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2¹ HENRY beat SILVA but hit the ball into the arms of the 'keeper. 8¹ The bemused Southampton 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from ZAMBROTTA dropped just over. 8¹ A cross from VAN PERSIE left HENRY in lots of space but he snapped at his shot. 9¹ XABI ALONSO shot wide. 11¹ GOAL!! A goalmouth meleé culminated with MESSI striking the ball into the top corner. (1-0 Exeter City) 16¹ GOAL!! As LAMPARD was trying to hold back JUAN the ball dropped to HENRY who lashed the ball into the roof of the net. (1-1) 19¹ A poor strike from VAN PERSIE bounced agonisingly wide. 25¹ The Southampton 'keeper managed to claw away an amazing effort. 25¹ COLE headed the ball wide of the goal from the edge of the box. 39¹ A penalty box meleé resulted in HENRY cracking a low shot wide. 43¹ ZAMBROTTA ran onto a great ball from PIRLO but dragged his effort wide. 1² A free-kick from MESSI raced wide. 3² MESSI hit a left foot shot over from twenty-five yards out. 5² GOAL!! With his back to goal MESSI turned and rattled the ball past CECH. (2-1 Exeter City) 9² A deadly shot from RONALDO was clawed past the post by CASILLAS. 11² MESSI made space on the left and knocked the ball to LAMPARD who rasped the ball over. 18² MESSI was put clear by ROONEY and he beat the 'keeper but drilled his shot over. 19² GOAL!! A terrible clearance dropped to ZANETTI who mishit a shot goalward, luckily KAKÁ was on hand to crack the ball into the net. (3-1 Exeter City) 21² GOAL!! A shot from RONALDO flew through a ruck of players and rolled past the unsighted Exeter City 'keeper. (3-2 Exeter City) 22² A good effort from ROONEY scraped the outside of the righthand post. 24² ZANETTI beat JUAN and drilled the ball to SILVA who blasted his effort wide. 40² ROONEY brought the ball away from CHIVU and stroked a poor shot over.

Southampton   League position: 3 Home league form: WXWW Overall league form: WLXWWWWW Formation: 4-4-2

Line-ups Petr CECH 6  1 5½ Iker CASILLAS Gianluca ZAMBROTTA 7½ 2 7½ Javier ZANETTI Patrice EVRÀ 8  3 7  Ashley COLE Robin VAN PERSIE 7  4 8  KAKÁ (c)JUAN Silveira 7  5 7  SERGIO RAMOS García Cristian CHIVU 7  6 6  LÚCIO(c) JUNINHO 7½ 7 7  Lionel MESSI Andrea PIRLO 6½ 8 7  David SILVA Thierry HENRY 7  9 7  Wayne ROONEY(p) (f)XABI ALONSO Olano 7  10 5½ Frank LAMPARD (p)Cristiano RONALDO 6½ 11 7½ Andrés INIESTA(f) Daniel KIRKPATRICK Manager Steve GIBSON Mark VAN BOMMEL    12 6  Giorgio CHIELLINI Grégory COUPET    13    Igor AKINFEEV Philippe MEXÈS    14 6  PEPE Carlos MARCHENA    15    Nicolas ANELKA Patrick VIEIRA    16    Edin DZEKO

Exeter City   League position: 1 Away league form: WWWW Overall league form: WWWWWXWW Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Southampton 2 Exeter City 3 (Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 32,535, Stadium: St.Mary's, Referee: Pavel Novotný 7½) Henry 16¹, Ronaldo 21² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Messi 11¹, Messi 5², Kaká 19²   MessióChiellini 42², RooneyóPepe 44²         9 2 13 8 11 8 4 4 5 9 9 13 2 1 49% 51% ¶ Man of the match: Kaká ¶