World News – GB – Southampton – West Brom: How to watch, start time, odds, predictions

Southampton v West Brom: Southampton will be hoping for a second win in their Premier League season when winless West Bromwich Albion visits St Mary’s on Sunday (watch 7 a.m. ET online via Peacock Premium)

Southampton will feel an added urgency knowing they will face Chelsea and Everton in the league

West Brom are hoping to build on a 3-3 draw against Chelsea which saw the Baggies take a 3-0 lead (he’s clearly not trying to build on the second half)

The Saints are in great shape because Nathan Redmond is back on the bench and they are unchanged

🚨 The teams are in the starting lineup of # SaintsFC is unchanged for the clash with #WBA: photoTwittercom / utDT9qth1N

West Brom manager Slaven Bilic has new signings Branislav Ivanovic and Filip Krovinovic on the bench

Ralph Hasenhuttl, patron of the Saints, on the Baggies threat: « If you know our squad and us as staff, you know we take every opponent seriously With our home record we were certainly not the best so we have to show up now We had some good games at the end of last season against Man City and Sheffield United You have to be good at possession, be clinical, be concentrate while playing against the ball and not give the ball « 

Slaven Bilic on pursuit of the first WBA Premier League win of the season: “So far we have played against Leicester, Everton and Chelsea Leicester and Everton are the only ones to have 9 points in the first three games, and Chelsea are Chelsea, a big club We are now up against a club which, again, is a very competitive Premier League club They run a lot, they have clinical players up front and also have to pace… But we are planning to take something out of the game, definitely This is our goal, to know where we are going and that we have to be in top form « 

Saints should run their business with -135 odds of winning A draw is good for 280 while a Baggies win would net 460

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It’s hard to ignore Danny Ings as a fantastic player for this weekend given West Brom’s struggles to keep balls out of the net Whether the Saints will handle threats from Grady Diangana, Callum Robinson and Matheus Pereira is equally interesting We see goals from both sides but a little too many Saints in a 2-1 win

Leicester – West Ham: David Moyes will miss a second consecutive Premier League game (testing positive for COVID-19) when West Ham United make their trip to Leicester City on Sunday (Watch live at 7 a.m. ET, online via Peacock Premium)

Moyes was absent from the 4-0 demolition of Wolverhampton Wanderers last weekend, a result which saw the Hammers pick up their first points of the season and widely impress spectators in a rare example of quality since the appointment of Moyes last december

West Ham weren’t the only team to raise eyebrows with shocking upheaval this past weekend; they weren’t even on the side of the weekend’s most shocking upheaval This award undoubtedly goes to Leicester, who toppled Manchester City 5-2 and undeniably made their way into the top four race

Here’s everything you need to know ahead of Leicester – West Ham this Sunday with team news, odds, broadcast link and more

Leicester – QUESTIONABLE: Dennis Praet (knee) | OUT: Ricardo Pereira (knee), Filip Benkovic (groin), Wilfred Ndidi (groin)

Brendan Rodgers, on hopeful newbie Cengiz Under: « He’s available for the team We’ve seen his quality He wants to run behind He’s going to be a period of adjustment for him The intensity is different from what he was used to He will settle in the next few weeks

Acting manager Alan Irvine on Leicester: « It’s a huge test Leicester have started the season really well and have a lot of very talented players, a lot of pace and it will be a real test to go Like Wolves were, though, and Arsenal the week before Everyone saw the games when they came out and said ‘Oh they look tough’ but any game is in the Premier League If we have the same level of performance as in the last two Premier League games, so we will be competitive « 

Bettors seem to have endorsed the Hammers (380) victory over Wolves, as the Foxes (-150) fall far short of the favorites one would expect from today’s top players against a team that finished 16th last season and failed to even make it to their first two games this season The draw is currently available at 300

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Leicester will likely find acres of space between and behind West Ham’s defense – something they’ve done incredibly well against Man City, and something the Wolves haven’t been able to take advantage of – thanks to Jamie Vardy and midfielder maestros Youri Tielemans and James Maddison The only way West Ham can slow Leicester’s attack will be to put so many players behind the ball that they will no longer be able to attack at the other end of the pitch Leicester 2-0 West Ham

A roundup of all the action on Saturday in the Bundesliga, where Gio Reyna collected three assists and RB Leipzig jumped to the top of the table…

Budding American sensation Reyna grabbed an assists hat trick (WATCH ALL THREE ASSISTS HERE) on Saturday, as Dortmund netted Dortmund’s first three goals – two for Erling Haaland and for Emre Can – in a 4-0 defeat to Freiburg

