Newcastle United vs Southampton Premier League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Newcastle United have lost just one of their last 15 home Premier League matches against Southampton (W11 D3), winning each of their last three in a row.
Southampton are looking to record only their third Premier League double over Newcastle, previously doing so in 1993/94 and 2014/15.
Newcastle have only won more home Premier League games against Aston Villa and Everton (14 each) than they have against Southampton (13).
Southampton’s 9-0 defeat against Manchester United was only the third instance of a team losing by 9+ goals in a Premier League match and the Saints have ended on the losing side of two of them – also Man Utd 9-0 Ipswich (1995) and Southampton 0-9 Leicester (2019).
Newcastle United have lost six Premier League matches in 2021, at least two more than any other club.
Southampton haven’t lost five consecutive league matches since September 1998 under Dave Jones, while this current four-game losing run is the longest in Ralph Hasenhüttl’s league managerial career.
Since Southampton returned to the Premier League in 2012/13, the only manager to lose more top-flight games against the Saints than Newcastle boss Steve Bruce (5) is Alan Pardew (6), despite Bruce not facing Southampton in any league season between 2015/16 and 2018/19.
Newcastle striker Callum Wilson has been directly involved in 15 Premier League goals in his first 20 appearances for the Magpies (10 goals, 5 assists), the most in a Newcastle player’s first 20 games in the top-flight since Demba Ba in February 2012 (16 goals, 1 assist).
Only Arsenal (12) have had more Premier League red cards since Ralph Hasenhüttl’s first game in charge of Southampton in December 2018 than the Saints (8).
Jonjo Shelvey’s strike in the 2nd minute against Crystal Palace was Newcastle’s third goal in the opening two minutes of a Premier League game this season – the last side with more in a season were Chelsea in 2014/15 (4).
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