Pick of the stats: Southampton v Bristol City

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Southampton will hope to continue their late push for automatic promotion when they welcome Bristol City on Tuesday night (kick-off 19:45 BST).

The Saints are in excellent form with seven wins on the bounce in the Championship and are unbeaten in their past 16 games (W13 D3).

Tonda Eckert's side were 15th - 10 points adrift of the play-offs and 16 points behind second - following their last league defeat, which came against Hull City on 17 January.

They are now fourth - eight points clear of Wrexham in seventh and just one point behind second-placed Ipswich, who have a game in hand - having picked up five more points than any other team in that time.

Southampton face a Bristol City side who suffered their first defeat since Roy Hodgson took over last time out, losing 4-2 to Norwich following two wins and a draw under the former England manager.

The Robins now cannot make the play-offs or be relegated this season.

• Southampton have lost six of their past seven league games against Bristol City, though the exception was a 1-0 victory the last time they hosted the Robins in November 2023.
• Each of Bristol City's previous three away league games against Southampton has finished 1-0, with the Robins winning in November 2008 and December 2011, before losing in November 2023.
• Southampton are unbeaten in their previous eight home league games (W7 D1), winning each of the previous five; they last won six in a row in February 2024 (run of nine).
• Only Millwall (22) have conceded fewer away goals in the Championship this season than Bristol City (24), who could keep successive clean sheets on the road for the first time since October (run of three).
• Bristol City's Roy Hodgson has won on each of his past two league visits to Southampton with Watford in March 2022 (2-1) and Crystal Palace in April 2023 (2-0), having won on just one of his first five trips beforehand (D2 L2).