Article: Southampton v West Bromwich Albion match thread | Southampton FC, Football

Saturday 11th January 2014
St Mary's Stadium, 3pm kick off


Match officials:

Referee: Howard Webb
Assistants: M Mullarkey and S Massey
4th Offical: S Hooper


Form guide:

Southampton:

Southampton 4-3 Burnley
Southampton 0-3 Chelsea
Everton 2-1 Southampton
Cardiff 0-3 Southampton
Southampton 2-3 Tottenham
Newcastle 1-1 Southampton

West Brom:

West Brom 0-2 Crystal Palace
West Brom 1-0 Newcastle
West Ham 3-3 West Brom
Tottenham 1-1 West Brom
West Brom 1-1 Hull
Cardiff 1-0 West Brom


Team news:

Artur Boruc is close to returning for Saints, having returned to training. This game may be just too soon for him though. Clyne should make his first Premier League start since returning from injury.

West Brom have a virtually fully fit squad to choose from, but on the plus side no Lukaku this time.

Predicted Saints line up:

------------------Boruc/Davis--------------------
---Clyne-------Fonte-----Lovren---------Shaw---
-------------Cork-------Schneiderlin--------------
-----Lallana--------Davis-------Rodriguez----------
-------------------Lambert----------------------

Subs: Davis/Gazzaniga, Chambers, Yoshida, JWP, Gaston, Reed, Gallagher.

Saints to win 2-0 with Lallana and Rodriguez scoring the goals.

 

You keep putting Boruc/Davis and this is getting my hoops up. Do you know something or are you just being optimistic?

 

Been 5 weeks since Boruc broke his hand, have seen snippets on Twitter etc that he is fully fit and ready to go, just waiting for the nod from Pochettino.

 

I don't know anything but he sustained the injury on 1st December, the match takes place on 11th January - that's almost 6 weeks. If he's not back this week, he'll be back next week. And Boruc said on Instagram that he's nearly back, and that was a week so so ago.

 

I'm really confident we will win this. West Brom are a good side but we will be too strong for them. 3-0 Saints.

 

I so want Boruc to be fit.

 

After a tough period, we are entering an 'easier' period. Bit afraid I am letting my confidence get out of control, but I suppose we should be favourites playing at home. I'll go for a 2.1 or 1.0 win.

 

In the reverse fixtures at the start of the season we were averaging 2pt a game average so I am hopeful we can reproduce that type of form for the next two months to secure our position upper mid table
Starting with points on Saturday please

 

Shame no Lukaku, would have liked to see him play

 

What a strange thing to say.

 

**** tomw doing a match thread! We have lost!

 

I did the Burnley thread, the West Brom thread at the start of the season.

 

Has to be said Beef he has a better record than me.

 

*scratches head* you may be better off waiting for Everton to come down......?

 

I'm 99.99% sure it's coincidental.

 

I don't think WBA are a good side. Not without a big Chelsea striker up front. We'll win by 2 goals.

 

Just an unfunny joke

 

Got to use smileys when joking, otherwise it's very difficult to tell when someone's joking.

 

Unless what they say is funny...that can be a clue (smilie added just in case).

 

I reckon Will see the another introduction of Gallagher in this game and a lot earlier than 10mins too!! Hopefully he'll get a goal.