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Southampton vs Chelsea

Competition – Barclays Premier League

Stadium: St. Mary’s Stadium

Date: 30th August 2022

Kick-off time – 19:45 GMT

Southampton will welcome Chelsea to Saint Mary’s Stadium this Tuesday in the fifth round of the 2022/23 Premier League season.

The Saints will look to get back to winning ways when they host the Blues after narrowly losing 1-0 to Manchester United in the last round.

In an end-to-end game at St. Mary’s, a goal from Bruno Fernandes was all that separated both teams despite the hosts’ best effort.

Having lost their first game of the season by a 4-1 scoreline to Tottenham, a 1-0 loss to a Manchester United side that beat Liverpool was seen to be an encouraging result.

The fans even applauded the players at the end of the game, showing that they still have some faith in manager Ralph Hasenhüttl.

But Hasenhüttl will be under no illusions that results are needed to keep the Saints faithful onside and lift Southampton up the table.

However, given that they haven’t won a home head-to-head game since March 2013 (D2, L7) and conceded six without reply here last season, it is fair to say that they will have to work extra hard if they want to win this game and record just their second home win in nine attempts, having lost six of their last eight games at home (D1, L6).

Meanwhile, Chelsea bounced back from their embarrassing 3-0 loss to Leeds United last time out as they beat Leicester City 2-1 at Stamford Bridge.

A brace by summer signing Raheem Sterling was all it took to give Thomas Tuchel’s side all three points despite Connor Gallagher’s red card–the second Chelsea player sent off in two games after Kalidou Koulibaly’s red card against Leeds United in Game Week 3.

They will now hope to make it back-to-back wins in this game as they look to continue on an upward trajectory after an indifferent start to the season that has seen them take seven points from their first four games.

Other fixtures taking place this week in the Premier League Fixtures:

February 3, 2025
Chelsea 21:00 West Ham United
February 12, 2025
Everton 20:30 Liverpool
February 14, 2025
Brighton & Hov… 21:00 Chelsea
February 15, 2025
Leicester City 13:30 Arsenal
Aston Villa 16:00 Ipswich Town
Fulham 16:00 Nottingham Forest
Manchester City 16:00 Newcastle United
Southampton 16:00 AFC Bournemouth
West Ham United 16:00 Brentford
Crystal Palace 18:30 Everton
February 16, 2025
Liverpool 15:00 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Tottenham Hotspur 17:30 Manchester United
February 21, 2025
Leicester City 21:00 Brentford
February 22, 2025
Everton 13:30 Manchester United
Fulham 16:00 Crystal Palace
Southampton 16:00 Brighton & Hov…
Arsenal 16:00 West Ham United
Ipswich Town 16:00 Tottenham Hotspur
AFC Bournemouth 16:00 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Aston Villa 18:30 Chelsea

Premier League Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Liverpool 23 17 5 1 56 21 +35 56
2 Arsenal 24 14 8 2 49 22 +27 50
3 Nottingham Forest 24 14 5 5 40 27 +13 47
4 Manchester City 24 12 5 7 48 35 +13 41
5 Newcastle United 24 12 5 7 42 29 +13 41
6 Chelsea 23 11 7 5 45 30 +15 40
7 AFC Bournemouth 24 11 7 6 41 28 +13 40
8 Aston Villa 24 10 7 7 34 37 -3 37
9 Fulham 24 9 9 6 36 32 +4 36
10 Brighton & Hov… 24 8 10 6 35 38 -3 34
11 Brentford 24 9 4 11 42 42 +0 31
12 Crystal Palace 24 7 9 8 28 30 -2 30
13 Manchester United 24 8 5 11 28 34 -6 29
14 Tottenham Hotspur 24 8 3 13 48 37 +11 27
15 West Ham United 23 7 6 10 28 44 -16 27
16 Everton 23 6 8 9 23 28 -5 26
17 Wolverhampton Wanderers 24 5 4 15 34 52 -18 19
18 Leicester City 24 4 5 15 25 53 -28 17
19 Ipswich Town 24 3 7 14 22 49 -27 16
20 Southampton 24 2 3 19 18 54 -36 9

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