Southampton vs Bournemouth Preview 27/04/2023

Southampton vs Bournemouth – 27/04/2023

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Southampton and Bournemouth will meet in an enormous conflict on the backside finish of the Premier League desk this Thursday night with the Saints sitting 9 factors behind the Cherries earlier than the conflict at St. Mary’s.

It appears as if Southampton have one foot within the Championship coming into this recreation, as they sit behind Leicester Metropolis in seventeenth by 5 factors however they’ll shut this hole to 2 with a win right here.

On the similar time, they’d shut the hole on Bournemouth to 6 factors with a victory.

Southampton did handle to safe a surprising draw towards the league leaders Arsenal final Friday, however they are going to be gutted they did not depart with all three factors after main 2-0 because of a objective inside a minute from Carlos Alcarez and a objective from ex-Arsenal man, Theo Walcott, after 13 minutes.

Duje Caleta-Automobile scored after 66 minutes to present the membership a 3-1 lead, however a sensational Arsenal comeback noticed them rating twice within the final two minutes of normal time.

It does imply Southampton left with only a level, though they most likely would have taken that time earlier than the sport if it was handed to them.

The Saints then went on to attract with Manchester United after which Tottenham Hotspur, whereas additionally shedding to Brentford and West Ham United earlier than defeats from Manchester Metropolis and Crystal Palace.

It means the membership have received six video games and misplaced 20 occasions and scored solely 27 targets and let in 56 of their very own.

Bournemouth head into this recreation after a surprising 4-0 loss at house to West Ham United the place they conceded eight photographs heading in the right direction.

This did, nonetheless, come only one week on from their gorgeous late win away at Tottenham Hotspur.

It means the Cherries sit with 33 factors from 32 video games and nonetheless sit above the relegation zone by simply 5 factors.

Alternatively, they arrive into the conflict with the possibility to make the hole eight factors if they’ll win and Everton lose.

Worse but for Southampton, they nonetheless have a variety of accidents to cope with heading into this recreation and they are going to be with out Che Adams on this one.

Ainsley Maitland-Niles can return after his ineligibility to play towards Arsenal, whereas Jan Bednarek faces a late health take a look at. Juan Larios, Valentino Livramento and Mohamed Salisu are all out injured.

Forebet predicts a win for Southampton and for the sport to see over 2.5 targets.