Southampton and Fulham are going to play on Saturday the 13th of May at 3:00 pm in the 36th week of the Premier League. The match is going to be played in Southampton at the St. Mary’s Stadium. The appointed referee is Thomas Bramall.
Southampton sits in the 20th position in the table with 24 points. It comes from a 4-3 loss against Nottingham Forest in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has won 6 times, draw 6 times, and lost 23 times.
Fulham sits in the 10th position in the standings with 48 points. It comes from a 5-3 win against Leicester City in its last match in the Premier League. Until now, it has won 14 times, draw 6 times, and lost 15 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Southampton
Southampton has mostly adopted 2 line-ups: 4-2-3-1 and 4-4-2 (13 times or 37.14% each of them).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (13 times), 4-4-2 (13 times), 5-3-2 (3 times), 4-3-3 (2 times), 3-4-2-1 (2 times), 3-4-1-2 (once) and 3-1-4-2 (once).
Rubén Sellés Salvador is expected to play against Fulham with the following players: Alex McCarthy, Kyle Walker-Peters, Jan Bednarek, Lyanco, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Stuart Armstrong, James Ward-Prowse, Roméo Lavia, Theo Walcott, C. Alcaraz and Che Adams.
If the above line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Southampton would be 27.27.
Armel Bella-Kotchap, Juan Larios López, Valentino Livramento, Romain Perraud and Mohammed Salisu will definitely miss the match.
Fulham
Fulham has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (34 times or 97.14%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (34 times) and (once).
Marco Alexandre Saraiva da Silva is expected to play against Southampton with the following players: Bernd Leno, Antonee Robinson, Tosin Adarabioyo, Issa Diop, Kenny Tete, Harrison Reed, João Palhinha, Willian, Tom Cairney, Harry Wilson and Aleksandar Mitrović.
Granting that this will be the line-up, the estimate average age of Fulham would be 28.64.
Marco Alexandre Saraiva da Silva will probably not be able to employ Daniel James because of injury.
Layvin Kurzawa, Tim Ream and Andreas Pereira will definitely miss the match.
