tricks against a side in the competition.
• Jamie Vardy has scored five Premier League goals against Southampton, with all these coming at St Mary's (including a hat-trick in October's 9-0 win). He's faced Saints more often without scoring at home in the Premier League than he has any other side (5).

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Charlie Nicholas' prediction

Southampton are much improved. They have got themselves a little gap and somehow sit in 12th currently. Leicester have been taking the setbacks but responded with decent wins at West Ham and Newcastle considering the circumstances. There may be some trouble surrounding the fitness of Jamie Vardy but he should be OK.

All of the talk regarding James Maddison has been suggesting that other clubs are in for him, but they have not been talking about his game as such. He struggled against Liverpool. I am not dismissing them both, because when they play well, Leicester play really well. Southampton are dangerous away from home and they have the belief back again.

Danny Ings was probably the Player of the Month in December. It is hard to throw him in when you have some of the players from the big teams in and around, but he has 13 goals for the campaign. Nathan Redmond has found some form on top of that. I am tipping Leicester to edge it, but I do think Southampton are on the turn.

CHARLIE PREDICTS: 1-0 (7/1 with Sky Bet)

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