Southampton vs Preston North End Prediction and Betting Tips | November 1st 2025

Southampton will host Preston North End at St. Mary's Stadium on Saturday in another round of the 2025-26 EFL Championship campaign. The hosts will be desperate to return to winning ways and end their poor recent form.

Southampton's struggles continued last weekend as they allowed two late goals in the 76th and 86th minute of their 2-1 loss to Blackburn Rovers and have fallen to 20th place in the league table. The Saints, who have only one win from their last six games, were only just relegated to the second division this season but are at risk of falling into the Championship drop zone should they fail to pick up points in the coming weeks.

Preston started the season in phenomenal form but have also not been in the best of form in recent weeks, picking up only two wins from their last six games.

The visitors went down by two goals in the 16th minute of their game against Sheffield United last time out, but managed to turn it around to come away with all three points in a 3-2 win and will be hoping to build momentum off that result.

Southampton vs Preston North End Head-to-Head and Key Numbers

• Saturday's game will be the 45th meeting between the two sides. Southampton have won 16 of the previous 44 matches, and 14 have ended in draws while Preston North End have won the remaining 14.
• The hosts are unbeaten across the last five editions of this fixture and have scored five goals in the last two.
• The visitors’ last win in this fixture came in December 2007.
• Southampton have scored 13 goals and conceded 17 across 12 league games this season while Preston have scored 15 and conceded 12.

Southampton vs Preston North End Prediction

The Saints are considered favorites heading into the weekend clash despite their poor recent form due to their home advantage and slightly better quality. The hosts will, however, need to show considerable improvement from their most recent games to get a result.

The Lilywhites will be optimistic of coming away with maximum points against a wayward Southampton side this weekend. They have, however, had struggles of their own and may have to settle for a point.

Prediction: Southampton 1-1 Preston North End

Southampton vs Preston North End Betting Tips

Tip 1 - Result: Draw

Tip 2 - Goals - Over/under 2.5 - Under 2.5 goals

Tip 3 - Both teams to score: Yes (Both teams have gotten on the scoresheet in eight of the hosts' last nine games)

Edited by Peter P