Southampton has jumped to first place and that stunt achieved it even without star player Danny Ings. The goal scoring machine is in the rags basket for a while.
Southampton had started the season poorly with 2 defeats and a 5-2 ball wash at Tottenham, but won 5 of its last 6 games.
Coach Ralph Hasenhüttl has thus made a turnaround, but that process was more or less started this summer.
Last season Southampton was humiliated 0-9 by Leicester, but after the lockdown, the Saints turned out to be one of the strongest teams.
Southampton is now in the lead thanks to the goal difference.
The previous passage as number 1 dates from the 1988-1989 season, when it had won its first three matches of the competition.
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