Southampton vs West Brom, Premier League: Follow live updates as Mauricio Pellegrino looks for a second home win
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Your support makes all the difference.Southampton take on West Brom in the Premier League’s late kick-off.
Maurcio Pellegrino’s side have only won once at home all season and sit just one point above the Premier League’s drop zone as it stands.
West Brom have made a slightly better start to the season but will be leapfrogged by Southampton if they lost at St Mary’s this evening.
Follow live coverage below.
Southampton v West Brom
Southampton: Forster, Cedric, Yoshida, van Dijk, Bertrand, Lemina, Romeu, Long, Davis, Tadic, Gabbiadini. Subs: Hoedt, Austin, McCarthy, Ward-Prowse, Boufal, Redmond, McQueen.
West Brom: Foster, Dawson, Hegazi, Evans, Gibbs, Livermore, Krychowiak, Barry, Rodriguez, Rondon, Chadli. Subs: Nyom, Yacob, Phillips, Brunt, Myhill, McClean, McAuley.
Referee: Graham Scott (Oxfordshire)
Southampton have no new injury concerns ahead of the visit of West Brom.
Manolo Gabbiadini should start, having scored twice on his return against Newcastle, but Jeremy Pied remains out.
Both Ben Foster and Boaz Myhill are injury doubts for West Brom.
James Morrison, Oliver Burke and Hal Robson-Kanu are still sidelined.
57' - A half-chance for West Brom there as Kieran Gibbs meets a cross from the right wing with his head. However, the full-back doesn't get good contact on the ball and Fraser Forster has no problem collecting it.
60' - Chance... missed! Grzegorz Krychowiak sends Jay Rodriguez through on goal with a cutting pass but the West Brom forward's first-time effort misses the target by some distance. Very poor finish.
Nothing to see here, just Virgil van Dijk elevating a football with his mind
64' - Cedric tries his luck from distance for Southampton and, in truth, it's a shot in frustration. The ball flies well over the crossbar. As you were.
67' - The first yellow card of the match goes to Nacer Chadli for a cynical foul on Dusan Tadic as the Serb attempts to spark a Saints counter-attack.
68' - Southampton's Manolo Gabbiadini attempts to bend a shot into the far corner from the edge of the penalty area but he doesn't get the desired connection and the ball lands in the arms of Ben Foster.
69' - Southampton make a substitution and it's an attacking one as winger Nathan Redmond replaces defensive midfielder Oriel Romeu.
72' - Dusan Tadic with Southampton's best chance of the match!
He finds himself with the ball at his feet with bags of time inside the West Brom penalty area but Ben Foster is speedily off his line to deny the winger.
Just seconds later Fraser Forster is forced into action at the other end as he tips Nacer Chadi's curled effort from distance over the crossbar.
Is this game finally coming to life?
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