Wolves v Southampton live match stream

Our live match stream is up and running ahead of Monday night’s Premier League fixture Wolves v Southampton, kicking off at 8pm BST.

You can keep an eye on the commentary as it happens below, but first, we take a preview into the fixture, the lineups, predictions and much more.

In the previous game, Wolves ended up losing 1-0 to Leicester with Jamie Vardy netting his eighth goal of season with penalty before missing another with a sixth consecutive win in all competitions to see off Wolves, who remained in eighth in the Premier League table.

Southampton ended up winning 2-0 at home to Newcastle. Che Adams and Stuart Armstrong scored in routine home win; Saints moved to the top-flight summit for first time since September 1988; and it was made more impressive as Ralph Hasenhuttl’s side lost 9-0 to Leicester just over a year ago.

Assessing Southampton and his own side, Wolves boss Nuno said: “They are a very good team.

“They have very good players and a good manager, and they play with high intensity.

“We want to improve in all aspects of the game.

“There’s a big challenge in front of us, but we’re always trying to raise our standards.

“That’s what we want, to embrace the challenge as you always have a chance to play better.”

Nuno said that defender Max Kilman has carried on training after the death of his father.

“It’s a moment of sadness, a very hard moment for Max, but we’re here to support him and help him,” added Nuno.

“Losing a father, nobody can imagine anything worse than that.

“We’re here to support him, but he’s a strong boy.

“He’s training. The sadness doesn’t go away, but we know that we have to grieve so we overcome the situation.

“This is what Max is doing, with the all the help of the team-mates.

“We make him feel, him and his family, that we do anything we can to help.

“We are friends. We love each other, and we help each other.”

Assessing Southampton and his own side, Nuno said: “They are a very good team.

“They have very good players and a good manager, and they play with high intensity.

“We want to improve in all aspects of the game.

“There’s a big challenge in front of us, but we’re always trying to raise our standards.

“That’s what we want, to embrace the challenge as you always have a chance to play better.”

Southampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl said: “Unbelievable, this team. So far they have done a fantastic job in every competition.

“They’ve had to play with nearly the same squad because they have such a small one and what they do is fantastic – and they’re still in the top seven.”

Asked if playing Wolves three days after their FA Cup replay defeat can help his side, Hasenhuttl continued: “I don’t know if it’s an advantage. They are very, very flexible.

“It’s a very tough opponent, they wait for the right moment to attack and don’t lose a lot of games – they’ve only lost five so far in the Premier League.

“We won last season at home and it will be another difficult and interesting game.”

He said on his fearless side: “We’ve made a good turnaround after the first two games. It’s important to be in a different part of the table, not because the table is important in the moment, but because it takes away the pressure and allows us to focus on development more than surviving. This is the biggest difference from last season.

“We know we can handle this period. We have a squad that is physically strong, and last season we had our best Christmas period ever. We’re looking forward to this time because we have shown we can play three games a week.”

Talking about the impact of the international break and the proposition of facing Wolves on Monday evening, he added: “We’ve actually had more players with us over the break, because of injuries and some didn’t go away immediately.

“The good thing is we play on Monday, so we’ve had over two weeks to train. It helps us, but it also helps the opponent. They [Wolves] have a lot of internationals. 

“It’s better for both. I think the quality of the game should be a better one and hopefully we can also bring the right automatism on the pitch because we need to.

“In some moments we’ve shown good things against them in the past. Hopefully we are a little further in our development now. We need to go there and show our best performance.”

FORM:

Wolverhampton Wanderers Premier League form: LWWDWL

Southampton Premier League form: WWDWWW

LINEUPS:

Wolverhampton Wanderers possible starting lineup:
Patricio; Boly, Coady, Kilman; Semedo, Dendoncker, Neves, Marcal; Traore, Jimenez, Neto

Southampton possible starting lineup:
McCarthy; Walker-Peters, Bednarek, Vestergaard, Bertrand; Armstrong, Ward-Prowse, Romeu, Djenepo; Walcott, Adams

LAWRO’S PREDICTION:

He said: Southampton showed they could cope without Danny Ings when they brushed Newcastle aside before the international break. This is a much sterner test, however.

Saints are not just well-organised, they are forward-thinking. I really like the way they look to move the ball forward, get people in wide areas and stretch the opposition.

But they are up against Wolves, who are really canny team and have got a bit of class too.

Nuno Espirito Santo’s side very rarely have off nights. Yes, they keep things very tight but they are what I would call a probing team. Once they find a weakness, they are in.

Lawro’s prediction: 2-0

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