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AFC Bournemouth vs Southampton

Competition – Barclays Premier League

Stadium: Vitality Stadium

Date:  30th September 2024

Kick-off time – 20:00 GMT

Bournemouth and Southampton will face-off at the Vitality Stadium for the first installment of the South Coast Derby on Monday.

The Cherries will be desperate to bounce back here as they come into this clash on the back of successive Premier League defeats, both of which came without scoring. They haven’t lost three successive top-flight games ‘to nil’ since the end of the 2022/23 season, though, so a bounce back, at least in scoring terms, could be possible.

Still, Bournemouth’s home form is concerning. The hosts have yet to win at home in the league this season (D1, L1), and they’ll perhaps be fearful that run could continue given they’ve not won a home head-to-head match since March 2016 (D2, L4).

The last four games in that head-to-head run saw them draw a scoring blank. Yet, with a respectable league record at the Vitality Stadium stretching back into last season (W4, D3, L2), scoring in all but one of those, they’ll be hopeful of breaking a couple of negative streaks here.

Meanwhile, Southampton have a streak of their own to break here as they’re winless in the league this season (D1, L4). Only a late Ipswich goal last week denied them a first Premier League win of the season, forcing them to settle for a 1-1 draw.

Saints boss Russell Martin expressed his disappointment in the aftermath of the game but he also insisted his side are “getting better” with each passing game so he’ll believe that first win is around the corner.

Yet, winning away in the top-flight is something that’s been a long-standing issue, with the Saints emerging victorious in none of their last nine Premier League road trips (D2, L7). Ending that streak against a side Martin has never beaten in a managerial H2H (D1, L2) could prove difficult, and perhaps the most concerning aspect is that his side have conceded 3+ times in each of those three.

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

April 2, 2025
AFC Bournemouth 19:45 Ipswich Town
Southampton 19:45 Crystal Palace
Brighton & Hov… 19:45 Aston Villa
Newcastle United 19:45 Brentford
Manchester City 19:45 Leicester City
Liverpool 20:00 Everton
April 3, 2025
Chelsea 20:00 Tottenham Hotspur
April 5, 2025
Everton 12:30 Arsenal
Crystal Palace 15:00 Brighton & Hov…
Ipswich Town 15:00 Wolverhampton Wanderers
West Ham United 15:00 AFC Bournemouth
Aston Villa 17:30 Nottingham Forest
April 6, 2025
Tottenham Hotspur 14:00 Southampton
Brentford 14:00 Chelsea
Fulham 14:00 Liverpool
Manchester United 16:30 Manchester City
April 7, 2025
Leicester City 20:00 Newcastle United

Premier League Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Liverpool 29 21 7 1 69 27 +42 70
2 Arsenal 30 17 10 3 55 25 +30 61
3 Nottingham Forest 30 17 6 7 50 35 +15 57
4 Chelsea 29 14 7 8 53 37 +16 49
5 Manchester City 29 14 6 9 55 40 +15 48
6 Newcastle United 28 14 5 9 47 38 +9 47
7 Brighton & Hov… 29 12 11 6 48 42 +6 47
8 Fulham 30 12 9 9 44 40 +4 45
9 Aston Villa 29 12 9 8 41 45 -4 45
10 AFC Bournemouth 29 12 8 9 48 36 +12 44
11 Brentford 29 12 5 12 50 45 +5 41
12 Crystal Palace 28 10 9 9 36 33 +3 39
13 Manchester United 30 10 7 13 37 41 -4 37
14 Tottenham Hotspur 29 10 4 15 55 43 +12 34
15 Everton 29 7 13 9 32 36 -4 34
16 West Ham United 30 9 7 14 33 50 -17 34
17 Wolverhampton Wanderers 30 8 5 17 41 58 -17 29
18 Ipswich Town 29 3 8 18 28 62 -34 17
19 Leicester City 29 4 5 20 25 65 -40 17
20 Southampton 29 2 3 24 21 70 -49 9

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