THE STRIKER: previews Monday’s Premier League action from Old Trafford with MAN U hosting SOUTHAMPTON – get the recommended BETDAQ bet and extended match stats.
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MANCHESTER UNITED V SOUTHAMPTON
8pm We have a cracker for Monday Night Football this week as Manchester United welcome Southampton to Old Trafford. United have been in superb form lately, but Southampton have an impressive away record this season and won’t be pushovers here. On face value, you have to feel that United look a little short at 1.34 but they are really playing well at the moment and I’m not keen to lay them. I’ll have to look past the match odds market to find some value.
Southampton got into the top five on away form after drawing with Everton midweek and that just shows what a strong side away from home they have been this season. Unfortunately for them, only Norwich are below them in the home form table and that explains their position in the Premier League. There’s no getting away from the fact that United are playing superbly at the moment. Fernandes has gelled everything together and they have a very big chance of finishing in the Top Four this season if they can finish the season in the same form.
Over 2.5 goals is tempting at 1.67, however Both Teams To Score really looks value at 1.99. Southampton have been pretty impressive away from home and United are playing with such confidence here that I can only see an open game. I don’t think we’ll quite see a game like Bournemouth here with a 5-2 win to United, but I can easily see a 3-1 score line or something not far away.
This is a massive game for United after Chelsea lost 3-0 to Sheffield United at the weekend. A win here will see them go one point ahead of Chelsea and give them a massive boost in the race for a Top Four finish. United have been creating chances for fun lately and I expect more goals from them here, but with Southampton playing well away they can get on the score sheet too. I expect a good game.
The Striker Says:
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MATCH STATS
- Manchester United have won just two of their last six Premier League home games against Southampton (D2 L2), having won 13 of their first 14 against them at Old Trafford (D1).
- Southampton came from behind to draw 1-1 in the reverse fixture – only in 2013-14 have they avoided defeat in both Premier League meetings with Manchester United (D2).
- Southampton have lost more matches (26) and conceded more goals (82) versus Manchester United than they have against any other side in Premier League history.
- Manchester United have lost just one of their last 15 home league games (W9 D5), winning the last four in a row by an aggregate score of 13-2. Prior to this, they had lost three out of five at Old Trafford (W1 D1).
- Manchester United are unbeaten in their last 17 matches in all competitions (W13 D4) – they last had a longer such run in March 2013 under Sir Alex Ferguson (18 matches).
- Manchester United have won 13 penalties in the Premier League this season; no team has ever won more in a single campaign in the competition (also, Leicester in 2015-16 and Crystal Palace in 2004-05).
- Southampton have won only one of their last 23 away Premier League games against ‘big six’ teams (D5 17), winning 2-0 at Chelsea in December 2019.
- Either Marcus Rashford or Anthony Martial have scored in 11 of Manchester United’s 17 Premier League home games this season, with the Red Devils winning 10 and drawing one of these games. In their six home games in which neither has scored, Man Utd’s record is W0 D4 L2.
- Bruno Fernandes has been directly involved in 28 goals in 27 appearances in the Portuguese and English top-flight combined this season (15 goals, 13 assists). His tally of 13 goal involvements in 10 Premier League appearances is the joint-most by a player in their first 10 games in the competition’s history alongside Mick Quinn.
- Southampton’s Danny Ings has opened the scoring in nine separate Premier League games this season – more than any other player (9). Ings (19) could become only the second Southampton player to reach 20+ goals in a 38-game Premier League season after James Beattie in 2002-03 (23).
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