Bit early but as I'm at work all day tomorrow I thought I may as well do it now. Sunday 23rd March 2014 White Hart Lane 1.30pm kick off Live on Sky Sports Match officials: Referee: Anthony Taylor Assistants: S Child & P Kirkup 4th Official: Mike Jones Form guide: Southampton: Southampton 4-2 Norwich City Crystal Palace 0-1 Southampton Southampton 0-3 Liverpool West Ham 3-1 Southampton Sunderland 1-0 Southampton Hull City 0-1 Southampton Tottenham: Tottenham 0-1 Arsenal Chelsea 4-0 Tottenham Tottenham 1-0 Cardiff Norwich 1-0 Tottenham Newcastle 0-4 Tottenham Tottenham 1-0 Everton No draws for either side in their last 6 matches. Win or bust for both teams it seems. Team news: Saints are without Cork and possibly Wanyama. Gaston is pushing for another start after impressing against Norwich. Saints must decide whether to start Lambert or use him from the bench, which worked very well against Norwich. Spurs face a trip to Benfica on Thursday night before this match so this could benefit Saints. Sherwood may well put out a weakened side against Benfica to focus on the league. Prediction: Saints to nick a 2-1 victory. Spurs are there to be got at and Saints have the attacking quality to give Spurs a big problem. Lallana and Rodriguez the scorers.
Saints have got to go into the match with belief. A positive mindset will do a world of good!! Come on, Spurs are not Bayern, Real or Liverpool. We can do it!!
Provisional squad: Friedel, Archer, McGee, Naughton, A McQueen, Fryers, Rose, Ball, Ogilvie, Sandro, Chadli, Veljkovic, Eriksen, Winks, Sigurdsson, Bentaleb, Onomah, Lennon, Townsend, Kane, Soldado. Taking Sunday serious by the looks of it!
If Southampton want to go for sixth or seventh we really have to win this one and to be honest if we need to we might as well go for it. Much more pressure on Sherwood now then when we played them at St. Mary's. Hopefully we will defend better this time!
I don't think Mauricio knows any other method than to 'go for it'. The real secret is holding on when you've got it...a problem we've had this season.
Near impossible to defend any worse than last time! We got Tim that job.....now we're taking it back!
Still some tickets on general sale. £41 pounds for the upper tier, that might be why we haven't sold our allocation. Still, poor show really.
It's on TV, it's at a stupid time, plus I'm skint! Those are my excuses! I guess a lot of people feel the same
The players are going to deliberately play so badly in this game that Daniel Levy will think that Pochittino's reputation is utter rubbish and that he should stick with Sherwood.
It's my birthday Saints, how about a televised spanking of Spurs to lift the gloom of turning 30? Thank you.
A big influence on the result will be Spurs injury situation. For tonights game they are claiming to have an injury crisis and putting out a weakened team and I don't know whether this is a tactical injury crisis (saving their best players for Sunday) or a real one in which case I would be very confident about getting a result
I bet most of them will be back. Playing three games in a week is going to be pretty tough if they're not fully fit, but a full week's break will have most of them available I'd imagine.
