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0¹ A mix up in the Watford defence enabled GIMÉNEZ to blast the ball inches over. 2¹ GIMÉNEZ ran onto a wonderful ball from DOUGLAS LUIZ but dragged his effort wide. 6¹ DÍAZ clipped the ball through a ruck of players but the Watford 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right. 8¹ SARR brought the ball round KAMARA and rifled a tame shot wide. 11¹ A wonderful save prevented SAVINHO from scoring a good goal. 12¹ GOAL!! A nice run by KVARATSKHELIA on the right was capped by a wonderful cross which GIMÉNEZ touched home at the far post. (1-0 Southampton) 13¹ The hapless 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from NACHO fell just over. 17¹ A cross from KVARATSKHELIA left KAMARA in plenty of space but he snapped at his shot. 19¹ DÍAZ was put clear by GVARDIOL and he turned the 'keeper but struck his shot wide. 27¹ A shot from SAVINHO was smothered by the Southampton 'keeper. 28¹ GOAL!! A tackle from GABRIEL gave Watford a free-kick twenty yards out which TODIBO thundered past the Southampton 'keeper. (1-1) 31¹ An inswinging corner was flicked into the arms of LENO by KVARATSKHELIA. 32¹ SAVINHO's shot was well held by the 'keeper. 41¹ DOUGLAS LUIZ beat XHAKA and drove the ball to KAMARA who pulled his shot wide. 6² DÍAZ scuffed an easy chance. 16² GOAL!! A free-kick was punched clear by POPE, POKU was first to the loose ball and floated the ball to ZINCHENKO to slide home. (2-1 Watford) 17² GIMÉNEZ shot wide. 22² A penalty box scramble resulted in POKU knocking a low shot wide. 31² ZINCHENKO booked for a cynical challenge on GVARDIOL. 33² GOAL!! KVARATSKHELIA waltzed forward, looked up and stroked a shot into the Watford net. (2-2) 39² A shot from DÍAZ was kicked off the line by ZINCHENKO. 44² DIOGO DALOT headed the ball wide of the goal from the edge of the box.

Southampton   League position: 6 Home league form: WXXL Overall league form: WWXXWXLL Formation: 4-2-3-1

Line-ups Nick POPE 6  1 6  Bernd LENO Lutsharel GEERTRUIDA 6½ 2 7  José DIOGO DALOT Josko GVARDIOL 8  3 6½ Oleksandr ZINCHENKO Boubacar KAMARA 6  4 7½ Leon GORETZKA Dayot UPAMECANO 7  5 6½ Jean-Clair TODIBO GABRIEL dos Santos 7½ 6 6½ NACHO Khvicha KVARATSKHELIA 7½ 7 6½ Granit XHAKA(c) DOUGLAS LUIZ Soares 7  8 7  SAVINHO (c,p)Santiago GIMÉNEZ 7  9 6½ Ernest POKU(p) Christopher NKUNKU 7  10 5½ Hirving LOZANO(f) (f)Luis DÍAZ 7  11 6  Ismaïla SARR Ben Stevenson Manager Cody GAKPO 7½ 12    JOÃO PEDRO Junqueira Tommy SETFORD    13    Péter GULÁCSI Giovanni REYNA    14 5½ Samson BAIDOO Ibrahima KONATÉ    15    Brajan GRUDA Malo GUSTO 8  16    NUNO Alexandre MENDES

Watford   League position: 18 Away league form: LLLL Overall league form: OXLLLOLW Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Southampton 2 Watford 2 (Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 32,444, Stadium: St.Mary's, Referee: Martin Penicka 7½) Giménez 12¹, Kvaratskhelia 33² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Todibo 28¹, Zinchenko 16² KamaraóGakpo 17², GeertruidaóGusto 25² XhakaóBaidoo 11²       Zinchenko 31² 4 2 6 18 6 6 9 7 9 4 18 11 6 5 56% 44% ¶ Man of the match: Malo Gusto ¶