Source: Team_Talk
Saints quartet sit out Pompey tussle
Defenders Fonte, Seaborne and Otsemebor and winger Puncheon are all cup-tied so Wayne Thomas, Chris Perry and Radhi Jaidi come in at the back and Michail Antonio should start on the flank in the fifth-round tie against Pompey at St Mary's.[LNB]A fifth new recruit, striker Lee Barnard, is available and returns to the squad having been ineligible for the midweek Johnstone's Paint Trophy win over MK Dons.[LNB]Manager Alan Pardew will check on forward David Connolly, who has been out since December with a niggling groin injury but is close to returning.[LNB]Veteran full-back Graeme Murty remains on the sidelines with ankle ligament damage.[LNB][LNB]
