Southampton 5-1 Walsall: result and report

League One · Saturday 27 February 2010

Result

Southampton 5-1 Walsall

League One · Saturday 27 February 2010, 15:00 UTC · half-time 3-1

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Southampton 5-1 Walsall: match report

Southampton won against Walsall 5-1 in the League One on Saturday 27 February 2010. The half-time score was 3-1.

Matthew Richards opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Southampton's goals came from J. Puncheon (8'), Lee Barnard (33'), Lee Barnard (37'), Rickie Lambert (61') and Adam Lallana (89'). Walsall scored through Matthew Richards (3').

Discipline: Southampton received no yellow cards; Walsall received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Southampton were 9th on 48 points from 30 and Walsall 10th on 43 points from 32. Southampton went on to finish that season 6th with 83 points, and Walsall 10th with 62.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Southampton win, 0 draws and 0 for Walsall.

Going into the match Southampton's last five read D-W-D-W-D and Walsall's L-W-W-L-W.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · Matthew RichardsWalsall · 0-1
  • 8'Goal · J. PuncheonSouthampton · 1-1
  • 33'Goal · Lee BarnardSouthampton · 2-1
  • 37'Goal · Lee BarnardSouthampton · 3-1
  • 40'Yellow card · Darryl WestlakeWalsall
  • 61'Goal · Rickie LambertSouthampton · 4-1
  • 89'Goal · Adam LallanaSouthampton · 5-1
  • 90'Yellow card · Troy DeeneyWalsall

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Southampton 1, draws 0, Walsall 0.

Team news

Southampton expected line-up

Antti Niemi, Claus Lundekvam, Danny Higginbotham, Paul Telfer, Anders Svensson, Fabrice Fernandes, David Prutton, Kevin Phillips, Rory Delap