📊 Form Guide

Southampton

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Southampton will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following a 2-1 FA Cup success versus Leicester City.

In that match, Southampton managed 45% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 4 on target. For Southampton, the scorers were Cyle Larin (45') and James Bree (109'). Leicester City got 17 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Oliver Skipp (52') was the scorer for Leicester City. The match was won by Southampton in extra time.

Southampton haven’t been able to stop scoring goals, hitting the target in one hundred percent of their last 6 games.

They have claimed a sum of 11 during that time while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 5. That trend won’t necessarily be carried forward here, of course.

Analysis of their past results shows that Southampton:

• haven't lost in the league to Charlton Athletic in their previous 5 matches.
• are unbeaten in their last 2 home league matches.

Charlton Athletic

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Since tasting defeat last time out to Portsmouth in Championship action, Charlton Athletic and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that game, Charlton Athletic had 46% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. The only player to score for Charlton Athletic was Jayden Fevrier (64'). Portsmouth had 12 shots on goal with 6 on target. Terry Devlin (22', 56') and Colby Bishop (35') scored for Portsmouth.

A tendency of at least one side getting a clean sheet in games involving Charlton Athletic has become evident of late. Checking on their last six games shows that it’s occurred 5 times. In those clashes, their opponents have managed a goal total of 6 while Charlton Athletic have scored 5.

Coming into this contest, Charlton Athletic have left without a victory over Southampton in away games against them for the last 2 league matches.

👥 Head to head

A review of their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 04/04/2009 shows us that Southampton have won 3 of these and Charlton Athletic 1, with the tally of drawn matches being 2.

18 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 12 from The Saints and 6 being from The Addicks. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.

The previous league match featuring these sides was Championship match day 16 on 22/11/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Charlton Athletic 1-5 Southampton.

In that match, Charlton Athletic had 41% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Their only player to score was Lloyd Jones (45').

On the other side, Southampton got 23 shots at goal with 8 of them on target. Ryan Manning (14'), Adam Armstrong (16'), Caspar Jander (20') and Finn Azaz (22', 43') scored.

The match was refereed by Stephen Martin.

💭 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Southampton can and should dominate possession and create several successful chances.

However, Charlton Athletic may well struggle getting goals but we do think it’s quite likely that they will be getting the chances to score, too.

Our selection here is for a decent 3-1 winning margin for Southampton after 90 minutes.

Peter Guest, 14:06 21/02/2026