Southampton welcome league leader Chelsea to St Mary's o with both sides appreciating positive results lately in the Premier League.
The Saints have won their last two matches forcefully and sit fourth in the table. On the other side, Chelsea has won five against all rivalries after their first thrashing of the season at Newcastle recently.
Jose Mourinho's men have yielded only two goals in those five matches, yet come up against a Saints guard that has kept six clean sheets in the last nine Premier League matches at St Mary's.
Chelsea players and staff are in certain mind-set recently; Mourinho guaranteed Skipper John Terry is comparable to he was 10 years back, while Nemanja Matic demanded prior in the week that the Blues could win an uncommon fourfold this term.
Southampton's on-advance full-back Ryan Bertrand is ineligible to face his guardian club and Matthew Targett is liable to trade him for this match.
Jose Mourinho says Chelsea were exceptionally imaginative with the ball against a troublesome protective side after their 2-0 win against West Ham.
Then again, Ronald Koeman can call upon chief Jose Fonte, who is prone to return whether the director keeps confidence with the 3-5-2 development or not.
Shane Long, Dusan Tadic and Victor Wanyama could come in the wake of beginning from the seat in the Boxing Day win at Crystal Palace, yet Jay Rodriguez (cruciate ligament), Sam Gallagher (knee) and Jack Cork (thump) stay out.
Mourinho has a full squad to browse in the wake of grabbing no wounds or suspensions in the West Ham match, yet is liable to roll out improvements for the Blues' second match in three days. Andre Schurrle, John Obi Mikel, Filipe Luis and Didier Drogba are among the individuals who could come in.
Southampton has won only one of the last 10 Barclays Premier League matches against Chelsea (W1 D3 L6).
The Blues have scored in each of their last nine league matches to Southampton.
Shane Long has scored in three of his last four Premier League begins against the Blues.
Cesc Fabregas is just the third player in Premier League history to pile on twofold figures for aids in five different seasons (Ryan Giggs and Wayne Rooney).
Chelsea has played Southampton six times before in the middle of Christmas and New Year's Day in the Premier League, with two draws and two wins each.
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