Friday, 23 August 2013

Southampton versus Sunderland match preview

Southampton versus Sunderland
Expected lineups
Southampton 4-3-3                                                                                         Sunderland 4-4-1-1
Boruc                                                                                                                    Westwood
Clyne                                                                                                                     Celustka
Fonte                                                                                                                    O’Shea ©
Lovren                                                                                                                  Valentin
Shaw                                                                                                                     Colback
Schneiderlin                                                                                                       Giaccherini
Wanyama                                                                                                            Larsson
Ward-Prowse                                                                                                    Cabral
Rodriguez                                                                                                            Johnson
Lambert                                                                                                               Sessegnon
Lallana  ©                                                                                                            Altidore

Outs- none                                                                                         Outs- Cattermole, Bardsley, Fletcher, Brown

Differing fortunes for these two last week as Southampton came away with an impressive 1-0 victory at the Hawthorns and the clean sheet will particularly please Mauricio Pochettino whose side played some very impressive attacking football last season but the defending was often shaky. I can see them recording a win at St Marys against a much-changed Sunderland side. Sunderland played well against Fulham but could not find a goal and I expect Di Canio to play a similar side this week although second guessing Di Canio is a dangerous game!

Prediction 3-1


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