Saints head up to the capital city to try and drag Spurs back into the title race by taking at least a point at Chelsea.
Saints survived the weekend still in 10th place and with 2 or 3 games in hand over the teams around them, but the problem is that the first of the games in hand is at League leaders Chelsea who will be focused on making sure that Spurs don't get a sniff of catching them.
On the plus side Saints will have Oriol Romeu back in contention after his two game suspension and hopefully Manolo Gabbiadini will be a little fitter after his lay off and return last week.
But the real danger is Chelsea's ability to score, they are fresh from destroying Spurs at Wembley on Saturday and only the North London Soccer Chickens and Liverpool have scored more than their 65 goals this season, thats an average of over two goals a game and the problem is since Virgil Van Dijk's injury we have averaged letting in over 1.5 goals a game.
That seems to suggest that this could be a long night for Saints and certainly one that they will spend a lot of time on their back foot for, however Crystal Palace showed that Chelsea can be beaten, however it should be noted that the Eagles are set up to defend, we are not.
So Saints have to treat this game as a free hit, anything we get will be a bonus, get this out of the way and we then have the remainder of the games that we are capable of getting something out of, but sadly for this one I think the chances are slim.
I am not even going to bother suggesting the defence that Puel should play, I am getting bored of saying the same things and watching the same issues, Puel seems to be accepting that in terms of what the season can achieve it is now over and is happy to cruise through the final games.
I am not I want to see us finish in the top ten and in doing so bring n a big chunk of money towards the transfer budget, I want to see that th manager knows what is needed next season, I'm not sure that he is.