Southampton boss Ronald Koeman has a lot of respect for Bournemouth.

Koeman's Saints take on the Premier League new-boys at St Mary's in the first ever top-flight meeting the two south coast neighbours.

"It is a derby, maybe not as big in history as other derbies but in my opinion it's different to a normal game at home," said Koeman.

"The Bournemouth game can be more difficult than a Liverpool or a Chelsea game.

"They have a philosophy about football and that is what I respect about that club.

"They try to play football, they try to create and they showed last Wednesday against Liverpool that they are difficult to beat."