Saints can find themselves back in the top five on Saturday if they can beat the current team in that position Leicester City.

Back to back wins in the Premier League plus a stunning Capital Cup win against MK Dons have made Saints the team in form at the moment, hitting 12 goals in those 3 games to finally start to show the awesome firepower that this squad has.

Despite troubles at the start of the season Saints made a solid if unspectacular start and now they have the chance to really build on that and put themselves back into the top five of the Premier League.

At present it is Saturday's visitors to St Mary's Leicester City who hold that position on 15 points, 3 ahead of Saints, we already have a goal difference of one better than the Foxes so any winning scoreline for us will be enough to push us into that 5th spot.

Sadly though that is as high as we will be able to go on Saturday, although Crystal Palace start the day in 4th on the same number of points as Leicester, they are playing West Ham at Selhurst Park and whatever the result there, one of them will be above Saints should we win, assuming victory for us at St Mary's a draw at Selhurst could see us leapfrog the Hammers on goal difference, but they start the weekend 3 better than us n that department, a win for West Ham would see us leapfrog Palace but not West Ham and vice versa if Palace were to win.

The two other clubs above us have tricky games, Everton play Manchester United at home & Tottenham host Liverpool, a draw in either game could see us jump above ach of them respectively.

The good news though is that Saints are a team in the ascension, we have a good squad who are starting to click, our two previous seasons have given us a good grounding so we know what it takes and we also know we have more strength in depth than ever before.

We now need to do the job against Leicester and if we do that we could find ourselves back in fifth position, but the likelihood is that we will be somewhere between the 9th we are now and that 5th spot, that will still be a good position to be in, we did the hard work against Chelsea, now we need to build on that.

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Chesham_Saint added 09:47 - Oct 13 The Saints of 'old' would have blown this opportunity, but under Ronald's management I'm much more confident; but clearly at the moment Leicester are no push-overs.
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simmo400 added 10:33 - Oct 13 Important game and a win a must to prove where a top 6 team. COYR
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SaintBrock added 16:01 - Oct 13 Not an easy game but if we play as well as we didi against Chelsea, Leicester may not be able to cope. Mane will almost certainly be late back from Africa and may be too knackered to start and with Long a doubt we may not get into our stride quickly enough to get the early goal that helps set the tone of the match. A draw is most likely especially if Leicester sit back and let us exhaust ourselves playing keep-ball. As Chesham Saint said, it has always been a Saints weakness - not to deliver when the chips are down.

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