Swansea v Southampton

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Swansea City are still likely to be kicking themselves after letting a seemingly winning 2-1 margin slip against Birmingham City last Saturday as The Swans' time-wasting tactics back-fired on the Welsh outfit at St Andrews, while Southampton continued on their merry way by recording an emphatic 4-0 rout of Sheffield Wednesday at St Mary's Stadium to maintain the south coast club's push for possible automatic promotion.

Swansea City have nevertheless extended their unbeaten run in the Championship to three games overall which consist of picking up points in draws with Coventry City and Birmingham City along with a 1-0 home win against West Brom to hand the Welsh hosts a decent haul of points against the west midlands clubs.

However, Swansea will now welcome a confident and high-flying Southampton outfit who are managed by former Swans boss, Russell Martin, so he's sure to get a rowdy reception at the swansea.com Stadium but on the pitch, Swansea have managed to pick up just three wins from their last 13 matches overall.

Wins against Rotherham United, Preston NE and West Brom have been offset by losing four of these 13 games while also collecting just two home wins from their last eight games.

Southampton's unbeaten run was further extended to an impressive 19 matches overall in the Championship which has helped lift The Saints into possible automatic promotion with Russell Martin's side occupying third place and just three points behind second placed Ipswich Town ahead of Saturday's lunchtime kick-off at the Swansea.com Stadium.

Southampton will therefore be keen to put further pressure upon Ipswich Town with all three points at Swansea prior to the 3pm kick-offs on Saturday and having won 13 of these last 19 games, the south coast visitors look a decent bet for all three points here this Saturday.

In addition, The Saints are unbeaten in their last nine games on the road in the Championship and the visitors' consistency and momentum will be hard to stop for a Swansea City outfit who are just not used to producing a sustained sequence of positive results.

Saints have suffered just two defeats on their travels throughout this season's Championship campaign and this is another factor which appears to favour Southampton ahead of this lunchtime clash against Swansea City.

Swansea City v Southampton Verdict

Southampton have also held the upper hand in previous exchanges against Swansea City as the south coast club have lost just once in their last nine meetings and Russell Martin's side will be heading into this latest encounter with their Welsh counterparts having chalked up four wins on the trot in prior engagements.

Another three points therefore looks likely for Southampton here as they continue their positive momentum.

Therefore, our main bet will be Southampton win @ 1.66

Other side bets worth considering:

Southampton win & Under 2.5 goals @ 4.75

Correct Score: Southampton 1-0 @ 8.50