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MARTIN DUBRAVKA Southampton (D3 L2) have failed to win any of their opening five league matches at home for the first time since 2001-02, a season they went on to finish 11th. Newcastle have failed to win any of their opening 10 matches of a league season for just the second time in their history, last doing so back in the 1898-99 top-flight campaign.

Southampton have failed to score in five straight Premier League matches for the first time since April 2001 under manager Stuart Gray.