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What have results been like recently?
The doom and gloom on Wearside has been lifted ahead of the Southampton game thanks to a hard-fought point against Tottenham Hotspur and the brilliant victory at Selhurst Park. Four points in a week and two clean sheets on the trot have really raised spirits and breathed new life into the clubās survival push. Sunderland were clinical against Palace, hitting them on the counter and they looked like scoring every time they broke forward. January was a disappointing month, but, thanks to two good results, the gap to safety is now just two points.
How is the mood and confidence right now?
Good. You could see the players grow in confidence on Saturday ā after all, it isnāt often you go in at the break leading 4-0. That result, and the manner of the performance, has really lifted spirits on Wearside ahead of another huge weekend of Premier League action. Sunderland go into Saturdayās game full of confidence both on and off the pitch.
How important is this game for Sunderland?
Massive. Sunderland need to build on the positive week with another result ā ideally three points ā against Southampton. A victory, with other results going their way, could see Sunderland pull themselves out of the relegation zone. They wonāt need any more motivation than that. Sunderland won four out of seven league games in November/December and are capable of going on another run.
How would you describe the teamās style of play and approach at the moment?
David Moyes has been playing a back three with wing-backs in recent games, and it is certainly working. It means Sunderland have cover in defence, width when needed down both flanks, and Jermain Defoe has more support, with Adnan Januzaj playing just behind him against Palace. Sunderland hit Palace on the counter-attack on Saturday and it worked a treat.
Who are the players in form, and who do you think will be key for Sunderland on Saturday?
Lamine KonĆ© and Didier Ndong have both been in exceptional form since arriving back from the Africa Cup of Nations refreshed. Jermain Defoe is obviously the main threat, with the clubās 14-goal top scorer only one goal behind last seasonās league haul (15) with three months still to play. Those three are the key figures for Sunderland.
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Fighting spirit: How many points has your team won after conceding first this season?
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IT TAKES plenty of character to claim points from a losing position in the Premier League - so who has done it most often?
āChelsea might be top of the table but three clubs have claimed more points than them after conceding firstā
Chelsea might be top of the table but three clubs have claimed more points than them after conceding first this campaign, according to data from Sky Sports.
Burnley may be comfortable in mid-table, but they havenāt managed to claim a single point from matches in which theyāve let in the first goal.
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What would the Premier League table look like if the season started on Jan 1, 2017?
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WHAT would the Premier League table look like if only results from this calendar year counted?
Some teamsā form has dropped off massively since the New Year.
Liverpool were looking like potential title candidates before January, but are now 13 points off the pace.
So where does your team place in the 2017 Premier League table?
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Saints star under investigation by police after cyclist ācritically injuredā
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SAINTS star Charlie Austin is being investigated by the police after he allegedly critically injured a cyclist in a crash in Southampton.
Austin, who is currently injured but is still Saintsā top scorer this season, was reported to have hit the man as he set off from a traffic light junction.
The man was seriously injured and Austin was reported to have attended to the cyclist following the crash.
The incident happened in October and Austin says police took a statement from him earlier this month.
Austin was reported to have told a national newspaper: "In late October 2016, I was driving in the city centre of Southampton and had stopped at traffic lights at a junction.
"I moved forward when the lights turned green and it was at that point that a cyclist unexpectedly came across my path and a collision occurred.
āFollowing a police investigation of the accident, I provided a statement to the Hampshire Constabulary in early 2017 to give them my version of events.ā
The former QPR player has not played since dislocating his shoulder late last year.
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Premier League injury table: Which side has the most crocked players?
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WHICH Premier League team currently has the most players out with injury?
Weāre approaching the business end of the Premier League season - with teams battling it out at both the top and bottom of the table.
Having players ruled out with injury could become a huge problem for teams fighting for survival or a top four place.
So which club currently has the most injuries?
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The ultimate one-man teams: Where do Jermain Defoe and Sunderland rank?
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If Sunderland stay up this season they will have Jermain Defoe to thank for it. At 34 years of age he is showing no sign at all of fading, with his brace at Crystal Palace taking him to 14 league goals for the season.
David Moyesās team are utterly reliant on their talismanic goal-scorer, but are they the ultimate one-man team in Premier League history?
