Man Utd brought it back to 2-2 with an injury time equaliser against Burnley. That means they won’t have the anger in their bellies and will go easy on us.
Well… like Mauricio said post match, there’s positives to be taken, so IF we can take those positives into the Man U game then there’s no reason to think we can’ lose by more than 4.
Getting £75m in through the door for Virgil van Dijk is good business for Southampton but, when they have sold players before, they have always had replacements ready, if not already at the club.
The problem with this sale coming now is that it ratchets up the expectation that they will spend heavily in January, especially because they are in such poor form.
Mauricio Pellegrino’s side have won only one of their past 11 league games, and have scored only 12 goals in that spell, so the pressure is on him to improve things quickly too.
This is not the game for that to happen, though.
You just know Saints are going to go to Old Trafford and camp in their own half, because they did it against Manchester City last month - and almost got a point. Almost.
Lawro’s prediction: 2-0
Apart from the last paragraph it’s almost reasonable.