Southampton 1-0 Middlesbrough: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 11 December 2016
Result
Southampton 1-0 Middlesbrough
Premier League · Sunday 11 December 2016, 14:15 UTC · half-time 0-0
Southampton 1-0 Middlesbrough: match report
Southampton beat Middlesbrough 1-0 in the Premier League on Sunday 11 December 2016. It was 0-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Sofiane Boufal of Southampton in the 53rd minute.
Discipline: Southampton received 4 yellow cards; Middlesbrough received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Southampton were 12th on 17 points from 14 and Middlesbrough 16th on 15 points from 14. Southampton went on to finish that season 8th with 46 points, and Middlesbrough 19th with 28.
Southampton lined up in a 4-3-3 and Middlesbrough in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Virgil van Dijk of Southampton (8.1), ahead of Adam Clayton (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Southampton wins, 4 draws and 3 for Middlesbrough.
Going into the match Southampton's last five read L-W-D-L-L and Middlesbrough's W-D-L-D-W.
Key events
- 17'Yellow card · Barragán
- 22'Yellow card · Dusan Tadić
- 45+1'Yellow card · Sofiane Boufal
- 52'Yellow card · A. Forshaw
- 53'Goal · Sofiane Boufal
- 55'Yellow card · José Fonte
- 58'Yellow card · Oriol Romeu
- 80'Yellow card · Adam Clayton
Head-to-head
Team news
Southampton line-up (4-3-3)
Fraser Forster, Cuco Martina, José Fonte, Virgil van Dijk, Sam McQueen, Jordy Clasie, Oriol Romeu, James Ward-Prowse, Dusan Tadic, Jay Rodríguez, Sofiane Boufal
Middlesbrough line-up (4-3-3)
Víctor Valdés, Antonio Barragán, Calum Chambers, Ben Gibson, Fábio, Adam Forshaw, Adam Clayton, Marten de Roon, Cristhian Stuani, J. Rhodes, Viktor Fischer