The Saints managed to break their string of failures this week. “Southampton” played in the Anlia Cup just with “Wolverhampton” and achieved a victory with a score of 2:0, having issued a ticket to the quarterfinals of the tournament. In the championship Ralf Hasenh?ttl’s team continues a series of failures in the last segment of the season. After a sensational victory over Liverpool (1:0) at the beginning of January of this calendar year, Southampton have lost five consecutive matches just at home. And in defense the team played catastrophically unsuccessfully. The Saints lost over this unfortunate period to Leicester (0:2), Arsenal (1:3), Aston Villa (0:1), Manchester United (0:9) and Newcastle (2:3). It is not surprising that after such disastrous results, Soton significantly lost in terms of the tournament. In the Premier League table Ralph Hasenh?ttl’s team has already dropped to 12th place and retains a small chance of reaching the European Cup zone, which is already ten points behind. At home Southampton is playing a little better than away. In 11 home matches the saints won five victories, lost the same number of times and ended one match in a draw. This is the eighth indicator at the moment in the game in the home arena. Soton’s personnel losses are as follows: midfielder Aleksandr Yankevich will be disqualified, strikers Michael Obafemi and Theo Walcott, midfielder William Smallbone will miss the game due to injuries. Ibrahim Diallo is questionable.
Fenerbahce is one of the main contenders for the championship and with 48 points confidently goes to the top of the tournament table. The team scores a lot on average per game, namely 2 goals and has a very reliable defense with a result of 1.1 conceded goals. All this instills confidence by fans of the team, but still needs to be added in the game in order to get ahead of the championship leaders.
