Watch extended highlights from Southampton's Premier League game against Manchester United, at St Mary's.
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00:00A very good afternoon to you from myself and Joe Tesson
00:05for one of the biggest games you ever play as a club at home to Manchester United.
00:11They're not the team they were, we know that,
00:14but they're still an expensively compiled side
00:17that pose danger and worry for any team on their day.
00:22Saints having possession at the back, it's there, they've got to be careful.
00:26Now Dibbling does brilliantly, turns his defender,
00:29he runs over halfway, the 18-year-old going towards the penalty area,
00:32still going strong, tries to curl it left-footed,
00:35saved by Onana, and it's pushed back out,
00:38and it couldn't quite get cleanly to Brereton Diaz to put the follow-up towards goal,
00:42but Tyler Dibbling, first Premier League start, 18 years old,
00:46no problem, dropped the shoulder on Dalot and spun him out of the game.
00:50That's a good ball from Martinez to Eriksen,
00:52Eriksen early on to Fernandes, helps it on to Diallo,
00:56Diallo gets possession, the Ivorian in the box,
00:59he's tricky with his right foot, he wants it on his left,
01:01he dummies the shot, plays it to Eriksen,
01:03ball to the back post, Xherxen should score!
01:05And he doesn't, he doesn't get a good contact on the topo,
01:08Gramsdale saves it, and it's cleared away by Sugawara towards halfway.
01:12First chance for United in the 15th minute,
01:14and really, Joshua Xherxen should have put them ahead.
01:17Brereton Diaz takes Masri with him infield,
01:20drops it off to Ugo Chukwua, he finds a good early forward ball,
01:23and Walker-Peters has stayed up, Dalot facing him,
01:25edge of the box, goes round him, Walker-Peters, narrow angle,
01:28pulls it back towards the edge of the six-yard area,
01:30and Eriksen beats Brereton Diaz to it.
01:32And then the ball cleared excellently from Masri,
01:34and it might set Diallo on his way,
01:36slowed up by Ugo Chukwua, but he's got a man to his left,
01:39and here's Bruno Fernandes, Fernandes in the penalty area,
01:42flashes it across the six-yard box, it'll go out for a goal kick,
01:45and he doesn't get a corner, and he realised he'd messed it up,
01:48and he wanted to make it look like it had come off a defender,
01:51but it wasn't great from Fernandes, and Diallo did well,
01:54but United turning Saints' attack into an outstanding counter-attack.
01:58And that's a good ball from Dibbling,
02:00and Chukwua has gone on the run, he's tried to cut inside the defender,
02:03he's done him as well, still going, Chukwua!
02:05Great defending from De Ligt, somehow got the ball away from the penalty area
02:09with a lunge in front of his keeper, that's as close as Saints have come,
02:12because that could have gone anywhere.
02:14Then they try and play in behind Masri, he recovers well,
02:17and the ball out for a Saints throw near the corner flag,
02:20and on this near side the Moroccans defending was excellent.
02:24Samson have shown such good invention in this game,
02:27and as you said, I guess the biggest thing is the amount of opportunities
02:31they're creating and how deep they're getting into United's half,
02:34and how forward-thinking they are.
02:36It's like they've got a renewed confidence after the international break.
02:39Dibbling down the right wing, trying to drag the ball past Dalot
02:42as he looks up and he goes again, he still goes past Dalot,
02:45fouls him once more, it's just too good.
02:48Too many tricks up his sleeve for Dalot to deal with.
02:51Free kick, five yards from the corner flag on the far side,
02:54five players around the penalty spot in red and white shirts.
02:57The blue shirts are Manchester United defend, it's curled in,
03:00free header for Ugo Chukwua, and he couldn't direct it under the crossbar.
03:04And he is a tall, gangly, lithe figure, Leslie Ugo Chukwua,
03:09and really, he should have done better with that, he rose above United,
03:14no-one made any contact with him in the end,
03:16and now there's more time and space for Dibbling to go one-on-one
03:19with Diogo Dalot again.
03:21Dibbling drives Dalot to the byline once more,
03:23and Dalot gets the challenge in, it looks a little sloppy, penalty!
03:28He thinks he got the ball, VAR will decide if he did,
03:32Stuart Atwell's awarded the penalty, and it was just the little delay
03:36in the tapping pass Dalot that sucked him in,
03:40and Dibbling drew him into the lunge,
03:42and just left the forward tap as late as he could to make Dalot contact him.
03:47Lovely from Dibbling, if he hasn't got the ball...
03:49No, he hasn't gotten the ball there, Dibbling gets it,
03:52puts the ball in front of him, runs and uses his space,
03:54puts his toe on the ball in the same moment Dalot tackles,
03:59Dalot doesn't get anything off the ball from my view here,
04:02and it's a clear penalty.
04:04Andre Onana, the Cameroon goalkeeper, is on his goal line.
04:08Referee Stuart Atwell is ready,
04:11Archer, saved!
04:13Follow-up, he's saved as well from Archer.
04:16And Saints miss the chance to take the lead against Manchester United,
04:21it's a massive moment in the game, it might be a massive moment in the season.
04:25He can drop 5% on Saints and give 5% to United in an instant,
04:29and that can make a massive difference as Rashford gets it just over halfway,
04:32Joshua Xherxey, Xherxey has the night, Rashford going ahead of him,
04:35he gives it back first time, it's clever,
04:37Dalot comes in, and it's gone just wide off Ramsdale who got a tip to it,
04:41for a moment I thought it had rolled inside the post at the northern end,
04:44but it was saved by Ramsdale.
