Two wins and a draw so far, so there's no rest for the wicked... Arriving at St. Mary's Are the league-leading Potters Lay off Downs and Quarshie To our Saints-cheering rotters Predictions, lineups, Saturday morning match day breakfast routines... go!
Interesting preview of this game on TSP. Who thought that Stoke would be the leagues early pace setters (I know, I know, it's 2 games). But they've also scored 6 and conceded 1 in those 2 games...but also they were against Derby and Sheffield Wednesday, both of whom are likely be down there in the relegation battle this season. You'd hope that our strikers will be over the stomach bug by then. But we are also getting towards the business end of the transfer window when things might start happening in both directions. All of which makes this hard to predict! I can't actually remember the last time we played well at home against Stoke. It feels like it's always 0-0 or 0-1 (last years cup game aside which was still a poor performance from us despite the score line). I'd probably plump for a narrow win with our superior quality off the bench making the difference again. Interesting that the Stoke fan on TSP called midfield their weak area, whereas that's easily our strongest area and we're struggling a bit at both ends.
Stoke might be playing well and sitting top of the league, but can they do it on a nice sunny Saturday afternoon in Southampton?
