2024-25 English Premier League: Brentford vs Southampton Prediction

START TIME: Saturday 31^st August, 2024 - Kenya – 5:00pm / UK – 3:00pm

BRENTFORD VS SOUTHAMPTON ON TV: Kenya – SuperSport / UK – Not televised

BRENTFORD VS SOUTHAMPTON ONLINE: Kenya – SuperSport streaming platforms / UK – Cannot be streamed

EXPECTED TEAMS

BRENTFORD

PREDICTED XI (4-3-3): Flekken; Roerslev, Collins, Pinnock, Ajer; Janelt, Norgaard, Jensen; Mbeumo, Wissa, Lewis-Potter

UNAVAILABLE: Hickey (Injured), Henry (Injured), Dasilva (Injured), Igor Thiago (Injured)

QUESTIONABLE:

SOUTHAMPTON

PREDICTED XI (3-5-2): McCarthy; Harwood-Bellis, Bednarek, Stephens; Sugawara, Smallbone, Downes, Aribo, Walker-Peters; Armstrong, Brereton

UNAVAILABLE: Bazunu (Injured), Stewart (Injured)

QUESTIONABLE: Sulemana (Injured)

PREDICTION

There is an expectation that this one could actually end up being quite one-sided. As Brentford seek to rediscover what made them so good in their first couple of seasons in the Premier League, Thomas Frank’s tactical flexibility has come back to the fore in their opening couple of matches but what makes them such heavy favourites, bar home advantage against newly-promoted opposition, would be the fact that their ability to set traps for teams that overplay or exploit a team’s weakness from set-pieces; both issues Southampton have already had exposed this season, means a comfortable Brentford win seems a safe bet for this one at the Gtech Community Stadium.