Brentford vs Southampton Matchday Stats Preview
Brentford vs Southampton Matchday Stats Preview
Brentford have won their last three Premier League games against Southampton without conceding, winning both home games against Saints by a 3-0 scoreline.
Southampton have won just one of their last nine away league games against Brentford (D3 L5), beating them 3-0 in April 2011 while in League One.
Southampton won both of their league games in London in the Championship last season (1-0 v both Millwall and QPR). However, in the Premier League they’ve won just one of their last eight visits to the capital (D1 L6), beating Chelsea 1-0 in February 2023.
Brentford lost their first home Premier League game against a newly promoted side 2-1 to Norwich in November 2021, when the Bees were new to the division themselves. Since then, they have won seven in a row on home soil against such sides, scoring twice or more in every victory.
Despite having the highest average possession in the Premier League so far this season (70.6%), Southampton have lost both of their games 1-0. Only once in their history have they lost their first three league games in a campaign without scoring, doing so in 2001-02.
Having beaten Crystal Palace at the Brentford Community Stadium on MD1, Brentford are looking for consecutive home Premier League wins for the first time since last November, while they last won their opening two home league games in a season in 2018-19 in the Championship.
Southampton have completed 1,175 passes in their two Premier League matches this season under Russell Martin – since 2003-04, only two managers have seen their team complete more passes in their first two Premier League games in charge: Thomas Tuchel (1,459) and Maurizio Sarri (1,223), both at Chelsea.
On MD1 Southampton faced the lowest xG of any side (0.25 vs Newcastle), while on MD2 the Saints posted the lowest xG of any team (0.14 vs Nottingham Forest). Three of their five attempts against Forest came from Kyle Walker-Peters, who also had their most touches in the opposition box in the game (4).
Yoane Wissa has been involved in six goals in his last seven home Premier League starts for Brentford (4 goals, 2 assists), scoring and assisting in each of the last two. The last player to score and assist in three home appearances in a row was Leroy Sané for Man City in September/October 2017.
Southampton defender Jan Bednarek has completed more passes than any other Premier League player this season (198), an average of 104 per 90 minutes. In his previous six top-flight seasons between 2017-18 and 2022-23, Bednarek’s highest average was 49 per 90 minutes in 2020-21.
