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title: "Koeman says Saints didn’t deserve to win"
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# Koeman says Saints didn’t deserve to win

Speaking after the match, Southampton manager Ronald Koeman has claimed his side did not deserve to keep hold of their 2-0 lead as Leicester fought back to draw the game 2-2.

First-half goals from captain Jose Fonte and Virgil Van Dijk had given the home side a fairly comfortable half-time lead. However, a spirited comeback from Leicester and a poor showing from Southampton in the second-half led to a Jamie Vardy double that meant Southampton gave up the three points.

Southampton were on-course for a third consecutive Premier League win after 3-1 wins over Swansea and Chelsea in their last two outings.

![Jordan Mansfield/Getty Images Sport](https://media.readsouthampton.com/readsouthampton/2015/10/493046796.jpg)

Speaking after the match, Koeman said this:

> To be two-nil up at half time, you don’t expect not to win the game.

> I think that finally it’s a deserved point for Leicester because they made it very difficult today.

> I think that in the last 30 minutes it looked like they were more fresh and had more belief in \[getting\] a good result today than Southampton.

Koeman’s men were hit with a late injury in the build-up to the match as first-choice ‘keeper Maarten Stekelenburg was out with a back injury and veteran shot-stopper Kelvin Davis stepped up.

This may have caused disruption among the back-four and Koeman did credit the two Leicester goals to mistakes from Van Dijk and then, from Kelvin Davis.

> We scored twice from fantastic set-pieces, but the first 45 minutes were already difficult.

> They are a very good opponent – they are strong, they press and they are very aggressive – and that made difficulties for us.

![Jordan Mansfield/Getty Images Sport](https://media.readsouthampton.com/readsouthampton/2015/10/493051026.jpg)

> It was good organisation in the team and we played well with good football, and we scored twice out of set-pieces – which is one of the strengths of the team. But it’s 90 or 95 minutes, and the second half was worse than the first.

> If you watch the two goals that Leicester scored today, they’re out of our ball possession – the first goal, Virgil lost the ball from an easy pass and the second is out of a goal kick from Kelvin \[Davis\].

> If you build up and you have the ball, you need always good defensive organisation – and, in both goals of Leicester, we didn’t do that well.

> You have to know and manage the game. You have to understand that it’s a difficult one. We were two-nil up and defending the result, which is difficult.

Southampton travel to Liverpool next Sunday hoping to put in a better performance for the whole 90 minutes than they did today.