Ace Football previews the Premier League round 23 match between Southampton and Newcastle and offers team news, stats and a free betting tip with the latest odds.
Placed inside the top five, Newcastle should be able to deal with The Saints in round 23 of the Premier League season. With the latter currently rock-bottom in the standings, Newcastle look for an easy ride, but The Saints are desperately in need of points.
Sitting bottom of the table, Southampton have claimed six points after 22 rounds, while The Magpies have amassed 38 points. This places the latter as number 5 in the Premier League at the moment.
Form: Southampton vs Newcastle
Southampton Form
In their last three matches, Southampton won 3-0 against Swansea, before losing 3-1 against Manchester United and 3-2 to Nottingham Forest. Southampton only managed one meagre home win from a possible six at St. Mary’s Stadium in the Premier League. They also drew zero and lost five of these six encounters, in which they scored four and conceded 19 goals.
Newcastle Form
Despite losing their latest outing, results have generally been decent in the last three matches for Newcastle. They first took out Bromley by 3-1 before downing Wolverhampton by 3-0. The winning streak came to an end against Bournemouth, who ran out 1-4 winners. Newcastle came through their last six away games in the Premier League with four wins. Of those six matches, they drew once and lost once in which, they scored 14 and conceded seven.
Betting stats for Southampton and Newcastle
Let’s have a look at some of the most interesting betting-relevant facts based on the stats from the last couple of matches that Southampton and Newcastle played across all tournaments.
- Southampton have lost 7 of the last 8 matches in the Premier League while scoring less than 1.5 goals
- Southampton have lost 8 of the last 10 matches while scoring less than 1.5 goals
- Southampton have lost the last 3 home matches in a row in the Premier League while scoring less than 0.5 goals
- Southampton have lost 4 of the last 5 home matches in the Premier League and the sum of goals was over 4.5
- Southampton have lost the last 4 home matches in a row in the Premier League while scoring less than 1.5 goals
- Newcastle have won 9 of the last 10 matches while scoring more than 1.5 goals
- In 10 of the last 12 Newcastle matches the sum of goals was over 2.5
- In 8 of the last 9 Newcastle matches in the Premier League, the sum of goals was over 2.5
- Newcastle have won 6 of the last 7 matches in the Premier League while scoring more than 1.5 goals
- Newcastle have won the last 4 away matches in a row while scoring more than 1.5 goals
Players in form: Southampton vs Newcastle
It has been an excellent season for Alexander Isak who managed to score an impressive 15 goals in total during the current campaign. He also seems on a good run currently, hitting the target eight times in his last six outings. Newcastle are looking to him against Southampton, hoping he keeps his momentum going.
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Full-time result
Southampton won three of their last 10 home matches across all tournaments, while losing seven times. Newcastle won five of their last 10 games away from home, with two draws and three defeats as well. Southampton lost their previous 5 matches. Newcastle were on the scoreboard at least once in their previous 10 matches. Newcastle have not lost to Southampton in 8 consecutive meetings.
Both teams to score
Southampton scored the first goal of the match in four games from a possible ten. Newcastle got the opening goal in four out of their last ten away games. Newcastle have kept their opponents from scoring six times in their previous 10 matches. Meanwhile, Southampton have been able to keep a clean sheet in two of their last 10 games. Southampton have scored in 3 consecutive home meetings with Newcastle.
Total goals
Over 2.5 goals came out seven times in the previous ten matches across all tournaments for Southampton, who scored an average of 0.8 goals along the way. Over 2.5 goals happened in eight of the last ten games for Newcastle, who managed to hit the net 2.7 times on average in these games. Newcastle scored at least once in their previous 10 matches on the bounce.