Manchester City can edge a step nearer to a home treble once they tackle Southampton within the FA Cup semi-finals on Saturday.
Metropolis’s win at Burnley on Wednesday adopted up a 2-1 dwelling win over Arsenal on Sunday, leaving them top on goal difference.
They’re additionally doubtlessly 90 minutes away from an FA Cup remaining towards both Leeds or Chelsea, who meet on Sunday (15:00 BST).
Saints haven’t misplaced any of their final 20 video games in all competitions, surging up the Championship to fourth.
The place to observe Man Metropolis v Southampton: TV channel, stay on-line streams
Kick-off on Saturday is at 17:15 BST (12:15 ET / 09:15PT). Reside TV protection within the UK is on BBC One, BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport web site, TNT Sports activities 1, TNT Sports activities Final and the HBO Max app.
TNT Sports activities prices £30.99 a month and is offered on an enormous vary of gadgets together with sensible TVs and gaming consoles.
Manchester Metropolis v Southampton stats
- The primary-ever assembly between the groups was a 5-0 Metropolis win within the FA Cup second spherical in February 1910
- The seven-time champions have gained all three editions of the fixture within the FA Cup, additionally prevailing 3-1 at dwelling within the fourth spherical in January 2007 and 4-1 away within the quarter-finals in March 2022
- They’ve misplaced one in every of their final 10 conferences with Southampton (W6), though that defeat got here in a cup competitors with a 2-0 loss within the EFL Cup in January 2023
- City have gained their final 5 matches in all competitions by an mixture scoreline of 12-1, in addition to scoring in every of their final seven video games
- Eight of the final 9 events on which Metropolis have didn’t beat Southampton have come away from their very own stadium (L4 D3)
- Erling Haaland has the very best objective conversion (60%) of any participant to have scored at the least thrice on this season’s competitors, in addition to a shot accuracy of 80% that’s solely bettered amongst these gamers by Weston-super-Mare’s Louis Britton
- This match will fall 99 days after Southampton’s final defeat, shedding 2-1 at dwelling to Hull Metropolis within the Championship every week after beating third-tier Doncaster Rovers away within the FA Cup third spherical
- Southampton have scored one objective throughout their final 5 conferences with Metropolis. The one Saints participant to attain within the final six editions of the fixture is Sekou Mara, netting in a 4-1 Premier League dwelling defeat in April 2023
- There have been greater than three hours and 18 minutes of soccer between the groups since Mara scored that objective, though Metropolis have additionally gone greater than 175 minutes towards Southampton with out netting, since Erling Haaland’s winner of their 1-0 dwelling win in October 2024
- Southampton have scored in every of their final 22 matches in all competitions, in addition to netting in all seven of their matches in home cup campaigns in 2025/26
- Three of their final 4 FA Cup targets have come after the 84th minute, comprising Shea Charles’s Eighty fifth-minute winner against Arsenal, Ross Stewart’s 91st-minute penalty of their 1-0 victory at Fulham within the fifth spherical and James Bree’s 109th-minute decider at dwelling to Leicester Metropolis within the fourth spherical
