A pair of clubs looking to break out of their current place at the bottom end of the Premier League table take the pitch on Saturday, Oct. 19 as Southampton hosts Leicester City at St. Mary’s Stadium in Southampton, England.
The match is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. EST and will be broadcast exclusively on Peacock, which provides highlights and post-match coverage across the Premier League.
Peacock also offers on-demand replays of Premier League matches shown on NBC, CNBC and USA Network in addition to having exclusive live games as well.
Southampton has just 1 point and only Wolverhampton is lower on the table, sharing a 0-1-6 record, but with the Wanderers sporting a lower goal differential. Leicester City is by itself at 15th on the table with 6 points and a 1-3-3 record, just behind Manchester United, AFC Bournemouth and West Ham United.
Who: Southampton vs. Leicester City
When: Saturday, Oct. 19 at 10 a.m. EST
Where: St. Mary’s Stadium in Southampton, England
Stream: Peacock
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Football Association chief executive Mark Bullingham said some English managers — he didn’t disclose the precise number — were interviewed for the role from a shortlist of “approximately” 10 names. Tuchel was ultimately deemed to be the best hope of leading England to a first major title since the 1966 World Cup.
Tuchel, the former Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich manager, is the third overseas coach — after the late Sven-Goran Eriksson of Sweden (2001-06) and Fabio Capello of Italy (2007-12) — to be appointed to lead England’s men’s team this century.
Russell Martin, one of six managers from Britain and Ireland currently leading teams in the Premier League, said there were “loads of English coaches really capable of doing the job as well.”
“Maybe English managers aren’t given enough credit,” the Southampton manager said, “or maybe they are deemed not good enough by the most important people.”
Martin, who got his chance in the Premier League after getting promoted with Southampton last season, questioned the effectiveness of the much-hyped coaching pathway at England’s national training center at St. George’s Park.
“It’s going to cause a lot of interesting discussion and conversation, especially at the FA, because we have a well-renowned coaching education system that people come from far and wide to do, and then we can’t appoint someone from that,” said Martin, an England-born former Scotland international.
Everton’s English manager Sean Dyche, who confirmed he wasn’t interviewed by the FA, said it was “a reality of the modern game” after homegrown coaches were overlooked for the vacancy.
And Leicester manager Steve Cooper, a Welshman who led England to the title at the Under-17 World Cup in 2017, said he hoped British coaches will be ranked among the world’s best “over the course of time.”
“In the meantime, any opportunity we are given we have to take them and do a good job,” said Cooper, who has also coached Nottingham Forest in the Premier League. “Until we do that on a regular basis maybe we shouldn’t say so much.
“I really believe in British culture. I believe in the coaching education pathway as well.”
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
