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Southampton manager Selles hints at attacking line-up for Arsenal trip

Southampton manager Ruben Selles has offered insight regarding the team he will pick against Arsenal on Friday.

The Saints are taking on the Premier League leaders, who will hope to extend their advantage over Manchester City.

However, Selles still believes he can get the Saints out of their relegation troubles, hinting they will go all out attack in this game.

Selles told reporters: "I don't make my line-up or tactics to do with what anyone else thinks.

"We need to be competitive in the game until we can score the goal. It is not about one number nine, this is a different challenge for all of us so the solution is not to put one, two or three strikers on, it's about putting people in situations.

"We are going to try and press them and win the balls high as possible to win the game.

“If we play our game we have options to win the game.

“We know what we can do if we can keep the performance as we did in the first half against Manchester City.

"It has been desperate from the very first second but the only difference now is we are running out of games. We haven't transformed performance to points.

"In every game that the result is not for us, it is hard. Everybody is working hard and the most important thing is you wake up the next day to fix the mistakes."

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