The Sunday of the one who focuses his weekends at the Premier League begins with the match between Bournemouth and Southampton. Here we have a match where both teams, who had wished a little more of the season’s opening, now see a good opportunity to pick three points.
In the very even table, a victory here or there may mean a lot. After 14 played rounds, 11 out of 20 teams in four or less wins, which may be considered remarkably weak. It also makes it possible to climb a lot.
Our cautious feeling is that Southampton is so slow in progress. Now the pieces begin to fall into place, even if large parts of the heavy attack crew are matched to the bench. Charlie Austin has suddenly woken up to life and offers a constant threat up there.
Target play ends up in focus
Bournemouth also has four wins, but loses too often. It is a little bit too little about this Bournemouth, which, on the other hand, looks better from October onwards. Then made only two losses – against Chelsea and Burnley’s hard-played – as well as all four wins with the Cup meeting against Middlesbrough included. It’s not bad. It still happens a bit too little, but at home against a often open Southampton, it should be possible for something to happen.
The home team has a couple of heavy cards away. Adam Federici, Tyrone Mings, Brad Smith and Junior Stanislas are not available. On the other hand, there are several players who have been outside the team for a while, aiming at a place in the starting line-up, including Jermain Defoe.
For the guests, it’s only Jeremy Pied who is out of the game, even the fall back Cedric Soares will be tested first on the match day to see if he’s holding. He suffered a minor injury lately.
Both teams make goals played at 1.91 times the sauce at Betser.
PREDICTION:Both teams to score / YES / @ 1.91
