Southampton vs Arsenal LIVE: Premier League match stream, latest team news, lineups, TV, prediction

Southampton vs Arsenal LIVE: Premier League match stream, latest team news, lineups, TV, prediction


Gunners are all-but guaranteed to finish second in the Premier League this season

Southampton host Arsenal at St Mary’s this

Southampton vs Arsenal LIVE!

With a Premier League runners-up spot all-but secured, Arsenal wrap up their season away from home against already-relegated Southampton this afternoon. Mathematically, the Gunners still need a point to confirm second please, though only an extraordinary - albeit highly unlikely - set of results on the final day can deny them a third consecutive top-two finish.

On paper it looks like Arsenal have very little to play for, but manager Mikel Arteta has called on his players to end the campaign on a high note. The Spaniard is targeting all three points, the best defensive record across the entire division and a clean sheet to boost David Raya's quest to win back-to-back Golden Glove awards.

As for the Saints, they are guaranteed to finish rock-bottom after registering just two league wins all season. Their incentive before returning to the Championship is to avoid becoming the first team to lose 30 games in a single Premier League campaign. Follow Southampton vs Arsenal LIVE below with Standard Sport’s dedicated match blog, featuring expert analysis from Simon Collings at St Mary's Stadium!

Southampton vs Arsenal latest news

CONFIRMED ARSENAL XI: Five changes as Rice named captain

Kick-off: 4pm BST | St Mary's Stadium

How to follow: No TV coverage

Standard Sport Prediction: Big away win

Live updates

Southampton team

Aaron Ramsdale, as expected, lines up against his former club this afternoon.

No Tyler Dibling at all for the Saints.

Still announced as Southampton manager

Huge news for the home side ahead of kick-off.

Will Still has been confirmed as the new Southampton manager and his first task will be to get the Saints back in the Premier League at the first time of asking...

Rice captains Arsenal

Plenty to unpack from the Arsenal starting XI.

- Declan Rice named as captain

- Starts for Raheem Sterling, Oleksandr Zinchenko and Kieran Tierney

- No Riccardo Calafiori in the matchday squad

Southampton team in full

Southampton XI: Ramsdale; Sugawara, Wood, Taylor; Fernandes, Downes, Ugochukwu, Welington; Robinson, Sulemana; Stewart

Subs: McCarthy, Manning, Aribo, Smallbone, Bree, Archer, Onuachu, Sanda, Moore.

Arsenal team in full

Arsenal XI: Raya, Partey, White, Kiwior, Tierney, Zinchenko, Merino, Rice, Nwaneri, Sterling, Martinelli.

Subs: Neto, Lewis-Skelly, Jorginho, Henry-Francis, Odegaard, Saka, Kabia, Trossard, Havertz.

CONFIRMED SOUTHAMPTON XI

Lining up for the hosts this afternoon...

CONFIRMED ARSENAL XI

Here is the Arsenal team that Mikel Arteta has selected for the final game of the season...

Team news on the way

Team news coming up from St Mary's shortly...

Calafiori set for big chance

When Riccardo Calafiori signed for Arsenal last summer, the idea of the Italian waiting until the final day of the season to start a Premier League game at centre-back seemed unthinkable.

Calafiori had, after all, just put himself on the map by starring in the heart of Italy’s defence during Euro 2024, with Arsenal paying Bologna over £40million to bring him in.

Arsenal signed Calafiori with the belief he could play left-back or centre-back, but nearly all of his time in north London, so far, has been spent as a full-back.

In fact, Calafiori has started just one game at centre-back all season - with that coming against Bolton in the Carabao Cup third round all the way back in September.

Today presents the 23-year-old with the chance to double that tally and also earn a first Premier League start in the heart of Arsenal’s defence.

Southampton vs Arsenal stats

- All eight of Southampton’s Premier League wins against Arsenal have come in home games, most recently in April 2022. It’s the most victories one team has against another in the competition without any coming away from home.

- Arsenal have lost just two of their last 16 Premier League games against Southampton (W8 D6), going down in December 2018 (2-3) and April 2022 (0-1).

- This is the second time Southampton and Arsenal are meeting on the final day of a Premier League campaign. Saints previously won 3-2 in the final game at the Dell in 2000-01, with the Gunners finishing second for the third season in a row back then.

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