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Finn Azaz's tap-in gives Southampton the lead at Stoke Saints strikers Adam Armstrong and Cameron Archer not part of the travelling squad amid transfer rumours Wrexham can move back into the Championship play-offs place with a win at bottom club Sheffield Wednesday Leicester down to 10 men against Charlton following the dismissal of Caleb Okoli Conor Coady makes debut for Addicks following his loan switch from Wrexham Eight matches at 15: 00 GMT including Middlesbrough v Norwich, QPR v Coventry, Ipswich v Preston and Portsmouth v West Brom Derby hammered Bristol 5-0 at Ashton Gate on Friday night to lay down their play-off credentials Get Involved: Via button below, #bbcefl on X, Whats App on 03301231826 or text 81111 (UK only, standard message rates apply) Alex Hoad, Ben Ashton, Matt Cresswell and Oliver Brindle Leicester 0-0 Charlton Hamza Choudhury cannot continue and Leicester are forced into their second change inside the opening 30 minutes. On comes Harry Winks in midfield. Stoke 0-1 Southampton Time stood still. Finn Azaz weaves forward towards the Potters box and with no better options opts to have a pop from 20-yards, sending a shot cannoning into big Stephen N'Zonzi and looping high into the air, leaving keeper Tommy Simkin flat-footed as it dropped a yard and a half past the left upright. Leicester 0-0 Charlton Owynn Palmer-Atkin BBC Radio Leicester commentator The Foxes have adapted quite well to going down to 10 men, it hasn't really changed the way they had been playing. Albeit they weren't playing great before the red card. Leicester 0-0 Charlton Guess what? Another break in play - the fourth of the game so far. Hamza Choudhury is now down for Leicester. Leicester 0-0 Charlton Leicester haven’t kept a clean sheet for 23 league games since a 0-0 draw with Coventry on 20 September. The Foxes have also only managed three shutouts all season so far. They're going to have to go some here to keep Charlton out for another 65 minutes. Sheff Wed 0-0 Wrexham Issa Kabore has looked as threatening as anyone in a Wrexham shirt so far at right wing-back but his centre is well cut out by a compact Wednesday defence. The visitors are struggling to break Wednesday down at the moment in truth. Stoke 0-1 Southampton Stoke keeper Tommy Simkin's turn to show his class. Tom Fellows is sent racing into the box to meet a gorgeous bouncing through ball from Finn Azaz on with a powerful first-time shot but Simkin dives to his right and pushes it away. Brilliant football. Leicester 0-0 Charlton Charlton have the ball in the net, but it has been ruled out. Harry Clarke heads in at the back post from a corner and the referee decides there was a foul in the box somewhere. Not entirely sure what that's been disallowed for. .. possibly on goalkeeper Jakub Stolarczyk but it is very soft if so. Nathan Jones won't be happy about that. Sheffield Wednesday 0-0 Wrexham Ian Mitchelmore BBC Sport Wales at Hillsborough Wrexham have had plenty of possession so far, but it's the hosts who have carried the greater threat in all honesty. Jamal Lowe and Jerry Yates - who played together at Swansea City - have shown a few flashes together early on. Henrik Pedersen will be encouraged, no doubt. Wrexham need a bit more from the likes of Josh Windass and Nathan Broadhead. Stoke 0-1 Southampton Great start, but with Saints’ record, I’m not celebrating just yet. Our defence has been suspect all season and we always dominate first halves and then slack off after that. I just don’t think we have the players to keep up a consistent tempo. It’s that and our lack of consistent ruthlessness that is our Achilles heel. Daniel, Isle of Wight Sheff Wed 0-0 Wrexham Sheffield Wednesday win another 50-50 duel in midfield and earn themselves a free-kick. Captain Liam Palmer takes it but the ball goes out harmlessly behind for a goal kick. Stoke 0-1 Southampton Daniel Peretz shows us his good side. Bae Junho drives foreward from midfield and unleashes a right-foot rocket which is swerving towards the top corner from 20-yards until the former Bayern Munich keeper gets a crucial touch, diving high to his left, to tip the ball round the post. Leicester 0-0 Charlton Bobby Decordova-Reid is sacrificed for Leicester so they can get on another defender. Youngster Olabade Aluko is on in his place. Leicester 0-0 Charlton Not really the situation interim Leicester boss Andy King needed less than 20 minutes into his first game in charge since Marti Cifuentes was sacked. Charlton are dominating the ball now. The Foxes are sat in a low block. Stoke 0-1 Southampton Good old fashioned goalmouth scramble. Sorba Thomas' deep corner from the left is just too high for Milan Smit to head home at the far post but he nodds back into the mixer to spark an almighty scramble in the Saints goalmouth. Saints have conceded more goals (nine) than any other side from corners, and you can see why with that nervy defending. Stoke 0-1 Southampton Jo Tessem Ex-Southampton midfielder on BBC Radio Solent Jack Stephens and Taylor Harwood-Bellis seem as if they are playing better as a pair and not as three at the back. James Bree has also made a big impact in this game so far. Sheff Wed 0-0 Wrexham Wrexham have dominated the ball in the first 15 minutes but its Wednesday that have conjured up the best opportunity of the game so far. The visitors look to break and Nathan Broadhead looks to have been fouled in the opposition half but referee David Webb disagrees and waves play on. Stoke 0-1 Southampton Daniel Peretz is a lucky boy. The Saints keeper makes a hash of controlling a backpass from halfway, losing his footing and almost presenting Milan Smit with a debut tap-in 18 yards out, recovering just in time to stick out a leg from the floor and prevent the Dutchman from getting a shot away before the defence recover the loose ball. Leicester 0-0 Charlton Now then. .. huge moment. Charlton send a long ball forward and Miles Leaburn does brilliantly to spin Leicester defender Caleb Okoli on the halfway line. He's in behind and clean through on goal and Okoli pulls Leaburn to the ground. There was a long way for Leaburn to go to get to goal but I don't think Okoli can have any complaints as he's shown a straight red. Stoke 0-1 Southampton Casper Jander is the latest Saint to showcase his crossing talents, whipping a beautiful ball across the face of goal from the right of the area, but neither Ross Stewart nor Finn Azaz are on the right wavelength this time and the ball skids away untouched. 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