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Schneiderlin dreams of Southampton silverware: 'Anything is possible'

Morgan Schneiderlin is daring to dream as Southampton chase some evasive silverware this season.

The Saints take on Arsenal in the Capital One Cup third round on Tuesday night and French midfielder Schneiderlin feels the south coast club are in good enough form to take down the north Londoners.

Under Ronald Koeman, Southampton have enjoyed their best start to a top flight campaign in 26 years and Schneiderlin can see no reason why they cannot turn that into success in the cups competitions so they can lift their first trophy since the 1976 FA Cup.

"Why can't Southampton win a cup this season? Anything is possible," he said.

"We're going to go to Arsenal, play our game and do the best we can. The players at this club want to do something great in the cup, it's very important to us.

"It's the shortest way to get into the Europa League, which would be great for the club and for the fans."

On Koeman's influence since his arrival at St Mary's Stadium, Schneiderlin added: "Every manager changes the style when they come into a football club.

"It's different to (Mauricio) Pochettino, we don't press so high and so hard during the game and we are more controlled in defence.

"We're winning at the moment but we need to keep going and I know the gaffer wants to address some things."

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