Here, we count down the 20 teams for whom one player scored the highest proportion of their goals in a season. Obviously Defoe has 14 games still to play this season, but he doesnāt look like heāll stop scoring any time soon.
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Gallagherās form gaining interest from Premier League rivals
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SAINTS striker Sam Gallagherās hot form in the Championship has attracted the interest of a Premier League club.
The 21-year-old has scored 11 goals on loan at Blackburn Rovers in 32 appearances this term, which has not gone unnoticed.
David Moyes, the Sunderland manager, has reportedly sent out scouts to keep tabs on the Saints man.
The Black Cats boss told chief scout Mick Doherty to take a look at Gallagher in Roversā 2-1 defeat to Leeds last week.
Doherty allegedly returned again last Saturday as the 6ft4in forward netted the winner in a 1-0 win over QPR at Ewood Park.
Gallagher, who made 20 Saints appearances under Mauricio Pochettino in 2013/14, has long been dubbed a star of the future, although a long term injury had slowed his progress.
A loan spell at MK Dons yielded no goals in 15 games last term, but he has now rediscovered his eye for scoring at Rovers.
Gallagher will have a year left to run on his Saints contract at the end of this season, with his current deal expiring in the summer of 2018.
The former Plymouth Argyle academy man, who Saints inducted into their own Staplewood youth programme in 2012, looked to have made a breakthrough to the first in 2013/14 under Pochettino.
However, things didnāt go to plan and Gallagher had to battle back from the serious injury he suffered in pre-season 2014, eventually making his comeback in February 2015.
Saints might now feel, with Sunderland showing an interest and the big forward showing form, that Gallagher is one to tie down for the future.
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Former Netherlands star Ronald de Boer admits he has been surprised by the āunbelievable progressā Virgil van Dijk has made.
Van Dijk has been outstanding for Southampton since arriving from Celtic in 2015 and is one of the most sought-after centre-backs in the Premier League, with Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City all rumoured to be interested in securing his signature.
De Boer had his doubts about his fellow Dutchman when he was a youngster starting out at Groningen, but says he now rates the 25-year-old as one of the best defenders around.
Speaking on the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast, the ex-Ajax, Barcelona and Rangers midfielder said: āHe has made a transition in a positive way.
āUnder Ronald Koeman at Southampton he made unbelievable progress and now this year he is one of the top defenders in the Premier League.
"When he was at Groningen he did OK, he was physical, but we Dutch men always want defenders to play the ball to the same colour and that is something we thought was not his best thing. But now he does that.
āHis passing is excellent but, most importantly, his defending is outstanding. He is showing it week in, week out in one of the toughest leagues in the world.ā
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One player from every Premier League team who needs a new contract!
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The January transfer window has been and gone but Premier League clubs might still be eyeing up some new deal.
Now players are in place at the 20 teams, a lot of them will be looking to tie down their best stars to new contracts.
It will either help them keep hold of their top players, or it will help them get a bigger fee should they be sold.
So who is deserving of a new contract at each club? Click the right arrow above to find outā¦
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Saints fans raise vital funds for Teenage Cancer Trust
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Southampton Football Club and Saints Foundation are pleased to announce that Ā£3,992.64 was raised for Teenage Cancer Trust, on behalf of second-year scholar Ben Cull, from a collection ahead of last monthās Arsenal game.
Ben is currently undergoing treatment for Ewings Sarcoma, which is a rare form of bone cancer, and is receiving the majority of his treatment at the trustās unit, at Southampton General Hospital.
Benās family and friends organised a bucket collection at the FA Cup clash with Arsenal, with supporters digging deep to support a great cause.
Saints Foundation matched all donations, meaning nearly Ā£4,000 was raised.
The Teenage Cancer Trust unit in Southampton opened in 2013 and is designed to feel more like home than a hospital ward. They make sure that the environment is as positive and unintimidating as possible.
To find out more about their work, click here.
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Gallagherās form gaining interest from Premier League rivals
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SAINTS striker Sam Gallagherās hot form in the Championship has attracted the interest of a Premier League club.
The 21-year-old has scored 11 goals on loan at Blackburn Rovers in 32 appearances this term, which has not gone unnoticed.
David Moyes, the Sunderland manager, has reportedly sent out scouts to keep tabs on the Saints man.
