Southampton vs. Swansea City Premier League Sunday 18 September 2016 Kick off: 14:15 Venue: St. Mary's Stadium, Southampton Following a hard fought draw against prospective title challengers, Chelsea, the Swans' next PL fixture is away to Southampton. Claude Puel's team were unlucky to go down 1-2 to Arsenal at the Emirates in their previous match, "thanks" to a debatable 93rd minute penalty awarded by referee Bobby Madeley - welcome to the club! The Swans were similarly hard done by Madeley against Stoke during Michael Laudrup's reign. Whilst the Swans have picked up 4 points from their first 4 fixtures to stand 13th place in the table, the Saints have managed to pick up 2 pts to be in 18th position (before the Sunderland v Everton match). Swansea and Southampton have met on 68 occasions, the Swans winning 20 and drawing 15, with Southampton victorious in 33 matches. In the corresponding fixture last season, Virgil van Dijk scored his first goal for Southampton who eased to a comfortable victory over Swansea. The Dutch centre-back, who signed from Celtic that Summer for £13m, headed in at the near post to give the Saints an 11th minute lead. Dusan Tadic made it 2-0 after the break when his attempted cross went in off Ki Sung-yueng before Sadio Mane slotted in the third from inside the area. Gylfi Sigurdsson scored a penalty for the Swans in the 83rd minute. Looking ahead to next Sunday, hopefully Borja Baston will be available for selection to make his long awaited debut in Swansea colours. I think that the Swans will pick up their 5th point of the season in a 2-2 draw.
Good shout Taff and following from both our successful draw predictions for the Chelsea game I am joining you in a 2-2 scoreline. A couple of defensive howlers from us and hopefully Baston scores on his debut plus a headed goal from Llorente
Great thread Taff. I fancy us to get something from this game if Guido uses the same tactics as second half.
Southampton are due a win and a good side despite their position. Think Guidolin will go with negative tactics and try and hold out for a point. If we go there and give them a game and have a go there is the possibility of a point for us. If we defend and try and hang on then there is only one winner and that isn't the swans.
Not sure about this one, Southampton may be currently below us in the table but they've had bad luck after playing some descent footie, better than we have played outside of Sundays second half. They were robbed too on Saturday at the Emirates by a very dubious, brown envelope type, injury time decision but no one even mentioned that. Actually, no one is talking about the Menchester Derby or Watfords mighty win over cash rich West Ham; cash rich coz they get to keep all the £cash from the sale of Upton Park and don't have to spend a penny of it on a home to play in as they've been given a superb 70k plus seater international standard football stadium for £othing, £ratis, £ree, £uck all, already bought and paid for by the Great British Tax Payer, they just moved in ?!?!?!?! We know what everyones talking about, Cahills' attempted murder by the evil Fer, the unseen consequence of which literally KILLED Chelsea too, apparently. How dare the evil Swans steal points from the mighty chewlsea, points the londoners obviously believed they were entitled to even before kick off. Naughty Fer, bad Swansea; still, you got to laugh Anywhoo, on topic, Southampton will certainly be up for this game and they have to see it as a home win opportunity. As for us? well, its the kind of game we're apt to lose so I'd take any kind of draw right now.
I remember it well, pissed off with the lack of performance after that game, plus some local knobs thought they were hard and had a pop.
Saints will win this very easily even though they are not as good as previous seasons. We are ten times worse.....2 - 0 that will kick start the Saints season.....
Even at this stage the Premiership looks to have resumed normal practice with all the big clubs taking control of the top and there will be no surprises this season......The Table looks even this early that it is split into 3 parts where the usual big clubs will fight it out on who will be champions and claim the European places then we have the next half a dozen fighting it out for a top ten spot ( this is where we were a few seasons back) and then we have the rest fighting to stay out of the bottom three and this is the category where we fall into and have done for a couple of seasons and unfortunately this is what we have to look forward too until some major changes are made.......
For me I'd love to see this line up; Fabianski Rangel, Van der Hoorn, Amat, Kingsley Cork, Britton Barrow, Siggy, Montero Baston For me that's our strongest line up and swapping Fernández for Van Der Hoorn means that Rangel needs to come in for his experience. We must have one of the fastest wingers in the league and we need to start utilising thier strengths. We need to press more therfore Britton gets the nod before Fer. He has done nothing wrong just think that the work rate of Britton is needed in this game early on. We really need Baston fit now because Llorente is going to be better coming off the bench for the last 20 mins or so.
All i want to see is a manager that knows what he is doing and can win games. This will never happen under Guildo in a month of Sundays.....
