Hello and welcome to live coverage of Southampton vs Arsenal in the battle for fifth place.

A chance for Arsenal now. Sanchez has room for a strike from the edge of the box, and drags his shot across goal. Forster dives right to palm it away.

Chance for Southampton, the first of the match. Tadic lifts a cross in from the left for Pelle, and he heads back across goal to head against the post and wide.

That is quite the list of unavailable players. While Christmas doesn't help with injuries, Arsenal have clearly got a major problem with fitness and have done for a few years now.

Arsenal are keeping the ball around midfield and defence now.

Still goallless and no clear chances for either side.

Oli Kay comes in with an awesome opinion. Southampton, meanwhile, start the match in possession and play the ball around defence.

I'm predicting a 5-0 win for Southampton. How about you?

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Arsenal and Southampton have both got their seasons back on track after some conspicuous stumbles. It'll be interesting to see who's able to come out on top today. That was a deliberately boring statement, but there you go.

Here's some more words from Ronald Koeman, see the tweet below.

Southampton did well against Chelsea, even if they completely gave up their attacking intent in the second half. They have enough quality and confidence to beat Arsenal today, but Arsenal are favourites.

I think this Laurent Koscielny returning after a fair while off with injury, so Arsenal will be pleased to have him back as, presumably, will Southampton.

Arsene Wenger: "I believe that there is a deficit between the potential we have shown and the number of points we have, that is what we want to get right. Now it is time to catch back the points that we lost now until the end of the season. I feel we were very, very unlucky with the injuries we got, but with the number of injuries we have had, we have survived quite well. I feel it is nearly impossible that we will have the same bad luck on the injury front that we had in 2014. I believe that hopefully in the second part of the season, we will have more stability, especially defensively, to be more consistent."

Ronald Koeman: "For me it's not an obsession (achieving fourth). I look more to how we play, and if we play in a system, develop the team organisation, then we will be in the first seven, eight teams in the league, because of those qualities we have, and we have shown them. But it's not an obsession, because I don't like to watch the table every weekend; it means nothing. Okay, if it's before the last weekend of the season it's different. But it's only half the season. Tomorrow we have a difficult game and many more ahead. We have to keep doing what we are doing, and that's most important, game by game."

TEAMS: Southampton: Forster, Alderweireld, Clyne, Fonte, Gardos, Wanyama, S. Davis, Tadic, Ward-Prowse, Mane, Pelle. Subs: K. Davis, Yoshida, Long, Isgrove, Reed, McCarthy, Targett. /// Arsenal: Szczesny, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs, Coquelin, Chambers, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla, Alexis. Subs: Martinez, Monreal, Bellerin, Maitland-Niles, Campbell, Walcott, Akpom .