´It´s a day to enjoy´ – Van Nistelrooy revels after Leicester end home losing streak

Ruud van Nistelrooy savoured “a time to enjoy” aft Leicester City ended their nine-game losing streak connected location ungraded with triumph implicit Southampton.

The Foxes came retired connected apical successful the conflict of the relegated sides astatine the King Power Stadium, with first-half goals from Jamie Vardy and Jordan Ayew sealing a 2-0 win.

Vardy opened the scoring successful the 17th infinitesimal with his 199th extremity for Leicester, who helium volition permission astatine the extremity of the season, and their archetypal connected location ungraded successful 826 minutes.

Indeed, the Foxes had gone an English top-flight grounds of 9 successive location league matches without scoring, portion Ayew secured each 3 points conscionable earlier the break.

And Van Nistelrooy was pleased to acquisition a time of “lots of positives”, connected which teenagers Michael Golding, Jake Evans and Jeremy Monga were introduced from the seat aboriginal on.

“It’s bully to consciousness this again,” Van Nistelrooy said. “We knew the magnitude of location games successful which we didn’t people oregon win. We wanted to interruption that cycle, and it was wide it had to beryllium today.

“The 1 to interruption that rhythm evidently had to beryllium Jamie with a large left-foot finish.

“Lots of positives with the result, the cleanable sheet, the young lads coming on. It’s a time to bask and that’s what we’re doing.”

“Football is each astir confidence,” Bilal El Khannouss continued. “From the infinitesimal you score, we person bully players successful this team, the assurance tin spell higher and we showed ourselves.

“[We want] to extremity [the season] successful a affirmative way, to instrumentality arsenic galore points arsenic possible, and to hole for adjacent season.”

On Vardy, helium added: “Today, helium scored one, and I volition assistance him to the extremity [of the season] to people different one. He’s a fable for the club.”

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Meanwhile, different decision for Southampton ensured they volition decorativeness bottommost of the Premier League for a joint-record 3rd clip successful their past (level with Sunderland), besides doing truthful successful 2004-05 and 2022-23.

The Saints’ purpose volition present beryllium to registry a constituent successful their past 3 games to debar matching Derby County’s record-low tally of 11 points successful 2007-08.

“We started good successful the game, and we were disappointed with the manner of the [first] goal,” interim brag Simon Rusk said. “It gave them beingness and, successful the end, they were worthy of the win.

“We’re bottommost of the league, and it’s been a truly hard season. We’re lacking assurance and there’s lone truthful overmuch you tin bash for assurance really.

“We person to support going. We didn’t springiness up. We’re hoping for that 1 extremity that gets america backmost successful it, but it ne'er came.

“I person inherited 7 games successful hard circumstances, and I tin lone instrumentality it 1 crippled astatine a time. Hopefully, we prime thing up successful these past 3 games.”