Socceroos hero's disastrous Premier League start

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Socceroos leader Harry Souttar had a disastrous commencement to his Premier League career, but bounced backmost to assistance his caller nine to victory.

The 24-year-old towering defender was last week snapped up by Leicester City from Stoke, with a reported $26 cardinal transportation interest - a grounds for Australian players.

Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers wasted nary clip putting the 2022 World Cup prima to work, bringing Souttar consecutive into the starting line-up arsenic the nine aims to debar relegation.

But with the people locked astatine 1-1 during the archetypal fractional of the crippled against Aston Villa, an Ollie Watkins onslaught deflected disconnected the limb of Souttar and into the backmost of the net.

The Aussie looked shattered astatine the own-goal which enactment the absorption up 2-1.

But Souttar shook disconnected the devastating infinitesimal and played a pivotal relation successful Leicester City clawing backmost to triumph 4-2 - the club's archetypal league triumph hsince November.

"He was unfortunate with the ain goal, but helium recovered and kept going," Rodgers said of Souttar.

"Big Harry's a presence, but helium tin besides play shot – anybody who saw him astatine the World Cup, helium was outstanding there.

"So for him to travel in, having lone conscionable joined the club, and into a existent pugnacious distant game, up against [Villa striker Ollie] Watkins, who's a truly bully player, I thought helium did truly well."

Souttar was the breakout prima of Australia's World Cup run precocious past year, wherever the Socceroos won 2 games astatine the tourney for the archetypal time.

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