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In the English Premier League there were already one or two surprises in the young season. Results like Aston Villa’s 7-2 win against the reigning champions from Liverpool or Crystal Palace’s 3-1 away win at Manchester United are examples. The team that has so far performed the most beyond its envisaged possibilities is certainly Southampton Football Club.
Coach Ralph Hasenhüttl’s team has another chance on Monday evening to jump into the top four of the ranking. For that you need at best an away win in the West Midlands. If we believe the odds of the best bookmakers before the match between Wolverhampton and Southampton, the so far strong Saints will be treated as outsiders.
On the one hand, this could be due to the fact that the red and whites did not win any of their last four guest appearances in the league with the Wolves. On the other hand, it is also due to the fact that the home side has one of the best defensive teams in the country and only conceded one goal in the last three matches at home.
Nevertheless, the team from the southern English port coast must be trusted to do everything on Monday evening. It is not for nothing that the Hasenhüttl-Elf has three wins in a row and could celebrate four threes in a row for the first time since May 2016 in the country’s top division.
Wolverhampton :
Even if the Wolverhampton Wanderers are currently still a long way from the sometimes very handsome football from the previous season, the Orange-Blacks can be quite satisfied with their yield on the first eight match days. Thanks to four wins and a draw in three defeats, the Wolves are currently in tenth place and on Monday they have the opportunity to climb to the European Cup places with another three.
Above all, this requires an increase in the offensive, as the eight goals achieved so far correspond to a very disappointing value. For comparison: the upcoming opponent from Southampton scored twice more often in the first half than the Espirito Santo team overall. The team from the West Midlands 2020/21 have not yet scored more than two hits.
You can at least rely on the defensive. No other Premier League club conceded fewer goals than the Wanderers this season. The Wolves are also leading the Premier League in the 2020 calendar year with a whopping 13 clean sheets when it comes to “Zero” games. The pitiable reverse conclusion, however, is that the Portuguese-influenced team, which last year finished seventh in the final accounts, only won two of the remaining 13 matches in which they had to accept at least one goal.
Because on Monday it cannot be assumed that a tip between Wolverhampton and Southampton will pay off that the self-confident guests will not score a goal, a bet in favor of the home win should therefore be waived. Despite various international trips, coach Nuno Espirito Santo can almost draw on the full. Only Jonny and Marcal are definitely missing. It is still highly uncertain that the fifth home game of this season will result in a third win.
Southampton :
Ralph Hasenhüttl is currently well on the way to earning a monument in Southampton. The Austrian ex-coach from RB Leipzig has managed to develop his team in such a way that they can currently compete with the top clubs in the Premier League, despite a few valleys.
After two defeats on the first two game days, the Saints were unbeaten six times in a row (!) And took 16 out of a possible 18 points during this period. The last three games were all victorious, including a 4-3 away win at Aston Villa.
Interesting: In all five wins of the season, the red and whites were already ahead at halftime. No other English first division team scored as often in the first 45 minutes as last year’s eleventh, who now wants to make the long-awaited return to Europe in the best case.
The immense self-confidence is currently particularly noticeable on the offensive. On average, the Saints score two goals per game, less than these two goals they last scored at the end of September. If we assume that the protégés of Coach Hasenhüttl will again convince in the attack – also in view of the Wolves statistics mentioned – there is a lot to suggest that the “saints” for the first time since May 2016 four Premier again -Win league matches one after the other.
Even the absence of Danny Ings doesn’t change that much. The top scorer, who has scored five goals this season, suffers from a knee injury and will again be replaced by Adams and Walcott in the storm. In general, the former Bundesliga coach has little reason to make a great change to the last winning starting line-up against Newcastle (2-0).
Wolves vs Southampton head to head matches
18.01.20 PL Southampton Wolves 2 : 3
19.10.19 PL Wolves Southampton 1 : 1
13.04.19 PL Southampton Wolves 3 : 1
29.09.18 PL Wolves Southampton 2 : 0
23.08.17 EFL Southampton Wolves 0 : 2