Saints Aim To Make It Four In A Row And Overtake The Eagles

Saints travel to Selhurst Park aiming to make if four league victories in a row against Crystal Palace on Saturday.

Saints have found Selhurst Park a happy hunting ground recently having won their last three league encounters with the Eagles.

The first of those was in 2011/12 when a Rickie Lambert brace gave them a 2-0 win as they closed in on promotion from the Championship.

Then in 2013/14 a Jay Rodriguez opportunist goal proved to be the match winner in a 1-0 win.

Last season Saints went up to Palace on Boxing Day and after the scoring was opened by Sadio Mane in the first half, a goal apiece from Ryan Bertrand and Toby Alderweireld put Saints in the driving seat early in the second half, a late consolation from Scott Dann four minutes from time was nothing other than a consolation.

Saints travel on Saturday sat in 12th place with the Eagles soaring in 6th, but so tight is the Premier League at present a fourth win in a row at Selhurst will propel Saints above Palace by a point.

So this will be Saints target, they will feel that although the Villa result was disappointing it did break the sequence of defeats and in that aspect will have changed the mood in the squad, they will go to Palace with a little more confidence knowing that if they keep things tight and do not let the lapses in concentration and individual errors back into their game then they can win this.

The fact that Saints are only two points off of 6th place should emphasise to those fans that Saints squad is not good enough, just how close we are to emulating last season, as i have said in other articles this week, a late winner against Villa would have propelled us level with both the Eagles and West Ham and the league would look a lot more rosier.

The Saints squad is stronger than last season, but it has been blighted by individual error, cut that out and they will be back on track.

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