Southampton 1-0 Watford: result and report
Premier League · Wednesday 13 January 2016
Result
Southampton 1-0 Watford
Premier League · Wednesday 13 January 2016, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-0
Southampton 1-0 Watford: match report
Southampton defeated Watford 1-0 in the Premier League on Wednesday 13 January 2016. The half-time score was 1-0.
Ingo Goetze opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Southampton's goals came from Ingo Goetze (17') and Dusan Tadić (73'). Watford did not score.
Discipline: Southampton received 1 yellow card; Watford received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Southampton were 14th on 24 points from 20 and Watford 9th on 29 points from 20. Southampton went on to finish that season 7th with 63 points, and Watford 12th with 48.
Southampton lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Watford in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Virgil van Dijk of Southampton (8.7), ahead of Oriol Romeu (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Southampton wins, 1 draw and 0 for Watford.
Going into the match Southampton's last five read L-L-W-L-L and Watford's L-L-D-W-W.
Key events
- 17'Goal · Ingo Goetze
- 24'Yellow card · Cédric Soares
- 67'Yellow card · Sebastian Prödl
- 73'Goal · Dusan Tadić
- 77'Yellow card · Troy Deeney
Head-to-head
Team news
Southampton line-up (4-2-3-1)
Fraser Forster, Cédric Soares, Virgil van Dijk, José Fonte, Ryan Bertrand, Oriol Romeu, Jordy Clasie, Steven Davis, Sadio Mané, Matt Targett, Shane Long
Watford line-up (4-4-2)
Heurelho Gomes, Allan Nyom, Sebastian Prödl, Miguel Britos, José Holebas, Almen Abdi, Ben Watson, Étienne Capoue, José Jurado, Odion Ighalo, Troy Deeney