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Mark Hughes will be hampered by defensive injuries again when he selects a Stoke side to face Southampton at the bet365 Stadium.
Bruno Martins Indi (groin) is the latest absentee, while Ryan Shawcross (back) is also missing and both Geoff Cameron and Kevin Wimmer (both hamstring) are rated doubtful.
Hughes does have Kurt Zouma back after the Frenchman was ineligible to face his parent club last weekend and full-backs Glen Johnson and Erik Pieters are also options to play centrally again.
Virgil van Dijk could remain on the bench for Southampton’s Premier League trip to Stoke.
Saints boss Mauricio Pellegrino insists the Holland defender must remain patient on his reintegration after failing in his bid to force a summer move to Liverpool.
Pellegrino could be able to select from strength for Saturday’s Stoke visit, with Matt Targett working hard to shake off ankle trouble.
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U23 Highlights: Saints 1-2 Watford
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The Staplewood Campus will play host to Swansea City this afternoon, where a win would see Saints gain ground on their opposition in the U18s Premier League standings.
Butterfield commended the spirit of his side entering the fixture: "Coming off the back of the Man City game, and followed up by the Norwich performance, the squad can take confidence.
"The boys have been in a buoyant mood in training and let’s hope they can take that in to the Swansea game.
"We’ve spoken all week about being more clinical in front of goal, decisions which stretch the opposition’s back four across the pitch and in behind.
“They’ve been focused in training, we need concentration and composure in front of goal to convert chances in to goals.”
The visitors enter the tie in mixed form, having suffered a heavy defeat to Chelsea, but edging out West Ham in an impressive away win a fortnight ago.
Saints drew with Norwich in their previous outing, where Michael Obafemi overturned an early deficit to earn a 1-1 draw.
“We’ve made big strides since the beginning of the season,” the former Southampton defender added.
"It is a case of finding some consistency now, which is key to piecing it all together.
"You don’t know from one week to the next what kind of side any given club will field, the form and consistency of team selection is hard at this level.
“We won’t look too much in to previous results, but we’ll be looking at their strengths and weaknesses on videos - and hope we can exploit those.”
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McMenemy: Has Gabbiadini lost the element of surprise?
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MOST people in football, when it comes to the professionals and the knowledgeable supporters, usually agree the spine of the team is one of the most important things.
That is the goalkeeper, centre-back, midfield general, and, of course, the goal-scoring forward.
The modern way, with defending in numbers, means often the striker doesn’t always have the same support around him that others do and often have to battle against a number of opponents.
A successful forward, consequently, is of huge importance.
That is why managers and scouts all around are always looking for the individual who can score against all the odds.
Clubs look everywhere for these players and if he’s been discovered at lower level, the big question and the risk may be, can he do it in the Premier League?
If you look at our own striker situation for instance.
On paper, Mr Pellegrino is fairly spoilt for choice, with proven strikers like Charlie Austin and Shane Long, who have both played previously in the Premier League.
And then there’s the latest addition to that, Manolo Gabbiadini.
He made such a terrific impression in his first few games with his ability to get in to the important positions faster than the defenders marking him.
Everyone at St Mary’s thought ‘here we go, we’ve cracked it’.
However, in many ways we can compare Manolo with Jamie Vardy at Leicester, who surprisingly won the Premier League and was outstanding in that campaign.
But he doesn’t get on the scoresheet so much now and the reason for that is, as Manolo is finding now, that initially they take managers and defenders by surprise.
But then the opponents start to focus more on what they are doing to catch opponents out and work harder to clamp down and make sure they don’t have the space they need to score.
In Vardy’s case, when he was famous for his speed when his team-mates knocked long balls to him over the top, he now finds the space he once had isn’t there and the defenders are ready for his exploits.
The consequence of this is that Vardy is not scoring as much. The same can be said for Gabbiadini.
Leicester have little chance of winning the Premier League again, but full marks to them for their achievements.
So, I was watching the game against Manchester United last weekend, which we completely dominated in the second half.
Saints did enough to earn at least a draw there.
But Mr Mourinho, who always does well in his second year at a club, got his defence well-organised and with one goal already scored were too difficult to break down.
Talking about goals and back to the striker topic, United’s new striker Lukaku was bought from Everton for around £75m.
It was a fee that certainly raised a few eyebrows.
But as we speak he has plenty of goals in the Premier League and in the Champions League, netting ten goals in nine games so far.
It looks as if that money was very well-spent indeed and he’s proving now that he can do it any level.
Unlike others, even with opposition defenders and managers knowing what he’s all about, Lukaku has been able to keep scoring so far. Nobody has been able to stop him.
The same applies to Harry Kane at Tottenham, who is now getting hat-tricks as much as some people are get single goals.
This ability to score no matter what is something that singles out these top, top players, even though their reputation goes ahead of them and why managers and scouts will not stop trying to unearth the next one.
I was speaking with Kevin Keegan this week and we were reminiscing about his days at The Dell.
We had both heard Darren Gough, the ex-cricketer, spouting forth on his radio show about football.
He was talking about the multi-passing game nowadays and comparing it to the ‘kick-it-as-far-as-you-can’ old days.
We had a wry smile talking about some of players Kevin played with at Saints.
As if we had to ‘kick it long’ back those days.
We had players such as Alan Ball, Peter Osgood, Mick Channon, Ted McDougall, Frank Worthington, Charlie George, Jim McCalliog, Dave Armstrong and more.
And defenders such as Peter Shilton, Nick Holmes, David Watson, Mick Mills, David Peach and Chris Nicholl If they were around playing now, they could fit in to any team.
As Mick Channon would say, ‘I’m not as quick now because I’m a bit older’, but the quality always shines out.
But you’ve got to try and get the best out of the players at your disposal.
In the case of Vardy at Leicester, the manager then used long balls because it suited the players he had at the time.
No matter how teams play, even if they had three quarters of the spine they needed, it always finishes with the striker. That’s why they cost more, get more wages and the likes of Lukaku, Kane etc are in very high demand.
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#SCFC XI to face #SaintsFC: Butland; Zouma, Cameron, Wimmer; Diouf, Allen, Fletcher, Pieters; Shaqiri, Choupo-Moting; Berahino.
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#SaintsFC boss Mauricio Pellegrino gives his thoughts ahead of this afternoon’s away clash with #SCFC:
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GOAL: #SaintsFCU18s 1-0 #Swans U18s (Obafemi 64’)
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SOUTHAMPTON SUBS vs. Stoke: McCarthy, Hoedt, Hojbjerg, Ward-Prowse, Boufal, Gabbiadini, Austin #SaintsFC
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GOAL: #SaintsFCU18s 2-0 #Swans U18s (Gardner 75’)
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GOAL: #SaintsFCU18s 3-0 #Swans U18s (Vokins 79’)
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FULL-TIME: #SaintsFCU18s 3-0 #Swans U18s
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Come on, #SaintsFC!
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2: #SCFC’s Maxim Choupo-Moting drives forward, but @VirgilvDijk does well to block his shot out for a corner. #saintsfc (0-0)
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