Saints travel to in form Nottingham Forest looking for their first Premier League win under Ivan Juric and trying to drag themselves a bit nearer to the unwanted low points total record, can they catch Forest unawares.
Writing these previews has been pretty same this season, its the same plea every time, keep it tight and don’t be the architects of our own downfall, this one is no different as once again we threw away the points after a promising display at Old Trafford.
Hopefully Ivan Juric has learned another lesson the hard way after Thursday evening, back then he made too many substitutions and some of them were the wrong ones at that, but s I now say, any hope of staying up is now gone it is just about building for next season now.
But having said that Juric has to start showing that he is the truly the man for the job, at the moment it seems to be a good game followed by an awful one and that has to change, we are not only too inconsistent, but also erratic.
I don’t see many changes from the starting line up at Manchester United, the system worked for over an hour, in fact a little bit longer than that before our collapse in the closing stages, we showed that we can go out there and play, it was the multiple changes that led to our downfall.
Forest have shown that when a team gets to the Premier League the first season up is crucial, you have to dig in and fight and stay up, then you can build on those foundations and move up the League, but I think they like us a few years ago then find it’s easier to get momentum and move up the League, but it is difficult to maintain it.
At the moment they are on a roll and that. Might just suit us this afternoon, we might just catch them with some complacency having set in that they are only playing lowly Southampton, as we did at Old Trafford, we might just surprise them.