Southampton 2-1 Swansea City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 26 September 2015
Result
Southampton 2-1 Swansea City
Premier League · Saturday 26 September 2015, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Southampton 2-1 Swansea City: match report
Southampton won against Swansea City 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 26 September 2015. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Virgil van Dijk opened the scoring in the 11th minute. Southampton's goals came from Virgil van Dijk (11'), an own goal by Ki Sung-Yeung (54') and Sadio Mané (61'). Swansea City scored through Dejan Joksimovic (83', penalty).
Discipline: Southampton received 3 yellow cards; Swansea City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Southampton were 15th on 6 points from 6 and Swansea City 8th on 9 points from 6. Southampton went on to finish that season 7th with 63 points, and Swansea City 11th with 50.
Southampton lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Swansea City in a 4-3-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Virgil van Dijk of Southampton (8.5), ahead of Sadio Mané (8.1).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Southampton wins, 2 draws and 1 for Swansea City.
Key events
- 11'Goal · Virgil van Dijk
- 43'Yellow card · Victor Wanyama
- 54'Own goal · Ki Sung-Yeung
- 61'Goal · Sadio Mané
- 76'Yellow card · J. Shelvey
- 81'Yellow card · Oriol Romeu
- 83'Penalty goal · Dejan Joksimovic
- 83'Yellow card · José Fonte
Head-to-head
Team news
Southampton line-up (4-2-3-1)
Maarten Stekelenburg, Cédric Soares, José Fonte, Virgil van Dijk, Ryan Bertrand, James Ward-Prowse, Victor Wanyama, Sadio Mané, Steven Davis, Dusan Tadic, Graziano Pellè
Swansea City line-up (4-3-2-1)
Lukasz Fabianski, Kyle Naughton, Federico Fernández, Ashley Williams, Neil Taylor, Sung-yueng Ki, Jack Cork, Jonjo Shelvey, André Ayew, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Bafétimbi Gomis