Southampton 2-0 Fulham: result and report
Premier League · Wednesday 27 February 2019
Result
Southampton 2-0 Fulham
Premier League · Wednesday 27 February 2019, 19:45 UTC · half-time 2-0
Southampton 2-0 Fulham: match report
Southampton defeated Fulham 2-0 in the Premier League on Wednesday 27 February 2019. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Oriol Romeu opened the scoring in the 23rd minute. Southampton's goals came from Oriol Romeu (23') and James Ward-Prowse (40'). Fulham did not score.
Discipline: Southampton received no yellow cards; Fulham received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Southampton were 18th on 24 points from 27 and Fulham 19th on 17 points from 27. Southampton went on to finish that season 16th with 39 points, and Fulham 19th with 26.
Southampton lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Fulham in a 4-3-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Oriol Romeu of Southampton (8.1), ahead of James Ward-Prowse (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Southampton wins, 5 draws and 3 for Fulham.
Going into the match Southampton's last five read L-L-D-D-W and Fulham's L-L-L-W-L.
Key events
- 23'Goal · Oriol Romeu
- 40'Goal · James Ward-Prowse
- 62'Yellow card · Kevin McDonald
Head-to-head
Team news
Southampton line-up (3-4-2-1)
Angus Gunn, Jan Bednarek, Maya Yoshida, Jannik Vestergaard, Yan Valery, Oriol Romeu, Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, Ryan Bertrand, James Ward-Prowse, Nathan Redmond, Charlie Austin
Fulham line-up (4-3-1-2)
Sergio Rico, Denis Odoi, Håvard Nordtveit, Tim Ream, Joe Bryan, Calum Chambers, K. McDonald, Frank Anguissa, Tom Cairney, Ryan Babel, Aleksandar Mitrović