Southampton’s manager has turned their season around after its nadir and will face Leicester again in good shapeTheir manager describes it as “a moment they will never forget”. But just 78 days on from the humiliating 9-0 home defeat to Leicester, Southampton will face Brendan Rodgers’ side at the King Power Stadium on Saturday in the return fixture, having turned their season around in spectacular style.Ditching a three-man defence in favour of the high-energy 4-2-2-2 formation that served him so well in guiding RB Leipzig to second place in their debut Bundesliga season in 2017, Ralph Hasenhüttl has navigated Southampton away from the bottom three and towards safety after collecting 16 points from their past eight matches. Yet the Austrian, who spent most of the summer in 2013 riding between Borussia Dortmund’s and Borussia Mönchengladbach’s training camps on his mountain bike and spying on their sessions with a pair of binoculars when he was out of work, admitted even he had his doubts about his methods after that traumatic night at St Mary’s. Related: Vardy and Pérez hat-tricks see Leicester smash nine against Southampton Related: James Ward-Prowse thunderbolt saves Southampton as Watford stay bottom Continue readingreadfullarticle
