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Full Record of Spurs -v- Southampton

Prem         Pl    W   D   L   For- Ag  Pts
Home         19   14   2   3   46 - 20  44
Away         18    6   4   8   21 - 21  22
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Total(Prem)  37   20   6  11   67 - 41  66
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Football Lge
Home(Div 1)  22   13   4   5   52 - 28  38
Away(Div 1)  22    6   8   8   25 - 35  24
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Total(Div 1) 44   19  12  13   77 - 63  62
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Football Lge
Home(Div 2)  14    9   3   2   41 - 12  21
Away(Div 2)  14    2   5   7   12 - 17   9
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Total(Div 2) 28   11   8   9   53 - 29  30
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Total(Prem)  37   20   6  11   67 - 41  66
Total(Div 1) 44   19  12  13   77 - 63  62
Total(Div 2) 28   11   8   9   53 - 29  30
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Grand Total 109   50  26  33  197 -133 158
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Last Six Premier League results:-

S'hampton  -    LDLDLD

Chelsea    1-0    S'hampton
S'hampton  1-1    Hds'field
Spurs      5-2    S'hampton
Man Utd    0-0    S'hampton
S'hampton  1-2    C. Palace
Watford    2-2    S'hampton

Spurs      -    LWWWDW
           
Man City   4-1    Spurs
Burnley    0-3    Spurs
Spurs      5-2    S'hampton
Swansea    0-2    Spurs
Spurs      1-1    West Ham
Spurs      4-0    Everton

Pos            P  W  D  L   F-A   GD  Pts
 5. Spurs     23 13  5  5  46-21  25   44
18. S'hampton 23  4  9 10  23-34 -11   21

Is Pellegrino next for the chop?

In my preview of our home game against Southampton, I wrote about "Saints'" manager Mauricio Pellegrino that his "job must also be at risk in a season when six Premier League managers have already been sacked, and Southampton have been drawn lower down the table. They must also be dreading the January transfer window with Virgil Van Dijk still on the shopping list of certain clubs, having been unsettled in the summer and still strongly linked with Liverpool."

Well, since our Boxing Day 5-2 win, Stoke's Mark Hughes has been dismissed, Southampton have slipped down the table to 18th place (after Saturday's results) and Van Dijk has indeed gone to Liverpool. The £75 million fee must be burning a hole in the club's pockets, but none of it has been spent yet. Of course, in their now precarious position Southampton will be hard-pushed to attract players of Van Dijk's quality. Pellegrino must be a prospective eighth Premier League manager to lose his job this season.

Southampton did manage a win in their FA Cup 3rd Round game at Fulham, but they are now without a league win in their last 10 games. Their last win was a 4-1 at home to Everton. After that Boxing day defeat at Wembley, Pellegrino's men did show resilience in a 0-0 at Old Trafford, but then they lost at home to Palace, who once looked dead certs to go down, but whose recent form of only one defeat in their last 12 league games has taken them four points above the "Saints".

Look at the Southampton team in May 2014 for Mauricio Pochettino's last game in charge when they drew at home to Man Utd, and secured 8th place in the final Premier League table, and look where those players are now:-

Boruc (Bournemouth); Clyne (Liverpool), Fonte (West Ham), Lovren (Liverpool), Shaw (Man Utd); Schneiderlin (Everton via Man Utd), Wanyama (Spurs); Cork (Burnley via Swansea), Davis (remains at Southampton), Lallana (Liverpool); Lambert (Liverpool & others - since retired). Of the substitutes that day Calum Chambers went to Arsenal; Sam Gallagher is still with the club but out on loan, and James Ward-Prowse is the only other member of that Pochettino team who remains at the club.

It has to be heart-breaking to be a Southampton fan these days.

James Ward-Prowse stayed on the bench for the 5-2 defeat last month, but he has scored Southampton's last three goals. His two at Watford last Saturday gave the "Saints" a 2-0 half-time lead and they justifiably felt cheated when Doucoure scored a last minute equaliser with his hand. Who knows how vital those two lost points will be at the end of the season?

Shane Long's goal in the 2-1 defeat to Palace was his first since last February and therefore, until last Saturday Long was ahead of Harry Kane in the 2018 Premier league score chart! It was Harry's hat-trick (his second in consecutive games) against Southampton that gave him the record Premier League score for a calendar year and made him top scorer in Europe. he has added four more to his club tally since and will be looking to add to his phenomenal record on Sunday.

In seven games against his old club since taking over at Tottenham Pochettino has only lost once, and that was at White Hart Lane two years ago when Ronald Koeman was in charge of the "Saints". One of the survivors from Pochettino's last Southampton team - Steven Davis - scored both their goals. Our goal was scored by Son Heung-min, also in tip-top form at the moment. Southampton's side included goalkeeper Fraser Forster, Victor Wanyama and Sadio Mane - another who joined the exodus to Liverpool. Spurs were deflated after a gruelling draw at Stamford Bridge had confirmed Leicester as the Premier League Champions, and had nothing left to play for with their own Champions League place confirmed.

Both teams have had a full week's rest since their last game. Spurs will be full of vitality and confidence after their trip to Barcelona for some sunshine training. Apart from Toby Alderweireld (drawing ever closer to a return), Danny Rose, and Harry Winks (ankle), Spurs have a full squad raring to go. The latest news is that Hugo Lloris will undergo a late assessment due to illness. Southampton will be missing Yoshida and Charlie Austin. Austin served his three match suspension, but is out for another 5 or 6 weeks with his hamstring injury.

Spurs are obviously the form side of the two and must be strongly fancied to win tomorrow's 4pm SKY game. It won't be easy at St Mary's with the home crowd against us and desperately urging their teama to success. I do think we will win though, and have predicted 2-0.

We don't see too much of match referee Kevin Friend these days. He had charge of a Spurs game only once in 2017. That was a narrow victory over Crystal Palace at Wembley in November. In the course of 17 games in charge of Spurs since 2010, Mr. Friend has the highest average rating of referees we have seen that many times or more.

· "It was Twenty Years ago today!" - On 17th January, 1998, Jurgen Klinsmann scored his first goal for Spurs after his Christmas 1997 return to the club.

Did you know? - 17 years ago on 20th January, 2001, we played Southampton (at home) and drew 0-0. It was one of four consecutive 0-0 draws. Guess who was our manager! We had also played Everton in the preceding week that year too.

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