Premier League updates from the 12.30pm GMT kick-offFifth place in line for Champions League spot after City banAnd feel free to email scott.murray@theguardian.com 11.37am GMT Saints make four changes to the side that went down bravely at Spurs a couple of weeks ago. Alex McCarthy replaces Angus Gunn in goal. Kyle Walker-Peters makes his debut at right back. Jannik Vestergaard and Stuart Armstrong return. Missing out: Jan Bednarek, Oriol Romeu and Nathan Redmond.Burnley make just the one change to the XI named for the goalless draw with Arsenal. Matt Lowton is replaced by Phil Bardsley. 11.31am GMT Southampton: McCarthy, Walker-Peters, Stephens, Vestergaard, Bertrand, Armstrong, Ward-Prowse, Hojbjerg, Boufal, Long, Ings.Subs: Adams, Djenepo, Romeu, Obafemi, Smallbone, Gunn, Bednarek.Burnley: Pope, Bardsley, Tarkowski, Mee, Taylor, Hendrick, Westwood, Cork, McNeil, Rodriguez, Wood.Subs: Brownhill, Brady, Hart, Pieters, Lennon, Vydra, Long. 11.13am GMT Saints and Burnley don’t put on a show when they get together that often. Their last six meetings have produced a grand total of nine goals, and three of those came in a lopsided 3-0 win for Burnley on the opening day of this season. Needless to say, the goalscorers in that one, Ashley Barnes and Johann Berg Gudmundsson, are missing today.There’s not a whole load riding on this game, either. It’s true that neither side is totally safe from relegation worry. But it’s also surely the case that, relatively comfy in mid-table and seven clear of the drop zone, both sides are far too good to be seriously concerned about their fate. Saints deserved far more than the square root of eff all they got from recent visits to Anfield and the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, while Burnley have recently won at Old Trafford. So there’s little jeopardy in this. Continue readingreadfullarticle
