Southampton 1-0 Watford: result and report
Championship · Saturday 7 February 2026
Result
Southampton 1-0 Watford
Championship · Saturday 7 February 2026, 12:31 UTC · half-time 0-0
Southampton 1-0 Watford: match report
Southampton defeated Watford 1-0 in the Championship on Saturday 7 February 2026. The half-time score was 0-0.
The only goal came from Cyle Larin of Southampton in the 70th minute.
Discipline: Southampton received 3 yellow cards; Watford received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Southampton were 14th on 40 points from 30 and Watford 8th on 44 points from 30. Southampton went on to finish that season 4th with 82 points, and Watford 16th with 57.
Southampton lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Watford in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Othmane Maamma of Watford (7.5), ahead of Caspar Jander (7.2).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Southampton wins, 5 draws and 1 for Watford.
Going into the match Southampton's last five read W-D-W-L-L and Watford's D-L-D-D-L.
Key events
- 53'Yellow card · Taylor Harwood-Bellis
- 66'Yellow card · Giorgi Chakvetadze
- 70'Goal · Cyle Larin
- 75'Yellow card · James Bree
- 90+2'Yellow card · Shea Emmanuel Charles
Head-to-head
Team news
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Southampton line-up (4-2-3-1)
Daniel Peretz, James Bree, Taylor Harwood-Bellis, Jack Stephens, Welington, Caspar Jander, Flynn Downes, Tom Fellows, Finn Azaz, Léo Scienza, Ross Stewart
Watford line-up (4-2-3-1)
Egil Selvik, Jeremy Ngakia, James Abankwah, Stephen Mfuni, Marc Bola, Nampalys Mendy, Imrân Louza, Othmane Maamma, Edo Kayembe, Giorgi Chakvetadze, Mamadou Doumbia