04:46Xherxey takes the corner short on the far side,
04:48the United left between the Kingsland stand and the northern,
04:50and it's swung into the heart of the penalty, and that is 1-0!
04:53Nobody marking, no flag, Saints are behind,
04:57and Manchester United having recovered from conceding a penalty missed by Archer,
05:03scores for Matthias De Ligt who gets his first Manchester United goal,
05:07the summer signing from Bayern Munich,
05:09and five minutes after Saints were awarded a penalty,
05:12it's United who take the lead at St. Mary's,
05:15ten minutes to half-time, Southampton 0-1 Manchester United,
05:19a header from Matthias De Ligt.
05:21Saints have had three on target,
05:23they've had more touches in United's box than they've had in theirs, 12-8,
05:27they've made four saves as well, but they're still losing,
05:32but they've played well.
05:33Here's Fernandes, that's a great ball,
05:35across to Downs who falls over.
05:37Literally falls over the ball as it comes to him,
05:4120 yards out with a bit of space to perhaps unload a shot,
05:44and straightaway Saints look stretched as United break,
05:47and Rashford's in behind, and Rashford's at the edge of the six-yard area,
05:50and Ramsdale comes off his line and smothers the shot brilliantly,
05:53and it's the United corner, but they're finding so much joy
05:56down this right-hand side for United.
05:5941st minute, corner to United, this time from the right,
06:02and again Eriksen drills it all the way across the penalty area,
06:05it's going to be kept in by Amad Diallo.
06:07And the young Ivorian has Rashford on the left-hand corner of the penalty,
06:10he wants to get it onto his right foot, he does, he shoots!
06:12Comes in off the post, and United are 2-0 up,
06:15and a horribly out-of-form Marcus Rashford
06:18might have just got his season up and running with a goal against Southampton.
06:22Ramsdale can't believe the shot wasn't closed down,
06:25and the Saints can't believe it went in off the post.
06:27It's Saints-0, Manchester United-2, we've had 41 minutes,
06:31and two goals in six minutes have put this game
06:34very, very badly out of Saints' reach at the moment.
06:37Out as far as Masrui, and he looks up, drills it back in,
06:41no-one's got Diallo, Diallo's square, into De Ligt,
06:44he nearly gets a second, Ramsdale with a brilliant save,
06:47there are too many blue shirts unmarked in the Saints' penalty area,
06:50and they almost punish them again, and Ramsdale has kept Saints in it once more.
06:54We're standing with our hands in the pocket, Adam,
06:56it could have created a better angle on the pass, that's what I'm looking for.
06:59Diallo picks it up and again creates a nuisance,
07:01he's got a man on his outside, sliding into the near post,
07:04and the archer, I think Ramsdale had to make a save, did he?
07:07Yes, referee very slow, Linesman gives the corner,
07:11out to Amad Diallo, Diallo with his twinkle toes,
07:14gets it back on the inside, it's a lovely bit of play from him,
07:17then Zirk's who tries to almost take it past the defender himself,
07:20can't keep control, Rashford will have a curl,
07:22and Ramsdale tips it over the bar.
07:25Lovely effort from Marcus Rashford, 25 yards out,
07:29fully looking for the top corner,
07:31Sugawara, right-hand corner of the penalty area,
07:33and then tried to get it back off Fernandes,
07:36who was a bit of a tired touch from the Portuguese,
07:38then Garnaccio, well, Garnaccio is absolutely...
07:41I mean, he's still rolling, to be honest, it's quite funny,
07:44but Stephens knew he wasn't getting there,
07:46he's wiped out Alejandro Garnaccio with a proper reducer.
07:51Sliding tackle, oh!
07:54Oh, my goodness me!
07:56He sent Jack Stephens off.
07:58OK, he just touches his legs gently, so it takes him out.
08:02Of course, it's cos his leg's high, his foot's high on his knee,
08:06that's why he sent him off, if you look at the first contact,
08:09everybody, you'll see it on Match of the Day,
08:11if you want to watch it, but his first contact,
08:15his foot up slightly on his knee.
08:18Saints don't go like a team that believe
08:20they can get back in it with ten minutes.
08:22United look like a team that are comfortable at 2-0.
08:24Yeah, but a lot of people would say, why aren't we...?
08:26Now, Diallo's robbed Fraser, he's got to the byline,
08:28he pulled it back, it hits Bjernerik,
08:30but might fall for Xerxe!
08:32Xerxe's shot blocked by Harwood-Bellis, brilliant,
08:34cos Mane, who's touched to him, was fantastic,
08:37and Xerxe wonders what he's going to do to score today.
08:40This time it was Harwood-Bellis who stood there
08:42with his big frame and got in the way.
08:44As the ball gets to Dalot behind the back, back to Garnaccio,
08:46and that rounds things off nicely for Manchester United.
08:49It's 3-0, with 15 seconds to go of stoppage time,
08:55and United celebrate with their away fans away to my left.
08:59Garnaccio off the bench to score this afternoon,
09:03and the 20-year-old Argentinian completes a punishing afternoon
09:08for Southampton, who have lost their fourth straight Premier League game,
09:12from missing the penalty to conceding the first goal.
09:16That is another defeat for Saints.
09:18On their return to the Premier League, the international break's finished,
09:21but the defeats have continued.
09:23It's a fourth straight loss for Southampton,
09:25as the Premier League continues to be a tough learning ground for them.