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Southampton vs Stoke Prediction & Betting tips
At St. Mary’s Stadium this weekend the meeting between Southampton and Stoke City is on the program. Both teams are in relegation distress and do not want to lose this cracker in the lower regions of the Premier League!
Southampton :
Southampton has not been under the relegation strikes since the previous round, but The Saints still have a long way to go to the preservation of life. Mauricio Pellegrino’s team has enough quality to maintain in the Premier League, but The Saints have made it unnecessarily difficult in the early stages of this season and Southampton must now make every effort not to join the bottom three. end. The Saints lost only once in their last nine games and are therefore working on a fine series, as in that series of nine games, Southampton left the relegation places and also qualified for the quarter finals of the FA Cup.
In the last game that The Saints played, a point was caught by the men of Pellegrino. Southampton went to Burnley last weekend and had a hard time on Turf Moor for seventy minutes, resulting in a 1-0 deficit. The Saints seemed to return empty handed, but it was the Italian Manolo Gabbiadini who shot Southampton in the ninetieth minute with Burnley. The number-sixteen of the Premier League did not play well against Burnley, but for Pellegrino the draw felt like a victory and that is enough to say. The Saints can use every point well at this stage of the season and then a 1-1 visit to the well performing Burnley is not a bad result.
When Stoke City comes to visit St. Mary’s Stadium this week, Southampton has to take three points. In a victory over direct competitor Stoke City, The Saints take a good step towards preservation of life, but Pellegrino’s team has not been doing too well in their own stadium lately. The Saints managed to win a league game in their home for the last time in November and fans of Southampton have been waiting for seven league matches in a home win. In addition, The Saints only won one of the last fifteen games in the Premier League, so it’s no guarantee that Pellegrino and his players will be credited with three points this weekend.
Stoke:
The Stoke City of manager Paul Lambert is under the line in the Premier League and naturally wants to be above that line as quickly as possible. The Potters will have to start winning a number of matches soon, as Stoke City has been winning victories lately. Only one of the last ten players that Stoke City played was converted into a win for the Paul Lambert team and that also shows why Stoke City is in second place in the Premier League.
The Potters are however already two games undefeated. Stoke City played 1-1 draw against Brighton & Hove Albion and was able to win a point last weekend at Leicester City. Xherdan Shaqiri shot the club from Stoke-on-Trent in the first half with a placed shot ahead in the King Power Stadium, but Stoke City had a hard time against Leicester City and Jack Butland’s own goal made Leicester City the equalizer managed to make. However, the same Butland was very important for Stoke City a couple of times and The Potters owed it to their goalkeeper that she equaled 1-1 at Leicester City.
Stoke lost only once in the last five games it played, but in those five games, only six points were taken by the Lambert team. In addition, Stoke City has not won nine away games in a row in the Premier League, but against Southampton there may be some potential for The Potters. Should Stoke City lose at Southampton, the gap on The Saints will be increased to four points and then they have to put up a good series at Stoke if they want to finish after 38 matches. Only West Bromwich Albion is currently with twenty points behind Stoke City and the chances are so small that The Potters will be the last team in the Premier League, but as is well known, the numbers also turn eighteen and nineteen to the Championship.
Southampton vs Stoke head to head matches
30.09.17 PL Stoke Southampton 2 : 1
21.05.17 PL Southampton Stoke 0 : 1
14.12.16 PL Stoke Southampton 0 : 0
12.03.16 PL Stoke Southampton 1 : 2
21.11.15 PL Southampton Stoke 0 : 1