da luck: In what is already a relegation six-pointer, Southampton clash with Norwich City at St. Mary’s Stadium at 7:30pm on Wednesday evening.
da realbet: The match, along with the nine other encounters from the 15th gameweek of the 2019/2020 Premier League season, will be broadcast live on Amazon Prime Video for subscribers in the UK.
Three points against fellow strugglers Watford on Saturday afternoon wasn’t enough to move Ralph Hasenhuttl’s Saints out of the relegation zone as they remain two points adrift of Everton in 17th.
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It did, however, give them hope of climbing away from the danger zone over the festive period and was only their third league victory of the campaign.
Norwich City’s last win came just over a week ago but to find their latest triumph in any competition before that, you would have to go back to the middle of September.
Daniel Farke’s men sit a single point behind their opponents in the table, although are unbeaten in two and travel 202 miles south west fresh from a respectable draw with Arsenal at Carrow Road on Sunday afternoon.
Wednesday’s hosts have one of the shortest injury lists in the English top flight as only Stuart Armstrong is on it – there’s little chance of him being fit to face the boys from Norfolk.
Whereas Alexander Tettey is in line to return for the Canaries after personal issues kept him out of the Gunners meeting, Timm Klose, Josip Drmic and Grant Hanley remain sidelined.
The last league match involving both Southampton and Norwich took place close to four years ago, though the sides did meet in an FA Cup tie during that gap.
It took a replay to decide, but the men from the south coast eventually progressed. Is that any indication of the way things will pan out this time around?
Amazon have purchased the rights to all of the Premiership games for this period and that of Boxing Day and the 27th December and if you’re in the UK, you can watch any of them absolutely free with Amazon Prime.
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