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7: #HTAFC create a good chance, as Tom Ince sets the ball back to Aaron Mooy, but @StevenDavis8 blocks his shot. #saintsfc (0-0)
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15: #SaintsFC’s Fraser Forster makes a superb reaction save from Christopher Schindler’s header to keep the score goalless. (0-0)
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minutes gone at St Mary’s!
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24: GET IN THERE, @chazaustin10! #saintsfc (1-0)
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Southampton not in talks with Manchester City over Van Dijk transfer
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(Reuters) - Southampton have not held talks with Premier League leaders Manchester City regarding the transfer of Dutch defender Virgil van Dijk, manager Mauricio Pellegrino has confirmed.
British media reports have said City have begun negotiations with Southampton to take the powerful defender to the Etihad Stadium in the January transfer window.
“I was with (Southampton vice-chairman) Les Reed talking about that but nobody knows about that,” Pellegrino said.
“I know Virgil is an important player and around him will be a lot of speculation like other important players in the squad. I cannot control this and I don’t want to talk about it.”
Van Dijk, who has made 12 league starts for Southampton, was wanted by several Premier League clubs, including Liverpool, who were forced to make a public apology after being accused of making an illegal approach for the player in the close season.
Pellegrino believes the intense speculation surrounding Van Dijk’s future is not likely to affect the player.
“In the past when I was a player I didn’t have the same name as Virgil in the media, but when you hear something that another club wants you it increases the confidence.”
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32: A break in play as Jonas Lössl receives treatment after being caught late by @chazaustin10. #saintsfc (1-0)
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@chazaustin10 GOAL: #SaintsFC 1-0 #HTAFC (@chazaustin10 24’)
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HALF TIME: #SaintsFC 1-0 #HTAFC
@chazaustin10’s fifth goal in as many starts sees us take a lead into the break.
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Mauricio Pellegrino has called on his players to focus on their jobs and block out the pressure when they take on Huddersfield at St Mary’s this afternoon.
After five games without a win Saints have crept nearer to the bottom three, and with trips to Tottenham and Manchester United to come immediately after Christmas they desperately need three points to calm some nerves.
Huddersfield would seem perfect opponents, given their poor away form this season, but on the back of a 4-1 victory at Watford last time out could cause a few problems.
Saints will also have to contend with a potentially restless crowd if things don’t go well from the start, with supporters likely to be demanding much more from their team after seeing them hammered 4-1 by Leicester last time they played at St Mary’s.
Pellegrino said: “The most important is our behaviour on the pitch.
“The feelings are emotions and emotions are important but at the end it’s not a fact. The fact is that we have to show we want to win this game, we have to better than the opponent.
“It will be a difficult game because every game is a different history.
“We have to push ourselves to show our best version of ourselves to do this, and we cannot use other games as a reference without two or three players who are injured.
He added: “I try always to help them be focussed on what you have to do on the pitch.
“When you think about what you have to do in your actions it’s easier.
“When you think about a picture the decoration is nice, but the most important is the picture.
“Sometimes the emotion is important, but when you think about the decoration you don’t think about your action.
“You have to try and paint a good game, and focus 100 per cent on your job.”
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LAWRIE MAC: Clement’s festive sacking shows little Christmas cheer
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MANY many years ago when I had just started working at Southampton, the front page headline at this time of the year turned out to be the shock and horror that Sheffield Wednesday, the club I had once worked for, had sacked a man called Derek Dooley.
Derek had been a legend at Sheffield Wednesday as a player, and sadly in a very bad accident on the pitch eventually had a leg amputated.
This week a similar sacking has hardly made the back page. That is the difference in football now. When someone like Paul Clement at Swansea is shown the door it hardly warrants a mention.
His chairman went out of his way to stress that the club were trying very hard because last season they had three managers all together, and are determined to give people a better chance. He must think people will say ‘well done, you gave Paul Clement nearly 11 months.’ It proves just how important it is for clubs to stay in the Premier League.
At the moment they are bottom of the table and as I’ve said before this time of year can often dictate who will be battling at the top or the bottom when the end of the season comes, but it is rather cruel to do it before the holiday period.
However, between now and the end of the year each club has three important games, and Swansea will hope whoever comes in will have that magic effect which happens with a new manager when players should be out to impress.
If that happens Swansea can catch up with the clubs, and there are quite a few, not too many points above them.
One I have been attending for many years is the BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
I go way back with that one as for many years, along with Bobby Charlton, I was a pundit and covered four World Cups for the BBC.
In those days the annual ceremony was held in a studio in London, but about four years ago it was decided to take it out and about.
It has been to Scotland, Ireland, Birmingham and, this year, Liverpool.
It is getting bigger and bigger and apart from the ground floor the upper echelons in the Liverpool venue had more than 10,000 people in on Sunday.
Personally I think it has lost its original glamour, and it wasn’t helped when the eventual winner was announced as Mo Farah, who hadn’t bothered to come as he said he thought he had no chance.
They got him on his sofa in London and they were lucky to get two or three minutes from him before an unfortunate technical error cut him off and the presenters had to bluff their way to the end of the programme.
The after programme get-together is often quite interesting.
I think personally it has got too big but you still have the opportunity to bump into people you maybe only see once a year.
More often than not they are from other sports and you are more like a goggle eyed supporter when you come up alongside these heroes and heroines.
Every year I have the chance to speak to a lady called Mary Peters, who back in the 70s won an Olympic gold medal.
Amongst the many interesting characters I met, I finished up walking out to the taxi rank at the end with a gentleman who was immaculately dressed and was very nice and charming to everyone he spoke to, but you certainly wouldn’t cross him. It was Mr Chris Eubank.
We had met over the years but I was surprised when he remembered my name.
We talked about his son who is now in the boxing business and is doing very well, with his father of course guiding him along.
The number since it started four years ago has gone from 20 to 162. Fantastic.
The next day I had been invited by Greg Baker, head of the Saints Foundation, to be a surprise guest at an afternoon Christmas tea party he was putting on for pensioners around our area, many of whom live alone. There were about 150 in the room.
I brought along three of my Cup winning team – the goalkeeper Ian Turner, full back David Peach and skipper Peter Rodrigues.
I was able to introduce them of course as fellow pensioners, which went down well, but the common denominator with everyone in the room was they could all tell you they were either at the game or watching the open top bus go round all those years ago.
It made their day to mix and mingle with three of the players who will go down in history.
Well done the Saints Foundation and Happy Christmas, not just to the pensioners but to all six of my readers.
Seriously, let’s hope we all have a happy time and a good 2018, particularly the football club who we all support so strongly.
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46: The visitors #HTAFC get us going for the second-half…
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54: Wesley Hoedt picks up a yellow card after tangling with Tom Ince on the edge of the box. #saintsfc (1-0)
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GOAL: #SaintsFC 1-1 #HTAFC (Laurent Depoitre 64’)
The visitors level as Depoitre nods home Tommy Smith’s cross from the right.
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70: #HTAFC create another opportunity as Collin Quaner’s low right-wing cross is almost met by Tom Ince on the stretch. #saintsfc (1-1)
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