HOME GROUND: St Mary's Stadium

MANAGER: Nigel Adkins

LAST SEASON STATS

Championship: 2^nd (promoted)

FA Cup: 4^th Round

League Cup: 4^th Round

Europe: Did not qualify

Top scorer (all comps): Rickie Lambert, 31 goals

SQUAD

KEEPERS 1 Kelvin Davies Paulo Gazzaniga DEFENDERS 2 Frazer Richardson 6 Jose Fonte 12 Danny Butterfield     13 Danny Fox 23 Ryan Dickson 25 Daniel Seaborne 26 Jos Hooiveld 32 Jack Stephens 34 Luke Shaw

MIDFIELDERS 4 Morgan Schneiderlin 8 Jack Cork 14 Dean Hammond 18 Richie Chaplow 20 Adam Lallana 28 Ben Reeves 30 James Ward-Prowse     33 Steve De Ridder 42 Jason Puncheon

FORWARDS 7 Rickie Lambert 9 Lee Barnard 10 Guly do Prado 11 Billy Sharp 17 Jonathan Forte 19 Tadanari Lee 40 Sam Hoskins Jay Rodriguez

STAR MAN: RICKIE LAMBERT

Prolific striker who has scored goals wherever he’s played

TRICKSTER: ADAM LALLANA

A nimble, jinking winger who sets up loads of chances

SUMMER TRANSFERS

In: Jay Rodriguez (Burnley, £6m), Paulo Gazzaniga (Gillingham, £2m), Steven Davis (Rangers, free), Nathaniel Clyne (Crystal Palace, £TBC)

Out: Dan Harding (Nottingham Forest, £xm), Bartosz Bialkowski (Notts County, free), Lee Holmes (PNE, free), Ryan Doble (Shrewsbury, free), David Connolly (released), Radhi Jaidi (retired), Aaron Martin (Crystal Palace, loan), Tommy Forecast Gillingham, loan)

STRONGEST LINE-UP

[GK] Davis

[RB] Clyne

[CB] Fonte

[CB] Hooiveld

[LB] Fox

[RW] Guly

[CM] Schneiderlin

[CM] S Davis

[LM] Lallana

[CF] Rodriguez

[CF] Lambert

4-4-2

Style: optimistic

TOP THREE TWITTER STARS

1BILLY SHARP - 100,632 followers

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2 JACK CORK - 31,972 followers

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3 JOS HOOVIELD - 29,857 followers

Follow @joshooiveld20

RATINGS

DEFENCE: 6

MIDFIELD: 6

ATTACK: 7

OVERALL: 6.6

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