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SAINTS men on international duty face crucial World Cup qualifiers ahead of returning to Staplewood later this week.
Ryan Bertrand and England face a crunch qualifier against Slovakia this evening at Wembley.
After the 4-0 win over Malta, during which Bertrand netted his first international goal, Gareth Southgate’s side still have plenty of work to do to book their place at the finals in Russia next summer.
A defeat tonight would see their opponents head to the top of Group F and in to only the only automatic qualifaction place, with two games to play.
Steven Davis and Northern Ireland, meanwhile, need only a point against the Czech Republic tonight at Windsor Park to secure second place in Group C behind leaders Germany.
Despite this, Davis wants Northern Ireland, who have a perfect record in this World Cup’s qualifiers at home, to go all-out for a famous win.
“Our mentality is to approach every game wanting to win it and that won’t change this time,” he said.
"We are expecting a difficult test and even though a point will ensure us second place, we’ll be going for the win.
"I’m sure Windsor will be bouncing and hopefully with that energy inside the ground we can make it a special night.
"We’re in a very good position in the group. If you had offered it to us at the start of the campaign we’d have grabbed it with both hands.
“The ball’s in our own court, this is a great game for us to have, we have everything to play for and we are all looking forward to another big night at Windsor.”
Davis scored from the penalty spot, along with two goals from Josh Magennis, as Northern Ireland clinched a 3-0 win over minnows San Marino on Friday night.
O’Neill’s side followed up previous triumphs over Norway, New Zealand and Azerbaijan.
No other Northern Irish side has ever pieced together such a sequence, and only three have ever featured at a World Cup finals, but the current crop are in a fine position to follow the teams of 1958, 1982 and 1986.
Dusan Tadic helped Serbia at the top of Group D as they secured a 3-0 home win over Moldova.
Tadic played 66 minutes before being replaced by Adem Ljajic.
Also in Group D, Shane Long played 90 minutes for the Republic of Ireland as they settled for a point against Georgia in Tbilisi.
Tadic and Long now prepare to go head-to-head tomorrow night at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin in a very important game.
The winner of this game will top Group D and put themselves in pole position for qualification with two games remaining.
Ireland currently sit two points below leaders Serbia.
After a 4-0 thumping at the hands of France, Saints new boy Wesley Hoedt and the Netherlands kept their World Cup hopes alive with a 3-1 victory over Bulgaria.
The centre-back played the full game in this vital win.
Cedric Soares also played 90 minutes, helping Portugal keep the pressure on Group B leaders Switzerland, winning 1-0 away to Hungary.
Cedric and Hoedt will now return to Saints while their team-mates complete their international games.
Manolo Gabbiadini was a late substitute for Italy as they lost 3-0 to Spain, losing their first 2018 qualifier in the process.
Gabbiadini replaced Ciro Immobile with ten minutes left with his side already trailing by three goals.
The Italians now prepare to face Israel tomorrow night as they look to push for one of the top runners up places, which will secure a place in the play-offs for a chance to go to Russia.
Saints record signing Mario Lemina played the full match as Gabon fell to a 3-0 defeat to Ivory Coast in Libreville.
The result leaves Gabon in third place with no wins after three games.
Lemina and co will face Ivory Coast again in Bouake tomorrow night.
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Tickets for Southampton’s Premier League trip to Crystal Palace later this month have now sold out.
Almost 3,000 Saints fans will be making the trip to Selhurst Park for the clash with the Eagles, which takes place on Saturday 16th September, with kick-off set for 12.30pm BST.
Please note, a limited number of wheelchair tickets remain available to Southampton supporters for this game. To buy, please contact the Ticket Office on 02381 780780.
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Predicted England XI to face Slovakia: Will Eric Dier start?
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England face Slovakia tonight knowing victory is vital in their hunt for a place at the 2018 World Cup.
After a slow start on Friday, the Three Lions eventually broke down Malta and went on to win 4-0 in Valletta, thanks to a brace from Harry Kane and goals from Ryan Bertrand and Danny Welbeck.
