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Saints At Sheffield United The Preview

Saints travel to South Yorkshire looking to end a wretched run of form and propel themselves into the Capital One Cup Semi Finals

Ronald Koeman has the task of freshening up his shell shocked side and turning the poor form of the last few weeks on its head. The problem is though he has to o it without top scorer Pelle and several other key players, however this could work in our favour.

Sometimes things happen by design and sometimes fate takes a hand and hopefully this will be one of those occasions, Ronald Koeman has stated that his side will not change style without Pellet, but the reality is that we will have to adapt to some degree and the choice s whether to play Shane Long or Sadio Mane up top.

Either will offer an option, Mane will offer pace, as will Long but perhaps the Irishman wily offer that little bit more and this could push the ball into his court when Koeman makes his decision.

But whatever change the manager makes it will go some way to freshening up a side who have looked a little lacking in something in the last few games as well as having a lot of bad luck.

With respect to the Blades we should have enough even with our injury ravaged side to b able to go through this evening and this game offers us a great chance to do something this season and we need to take it, the reality is Saints haven't played that badly in recent weeks they have just lapsed in concentration at key monuments, if we can erase that then we can march on to the semis.

Saints will b roared on by over 4,000 fans for this game, a great turnout for a cold Tuesday night in Yorkshire, hopefully the players will respond and realise that this season is at a crossroads, it needs o be kick started back to life and his I just the game to do that.

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