The Black Cats boss told chief scout Mick Doherty to take a look at Gallagher in Roversā 2-1 defeat to Leeds last week.
Doherty allegedly returned again last Saturday as the 6ft4in forward netted the winner in a 1-0 win over QPR at Ewood Park.
Gallagher, who made 20 Saints appearances under Mauricio Pochettino in 2013/14, has long been dubbed a star of the future, although a long term injury had slowed his progress.
A loan spell at MK Dons yielded no goals in 15 games last term, but he has now rediscovered his eye for scoring at Rovers.
Gallagher will have a year left to run on his Saints contract at the end of this season, with his current deal expiring in the summer of 2018.
The former Plymouth Argyle academy man, who Saints inducted into their own Staplewood youth programme in 2012, looked to have made a breakthrough to the first in 2013/14 under Pochettino.
However, things didnāt go to plan and Gallagher had to battle back from the serious injury he suffered in pre-season 2014, eventually making his comeback in February 2015.
Saints might now feel, with Sunderland showing an interest and the big forward showing form, that Gallagher is one to tie down for the future.
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READER LETTER: Saints are lucky to have Claude Puel
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We are writing on behalf of all the real fans of Southampton FC, who have supported Saints all their lives through all their struggles.
Everyone has the right to their own opinion, but we were shocked that a man claiming to be a Saints fan called John Carter criticised every single thing about our football club in a letter on December 27 ā the management, our players, playing our academy players (which is more than Koeman did), the price of tickets, selling our best players (if a player wants to go thereās nothing you can do to stop them) and even the poor selection of food and prices.
Itās a wonder he doesnāt ask for cushions to be put on his seat!
Why does he even go to our games if itās such a hardship?
The thing that made us really angry was that he had the nerve to keep saying that was the opinion of all fans.
Well, Iām sorry, but the real fans disagree with everything he says.
The real fans were there when we were supporting our team down in League 1, when we went through the heartbreak of nearly losing our club.
If someone had said to us back then, your club will be saved and not only that but at Christmas 2016 you will be in the Premier League in seventh place, you will also be in the semi-finals of the League Cup and for the second year running you would have been in Europe, we would have sobbed with joy.
You donāt realise what youāve got until you almost lose it.
This is why we appreciate every single thing about our football club because we are lucky to even have one.
Unfortunately, like every football club, you get a minority of negative people that Saints fans call the moaners.
These are the people that jumped on the bandwagon just because we are in the Premiership. Look where Portsmouth are now. What they would give to be anywhere near us. If we were where Portsmouth are, our real fans would still be supporting our team and the moaners would be nowhere in sight!
As for criticising the way our manager talks, at least he speaks! Not like a certain other manager who used an interpreter all the time and then, when he dumped us for Spurs, he miraculously spoke English!
Our manager hasnāt been with us long, but look at the way he has coped with all the extra games weāve had.
Look at all the congestion over Christmas, worse than any other club, and of course itās going to take its toll. Why canāt people understand this?
For the majority of the time our manager has got it right and we are very lucky to have him here.
As for the ājust keep trudging along the middle of the tableā comment, when we were originally in the Premiership, year after year we were struggling at the bottom of the table with the anxiety of being relegated.
What would we have given back then to be even as high as the middle of the table?
Some people have the same mentality as Manchester United fans.
They expect too much and unless they win itās not good enough. They think theyāre better than everyone else. They walk out if they come second in a cup final.
Look at our fans at the Millennium Stadium when we lost to Arsenal in the FA Cup. Not one Saints fan walked out at the end of that game, we were too busy applauding our players for even getting that far.
No true Saints fan would ever boo their team, no matter what the score, because we know our players work their socks off for us. This is when fake fans show themselves for what they really are.
We wondered what he found to moan about when Saints beat Liverpool in the EFL Cup Semi-Final ā the toilets, maybe?
We have a lovely family club and a lady owner and a wonderful chairman who cares about the fans (not like the last one)!
We are so proud of where we are now and thankful to all those people who have helped us get here.
If thatās not good enough for a handful of moaners then they should go to Manchester United and join the fans who have no heart, or better still, go down the road to Portsmouth, theyāll have plenty to moan about there ā theyāll be in their element!
Negative people are not welcome at our club and thatās unanimous from all the real Saints fans.
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