The goals were the third and fourth of the league season for Haaland, and he collected the assist on the only unrealized goal by Reyna, scored by Felix Passlack in the second-half timeout

If nothing else, it was a solid rebound performance and a result after last weekend’s 2-0 loss to Augsburg Dortmund sit third in the Bundesliga table after three games played They lag the leaders RB Leipzig from a point

Speaking of Leipzig and also of 4-0 victories, this one came at the expense of Schalke bruised, beaten and at the bottom of the table

Can Bozdogan kicked off the demolition work with an own goal in the 31st minute, and it was the floodgates that Schalke certainly didn’t need Angeliño made 2-0 in the 35th, and Willi Orban made it 3-0 in the stoppage time of the first half

Marcel Halstenberg converted from the penalty spot in the 80th, and Leipzig barely sweated taking first place in the table

TURIN, Italy (AP) Juventus could force virus-stricken Napoli to drop the Serie A fixture between the two teams on Sunday

The reigning champion Juventus released a statement on Saturday saying her players will be heading to the pitch for the Napoli game as her opponents have reportedly been banned from travel due to coronavirus cases

Two Napoli players have tested positive for COVID-19 and Italian media reported that local health authorities banned the team from traveling on Saturday and ordered the team and staff to self-destruct isolate

Sunday’s match in Turin has not been officially postponed and the Italian league’s protocol for COVID cases is the same as UEFA rules If a team has 13 players available, at least one of whom goalkeeper, the match can continue

« Juventus Football Club announces that the First Team will be on the pitch for the Juventus-Napoli game tomorrow at 8.45 p.m., as scheduled by the Serie A League schedule, » a statement from Juventus reads on its website and on social media channels

Napoli midfielder Eljif Elmas tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday, just a day after teammate Piotr Zielinski and a member of the team tested positive

There have been constant tests at the club after Napoli played at Genoa last weekend More than 20 Genoa players and staff have tested positive

Juventus have reported that two staff members have coronavirus but that « they are neither players nor technical or medical staff »

Alex Morgan is ready for her Tottenham debut and the USWNT superstar is certainly a huge fan of the FA Women’s Super League in England and sees it as a great place for American female players to continue their careers

Morgan, 31, will be on the squad for Spurs’ trip to Manchester City on Sunday (watch live, 7:30 a.m. ET online via NBCSportscom) and ahead of his expected debut, scores of reporters spoke to him at length during a Zoom press conference

The forward has been asked by ProSoccerTalk if they have a lot of interest from other USWNT teammates in what the WSL is and if they want to join the growing league as Morgan praised the fact that Premier League giants are investing money and resources in women’s play

« Yeah, I think some girls are pretty disappointed with the transfer windows closing here, » laughed Alex Morgan « But, yeah, I’ve talked to so many of my teammates in the US and everyone just want to play you know everybody wants to get back to normal Normality i don’t know if such a thing goes ahead but as much as we can get back to football that’s the most important thing for us

« And so everyone is in their own situation, their own unique situation and have to understand that. Hope it doesn’t matter if they play internationally or if they stay in the US, if they have the possibility to keep playing, you know, because it’s difficult and even with the FIFA windows, the US hasn’t really had a chance to get together yet « 

With Morgan headlining, a group of five USWNT stars moving from NWSL to WSL this summer – Rose Lavelle and Sam Mewis are in Man City, while Tobin Heath and Christen Press have joined Man United – is that a sign to come?

« I think a lot of us just want to follow the football, » Alex Morgan told ProSoccerTalk « And right now it’s the WSL There are also a few players in Sweden, there are players I have heard of who were planning to play in the NWSL Lyon who decided to stay there at cause of the pandemic I hope the NWSL gets back on its own two feet, as I’m sure they will have and continue to have a very competitive league

« But at the moment the WSL has done really well Handily, I think Britain is obviously in a different position than the US with the pandemic so I think that has given the WSL a platform to be able to get back into the game and start fresh with the new season pretty quickly But I think, yeah, when you follow the football and you follow where the quality is, you know you see all the signings that it is. ‘is here right now « 

It would be the anthem of the WSL, right now, as the arrival of Alex Morgan and others will further showcase what the elite of women’s football in England has to offer USWNT Stars May only be there for about a year until the NWSL schedule returns to normal with us, but there’s no doubt England’s top flight proves it’s the women’s league the most exciting in the world right now

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