St Mary's Stadium will be a nervous place on Sunday and both sets of supports will be in for a nail biting afternoon.

Southampton must get at least a point and hope for favourable outcomes in the games involving Leicester City and Sheffield Wednesday to have a chance of staying up.

United, on the other hand, must win on the South-Coast and hope for some fortune elsewhere to sneak into the play-offs.

The Saints have endured a disastrous slide in recent weeks, winning only two games from eighteen attempts, although they did gain a creditable point at promotion certs WBA on Monday night.

Trinidad and Tobago international Stern John is Southampton's top scorer with seventeen Championship goals this campaign.