This triumph edged Gareth Southgate’s men closer to confirming a spot at the tournament in Russia, but they must now take on a difficult foe in the shape of Slovakia, who sit second in Group F.
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The visitors took the lead after just eight minutes, when former Dons winger Robert Hall curled home with his left foot from just inside the box.
But on the hour mark, Callum Brittain levelled things with his first senior strike, drifting in from the right and finding the net with a low drive.
That came a minute before Seager was replaced by Robbie Muirhead, and the draw means the Dons sit 20th in the table.
Elsewhere, Olufela Olomola was on the losing side as Yeovil Town fell to a 2-0 defeat at Crawley Town.
After Connor Smith’s clearance was blocked, midfielder Jordan Roberts put the Reds ahead on 12 minutes, with a strike from 15 yards.
And Roberts struck again after the break when he got on to Enzio Boldewijn’s pass.
In Scotland, goalkeeper Harry Lewis was rested as Dundee United recorded a 3-1 win over Alloa Athletic in the Irn-Bru Cup second round.
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SAINTS’ new owner Gao Jisheng has met up with Maya Yoshida in Japan after the centre-back helped his country to World Cup qualification.
The Chinese businessman bought an 80 per cent stake in the club last month, but is yet to show his face or talk publicly since the £210m deal.
Gao, who is said to be worth around £1.5bn, bought the majority stake alongside his daughter, Nelly, entering in to a “partnership” with Katharina Liebherr, who now owns 20 per cent of the club.
Yoshida played for Japan at the Saitama Stadium, where the Blue Samurai defeated Australia 2-0 to book themselves a place in the World Cup finals in Russia next summer.
It’s not clear whether Gao watched Yoshida in action or not, but the two met up afterwards.
Yoshida wrote on Twitter: “Glad to meet Mr. Gao who is a new partner of Southampton FC after the match against [Australia] ! Looking forward to working together soon!”
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Analysed: Pellegrino’s start as Saints manager
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Saints have their first season under new manager Mauricio Pellegrino up and running.
With the first international break now in full swing, Saints can reflect on an unbeaten start to their Premier League campaign, as well as a humbling League Cup defeat.
There has been so much going on at Saints in recent weeks that here at the Daily Echo we asked chief sports writer Adam Leitch to take a step back and analyse the early stages of the campaign.
At this point you would have to say it has been solid.
The League Cup defeat to Wolves aside for a moment, there is the considerable positive of an unbeaten start in the Premier League, and two clean sheets in that time as well.
Of the three top flight games, you could only really be disappointed with the opening day draw against Swansea, which was a game Saints would have expected to have won.
They knocked over West Ham in an entertaining tussle, and the goalless draw at Huddersfield was a perfectly acceptable point on the road, especially considering the way the Terriers have started life in the Premier League.
He warned that it was not going to be a quick process to get the team playing the way he wants them, and sure enough it has been a case of baby steps.
Saints have moved into the transfer market, but the majority of the squad is the same as that which Claude Puel had to work with.
Therefore, it was totally unrealistic to think a new manager was just going to sweep in and instantly put right any problems that existed.
Sure enough, Saints generally still look solid at the back – two clean sheets in three league games underlines that fact – but are still struggling for goals.
For all the positive words written here so far about the unbeaten start in the league, it has been the struggles in the final third that have continued to be the most frustrating thing for Saints fans.
The team do so many things right, but just that last little bit is still missing.
There is a debate to be had over whether that is because Saints don’t have the right balance of personnel in their squad, or if there is a more fundamental issue.
Certainly there does appear to be something of a collective crisis of confidence in front of goal and in the crucial areas.
Saints don’t look like a team that really believe they are going to score a lot of goals.
For all the talk of the negative football under Puel, there hasn’t been significant changes from Pellegrino.
The team does have more attacking intent, but he appears to be the second manager in a row to decide that with the squad Saints have that building from the back rather than high press, or expansive football, is the way to go.
It’s early days but, yes, it has been more interesting to watch.
While the eventful West Ham victory obviously grabs the attention in that respect, even the goalless draw against Huddersfield was entertaining.
