FRASER Forster is on course for the best defensive record in Premier League history outside of Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool or Arsenal.

The Saints keeper has kept 10 clean sheets in his 21 league appearances so far, conceding just 15 goals.

Saints have let in four goals fewer than the team with the second best defensive record in the top flight, Chelsea.

Forster’s current average of 0.71 goals conceded per game, if continued throughout the 38-game season, would see him let in only 27 goals.

Only Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea have ever recorded a better average since the Premier League was formed in the summer of 1992.

Liverpool have twice equalled Forster’s current average.

Chelsea hold the Premier League record, conceding only 15 goals in 38 games in Jose Mourinho’s first title winning campaign of 2004/05.

Forster could equal that total, providing he doesn’t let in a single goal in Saints’ remaining 17 games!

Forster is obviously on course to establish a new Saints Premier League defensive record.

The fewest goals the club has conceded is 45 in 2003/04.

They have let in 46 twice – in 2002/03 and again last season.

Prior to the Premier League, Saints’ best top flight defensive season was in 1983/84 when they only let in 38 goals in 42 games – an average of 0.9 goals per game.

In 1981/82, Saints had the second worst record in the top flight, despite finishing seventh – conceding 67 goals in 42 games.