{"id":22453,"date":"2024-12-04T13:32:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T13:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/?p=22453"},"modified":"2024-12-04T13:32:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T13:32:47","slug":"southampton-vs-chelsea-stats-suggest-saints-could-be-in-for-a-tough-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/southampton-vs-chelsea-stats-suggest-saints-could-be-in-for-a-tough-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton Vs Chelsea Stats Suggest Saints Could Be In For A Tough Evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ahead of Wednesday&#8217;s Premier League clash, we&#8217;ve looked at the latest Southampton Vs Chelsea stats &#8211; and it&#8217;s bad news for the home side.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Southampton FC Vs Chelsea Statistics Ahead Of Wednesday Evening&#8217;s Clash<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/tottenham-vs-chelsea-referee-anthony-taylor\/\">Chelsea<\/a> will be hoping to continue their excellent recent form with another win in midweek.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues are level with second-placed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/arsenal-injury-news-mikel-arteta-manchester-united\/\">Arsenal<\/a> and beat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/aston-villa-vs-brentford-preview-prediction-team-news-and-predicted-lineups\/\">Aston Villa<\/a> 3-0 at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Southampton, meanwhile, picked up their first away point of the season at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/fulham-vs-brighton-preview-prediction-team-news-predicted-lineups\/\">Brighton<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Premier League&#8217;s bottom side have improved recently, but are yet to translate better performances into wins.<\/p>\n<p>And with a host of key players injured or suspended for this one, they could struggle when Chelsea come to town.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Wednesday&#8217;s fixture, we have picked out some of the key <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/brighton-vs-southampton-highlights\/\">Southampton<\/a> Vs Chelsea stats from over the years.<\/p>\n<h3>Chelsea Are The Overwhelming Favourites For Victory<\/h3>\n<p>The current form and league positions of these two sides could not be more different &#8211; and that&#8217;s reflected in the prices offered by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/betting-sites\/football\">UK&#8217;s best football betting sites<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands, Chelsea are 1\/3 favourites with most sites, with Southampton at 9\/1 and a draw priced at around 21\/4.<\/p>\n<p>For more information and team news, you can check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/southampton-vs-chelsea-preview-prediction-team-news-and-predicted-lineups\/\">Southampton Vs Chelsea preview and prediction here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Southampton FC Vs Chelsea Stats and Head-to-Head Record<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Southampton and Chelsea have met on 95 occasions<\/li>\n<li>Chelsea have won 44 of those to Southampton&#8217;s 26, with 25 draws<\/li>\n<li>The Saints won both of the last two meetings with Chelsea in 2022\/23<\/li>\n<li>There has not been a goalless draw in the last nine matches, since 2019<\/li>\n<li>Chelsea&#8217;s biggest win was 6-0 in April 2022, while Southampton won 5-0 back in 1969<\/li>\n<li>The top scorer in this fixture is former Saints striker Ron Davies, with 13<\/li>\n<li>The record attendance for Southampton Vs Chelsea was 73,416 at Wembley for the 2018 FA Cup semi-final<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>When Does Southampton Vs Chelsea Kick-off And How To Watch?<\/h3>\n<p>\ud83d\udcc5Date: Wednesday 4 December 2024<br \/>\n<span class=\"JCzEY tNxQIb\"><span class=\"CSkcDe\">\u231aTime: 7:30pm<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n\u26bd\ufe0fVenue: St. Mary&#8217;s<br \/>\n\ud83d\udcfa TV: Amazon Prime<\/p>\n<h3>Southampton FC Vs Chelsea Recent Premier League Head-to-Heads<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>18 Feb 2023: Chelsea 0-1 Southampton<\/li>\n<li>20 Aug 2022: Southampton 2-1 Chelsea<\/li>\n<li>09 Apr 2022: Southampton 0-6 Chelsea<\/li>\n<li>02 Oct 2021: Chelsea 3-1 Southampton<\/li>\n<li>20 Feb 2021: Southampton 1-1 Chelsea<\/li>\n<li>17 Oct 2020: Chelsea 3-3 Southampton<\/li>\n<li>26 Dec 2019: Chelsea 0-2 Southampton<\/li>\n<li>06 Oct 2019: Southampton 1-4 Chelsea<\/li>\n<li>02 Jan 2019: Chelsea 0-0 Southampton<\/li>\n<li>07 Oct 2018: Southampton 0-3 Chelsea<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Southampton Did The Double Over Chelsea Last Time They Met<\/h2>\n<p>Despite being relegated to the Championship, Southampton actually won both games against Chelsea in 2022\/23.<\/p>\n<p>Young midfielder Romeo Lavia scored against his future club as the Saints won 2-1 at home.<\/p>\n<p>And then a James Ward-Prowse free-kick saw Southampton win 1-0 at Stamford Bridge in the return fixture.<\/p>\n<h2>Enzo Maresca Has Perfect Record Against Southampton<\/h2>\n<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/leicester-city-west-ham-highlights\/\">Leicester City<\/a> manager Enzo Maresca has won both of his previous two meetings with Southampton.<\/p>\n<p>The Chelsea boss guided the Foxes to home and away wins against the Saints in the Championship last season.<\/p>\n<p>Leicester beat Southampton 4-1 at St. Mary&#8217;s before a 5-0 thumping on home soil.<\/p>\n<h2>Saints Have Not Picked Up A Point Without Dibling Or Lallana<\/h2>\n<p>Southampton have relied heavily on the talents of young starlet Tyler Dibling and veteran midfielder Adam Lallana.<\/p>\n<p>Academy product Dibling and returning former captain Lallana have been involved in almost everything positive for the Saints in an otherwise dismal campaign.<\/p>\n<p>But with neither available against Chelsea, Russell Martin&#8217;s side will probably struggle.<\/p>\n<p>All five of Southampton&#8217;s points this season have come with one or both of Lallana and Dibling starting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Wednesday&#8217;s Premier League clash, we&#8217;ve looked at the latest Southampton Vs Chelsea stats &#8211; 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Now at SportsCasting, James provides expert analysis and detailed research features, as well as covering breaking news stories.","sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/x.com\/JChittickjourno"],"url":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/author\/jameschittick\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22453"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24867,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22453\/revisions\/24867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}