Southampton v Spurs at St Mary's Stadium 12pm
Southampton v Spurs at St Mary's Stadium 12pm
Tomorrow we face
Southampton, a game we need to win. After our disastrous display and defeat
against Everton, we need to bounce back. I am sure if Bale is watching he doesn't want
to think he's come into a joke.
TEAM NEWS
Southampton
Southampton
forward Nathan Redmond has been ruled out with the ankle ligament injury. Stuart
Armstrong could be available having missed their opening two matches with a
thigh problem.
Spurs
This is our
second of four matches in eight days so Jose Mourinho might make changes.
Japhet
Tanganga remains on the sidelines due to a thigh injury.
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
Southampton
have won their past two home league games against us, having failed to win any
of the previous six.
We could
lose back-to-back league fixtures against the Saints for the first time since March 2004.
We have gone
nine Premier League matches without a clean sheet against Southampton, a joint
longest current run against any side, level with Liverpool.
Southampton
Southampton's
only victory in their previous 21 opening home games of a Premier League season
was against Blackburn in 2004.
Only Norwich
won fewer Premier League home points than Southampton's tally of 21 last
season.
Saints' total
of 10 home league defeats equalled the club record for a single campaign, set
in 1993-94.
They have
won their last four Premier League games played on a Sunday, as many as they
managed across their previous 23 fixtures on that day.
Spurs
We haven't
started a Premier League campaign with back-to-back defeats since 2011-12.
Our only
opening away league defeat across the past seven seasons was 1-0 at Manchester
United in 2015-16.
We have only
once failed to score in either of our opening two fixtures of a Premier League
season, back in 1992 - which included a 0-0 draw at Southampton.
Five of our
last six Premier League goals were scored by Harry Kane, and the other was an
own goal by Leicester's James Justin.
Kane has
scored nine goals in his past nine league appearances against Southampton - he
has only scored more Premier League goals against Arsenal (10) and Leicester
(15).
We have lost
88 Premier League games on a Sunday, more than any other side.
My prediction; 2-1
So, that is
it, folks. COYS!
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