Former Saints winger Nathan Dyer will be the most established goalscoring threat for Swansea at St Mary’s this weekend – and he hasn’t netted in the Premier League since August!

The Swans travel to the south coast on Sunday in the midst of a mini-crisis, coupling a poor run of form with the absence of several key players.

Not only are they still struggling to come to terms with top scorer Wilfried Bony’s £28m move to Manchester City, but they are missing some of their most influential stars.

Other then Dyer, the only other players in Garry Monk’s squad who have scored more than once all season are Gylfi Sigurdsson, Wayne Routledge and Ki Sung-Yeung.

All three will miss the trip to face Saints due to suspension, injury and the Asian Cup respectively.

Only six Swansea players have registered assists this season – and the trio above are amongst them, with Sigurdsson such a key man with eight to his name.

Only Chelsea’s Cesc Fabregas had provided more assists in the top flight this season than Sigurdsson, who last March scored Tottenham’s late winner against Saints at White Hart Lane. Dyer, who came through the Saints academy before moving to Swansea in 2009, has bagged three league goals this season – but they were all scored in August.

He does have memories of scoring for Swansea at St Mary’s though, as he netted the equaliser in a 1-1 draw between the sides in 2012.

That was the first top flight meeting between the clubs since 1983, and in the four matches that have passed since then Swansea have not only failed to beat Saints but to register another goal.

Though Saints do have injury problems of their own – with Toby Alderweireld, Morgan Schneiderlin, Victor Wanyama and Shane Long all missing – they are boosted by the return from international duty of Maya Yoshida and Sadio Mane, and are ready to resume league action after the FA Cup defeat to Crystal Palace.

Swansea are in poor form, with a victory over League Two strugglers Tranmere in the FA Cup their only win in the last six.

But Dyer is hoping for a morale boosting victory as he and Monk head to their former club on Sunday.

Southampton are doing amazingly at the moment,” he said.

“But we feel as a team we can go there and get something.

“I don’t think they’re a better team than us and as long as we go there with the right mentality then anything’s possible.”

After a 5-0 home hammering against Chelsea and an FA Cup exit to Championship club Blackburn – where the losers also had Kyle Bartley dismissed – Swansea could do with a lift.

“It would be good now to draw a line under the last week or so, get everybody’s heads together, refocus and get back on track,” added Dyer.

“We did so well at the start of the season and it’s not a case of becoming a bad side.

“It sounds a little like we’re bottom of the league, but they’re the expectations that have grown because of how we started the season.

“We set our own standards and we know we need to get back to those right away.

“Even after going down to 10 men at Blackburn, we thought we might have been able to do enough, that we could catch them on the counter-attack and shut up shop at the back.

“But it wasn’t meant to be for us and we have to pick ourselves back up.”