Soton have had a bit of an injury crisis in the last few weeks. Three of their best XI (Vestergaard, Romeu, Ings) have been out for a few weeks, although Romeu and Ings might be coming back. But four of their most used backups are also out (Djenepo, Redmond, Smallbone, Tella). They have 17 field players that have played > 100 minutes in the league this season and 7 of them are injured, albeit with Ings and Romeu seemingly returning to training this week.
Hassenhuttl has to be pretty worried about their depth. I can see them fielding a fairly weak team this Saturday and largely giving up on the competition.
Let’s have another cup run .
Not an easy tie today , but , we have the players to beat Southampton.
If we can beat them today and next week in the league we can say we’ve turned the corner after a horrible losing streak.
COYG
Really don’t fancy us today. Very rare you get back to back cup successes. Early kick off sometimes gets you poor games. Just get the feeling they’ll find a couple of goals. Hope im wrong but giving them a 2 1 win.
Obviously I hope you are wrong, and I think you’ll be wrong. I feel like there is more in the league position for them than us, so they’ll hopefully want to rest some players for this match.