In my opinion Southampton is clear favorite of today's match up and they have all required tools to make comfortable win with at least 2 goals margin. -1.5 AH looks like best possible bet to play here.

Southampton coming for this game with almost best possible squad. Kotchap and Salisu back to the team after World Cup, Walker-Peters and Livramento almost fully fit. Morale in team for sure is on good level. At the weekend Southampton played friendly match against other team from Premier League - Bournemouth and recorded good 2:0 win behind the closed doors.

Southampton coach Nathan Jones made excellent work in Luton at Championship level and he fully deserved for the chance on the highest level. I believe he have strong motivation to make great result in first home game front of home crowd. Deep run in EFL Cup should give a lot of smile for supporters.

Lincoln is poor team on the road in League One standards - they lost 5 of 10 away league matches and conceded 15 goals in the process. Easily I can imagine more than one goal for Southampton today. On the other hand Lincoln have problems with creativity - they scored 21 goals in 20 league matches, but according to the expected goals scored model they should score only 16.1.

I see routine win for hosts.

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在我看来，南安普顿在今天的比赛中是最受欢迎的，他们拥有所有需要的工具，以至少2球的优势轻松取胜。-1.5 AH看起来是最好的赌注。

南安普顿带着几乎是最好的阵容来参加这场比赛。科切普和萨利苏在世界杯后回归，沃克-彼得斯和利夫拉曼托几乎完全康复。团队的士气肯定处于良好的水平。在周末南安普顿与另一支英超球队伯恩茅斯进行了一场友谊赛，并在闭门比赛中取得了2:0的好成绩。

南安普顿教练内森·琼斯在卢顿的英冠联赛中表现出色，他完全配得上这个最高水平的机会。我相信他有强大的动力在第一个主场比赛中在主场观众面前取得好成绩。足总杯的深跑应该会给球迷带来很多微笑。

以英甲联赛的标准来看，林肯是一支客场表现不佳的球队——他们在10场客场比赛中输掉了5场，丢了15个球。我很容易就能想象出南安普顿今天不止一个进球。另一方面，林肯在创造力方面存在问题——他们在20场联赛中打进21球，但根据预期进球数模型，他们应该只进16.1球。

我看到主持人的常规获胜。