Southampton 1-2 Sheffield United: result and report
Championship · Tuesday 3 February 2009
Result
Southampton 1-2 Sheffield United
Championship · Tuesday 3 February 2009, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-1
Southampton 1-2 Sheffield United: match report
Southampton lost to Sheffield United 1-2 in the Championship on Tuesday 3 February 2009. The half-time score was 0-1.
Greg Halford opened the scoring in the 35th minute. Southampton's goal came from Andrew Surman (90'). Sheffield United scored through Greg Halford (35') and Jamie Ward (90').
Discipline: Southampton received 3 yellow cards; Sheffield United received no yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Southampton were 23rd on 28 points from 30 and Sheffield United 5th on 48 points from 30. Southampton went on to finish that season 23rd with 45 points, and Sheffield United 3rd with 84.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Southampton wins, 1 draw and 2 for Sheffield United.
Going into the match Southampton's last five read D-D-L-W-D and Sheffield United's D-L-W-W-W.
Key events
- 35'Goal · Greg Halford
- 39'Yellow card · Jan-Paul Saeijs
- 40'Red card · Darius Henderson
- 57'Yellow card · Chris Perry
- 89'Yellow card · Morgan Schneiderlin
- 90'Goal · Andrew Surman
- 90'Goal · Jamie Ward
Head-to-head
Team news
Southampton expected line-up
Antti Niemi, Claus Lundekvam, Danny Higginbotham, Paul Telfer, Anders Svensson, Fabrice Fernandes, David Prutton, Kevin Phillips, Rory Delap
Sheffield United expected line-up
Paddy Kenny, Phil Jagielka, Claude Davis, Chris Armstrong, Robert Kozluk, Keith Gillespie, Rob Hulse, Chris Morgan, Mikele Leigertwood, Michael Tonge