What can you say about this game, it was certainly a game of two halves or more to the point a game of two half hours, the first belonging to the Foxes and the second the Saints, I just hope no one applied the so called Three Goal Rule and left early.

The first thing to say is that when the team news came out the only change was Cameron Archer in for Ross Stewart, perhaps a little surprising, but perhaps Tonda Eckert wanted a little more pace up front.

Indeed Archer should have given Saints the lead after only 30 seconds, somehow putting the ball over the bar when it looked easier to score.

But if Southampton fans thought that this was going to see their side dominate, then they were to be proved badly wrong, in the following half hour, they would see a team in complete disarray and gift Leicester 3 goals.

I will be accused of being biased here, so I will just say the Leicester commentators on their TV channels blamed the goalkeeper for being found wanting on all three goals, personally I don't thing he was at all to blame for the second, he was sold short by a awful back pass by Tom Fellows and there was little he could do.

But Fellows, Peretz and Archer, were far from being the only players woefully off form in this half, Jander was even more shocking and although we did have a couple of good chances well saved by Begovic in the home goal, in simple terms, Leicester kept breaking away and scoring and by the half hour mark we were all wondering whether Leicester would hit us for another 9.

Somehow though we got to the half time break only 3-0 down.

There were always going to be changes and it was no surprise who went off and who came on, Shea Charles, Ross Stewart & Matsuki.

For 15 minutes we looked in better shape, but you still had the feeling the Leicester had taken their foot off the gas and that this was really only going to be about damage limitation.

Then on the hour mark we got what most thought would be a consolation, Ross Stewart flicking in Leo Scienza's cross.

Initially this only seemed to spur on the home side, indeed they should have been 4-1 up only a minute or so early, catching us short and luckily lofting the ball over the head of Peretz and onto the roof of the net and not the back of it.

For 20 minutes it reverted back to the norm for the half, Saints looked a lot better and as the game went on they started to get more possession and look more dangerous, but no one in the ground was thinking that they might get back in it, but with every minute we looked a little stronger and Leicester seemed to be tiring and perhaps not quite as confident as they were before.

Two substitutions came, Manning for Welington, looked like for like rather than an attempt to get back into the game and then Cyle Larin for Bree, which did seem to suggest that Saints might just go for it.

Within 3 minutes the visitor had hope, Ryan Manning seemingly chased a lost cause and headed the ball back from the dead ball line and the ball fell to Jack Stephens and he lashed the ball into the top corner, from just inside the area, a tight angle and not a goal he would probably be able to replicate should he try to do so in training, but it was a superb strike and suddenly the game had turned there was only one goal in it and Saints confidence was soaring and Leicester and the crowd could suddenly see that the game was slipping away.

But still surely the best that we could hope for and the worst for Leicester was now a draw, that scenario happened on 86 minutes, this time it was Manning who headed home from close range to give Saints what was surely a draw.

But then came the final goal of the game, as the game entered the last minute of 6 for injury time, Shea Charles did well in the penalty area to flick the ball to Ross Stewart who laid it back to him and Charles curling shot nestled in the net to send Southampton supporters wherever they were, in the ground or at home watching or listening to it into a frenzy.

This was Shea Charles first ever League goal for Saints, it will perhaps be his most memorable.

Leicester were beaten, most of their supporters were not there to see it and those that where, were either heading for the exits or protesting.

So what did we witness, that is very hard to say, how did a side that has played so well, in the last few weeks play so badly in the first half, for some it would be easy to blame Cameron Archer, but this would not be true, yes Archer was poor, but those behind him were not much better, there was barely a player in that first half who could say they had put a shift in and earned their money.

Those that had been so good in recent weeks were appalling.

Tonda Eckert made a brave decision at half time, he made 3 changes, in his position it would be easy just to make one or two changes and that pins the blame on the players and not the managers selection.

But he made 3 and that usually indicates that the wrong side has been selected.

Whatever he did or indeed said at half time and given that his team were out on the pitch a couple of minutes before Leicester, I would suspect it would not have made pleasant listening, it certainly worked.

There are those that still say Eckert is not up to the job, but this win made it 10 wins, 4 draws and 5 defeats out of his 19 games in charge, in simple terms 1.78 points per game which if you average over a 46 game season is 82 points.

That is usually good enough for 3rd or 4th place, indeed Ipswich have just about that ration sitting in 3rd place this morning.

So although there have been issues and Eckert is learning on the job, that job has been a good one so far.

The truth of the matter is that the problems in this season stem from getting only 12 points in the first 13 games.

So in this game we saw the worst and we saw the best in this Southampton side, but overall we are moving forward, the club have kept faith with Tonda Eckert and didn't press the panic button, of course it is a work in progress, but after the last 3 seasons which have seen chaos and two relegations and multiple managers, of the 6 managers that preceded him since the sacking of Ralph Hasenhuttl, Tonda Eckert has now overseen more games than all of them other than Russell Martin, that shows the level of the task in hand.

So another step forward for Southampton FC & Tonda Eckert last night and although we would probably have preferred it to be in a more straightforward fashion, the fact is coming back from adversity as we did up at the King Power highlights not only the quality we have in the squad, but also the team spirit and guts that it has.

Now we have a break for the FA Cup and Eckert can rest a few players and give some of the fringe players a run out, but there will be some that would want to go for the jugular to revenge that 9-0 defeat that still grates.

Perhaps last night went some way to getting some revenge, but it would still be nice to complete the double on Saturday and get through to the next round of the FA Cup.

This was undoubtably one of the greatest comebacks in the club's history, I can't remember coming back from 3-0 at half time to win 4-3.

I can remember in August 2000 at the Dell, Liverpool took a 3-0 lead by the 64th minute and looked to have won the game.

However in the 73rd minute Marian Pahars scored and when Tahar El Khalej reduced the arrears in the 85th minute the Saints fans dared to dream.

When the Little Latvian scored his second to equalise in the 90th minute it was one of those Dell moments that was so special.

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