Make no mistake, Saints have some really good players. They have fringe first team players that would walk into the teams of many of the mid-table or lower Premier League clubs.
They are technically very adept, they have shown character and determination and fight already this season.
They are just missing that last little bit.
It’s very hard to say exactly how they find it, but that’s up to Pellegrino to work out.
It was a very disappointing night indeed.
Not only was it a poor performance from a strong Saints side up against a significantly weakened Wolves team, but it really does limit what can be achieved this season.
Given that last season getting to the League Cup final and finishing eighth wasn’t enough for Puel to keep his job, it puts it into perspective.
There was more at play with Puel than just that obviously, but even so that came in a season when Saints had the rigours of the Europa League group stage to deal with.
Their first half of the season was about as hectic as the club have ever had, and though European elimination was bitterly disappointing, they did somehow manage to hold the campaign together and made it to Wembley.
When you look at the bigger picture, it was almost a distraction they could have done without given their European commitments.
However, this season it would have been most welcome.
Playing 38 Premier League games over the season does not produce a hugely demanding schedule, and so a cup run remains something exciting for a club like Saints, as well as a ready-made route back into Europe.
Getting knocked out in the first tie of the season leaves Saints with the possibility of playing only 40 matches this season.
Maybe the FA Cup will go well, hopefully it will, but if it doesn’t then the top flight campaign had really better be exciting or this will be a damp squib of a campaign at St Mary’s.
Jack Stephens has picked up where he left off last term and has continued to improve.
He needed to show that he wasn’t just riding the crest of a wave and could be a consistent Premier League performer, and happily he is doing just that.
Oriol Romeu has been as imposing a presence as ever in the centre of midfield.
There has been no lack of effort this season, but in the early stages there are a number of players still searching for a bit of form.
Probably of greater interest is going to be how Pellegrino manages his squad.
Saints have taken a very deliberate course of action over the last few years to sell some players for big money and then reinvest that cash into multiple new faces to grow their squad.
The theory is that if you want to compete on numerous fronts – Premier League, European football and cup ties – then you do need more depth than Saints had.
This season they don’t have European football to introduce some rotation, and now they don’t have the League Cup either.
That is going to mean a fair few fringe players are staring down the barrel of struggling to get a kick in the first team this season - unless an unlikely string of injuries, suspensions or woeful form take hold.
That will be a test of Pellegrino’s management.
Saints do have more winnable matches on the horizon.
They do have to play Manchester United towards the end of September, but other than that are in a pretty kind run of matches to begin Pellegrino’s reign.
They really need to get a win when they get back to business at home to Watford, and use that to try and kickstart some momentum.
It’s never easy in the stop-start early stages of the campaign with three international breaks in the first few months, but Saints need to get going and restore a bit of self-belief.
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IT’S a big season for the Saints academy as they look to continue to justify the club’s heavy investment in their youth set-up.
Martin Hunter’s under-23 side kicked off their Checkatrade Trophy campaign at Peterborough this week, a timely reminder that it is not just the first team whose season is well and truly up and running.
Saints are, admirably, using the competition as a chance to field a genuine under-23 side, rather than bloat their team with a few over-aged players who require match time because they are out of the reckoning with Mauricio Pellegrino’s squad.
Ultimately, an academy lauded as being one of the best in the game, and in whom Saints put so much time, effort and money, has to produce.
At this level it is far less about results on the pitch than it is about producing players for the first team.
Of course, winning is habit forming, and Saints want to have that momentum and mentality from their youngest age groups right through to the first team.
However, there are two main reasons they put so much stock into their academy, indeed, make it a pillar of the club’s philosophy.
The first is that Saints have a proud history and tradition of developing young players.
It goes to way before the idea of an academy had even been dreamt up, to what used to be called a youth set-up. Lawrie McMenemy was the first Saints boss to really cast his net far and wide to haul in the best young talent.
That conveyor belt, so famously coached by Dave Merrington, produced Matt Le Tissier, Francis Benali, the Wallace brothers and Alan Shearer amongst others.
As the academy structure begun to be implemented, Saints continued to be a by-word for producing fantastic young footballers.
