Southampton v Manchester City: Premier League – live!
05-Jul-2020 17:51:19 | The Guardian
Ralph Hasenhuttl talks about Southampton’s remaining ambitions:
Taking as much points as possible until the end of the season. We have some interesting fixtures, today’s the first one. It’s always a great pleasure to play against maybe the best team in the world, they have incredible players, and it’s always a pleasure to have one week to prepare for the game.
More running, more sprinting, more fighting, more speaking on the pitch, brave on the ball, good decision-making, and when you have a chance, then be clinical, and then in some moments have the luck to don’t concede a goal. So you need to have a very good day, so let’s go for it.
Pep Guardiola has a quick chat for the TV folks, initially about his six changes:
We play every three days, a lot of games, and all the players deserve to play for the way they behave and their training and they play. I’m really impressed [with Southampton], after the moment the suffered losing 9-0 against Leicester they made an incredible run of results and they’re out of the dangerous positions and thinking of the top, top positions.
Southampton have had a full week to recover from their 3-1 win at Watford so their need to rest players is less pressing. Still they bring in Jack Stephens, Stuart Armstrong and Che Adams and leave out Shane Long, Jannik Vestergaard and Will Smallbone
Manchester City make fully six changes to the team that tonked Liverpool in midweek, bringing in David and Bernardo Silva, Fernandinho, Joao Cancelo, Oleksandr Zinchenko and Riyad Mahrez. Edertson, Laporte, Garcia, Gabriel Jesus and Sterling keep their places.
These are the all-important names whose more-important bearers will be playing in tonight’s vaguely-important match:
Southampton: McCarthy, Walker-Peters, Stephens, Bednarek, Bertrand, Armstrong, Ward-Prowse, Romeu, Redmond, Ings, Adams. Subs: Long, Djenepo, Obafemi, Smallbone, Gunn, Vokins, Danso, Jankewitz, Ferry.
Man City: Ederson, Joao Cancelo, Eric Garcia, Laporte, Zinchenko, Bernardo Silva, Fernandinho, Silva, Mahrez, Gabriel Jesus, Sterling. Subs: Bravo, Stones, Gundogan, Rodri, De Bruyne, Otamendi, Foden, Doyle, Harwood-Bellis.
Referee: Andre Marriner.
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How #SaintsFC will line-up against #ManCity tonight: pic.twitter.com/w1HSbUgMNb
Your City line-up for tonight...
XI | Ederson, Cancelo, E Garcia, Laporte, Zinchenko, Fernandinho, D Silva (C), Bernardo, Mahrez, G Jesus, Sterling.
SUBS | Bravo, Stones, Gundogan, Rodrigo, De Bruyne, Otamendi, Foden, Doyle, Harwood-Bellis.
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#ManCity pic.twitter.com/W6vh7J0klo
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Southampton have drawn just one league game since November and four all season, more only than two teams, one of which they face this evening (Liverpool and Manchester City have drawn three each, though there’s a chance that the newly-crowned champions will have drawn a fourth before this game kicks off).
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