Southampton 3-2 Watford: result and report
Championship · Saturday 13 April 2024
Result
Southampton 3-2 Watford
Championship · Saturday 13 April 2024, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
Southampton 3-2 Watford: match report
Southampton beat Watford 3-2 in the Championship on Saturday 13 April 2024. The half-time score was 2-1.
Will Smallbone opened the scoring in the 1st minute. Southampton's goals came from Will Smallbone (1'), C. Adams (20') and Flynn Downes (90+9'). Watford scored through R. Porteous (34') and Ismaël Koné (85').
Discipline: Southampton received 1 yellow card; Watford received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Southampton were 4th on 78 points from 40 and Watford 14th on 52 points from 42. Southampton went on to finish that season 4th with 94 points, and Watford 15th with 56.
Southampton lined up in a 4-3-3 and Watford in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Flynn Downes of Southampton (8.2), ahead of Taylor Harwood-Bellis (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Southampton wins, 4 draws and 2 for Watford.
Going into the match Southampton's last five read W-D-L-D-W and Watford's D-D-D-D-W.
Key events
- 1'Goal · Will Smallbone
- 20'Goal · C. Adams
- 34'Goal · R. Porteous
- 40'Yellow card · Wesley Hoedt
- 41'Yellow card · Tom Cleverley
- 55'Yellow card · R. Porteous
- 70'Yellow card · Edo Kayembe
- 74'Yellow card · Ryan Fraser
- 85'Goal · Ismaël Koné
- 90+9'Goal · Flynn Downes
Head-to-head
Team news
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Southampton line-up (4-3-3)
Gavin Bazunu, James Bree, Taylor Harwood-Bellis, Jack Stephens, Kyle Walker-Peters, Will Smallbone, Flynn Downes, Joe Aribo, David Brooks, Ché Adams, Adam Armstrong
Watford line-up (4-2-3-1)
Daniel Bachmann, Ryan Porteous, Mattie Pollock, Wesley Hoedt, Jamal Lewis, Edo Kayembe, Tom Dele-Bashiru, Yáser Asprilla, Giorgi Chakvetadze, Emmanuel Dennis, Vakoun Bayo