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Match report
English Footie
Champions League: Round 1 (setup 4, season 27)
Southampton
v.
BATE
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
3
Overall form:
Home form:
Gianluigi BUFFON1Andrei GORBUNOV
Formation:
4-3-3
Jérôme BOATENG26Igor SHITOV
Patrice EVRÀ837Aleksandr YUREVICH
Javier Alejandro MASCHERANO4Aleksandr VOLODKO
THIAGO Emiliano da SILVA757Artem RADKOV
Képler Laveran Lima Ferreira, PEPE666Giliano WIJNALDUM
James WARD-PROWSE76Artem KONTSEVOI
Cristiano RONALDO dos Santos Aveiro88Igor STASEVICH
Robin VAN PERSIE79Jorge MOLINA Vidal
ORIOL ROMEU Vidal7106Dmitri MOZOLEVSKY
Shane LONG11Maksim SKAVYSH
Manager
Virgil VAN DIJK12Dmitri BAGA
VÍCTOR VALDÉS Arribas13Aleksandr GUTOR
Pierre-Emile HØJBJERG14Mikhail SIVAKOV
Jake HESKETH15Ilya ALEKSIEVICH
Luís Carlos Almeida da Cunha, NANI16RENAN Bardini BRESSAN

Southampton 3 BATE 0
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 32,528, Stadium: St.Mary's, Referee: Andy HALL 5½, TV: highlights)
4 Van Persie, 15 Van Persie, 76 BoatengScorers
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings
6Corners5
2Fouls25
3Offsides4
7Shots on3
8Shots off4
15Total shots7
4Shots saved2
51%Possession49%
Man of the match: Cristiano RONALDO dos Santos Aveiro
2The BATE 'keeper did well to hold onto a powerful shot from VAN PERSIE.
4GOAL!! As MOZOLEVSKY was attempting to hold back WARD-PROWSE the ball fell to VAN PERSIE who tapped the ball into the net. (1-0 Southampton)
5MOLINA rushed through the Southampton defence but shot straight at BUFFON.
7A twenty yard drive from STASEVICH caused the 'keeper no problem.
9A penalty box meleé resulted in WARD-PROWSE knocking the ball over.
13A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the advancing 'keeper.
15GOAL!! A goalmouth meleé culminated with VAN PERSIE rocketing the ball in off the post. (2-0 Southampton)
22YUREVICH ran onto a wonderful ball from STASEVICH but fired his shot wide.
31WARD-PROWSE beat a number of BATE players and slammed a great chance wide.
33A accurate pass fell to RONALDO and his deadly effort raced narrowly wide.
39An outswinging corner was flicked into the arms of the 'keeper by ORIOL ROMEU.
40Uncertainty in the BATE defence enabled BOATENG to blast the ball just beyond the near post.
41WARD-PROWSE headed just wide.
 
48A useful ball from THIAGO SILVA on the right found VAN PERSIE who mishit his shot inches wide.
54A good effort from VOLODKO scraped the woodwork.
62KONTSEVOI fired the ball through a crowd of players but BUFFON was a match for it as he dived to his right.
65LONG made space on the right and pulled the ball to RONALDO who clipped the ball over.
65A weak strike from MOLINA rolled agonisingly wide.
68A corner found MOLINA who headed the ball wide.
76GOAL!! A delightful shot from LONG was pushed away by the 'keeper only as far as BOATENG who flicked the ball past the stranded 'keeper. (3-0 Southampton)
83LONG whacked a deadly shot wide from twenty-five yards out.
88A clever cross from VAN PERSIE, was lashed goalbound by RONALDO only for the BATE 'keeper to block.