What’s Hot and What’s Not from Southampton’s season so far

HOT – League Cup final

There’s no doubt that the highlight of Southampton’s season so far is reaching the League Cup final, where they’ll face Manchester United on Sunday.

Puel’s men have knocked out four Premier League sides en route to the Wembley showpiece, beating Crystal Palace 2-0 in round three, and then getting past David Moyes’ Sunderland 1-0 in the fourth round.

But it was their subsequent victories which made everyone sit up and take note, as the Saints went to the Emirates and outplayed Arsenal to win 2-0, before they beat Liverpool both home and away in the semi-finals with two outstanding displays.

It’s a title Southampton have never won – they reached the final in 1979 but lost to Nottingham Forest – and they haven’t won a piece of silverware since they won the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy back in 2010.

It would be quite the achievement if they got past United to win the League Cup on Sunday.