📊 Form Guide

Southampton

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Southampton will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 1-5 Championship victory vs Wrexham.

In that game, Southampton had 46% possession and 16 shots at goal with 9 of them on target. For Southampton, the scorers were Kuryu Matsuki (12'), Flynn Downes (22'), Cyle Larin (61'), Ross Stewart (81') and Finn Azaz (83'). For their opponents, Wrexham had 11 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Josh Windass (34') scored for Wrexham.

Their most recent results reveal that much respect should be given to the Southampton rearguard. Southampton have been miserly, with the total number of goals that have gone in at their end over the course of their past 6 outings standing at 3.

A look at their previous results shows us that Southampton:

• haven't lost in the league to Derby County in their previous 5 games.
• have not been beaten in their last 6 home league matches.

Derby County

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Derby County head into the encounter following on from a 2-0 Championship win to beat Stoke City in their previous fixture.

In that game, Derby County managed 52% possession and 20 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. For Derby County, the goals were scored by Jaydon Banel (54') and Carlton Morris (89'). On the other side, Stoke City had 7 shots at goal with 0 on target.

During their 6 previous matches, John Eustace's Derby County have seen their efforts on goal rewarded 8 times, giving them the goals per game average of 1.33.

Coming into this meeting, Derby County have left without a victory over Southampton in games played away from home for the previous 2 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

There have been frequent draws between the two sides. In their head to head clashes dating back to 10/03/2009, the records show 5 of them. That’s an unusually high 83 per cent of games ending as stalemates.

A combined sum of 18 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 11 from The Saints and 7 belonging to The Rams. The average goals per game has been 3.

The last league contest featuring these sides was Championship match day 9 on 04/10/2025 when it ended Derby County 1-1 Southampton.

In that match, Derby County managed 37% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. The scorer was Patrick Agyemang (40').

At the other end, Southampton got 13 attempts on goal with 6 on target. Adam Armstrong (7') scored.

The referee was Oliver Langford.

📋 Team News: Southampton

It seems likely that The Saints should use the 4-2-3-1 formation for this game, utilising Daniel Peretz, James Bree, T. Harwood-Bellis, Jack Stephens, Ryan Manning, Flynn Downes, Shea Charles, Kuryu Matsuki, Finn Azaz, Samuel Edozie and Cyle Larin.

ℹ️ Team News: Derby County

It’s our belief that The Rams will likely make use of a 4-2-3-1 formation, settling for Richard O´Donnell, Joe Ward, Dion Sanderson, Matt Clarke, Derry Murkin, David Ozoh, Lewis Travis, Ben Brereton Díaz, Bobby Clark, Jaydon Banel and Carlton Morris.

💭 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Derby County will surely be able to put one past this Southampton side, however it possibly won’t quite be enough to prevent defeat.

We’re going for a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 win for Southampton after 90 minutes. We’ll have to see what happens.

Andre Moura, 13:02 11/04/2026