Saturday, at 15:00, the 18th Premier League schedule a very interesting duel in the relegation area where Huddersfield receives Kirk’s Stadium Southampton’s visit. The guests are in the form of a comeback and have just defeated Arsenal 3-2 at home.
A duel between two Bundesliga-trained technicians will surely bring interesting tactical moves. German David Wagner hopes to recover Huddersfield after his team lost the last 4 consecutive stages to the gap one goal. On the other side, the Austrian Hasenhuttl revived the team of “saints”, who feel better in the attack and gained confidence after the victory won against Arsenal.
Without Mooy (team leader), Smith and Williams, Huddersfield will rely heavily on Billing and Mounie’s flashes to capture the defensive side, but the “saints” are growing in shape and have more bats than the opponent from the weekend. Bertrand and Stephens are missing from the guests but players in the Red-White team are Redmond, Romeu, Austin or Ings, who should be forced into direct duels with hosts.
Huddersfield has only one home win this season, but Southampton does not excel in trips, where he has only one success in nine games. We also note that 7 of Huddersfield’s last 8 matches on the field finished with less than three goals scored.
In the standings, Southampton is 17th (16-32), while Huddersfield is on 19th place (10-28) and has the worst attack in the Premier League. After Bournemouth (1-2), Bournemouth (1-2), Arsenal (0-1) and Newcastle (0-1), Huddersfield did not have great prospects for the bettors, while Southampton scored in 3 of last four matches and showed solid last week with Arsenal. With a 4-2-3-1 elastic system, Ralf Hasenhuttl instilled a new attitude in the “saints” game, which also had an important psychological advantage: Southampton lost in one of the last 5 games played against Huddersfield.
HUDDERSFIELD – SOUTHAMPTON PROBABILITY TEAMS
Huddersfield (3-5-2): Lossl – Zanka, Schindler, Kongolo – Durm, Bacuna, Hogg, Billing, Lowe – Pritchard, Mounie
Southampton (3-4-2-1): McCarthy – Bednarek, Yoshida, Vestergaard – Valery, Hojbjerg, Lemina, Targett – Redmond, Armstrong – Ings
PREDICTION: Over 1.5 goals @ 1.44
