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Riyad Mahrez finds Jamie Vardy with a clipped pass forward and, as the ball sits up invitingly on the half volley, it looks like the Leicester man might try a replica of his audacious wonder strike against Liverpool earlier this season.

He opts not to and Jose Fonte wins their skirmish.

MUFC Believer: My God, Leicester are running away with the league...How did we all get here? It's like waking up in 1954.

Paul Crask: Leicester are currently 25 points ahead of champions Chelsea. What an amazing season.

Matt Elliott
Former Leicester City captain on BBC Radio Leicester

"Okazaki has done his usual sterling effort, beavering and bustling away. Ulloa is probably the right player to come on at the right time."

Leicester freshen it up up top.

Off comes Shinji Okazaki and on comes Leonardo Ulloa.

Claudio Ranieri tells his team to keep cool and keep ahead.

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Southampton are pressing and probing on the edge of the Leicester box.

Graziano Pelle almost gets his head on a cross. Dusan Tadic thwacks a shot into N'Golo Kante's midriff. Foxes are being hunted down.

But they escape unscathed for now.

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Hearts in mouths in the Southampton box as Jose Fonte stretches to cut out a cross and instead sends the ball looping towards his own top corner.

Fraser Forster is scrambling as the ball hangs in the air and manages to cover the ground to push it away.

Close.

Victor Wanyama attempts to play Steven Davis in as Southampton break against an out-of-shape Leicester.

But who is that popping up at right-back for the Foxes? N'Golo Kante seems to find wormholes through space and time to always be in the right place.

Riyad Mahrez gives the Southampton defence the eyes - looking one way towards Shinji Okazaki and slipping a sharp pass the other towards Jamie Vardy.

It takes a stretch of Virgil van Dijk's telescopic leg to cut it out.

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Victor Wanyama - on a booking - has to watch his step.

He fouls Riyad Mahrez needlessly in midfield and doesn't want to push Michael Oliver's patience too far.

Matt Elliott
Former Leicester City captain on BBC Radio Leicester

"Leicester are a little slow out of the box. We've had eight minutes since half-time and they haven't really ventured forward too often."

Ronald Koeman has rolled a powderkeg into this match in the shape of Dusan Tadic.

The Southampton man squares up to Danny Simpson after a coming together and looks more psyched than a mid-90s Ant and Dec.

Keep an eye on him.

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Danny Drinkwater grapples with Dusan Tadic as the Southampton man tries to squirm away from him down by the touchline.

If it had gone on much longer I think he would have forced the submission, but Michael Oliver calls an end to the contest by showing Drinkwater yellow.

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Southampton take the aerial route.

But Cedric Soares clipped cross is a little too high for Graziano Pelle.

Tossing crosses into the box might be playing into Leicester's hands with Robert Huth and Wes Morgan the bouncers on the door.

Matt Elliott
Former Leicester City captain on BBC Radio Leicester

"Wanyama is fortunate. It's a 50-50 decision, a toss of a coin. He's 35 yards out, so there's an argument that Vardy has got a long way to go. Would the covering defenders have caught Vardy? Very very debatable."

Hmm, an early decision for Michael Oliver to make as Jamie Vardy, galloping towards goal, goes down under a clumsy challenge from Victor Wanyama. He opts for yellow. It could've been red.

And Southampton have made a change.

Ronald Koeman has brought on Dusan Tadic for Matt Targett to add a little edge to midfield.

The Foxes are 45 minutes from ending the day seven points clear at the top.

When Liverpool were on the brink of a slightly less unlikely triumph, the yearning and emotion was almost suffocating at Anfield.

Leicester are still a whole lot more relaxed.

A half-time crossbar challenge has just taken place in one of the goal mouths to hearty cheers from the home fans.

Storm Jarvis May: You know, even if Southampton lose today I'll be OK with it, as it moves Leicester closer to the title.

John Shaw: Saints to the core but I don't really mind losing today for once.

Read it and let it seep (in).

Leicester are heading seven points clear of Tottenham as it stands.

Arsenal are a distant speck in the rear view mirror at 11 points back.