Intro:

Southampton manager Ronald Koeman speaks ahead of Sunday's Premier League match at home to Manchester City.

Script:

SOUNDBITE (English) Ronald Koeman, Southampton manager:

"Every person can have his own opinion about the team. I think we have a strong team. We play out of a good organisation but we realise, us, that this Sunday we play against one of the teams who can win the title - and who won the title last season. Okay, we know that we have to be good, that we have to play better than we did last Monday (a 1-1 draw at Aston Villa), but I said before that it's not easy to beat Southampton, and we will show that on this Sunday."

SOUNDBITE (English) Ronald Koeman, Southampton manager:

(On Sergio Aguero).

"You can't do everything to stop a player because it's one of the best players. He's the player who makes, in my opinion, in the last few weeks the difference between winning and not winning for City. And of course they have a strong squad, they have good players, but in the last few games Aguero made the difference, he was scoring goals, he was creating... and that's the nice thing of football, he's created opportunities by himself. We have a strong defence but it's a nice challenge for our defenders to keep the zero behind for this Sunday, because you can't give them one second no attention, you need that attention during 90-95 minutes... and that's a great challenge for our defenders."

SOUNDBITE (English) Ronald Koeman, Southampton manager:

"We've played twelve games now - I didn't saw (see) one team better than we (us) in these twelve games, and we've played against Liverpool, we've played against Tottenham... maybe Sunday, but we will see."