Of course, Gerrard will have to force his team to win against Southampton today if he is to keep his position as coach safe from a possible sacking.
You gotta be kidding. His position is far from not safe, he literally got 1 point against manchester City which is probably the best team in EPL right now. There is a limit to what he can do with his current team and if he can get the team somewhere on 10-12th that would have been decent already. Well generally speaking, the current score is 1-0 for Aston Villa right now and pretty sure that his team would win today