Adam Lallana anticipates a competitive and entertaining encounter on Saturday when Leeds visit St. Mary's.
The versatile forward is wary of this weekend's opponents, but believes that Saints will be a different proposition at home from the side that tasted defeat in West Yorkshire earlier this season.
"Our form at home has been brilliant of late, we've just got to take it on against two good teams this week, and first up is Leeds," he told Saints Player. "We've got to be positive and take the momentum of our record at home in the last few weeks towards getting three points.
"They're fighting for the automatic spots so I'm sure they're going to come out fighting to try and get a result and I think when teams come to attack us it's better for us, because when teams put players behind the ball you've got to break them down.
"It's going to be a competitive game. People have told me it's going to be a sell out crowd again so that's just going to build up the atmosphere and I think it's going to be a good game.
"We owe them one after they beat us 1-0 at Elland Road. They've just come back off a good win in midweek, but we just need to continue our home form and bounce back from the defeat last weekend as quickly as possible."
A narrow loss at Tranmere a week ago is a result Saints are keen to put out of their minds, and Lallana is hopeful that a run of home games combined with a team that continues to grow, will soon make a defeat on the Wirral seem like a distant memory.
"It didn't click for us last weekend and then they scored that penalty in the dying minutes, but two home games are a chance to get back to back wins which would be brilliant.
"We can't afford many more slip ups like Tranmere, anyone can see that. We know that we need to win the majority of our games, it's Leeds on Saturday and we've got to get those three points first.
"Having seven or eight home games left is good. Playing at home is an advantage, but we just need to take our home form into our away form.
"The new players have gelled in really well," the youngster continued. "Lee Barnard's scoring rate of late has been brilliant, Lambo speaks for himself and Puncheon's got goal scoring ability, but can create as well so he's a quality player and we seem to have knitted together well.
"It's not just the four of us though, we've been a bit more solid in defence and I think we're growing as a team, we just need to be more consistent especially away from home, but if we do that and keep our home form up, then anything is possible."
