Comments and predictions for Southampton vs Tottenham: Bullying the home team

Without a win in five games in all competitions, Tottenham Hotspur will be desperate for a morale boost when they travel to bottom-of-the-table Southampton on Sunday evening.

Tottenham could only manage a 1-1 draw against Rangers in their last Europa League outing, while Southampton were narrowly beaten by Aston Villa in their most recent Premier League encounter.

Latest Southampton vs Tottenham squad information

In addition to Rodrigo Bentancur, who will serve a suspension for this match due to his red card against Chelsea, Tottenham also lost Yves Bissouma due to suspension due to accumulating yellow cards after a needless tackle on Moises Caicedo in the penalty area last weekend.

Bissouma and Bentancur will be two of nine Spurs players absent against Southampton on Sunday, with Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven both suffering thigh injuries in the defeat to Chelsea, while Wilson Odobert (muscle), Mikey Moore (illness), Richarlison (muscle), Ben Davies (muscle) and Guglielmo Vicario (ankle) are also ruled out.

Rather than continue to rely on James Maddison, Postecoglou may consider pushing Lucas Bergvall into the starting line-up over the underperforming Englishman, while Timo Werner is likely to be replaced by Dominic Solanke, after the boss criticised Werner's performance against Rangers.

Southampton are also unlucky in terms of injuries and discipline, with Jack Stephens suspended, Aaron Ramsdale (finger injury), Will Smallbone (thigh injury), Juan Larios (unspecified injury), Ross Stewart (calf injury) and Gavin Bazunu (Achilles injury) still absent.

However, manager Martin has revealed that Adam Lallana, Paul Onuachu and Jan Bednarek are all fit and available, and it is likely that the two players will be brought into the starting line-up immediately, with Onuachu replacing Cameron Archer in the striker position.

Nathan Wood had a good performance replacing Bednarek against Villa, so James Bree could make way for Bednarek, as Martin makes a slight tweak to his defensive system.

Latest predicted lineup Southampton vs Tottenham

Southampton:

Lumley; Walker-Peters, Harwood-Bellis, Wood, Bednarek, Manning; Downes, Fernandes; Dibling; Armstrong, Onuachu

Tottenham Hotspur:

Forster; Spence, Gray, Dragusin, Udogie; Kulusevski, Sarr, Bergvall; Johnson, Solanke, Son

Latest Southampton vs Tottenham football review

Christmas cheer is currently lacking at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with manager Ange Postecoglou's job in question amid Tottenham's disappointing winless run since their impressive defeat of Manchester City.

Since that thumping win over the reigning champions at the Etihad, Spurs have picked up just three points from a possible 15 in both the Premier League and Europa League, most recently when they struggled to earn a point against Rangers thanks to a late Dejan Kulusevski equaliser.

The draw with Philippe Clement's side came after Tottenham lost to Chelsea. Despite leading by two goals at half-time, they lost 4-3 in a disastrous game, their second consecutive league defeat after defeat to Bournemouth.

With just one win in their last five Premier League games, Tottenham have dropped into the bottom half of the table and are just one defeat away from making it 15 defeats in a calendar year for the second consecutive year, something that has not happened since 2004.

Tottenham have lacked inspiration away from home this season and have won just 25% of their Premier League away games, with just four wins from 16, although they remain unbeaten in their last 13 games against teams bottom of the table.

Southampton will start and finish the weekend bottom of the Premier League, after losing 1-0 to Aston Villa in their trip to the West Midlands last weekend.

Jhon Duran's first-half goal secured Villa's win and sent Southampton back to St Mary's without a point, further piling pressure on manager Russell Martin, who recently branded his side's points tally "embarrassing." However, he still has the backing of the board, although it is unclear how much longer they will be patient, with Southampton eight points adrift of safety after 15 games.

Southampton currently have the worst attack in the league with just 11 goals scored, and have conceded the second-most goals after Wolverhampton Wanderers. The hosts have picked up just one point from their last five Premier League games, although four of their five points this season have come at St Mary's, where they have a decent record against Spurs.

In fact, Southampton have lost just one of their last six Premier League home games against Tottenham, and they have scored in 15 consecutive top-flight games against Spurs, their longest scoring run against a Premier League side.

Southampton vs Tottenham score prediction

Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the following results for the Southampton vs Tottenham match:

• Sportsmole: Southampton 1-3 Tottenham

• WhoScore: Southampton 0-2 Tottenham
• Our prediction: Southampton 0-2 Tottenham

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