Gareth Bale, Theo Walcott, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Adam Lallana were among the leading lights of another golden generation.
A quick look over those names and their career paths reveals the second reason Saints are so desperate to make their academy a success.
It makes business sense to try and grow your own players.
With the Premier League transfer market as it is these days, even when investing several million each year into an academy, it only has to produce only player every five years and it has paid off in terms of getting someone in the first team that would otherwise have demanded a fee.
And then, of course, comes the really meaty bit.
If you have saved that money already and got some good years out of them, but are then offered a huge sum of money to sell them on, then you are making even more of your investment.
Put simply, investing in youth makes sense. It just needs to be done correctly, and Saints spend so much time on getting it right.
Like all these things, the process is not a simple one to manage.
Saints have almost been spoilt by the fact they have done so well and produced brilliant players.
It becomes all too easy to expect them to continue this incredible production line year after year, and to act with a certain amount of surprise and disappointment if there is a more fallow period.
That is inevitable, though.
Saints are good, but they haven’t reinvented the wheel, and if it was that easy everyone would do it.
It is probably fair to say that Saints are in a more fallow period now.
James Ward-Prowse continues to be the poster boy for the Saints academy, being the last player left at the club to have come all the way through the ranks to really make a significant breakthrough.
Others have enjoyed fleeting moments of success, but he is the only one who has been able to make it stick at Premier League first team level.
Given he made his first Saints appearance six years ago – and it is three years since Calum Chambers was sold to Arsenal - it underlines that the club haven’t been as prolific as they once were.
However, this is not an exact science, and like in days gone by there still have been plenty of players that are enjoying careers lower down the pyramid that just didn’t quite make the grade at the top level.
There is one crucial difference between now and days of yore, and that is the standard required to make the first team grade at Saints.
Back in the youth set-up days you had to be able to compete with some of the best British players as a youngster to make the step up, which was no mean feat.
When the likes of Bale, Walcott, Lallana and Chamberlain made their names at Saints, the club were outside of the top division, which had a similar effect.
Nowadays the Premier League contains the very best players in the world.
So, therefore, to get into a Premier League team as a young player you have to be able, at 17, 18 or 19, for example, to be better than stars who hold down those places normally.
It’s a mammoth ask, and many clubs, not just Saints, are finding it very difficult to produce players who are ready for that level.
You are seeing a trend of ‘youngsters’ making the breakthrough when they are not youngsters at all – in their early 20s, maybe, like Jack Stephens.
Saints and their supporters have to keep things in perspective.
Sam Gallagher is out on loan, Harrison Reed is out on loan, Olufela Olomola is out on loan, Harry Lewis is out on loan – because they need it.
They need game time, and the scrapping of the reserve team system in favour of an under-23 type set-up, though in principle sensible, can mean youngsters are not provided with what they need to make the next step-up.
Saints are right to get young players out on loan. If anything, they should do more of it.
That, combined with participating in the Checkatrade Trophy, not playing against another academy side but a team made up of seasoned pros, is good for them.
It’s where their steel is really tested and you discover whether they have what it takes or not.
In truth, there does not seem to be genuine young players who are realistically likely to break into Mauricio Pellegrino’s first team this season.
You never know, but even those who had glimpses last season, such as Jake Hesketh and Josh Sims, were unable to sustain it or turn it into something that felt as if it were going to be more permanent, as Ward-Prowse has done.
Relegation from the top under-23 league last season was a disappointment, though ultimately not the reason Saints are in the business of youth development.
But they will be keen for the academy to continue to prove its worth and that means even more development behind the scenes.
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Premier League stadiums in 2017-18 – record attendances: from lowest to highest
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Three stadiums are hosting Premier League football for the first time this season.
Brighton’s Falmer Stadium, known as the Amex for sponsorship reasons, and Huddersfield Town’s Kirklees Stadium, known as the John Smith’s, are gracing the top flight for the first time.
Meanwhile, Tottenham are playing their home fixtures at Wembley, while the new White Hart Lane is built.
Spurs could set a new Premier League attendance record, given Wembley’s capacity, but how do the 20 stadiums compare based on their record crowds?
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