Article: Stoke City v Southampton match thread | Southampton FC, Football

Saturday 2nd November
Britannia Stadium
3pm kick off

Match officials

Referee: Chris Foy
Assistants: A Garratt and M Wilkes
4th official: Keith Stroud

Previous meetings

Southampton 1-1 Stoke City
Stoke City 3-3 Southampton

Same results, 2 completely different games. A bore draw to end last season at St Mary's but a highly entertaining game at the Britannia which saw Saints throw away a 3-1 lead, although Stoke's 3rd goal was a wonder goal. Guly also missed a glorious opportunity to make it 4-1 if I remember correctly.

Form guide

Southampton:

Southampton 2-0 Fulham
Manchester United 1-1 Southampton
Southampton 2-0 Swansea City
Southampton 2-0 Crystal Palace
Liverpool 0-1 Southampton
Southampton 0-0 West Ham United

Stoke City:

Manchester United 3-2 Stoke City
Stoke City 0-0 West Bromwich Albion
Fulham 1-0 Stoke City
Stoke City 0-1 Norwich City
Arsenal 3-1 Stoke City
Stoke City 0-0 Manchester City

Notice the abundance of green for Saints and red for Stoke.

I think Saints will win 1 or 2-0. Stoke's home form hasn't been good at all so a good chance to keep our excellent form going.

 

First time all season that I feel confident of taking 3 points - which probably means we will lose!

I'm going 2-0 saints, Lallana and Lambert (pen)

 

I think we'll lose. No idea why, just a gut feeling.

 

Interesting piece on BBC football site where Ryan Shawcross has a go at his fellow players for not putting in a shift last night...things not looking good internally at the Britannia!
Feeling confident and looking forward to going the the Britannia on Saturday
PS Don't buy the hot drinks at the Britannia they are awful...chemically taste regardless of the supposed flavour. the steward was laughing at us last year as more and more people pulled faces at the dreadful taste...he confirmed they are horrible

 

I reckon a draw, but we SHOULD win. 1-1 with Jay scoring for us.

 

They struggle in front of goal.slight fear that the explayer hex will strike.

 

I think I might be turning into Lawro. I keep thinking we are going to lose for no other reason than we haven't lost a game for ages.

 

Back in the real world where things like curses, luck and sod's law aren't actually things, we should win, and probably will.

 

Steinberg. The voice of reason in a world of chaos.

 

I agree (hope he was touching wood when he typed it).

 

And had my fingers crossed, and was clutching prayer beads, and sticking pins in a Peter Crouch doll.

 

My goodness that's ripe for innuendo, but I'm going to resist.

 

Thank you

 

I can't believe I, Joe, missed that.

 

Had to think long and hard about it!

 

When will Iago Falque get a game?

 

We'll win.

I typed that while walking across a broken mirror, under a ladder, whilst carrying a black cat.

 

8-0 got to be true for one game this season

 

Im confused, does Falque even still play for spurs?

 

Got my ticket for the match. First saints match ive been to for 4 or 5 years. My stokey mate will be giving me a lift there and back, hopefully lots of gloating by me in the car going home