Southampton 3-2 Arsenal: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 16 December 2018
Result
Southampton 3-2 Arsenal
Premier League · Sunday 16 December 2018, 13:30 UTC · half-time 2-1
Southampton 3-2 Arsenal: match report
Southampton defeated Arsenal 3-2 in the Premier League on Sunday 16 December 2018. The half-time score was 2-1.
D. Ings opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Southampton's goals came from D. Ings (20'), D. Ings (44') and Charlie Austin (85'). Arsenal scored through Henrikh Mkhitaryan (28') and Henrikh Mkhitaryan (53').
Discipline: Southampton received 3 yellow cards; Arsenal received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Southampton were 19th on 9 points from 16 and Arsenal 5th on 34 points from 16. Southampton went on to finish that season 16th with 39 points, and Arsenal 5th with 70.
Southampton lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Arsenal in a 3-4-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Henrikh Mkhitaryan of Arsenal (8.5), ahead of Danny Ings (8.3).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Southampton wins, 2 draws and 6 for Arsenal.
Going into the match Southampton's last five read L-L-D-L-D and Arsenal's W-D-W-W-D.
Key events
- 20'Goal · D. Ings
- 28'Goal · Henrikh Mkhitaryan
- 44'Goal · D. Ings
- 51'Yellow card · Jan Bednarek
- 53'Goal · Henrikh Mkhitaryan
- 60'Yellow card · Laurent Koscielny
- 71'Yellow card · Stuart Armstrong
- 85'Goal · Charlie Austin
- 90+5'Yellow card · Ingo Goetze
Head-to-head
Team news
Southampton line-up (3-4-2-1)
Alex Simon McCarthy, Jan Bednarek, Maya Yoshida, Jannik Vestergaard, Yan Valery, Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, Oriol Romeu, Matt Targett, Nathan Redmond, Stuart Armstrong, Danny Ings
Arsenal line-up (3-4-3)
Bernd Leno, Stephan Lichtsteiner, Laurent Koscielny, Granit Xhaka, Héctor Bellerín, Lucas Torreira, Mattéo Guendouzi, Nacho Monreal, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Alex Iwobi