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FA Cup – 4th Round

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February 8, 2025

Two teams who could soon be swapping divisions will square off in the fourth round of the FA Cup, as Premier League basement club Southampton play host to Championship promotion hopefuls Burnley at St Mary’s. The Saints and the Clarets meet for the first time since April 2022 when the latter beat the former 2-0 at Turf Moor in the top flight. For the first time since November 2 last year, Southampton celebrated a Premier League victory last weekend as they beat fellow strugglers Ipswich Town 2-1 at Portman Road – just their second top-flight win in 24 matches this season.

Southampton must now shift their focus back to the FA Cup and having already beaten Swansea City 3-0 in the third round this term, they will attempt to progress from the fourth round of the competition for the fifth successive season.

Southampton – FA Cup winners in 1976 – head into Saturday’s contest having won eight of their last 10 home matches in the FA Cup, winning each of their last three by an aggregate score of 10-0, while they have also come out on top in their only two previous encounters with Burnley in this competition – winning 2-1 away back in 1908 (first round) and 4-3 on home soil in 2014 (third round).

Burnley are on course to become one of the best defensive sides in the recent history of English football after they kept their 22nd clean sheet of the Championship campaign, and ninth in a row, in a narrow 1-0 home win over Oxford City on Tuesday night.

The Clarets have remarkably conceded only nine league goals in 31 matches, the fewest of any English league team, 10 fewer than the next strongest defence in England (Leeds United – 19), and five fewer than any side in the top-two tiers in Spain, Germany, Italy and France, while they currently occupy an automatic promotion place in the Championship table, sitting second and five points behind leaders Leeds.

Burnley travel to St Mary’s having lost just two of their last 11 meetings with Southampton (all in the Premier League), but success against the Saints is not a given, as they have been eliminated in nine of their last 11 FA Cup ties against top-flight opposition while playing in a lower division.