Liverpool 3-1 Southampton: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 8 March 2025
Result
Liverpool 3-1 Southampton
Premier League · Saturday 8 March 2025, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Liverpool 3-1 Southampton: match report
Liverpool beat Southampton 3-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 8 March 2025. The half-time score was 0-1.
Will Smallbone opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Liverpool's goals came from Darwin Núñez (51'), Mohamed Salah (55', penalty) and Mohamed Salah (88', penalty). Southampton scored through Will Smallbone (45+1').
Discipline: Liverpool received 2 yellow cards; Southampton received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Liverpool were 1st on 67 points from 28 and Southampton 20th on 9 points from 27. Liverpool went on to finish that season 1st with 84 points, and Southampton 20th with 12.
Liverpool lined up in a 4-3-3 and Southampton in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Mohamed Salah of Liverpool (8.6), ahead of Luis Díaz (8.4).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 8 Liverpool wins, 1 draw and 1 for Southampton.
Going into the match Liverpool's last five read W-W-D-W-D and Southampton's L-L-L-W-L.
Key events
- 31'Yellow card · Konstantinos Tsimikas
- 45+1'Goal · Will Smallbone
- 45+3'Yellow card · Darwin Núñez
- 51'Goal · Darwin Núñez
- 55'Penalty goal · Mohamed Salah
- 88'Penalty goal · Mohamed Salah
- 90+6'Yellow card · Paul Onuachu
Head-to-head
Team news
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Liverpool line-up (4-3-3)
Alisson, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Ibrahima Konaté, Virgil van Dijk, Konstantinos Tsimikas, Dominik Szoboszlai, Ryan Gravenberch, Curtis Jones, Mohamed Salah, Darwin Núñez, Luis Díaz
Southampton line-up (4-2-3-1)
Aaron Ramsdale, Kyle Walker-Peters, Jan Bednarek, Taylor Harwood-Bellis, Ryan Manning, Lesley Ugochukwu, Will Smallbone, Tyler Dibling, Mateus Fernandes, Kamaldeen Sulemana, Albert Grønbæk