Arsenal 3-2 Southampton: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 8 April 2018

Result

Arsenal 3-2 Southampton

Premier League · Sunday 8 April 2018, 13:15 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Arsenal 3-2 Southampton: match report

Arsenal defeated Southampton 3-2 in the Premier League on Sunday 8 April 2018. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Ingo Goetze opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Arsenal's goals came from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (28'), Danny Welbeck (38') and Danny Welbeck (81'). Southampton scored through Ingo Goetze (17') and Charlie Austin (73').

Discipline: Arsenal received 2 yellow cards; Southampton received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Arsenal were 6th on 51 points from 31 and Southampton 18th on 28 points from 31. Arsenal went on to finish that season 6th with 63 points, and Southampton 17th with 36.

Arsenal lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Southampton in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Danny Welbeck of Arsenal (8.5), ahead of Granit Xhaka (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Arsenal wins, 3 draws and 2 for Southampton.

Going into the match Arsenal's last five read W-W-L-L-L and Southampton's L-L-D-D-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 17'Goal · Ingo GoetzeSouthampton · 0-1
  • 28'Goal · Pierre-Emerick AubameyangArsenal · 1-1
  • 38'Goal · Danny WelbeckArsenal · 2-1
  • 50'Yellow card · Héctor BellerínArsenal
  • 73'Goal · Charlie AustinSouthampton · 2-2
  • 81'Goal · Danny WelbeckArsenal · 3-2
  • 90+2'Yellow card · J. WilshereArsenal
  • 90+6'Yellow card · Wesley HoedtSouthampton

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Arsenal 5, draws 3, Southampton 2.

Team news

Arsenal line-up (4-2-3-1)

Petr Čech, Héctor Bellerín, Shkodran Mustafi, Calum Chambers, Sead Kolasinac, Mohamed Elneny, Granit Xhaka, Reiss Nelson, Alex Iwobi, Danny Welbeck, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Southampton line-up (3-4-2-1)

Alex Simon McCarthy, Jack Stephens, Maya Yoshida, Wesley Hoedt, Cédric Soares, Oriol Romeu, Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, Ryan Bertrand, James Ward-Prowse, Dusan Tadic, Shane Long