Southampton vs Brentford Preview 15/03/2023

Southampton vs Brentford – 15/03/2023

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Southampton and Brentford are set to fulfill for the second time in 5 weeks with St. Mary’s opening its doorways on Wednesday evening with the Saints trying to get out of the relegation zone with all three factors simply because the Bees goal for the highest eight.

Brentford are at present sitting behind Fulham in eighth by just one level, though it is a sport in hand they’re set to play over them for which they are going to transfer above the Cottagers if they will gather all three factors.

Thomas Frank’s males even have an additional sport to play over Liverpool in sixth, nevertheless, they’re 4 factors behind the Reds, though a win right here might be Brentford’s largest try to get into the European spots to date this season.

The foremost concern for the Bees heading into this one is how their six-game unbeaten run has now come to an finish. Worse but, the membership misplaced to a different staff preventing relegation, as Everton defeated them 1-0 at Goodison Park for what was their first loss in two months.

Alternatively, throughout that unbeaten run, Brentford beat Southampton with ease in a 3-0 victory again in London.

Ben Mee scored a header that day earlier than Bryan Mbeumo additionally scored within the first half, as Mathias Jensen added the third 10 minutes from time.

As for Southampton, they’re backside of the Premier League as soon as once more with simply 22 factors on the board.

They’re, nevertheless, trailing West Ham United and Leicester Metropolis in seventeenth and sixteenth, respectively, by solely two factors. A win right here would carry them out of the underside three.

Ainsley Maitland-Niles will face a late health take a look at for this sport, however Valentino Livramento and Juan Larios are nonetheless out for a couple of extra weeks. Brentford are comparatively high-quality within the physio room, however Thomas Strakosha and Keane Lewis-Potter are each dominated out into April.

Southampton’s dreadful kind at residence this season makes it extremely powerful to again them to win this season at St. Mary’s. Certainly, they could have overwhelmed Manchester Metropolis at residence within the EFL Cup 2-0, however ever since then, they’ve didn’t win two video games on the spin on residence soil and slumped again to the foot of the desk within the league.

Forebet predicts a win for Brentford towards them another and for the sport to see beneath 2.5 objectives