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Manchester United will travel to the south coast with confidence to face Southampton in the Premier League on Sunday.
After a bumpy start to the season, United recorded three consecutive victories in all competitions despite Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
The vital 3–1 win over Everton on 7 November followed a 1-0 win over West Brom and a 4–1 win against Istanbul Basaksehir following the foreign break.
Solskjaer’s expects four direct victories on Sunday afternoon, with St Mary’s as a favorite, having hosted five wins and four draws for United since the Saints last beat the Local League over the Red Devils in August 2003.
While they have struggled at Old Trafford this season, United are fleeing home, with seven league victories to their credit.
All of this indicates a fifth Premier League win over United’s crusade, but that’s against his opposition.
Southampton won’t be a breeze for United. Ralph Hasenhuttl’s team is undefeated in seven Premier League games and has won five to take fifth place.
Hasenhuttl reaches his two years as saints’ boss and his team now plays precisely as he wishes.
The Saints are very well settled, with a core of actors in charge of responding to their requests, which were obviously explained in a document called “The Southampton Playbook” that picked up the first coronavirus block.
The Austrian technician aligns his team in a 4-2-2-2 formation, in the position given to him express stress roles out of possession.
Since the calamitous 5-2 defeat to Tottenham on 20 September, Southampton has advanced as an automated press machine, with perfectly synchronized components.
United will have to be accurate with the ball this weekend, as Southampton will give them time with the ball.
Top scorer Danny Ings would possibly be injured, but Che Adams and Theo Walcott have formed a promising partnership for the Saints. While their main goal will be to locate the bottom of David de Gea’s network, they will also try to make life as complicated as possible. imaginable to United’s defenders when they are in possession.
Harry Maguire likes to get into midfield with the ball to bring United to life and replace the point of attack, while Victor Lindelof makes an attempt at wide passes through the gangs.
They probably wouldn’t get many chances to do it at St Mary’s. Southampton eaves full of life will be able to jump on any mistakes and make sure United doesn’t just register a third blank sheet in the league this season.
If the game goes according to Hasenhuttl’s plan, the Southampton press may suffocate; However, if United is brave and accurate with the ball, the tactic can be cancelled.
The key for the visiting team will be how to give the ball to their ultimate artistic player.
Bruno Fernandes has scored six goals and three Premier League assists so far this season and will be the guy who will be free to get into the wallet of the Saints press area.
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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer would possibly have missed Jadon Sancho this summer, but he still made wonderful advances in the moving market with the arrival of Donny van de Beek, Alex Telles and Edinson Cavani.
But they started the season with a combined catch, with a home defeat to Crystal Palace and a 6-1 Spurs beating in a ladder finale, and a tremendous 2-1 win over PSG in Paris in the other.
The now is whether they can find the right balance.
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If Maguire, Lindelof and midfielders Fred and Nemanja Matic can make quick vertical passes at the Portuguese midpoint, then United can temporarily move from defence to attack and take advantage of Southampton’s positioning with its greatest counter-attack force.
Saints fullbacks Ryan Bertrand and Kyle Walker-Peters like to push down the flank and if the Saints lose possession, Fernandes can invite Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial to run to the side they released.
It may not be easy, but if Solskjaer and his team can evade the press, they can win 8 consecutive premier league victories for the first time in the club’s history.