Southampton 3-0 Arsenal: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 26 December 2015

Result

Southampton 3-0 Arsenal

Premier League · Saturday 26 December 2015, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Southampton 3-0 Arsenal: match report

Southampton won against Arsenal 3-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 26 December 2015. The half-time score was 1-0.

C. Martina opened the scoring in the 19th minute. Southampton's goals came from C. Martina (19'), Ingo Goetze (55'), José Fonte (69') and Ingo Goetze (90+2'). Arsenal did not score.

Discipline: Southampton received 1 yellow card; Arsenal received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Southampton were 13th on 21 points from 17 and Arsenal 1st on 36 points from 17. Southampton went on to finish that season 7th with 63 points, and Arsenal 3rd with 70.

Southampton lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Arsenal in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to José Fonte of Southampton (8.2), ahead of Shane Long (8.1).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Southampton win, 3 draws and 6 for Arsenal.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 19'Goal · C. MartinaSouthampton · 1-0
  • 34'Yellow card · Ingo GoetzeSouthampton
  • 55'Goal · Ingo GoetzeSouthampton · 2-0
  • 69'Goal · José FonteSouthampton · 3-0
  • 90+2'Goal · Ingo GoetzeSouthampton · 4-0

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Southampton 1, draws 3, Arsenal 6.

Team news

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

Maarten Stekelenburg, Cuco Martina, José Fonte, Virgil van Dijk, Ryan Bertrand, Victor Wanyama, Jordy Clasie, James Ward-Prowse, Sadio Mané, Steven Davis, Shane Long

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

Petr Čech, Héctor Bellerín, Per Mertesacker, Laurent Koscielny, Nacho Monreal, Mathieu Flamini, Aaron Ramsey, Joel Campbell, Mesut Özil, Theo Walcott, Olivier Giroud