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How Wreck-it Ralph changed Southampton into a pressing machine, only Liverpool have won possession more in the final third this season... and there are no passengers

You will struggle to find a better drilled side in the Premier League than Southampton.

Each and every player knows his job to the nth degree. They are a pressing machine — only Liverpool have won possession more in the final third this season — and there are no passengers.

As manager Ralph Hasenhuttl himself says, you cannot be 'half-pregnant'. Either everybody presses or nobody does, because it doesn't work if only one or two players go. There's a tremendous team energy.

You will struggle to find a better drilled side in top flight than Ralph Hasenhuttl's Southampton

It's a given that every man runs his socks off for Hasenhuttl, who has lost only three of his last 20 league games.