Southampton vs Arsenal: Prediction, kick off time, TV, live stream, team news, h2h results

By the time Arsenal kick-off at Southampton on Saturday, Tottenham could well be six points ahead.

Having lost two games on the spin and as many key players to injury since last Monday, the pressure is on Mikel Arteta.

As much progress as his young side have made this season, few would being beaten to fourth spot by arch rivals Spurs would be a hugely disappointing end to what was looking like a breakthrough campaign for the Arteta project.

Their visit to Southampton - who were batted 6-0 by Chelsea last time out - comes before a nightmare run in which they play Thomas Tuchel’s side, Manchester United and West Ham, making three points on the south coast hugely important.

Here’s everything you need to know about the game...

The Premier League game is scheduled for a 3pm BST kick-off time on Saturday 16 April, 2022.

St Mary’s Stadium in Southampton will host.

TV channel and live stream: With the game taking place during the 3pm blackout across English football, it will not be broadcast on TV in the UK.

Highlights: Match of the Day, however, will show highlights when it airs at 10.30pm BST on BBC One this Saturday.

Live blog: You can still follow all of the action LIVE with Standard Sport’s dedicated match blog.

It will be fascinating to see how Arteta tackles his left-back problem. In the loss at home to Brighton, Granit Xhaka was deployed out of position in favour of Nuno Tavares after his poor performance away at Crystal Palace.

Elsewhere, the Arsenal will surely look to change things up in midfield too, particularly with the double pivot of Martin Odegaard and Albert Sambi Lokonga was dominated all too often.

Certainly, there’s a lot of questions to answer for Arteta, who has a fairly small squad already.

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