Sheffield Wednesday vs Southampton Predictions

Southampton have found the net in their last eight league games, although they only scored once in five of those, and there is potential for a goalfest when they visit Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough on Saturday. Back over 3.5 goals.

They are seventh in the Championship, 17 places and 57 points above rock-bottom Sheffield Wednesday, who have won just one of their 34 games this season.

Sheffield Wednesday are on a run of poor form, with 11 Championship defeats in succession and no win in their last 18 home games. Southampton have been winners in five of their last seven league games and have won the last three head-to-heads against Wednesday.

The hosts have had a leaky defence this season. Sheffield Wednesday have failed to keep a clean sheet in 20 of their last 21 Championship games, and no team has shipped more goals in the league this season than the 68 they have conceded so far – an average of exactly two goals per game.

Southampton can secure a comfortable win in this encounter, and a 3-1 scoreline appeals as the correct score pick. When these teams last met in the Championship in November, both teams had scored by half-time, and Southampton have won the last two meetings with Sheffield Wednesday by two or more goals.

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Edited by Mark Langdon