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James Ward-Prowse: "This is a turning point"

Southampton midfielder James Ward-Prowse says that he hopes his side's 3-0 victory over Leicester City will serve as "a turning point" in their season.

By Neil Wilkes, Editor-in-chief | 22 January 2017

Southampton midfielder James Ward-Prowse has described his side's 3-0 victory over champions Leicester City this afternoon as "a turning point" in their season.

Goals from Ward-Prowse, Jay Rodriguez and Dusan Tadic ended the Saints' alarming run of four straight defeats in the Premier League and lifted them up to 11th in the table, 11 points clear of the relegation drama.

Ward-Prowse hopes that his side will now have "confidence" to push on both in the league and when they visit Anfield on Wednesday looking to defend a 1-0 advantage in the semi-finals of the EFL Cup.

"The first goal in any game is important," he told Sky Sports News. "After the bad run we have been on this is a turning point in the season. We can take a lot of confidence into Wednesday.

"I was pleased to get on the score sheet but the most important thing is the team.

"Wednesday is massive. It is a tough place to go but we can take confidence from today and how played against them in the first leg and hopefully we can get to Wembley."

Claude Puel's side go on to visit Premier League strugglers Swansea City next weekend after their midweek cup tie at Anfield.

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Premier League Table

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
C	Leicester City Leicester	45	31	4	10	89	39	50	97
2	Ipswich Town Ipswich	45	27	12	6	90	57	33	93
3	Leeds United Leeds	45	27	9	9	80	41	39	90
4	Southampton	45	25	9	11	85	62	23	84
5	Norwich City Norwich	45	21	10	14	79	63	16	73
6	West Bromwich Albion West Brom	45	20	12	13	67	47	20	72
7	Hull City	45	19	13	13	68	59	9	70
8	Middlesbrough	45	19	9	17	68	61	7	66
9	Coventry City Coventry	45	17	13	15	69	57	12	64
10	Preston North End Preston	45	18	9	18	56	64	-8	63
11	Bristol City	45	17	11	17	53	47	6	62
12	Cardiff City Cardiff	45	19	5	21	51	65	-14	62
13	Swansea City Swansea	45	15	12	18	59	64	-5	57
14	Watford	45	13	17	15	60	58	2	56
15	Sunderland	45	16	8	21	52	52	0	56
16	Millwall	45	15	11	19	44	55	-11	56
17	Queens Park Rangers QPR	45	14	11	20	45	57	-12	53
18	Stoke City Stoke	45	14	11	20	45	60	-15	53
19	Blackburn Rovers Blackburn	45	13	11	21	58	74	-16	50
20	Sheffield Wednesday Sheff Weds	45	14	8	23	42	68	-26	50
21	Plymouth Argyle Plymouth	45	12	12	21	58	70	-12	48
22	Birmingham City Birmingham	45	12	11	22	49	65	-16	47
23	Huddersfield Town Huddersfield	45	9	18	18	48	75	-27	45
R	Rotherham United Rotherham	45	4	12	29	32	87	-55	24