Southampton vs Fulham Preview 13/05/2023

Southampton vs Fulham – 13/05/2023

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Southampton may very well be relegated from the Premier League this weekend in a gathering with Fulham at St. Mary’s simply because the London facet look to maintain up their combat for a spot within the prime half of the desk this season.

After 35 video games, the Saints sit on 24 factors and with a niche of eight factors to make up on Everton within the protected spot of seventeenth.

This now means Southampton shall be relegated in the event that they fail to win this sport with simply 9 left to play for.

To outlive, Southampton should win all their remaining video games and hope that Everton lose all of their matches too. In actuality, it’s a close to unattainable feat to realize.

In actual fact, the membership stepped one foot into the Championship just a few weeks again after they performed at house to Bournemouth.

They misplaced that essential battle with Cherries, and so they’ve since had little or no hope of surviving.

Southampton additionally misplaced 4-3 to fellow strugglers Nottingham Forest final outing to throw them deeper into bother.

As for Fulham, their purpose is to complete within the prime 10 this season as they sit six away from their west London rivals in what’s the membership’s first probability to complete above Chelsea in Premier League historical past.

Chelsea do have a sport in hand to play in two weeks, so it’s not all carried out and dusted for Fulham.

The Cottagers did hammer Leicester Metropolis this previous Monday as Willian netted a brace earlier than Tom Cairney did the identical alongside a purpose from Carlos Vinicius within the 5-3 win at Craven Cottage.

Andreas Pereira and Tim Ream are out for the season for Fulham however the long-awaited return of Aleksandar Mitrovic after his eight-game ban will imply he comes again in.

Layvin Kurzawa has seemingly already performed his final sport for Fulham earlier than heading again to Paris Saint-Germain with a knee damage.

Romain Perraud is out for some time and will not return till preseason, whereas Mohamed Salisu can be out of this one. Valentino Livramento stays out till August and Juan Larios will face a health take a look at in the direction of the top of the season. Armel Bella-Kotchap is nearing a comeback.

Forebet predicts a win right here for Fulham and for the sport to see underneath 2.5 targets in a sport that can see Southampton’s very long time within the Premier League come to an finish if different outcomes additionally go towards them.