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Until illness led to him missing last week's defeat at Arsenal, Lovren had featured in every minute of Southampton's season, his central defensive partnership with Jos?? Fonte being one of the reasons why a once-leaky side is now the tightest in the top flight. Yet Southampton are not a defensive side; rather than sit back, they hunt the ball aggressively all over the pitch. Lovren says the club's statistics show that each player runs an average of 12km per game ??? that is over 2km more than Lyon said he ran in that Benfica match, where, according to Lyon's figures, he was the third most dynamic player on the pitch. Such vigorous pressing is also practised by Barcelona, whose guideline is that players must retrieve the ball within a maximum of six seconds of losing it. "Here it's two seconds," quips Lovren, who relishes his side's all-action style. "I was playing football in Lyon and Dinamo Zagreb but never like this. We play with risk but it's such a pleasure."