Gabbiadini to settle the score

We’re expecting goals at St Mary’s

Southampton entertain Manchester United on Wednesday evening, live in front of the Sky Sports cameras. The home side face an opponent with not a lot to play for in the dying embers of this season, but the locals need the points to strengthen their push for a top-half finish.

The Saints can’t match last season’s sixth, but go into the week level on points with West Brom in eighth, while United, now unable to reach the top-four, will have one eye firmly on their upcoming Europa League final with Ajax.

United have an eye on Ajax

That glamour tie with the Dutch giants rates as game of the season for Jose Mourinhos’s side, and represents their only chance of gaining entry into next term’s Champions League. That aside, a look at the bare stats shows United go into this tie on the back of two defeats in-a-row, losing 2-0 to Arsenal on their penultimate start, before coming up short on an emotional afternoon vs Spurs at White Hart Lane on Sunday.

A 2-0 verdict over Burnley on April 23^rd stands as the last match won by The Red Devils – a pair of draws with Man City and Swansea followed by those defeats the form. Their misfiring attack, which has let the club down so often this season, and was labelled ‘sloppy’ by The Special One recently, have managed just two goals in that four-game period.

Rooney going out with a bang

Wayne Rooney, who is expected to leave in the summer, has claimed each of those goals, and the record-breaking scorer has been chalked up as a 6/1 shot to net first again on Wednesday, while more reserved punters will get 21/10 in the To Score Anytime market.