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  • Kick-off: 15:00
  • Venue: Friends Provident St. Mary's Stadium
  • Attendance: 23498
  • Referee: Probert, L

Live Commentary

90mins

The ref has blown his whistle for full time.

90mins

Dexter Blackstock is booked for unsporting behaviour.

76mins

Southampton are replacing Ricardo Fuller with Dexter Blackstock.

75mins

Norwich are replacing Jurgen Colin with Peter Thorne.

70mins

Simon Charlton is being taken off, Leon McKenzie has come on in his place.

70mins

Kenwyne Jones is being taken off, Theo Walcott has come on in his place.

69mins

The referee has booked Ricardo Fuller.

52mins

Southampton are replacing Claus Lundekvam with Martin Cranie.

46mins

The second half is under way with the score currently at 1 v 0.

45mins

The ref has blown his whistle for half time.

42mins

Tomasz Hajto is booked for unsporting behaviour.

27mins

Andrew Hughes is being taken off, Jason Jarrett has come on in his place.

15mins

Nigel Quashie takes a penalty for Southampton and scores!.

14mins

Darren Huckerby is booked for dissent.

0mins

It's 3pm on Saturday, August 20th, the match has kicked off.

Match Report

A first-half penalty from Southampton skipper Nigel Quashie was enough to give the home side the three points against Championship favourites Norwich.

Quashie shot home from 12 yards after Norwich captain Craig Fleming handled following a flick-on from Kenwyne Jones.

The former Portsmouth midfielder kept his cool when forced to re-take his spot-kick after several Norwich players encroached.

Norwich though missed a host of chances, in particular Dean Ashton who found himself clean through after Darren Powell's slip.

The home side started the brighter with their midfield quartet of David Prutton, Quashie, Matty Oakley and Djamel Belmadi dictating the pace of the game.

Prutton went close on four minutes when he burst through the centre of midfield only to scuff a weak left-footed shot straight at Robert Green.

Saints though pressed and were rewarded for their dominance with Quashie's penalty.

However, on taking the lead, the home side then seemed to retreat into a defensive shell and allowed Norwich back into the game.

Darren Huckerby in particular caused problems for both Southampton full-backs with some probing runs.

And Norwich had their own penalty shout on 45 minutes when Huckerby was bundled over by Prutton close to the touchline but no Norwich player seemed to appeal so referee Lee Probert waved play on.

Saints' second-half did not get off to a good start when Claus Lundekvam was stretchered off with a head injury and that signalled further Norwich dominance.

Jim Brennan headed against the post from a Dean Marney cross, Youssef Safri hit a dipping shot from 30 yards which beat Antti Niemi but sailed over the crossbar and Brennan again came close when released by Ashton.

Manager Nigel Worthington threw on substitute strikers Leon McKenzie and Peter Thorne to bolster his attacking options but Saints held on to pick up their first home win of the season.

Southampton Team

Norwich City Team

Southampton

Norwich City

Corners

111

Fouls

1613

Goal attempts

1112

Shots off target

54

Offsides

02

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