United To Return To Winning Ways

As is so often the case our job is to find an angle which vastly improves the odds on a heavy favourite. In this case Man Utd are around a 4/11 shot with most firms.

Although I expect this one to go to form, my expectation is that Southampton will make it much tougher than they did against Spurs on Boxing Day. We have seen this a couple of times recently when they go away to the other top sides.

At the end of November the Saints only lost 2-1 at Manchester City, and that after a dramatic injury time winner from Sterling. Just a couple of weeks ago they followed a 4-1 humbling against Leicester with a narrow 1-0 defeat at Chelsea.

So Pellegrino’s side can respond to criticism and they certainly have had plenty of that lately. Without Austin and Van Dijk it’s hard to see how they can get a result but a Man United win with under 2.5 goals in the match looks likely at a best price of 13/5 with Ladbrokes.

That would preserve Southampton’s remaining dignity and would work just fine for Mourinho who is simply trying to tick off wins during this hectic period with as little fuss as possible.