An early West Brom goal changes everything at Southampton

Jonny Drury and Lewis Cox bring you the latest episode of the Baggies Broadcast.

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00:00But if Albi can get at Southampton early doors, like they did yesterday, and make it count,

00:07my God, St Mary's is going to be in one nervy place on Friday.

00:10Yeah, yeah, there's more expectation and pressure on Southampton for the whole time, but certainly

00:16now it's evens at their place, absolutely.

00:19I would say it would be difficult to get out of the traps like that, yeah, with the atmosphere

00:24will probably be booming in their favour, won't it?

00:27I've no doubt the away end will be absolutely on it.

00:30It was superb back in November, but it will be tough for Albin's players to sort of stamp

00:35themselves on it early.

00:36But that's not to say they can't go and do it, absolutely, and yeah, it'd be just sort

00:43of dreamlike to go and get an early lead there, wouldn't it?

00:46Because that would throw the cat right amongst the pigeons.

00:48It would make them, as you say, nervy and it would make Southampton rush.

00:54And I think that's when they're probably at their worst, when they're trying to force

00:58it, I would say, given how Russell Martin likes his side to play.

01:02Yeah, it's in the balance, look, it is in the balance and credit Albin.

01:06It's hard to call at the moment.

01:07Look, Southampton are still favourites, but considering, I mean, let's be honest, everyone

01:12was writing Albin off, weren't they?

01:13The bookies fancied Norwich more to go up and they had to face third-place leads.

01:21I'd suspect.

01:22I think any neutrals that tuned in yesterday, yes, some neutrals from the outside might

01:25not have thought it was a thriller and I'm not saying it was, I thought it was decent

01:29for a nil-nil.

01:30But I think any neutrals watching in wouldn't have necessarily had Southampton 12 points

01:36better off than Albin or thought Southampton beat Albin twice this season.

01:41The thing is a right competitive game and you can see why these teams were fought for

01:45fifth, really.

01:46You know, yes, Southampton were away clear and part of the top four and Albin were more

01:50best of the rest.

01:51But this is two, maybe despite the resources and despite how the squads read on paper and

01:57despite the fact Albin lost twice this season, two very evenly matched sides.