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Commentary
5¹USTARI stopped a lovely shot from RONALDO.
8¹GOAL!! XABI ALONSO tried to play the ball out of the Southampton penalty area but was tackled by FRINGS who touched the ball to BAROS for a simple tap in. (1-0 Cardiff City)
15¹GOAL!! A long shot from RONALDO deflected off the legs of MARQUEZ and into his own net. (1-1)
17¹HENRY was put clear by XABI ALONSO and he raced past USTARI but drilled his shot over the bar.
19¹Uncertainty in the Cardiff City defence enabled HENRY to blast an effort inches over.
21¹A lovely effort from CROUCH scraped the outside of the lefthand post.
28¹GOAL!! A strike from ZAMBROTTA was booted off the line only for RONALDO to drive the ball in. (2-1 Southampton)
30¹A twenty yard drive from CROUCH caused CECH little difficulty.
31¹AFELLAY made space on the left and pulled the ball to FRINGS who rasped the ball over.
38¹GOAL!! Southampton were awarded a penalty after a foul on PIRLO and RONALDO put it past the Cardiff City 'keeper sending him the wrong way. (3-1 Southampton)
40¹CROUCH headed the ball wide from just outside the area.
41¹VAN PERSIE beat three Cardiff City players and stroked a shot wide.
46¹RONALDO headed inches over.
6²CROUCH whacked a left foot shot inches over from twenty yards out.
7²A free-kick from CHIVU raced inches over.
8²A poor strike from XABI ALONSO rolled agonisingly wide.
18²A corner bobbled toward EVRÀ who forced an effort inches over.
23²BAROS beat CHIVU and whacked the ball to CROUCH who fired his shot wide.
24²RONALDO ran onto a wonderful ball from VAN PERSIE but dragged his shot wide.
25²AFELLAY's shot beat the 'keeper but rebounded off the Southampton crossbar.
26²EVRÀ shot wide.
29²A accurate pass was collected by RONALDO and his right foot shot flew narrowly wide.
35²XABI ALONSO rushed a simple chance.

 
Southampton
 
League position: 3
Home league form: XWWW
Overall league form: LXWWWWWW
Formation: 4-4-2
Line-ups
Petr CECH7½16½Óscar USTARI
Gianluca ZAMBROTTA7½26½Hasan SALIHAMIDZIC
Patrice EVRÀ7 37½Mathieu BODMER
Robin VAN PERSIE6½46 Simone PERROTTA
(c)JUAN Silveira7½57 Rafael MARQUEZ
Cristian CHIVU6½66½Sébastien SQUILLACI
JUNINHO7 76½Torsten FRINGS(c)
Andrea PIRLO6½86½Ibrahim AFELLAY
Thierry HENRY7 97 Peter CROUCH(p)
(f)XABI ALONSO Olano6 106 Claude MAKÉLÉLÉ(f)
(p)Cristiano RONALDO7 116 Milan BAROS
Daniel KIRKPATRICKManager
Mark VAN BOMMEL  12  GIOVANI dos Santos
Grégory COUPET  13  Ricardo BATISTA
Philippe MEXÈS  14  Curtis DAVIES
Carlos MARCHENA  156 Andrés D'ALESSANDRO
Patrick VIEIRA  16  Victor ANICHEBE
 
Cardiff City
 
League position: 10
Away league form: LLLW
Overall league form: OLWWLLWL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Southampton 3 Cardiff City 1
(Half-time: 3-1, Attendance: 32,429, Stadium: St.Mary's, Referee: Steve Tanner 6)

Marquez 15¹ (og), Ronaldo 28¹, Ronaldo 38¹ (pen)
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Baros 8¹
 MarquezóD'Alessandro 35²
  
  
94
129
53
43
115
158
12
51%49%
Man of the match: Petr Cech