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Tomorrow brings a crucial crunch clash when Southampton FC hosts Everton in a Premier League fixture that looks pretty evenly matched on paper. In recent years, both Saints and the Toffees have found themselves often finishing mid-table, but now both clubs are feeling confident about genuinely being on an upward trajectory.
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Chelsea FC are 2020 summer transfer window champions, but you don’t get any silverware for that! All you get is high expectations for trophies, and that’s exactly what the Blues have right now.
“We want to do well and we know there’s a lot of work to be done to achieve our goals, but unless you give it absolutely everything then that’s not going to happen,” said Chelsea manager Frank Lampard.
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Another long international break, which brought only bad news for Chelsea, is now winding down and it’s time to talk about Premier League match days again. The Blues will host Southampton FC on Saturday, in a match where neither side is where they want to be right now.
Chelsea is 7th, with a form guide that shows WLDW while Southampton sit 11th, and their form reads LLWW. Midtable is alright for Saints, but they want to challenge for a Europa League position. For Chelsea, their big summer spending spree means they must compete for the biggest of trophies, and right now.
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Nostalgia is a reactionary impulse and that’s exactly what Southampton FC did in bringing Theo Walcott back. Walcott, 31, now returns to his youth academy club, but he’s definitely not the same guy who left the south coast club for 5 million GBP to join Arsenal in 2006.
He’ll score some goals and sell a lot of shirts, but this deadline day signing is not the way for Saints to press forward. Let’s take a look at the rest of the transfer business; fee amounts in Euros.
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Tottenham Hotspur go into Sunday’s Premier League game at Southampton FC with no new injuries or suspensions to contend with, and a squad that is close to full strength.
Spurs got their season back on track in midweek with a come from behind 2-1 win against Lokomotiv Plovdiv in the Europa League qualifiers. Goals from Harry Kane and Tanguy Ndombele provided the victory. They will now have to deal with a Southampton team who are tough to beat at home.
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Sunday sees Tottenham Hotspur traveling to the south coast of England to take on Southampton FC in their second Premier League game of the season. So what sort of team will they go with in this one? Spurs head into the weekend on the back of an important win in the Europa League.
They left it late, but emerged 2-1 winners at Lokomotiv Plovdiv. A penalty kick equalizer from Harry Kane and a late winner from Tanguy Ndombele ensured that they moved on to the next playoff to reach the group stages. Now, their focus will be back on the Premier League and the first team will be seeing some changes.
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English Premier League 2020/21 begins under an unprecedented climate, a global pandemic that affects even the football world. Let’s look at the top new signings at various Premier League clubs.
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This silly season has seen a lot of action surrounding FC Schalke and USMNT midfielder Weston McKennie. Last week it was very well documented that his potential move within the Bundesliga to Hertha Berlin broke down.
Word is that the rising American star-in-the-making prefers a move to the Premier League, over staying in Germany. And according to ESPN, Southampton are leading the chase to acquire him.
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The Tottenham Hotspur summer transfer window got started on Tuesday as the north London club announced a new arrival, one of their players out on loan officially joined a new team on a permanent basis and chatter around the next potential target escalated.
Spurs officially introduced the arrival of Southampton FC midfielder Pierre-Emile Hojberg while defender Kyle Walker-Peters, who joined the south coast club on loan in January, became a member of Saints on a permanent basis.
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Manchester United have won 26 of the previous 41 Premier League meetings against Southampton FC, with Saints claiming seven victories to go along with eight draws. In the all-time series between the two sides, there have certainly been some memorable meetings. and the new Saints mobile game, which launched this past week to promote the new kit, celebrates a couple of them.
The video game pokes fun at United by including their team bus from the 1976 FA Cup Final, and the infamous grey uniforms from a 1996 meeting between the two sides.
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You may have already seen it, but in case you didn’t, Southampton FC created a video game for mobile devices to launch their new kit. In the vein of 8-bit Nintendo or 16 bit Sega Genesis, the game trolls Liverpool pretty hilariously, and Manchester United as well, not once, but twice.
You can go here to read more on that, but the timing could not have been perfect as the two sides will clash at Old Trafford on Monday night. United will certainly be very motivated to get all three points here, having had to settle for a 1-1 draw in the reverse fixture back in August.
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You have probably already seen it, but in case you didn’t here’s a link to much more on the mobile game that Southampton FC created to launch their new kit for next season this past week.
Modeled in the 8-bit to 16-bit era of video games, a la Nintendo, Sega Genesis or Turbo Grafx 16, it is absolutely glorious and I highly encourage you to check it out. It’s a fun play, but it works on another level, when it comes to the “easter eggs” that the gamer encounters during the experience.
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