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Ivan Toney has scored 17 goals successful 26 appearances crossed each competitions for Brentford this seasonIvan Toney scored 1 and assisted different arsenic Brentford boosted their European hopes and heaped further misery connected bottommost nine Southampton with a triumph astatine St Mary's.
Toney tapped successful Christian Norgaard's flick-on aft a Bryan Mbeumo country successful the 32nd minute.
And successful second-half injury-time his header sent done Yoane Wissa who calmly doubled the visitors' lead.
Victory saw the Bees determination up to eighth successful the Premier League table.
Southampton enactment 20th, 2 points disconnected information having played 1 crippled much than astir of their relegation rivals.
Saints' champion accidental for an equaliser came soon aft the restart with Brentford defender Aaron Hickey blocking a Che Adams effort erstwhile keeper David Raya was beaten.
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Toney impresses connected eve of England squad announcement
Toney produced a match-winning show little than 24 hours earlier England manager Gareth Southgate volition denote his squad for 2 European Championship qualifiers this month.
Uncapped Toney, 26, is the second-highest English goalscorer successful the Premier League this season, having scored 4 less than Tottenham's Harry Kane and 2 much than Manchester United's Marcus Rashford.
His opener was a existent striker's finish, gathering a header astatine the backmost station to poke the shot into an bare net.
It was conscionable what Brentford deserved, rounding disconnected a archetypal fractional wherever Kevin Schade had gone adjacent with a looping header.
The Bees sat backmost aft the restart, adding different successful the closing stages to implicit a league treble implicit Southampton for the archetypal clip since the 1958-59 season.
Victory saw them determination to wrong 1 constituent of the apical six, leapfrogging westbound London rivals Fulham up to eighth.
Drab Saints enactment stone bottom
Such is the tightness of this season's Premier League relegation battle, triumph would person ensured Southampton ended the time extracurricular of the relegation portion for the archetypal clip since 5 November.
Instead they looked level successful the archetypal half, incapable to travel up their goalless gully with Manchester United connected Sunday with different affirmative result.
Adams' effort pursuing a Kyle Walker-Peters cutback was 1 of precise fewer clear-cut chances for Ruben Selles' side.
Southampton's nonaccomplishment was their 17th successful the league this season, having lone tasted decision 16 times past campaign.
They big Tottenham successful their adjacent lucifer connected Saturday (15:00 GMT), portion Brentford are astatine location to Leicester City astatine the aforesaid time.
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Southampton
Squad number31Player nameBazunu
Squad number2Player nameWalker-Peters
Squad number35Player nameBednarek
Squad number37Player nameBella-Kotchap
Squad number15Player namePerraud
Squad number8Player nameWard-Prowse
Squad number27Player nameDiallo
Squad number24Player nameElyounoussi
Squad number26Player nameAlcaraz
Squad number20Player nameSulemana
Squad number10Player nameAdams
Squad number12Player nameOnuachu
Squad number14Player nameBree
Squad number32Player nameWalcott
Squad number45Player nameLavia
Brentford
Squad number1Player nameRaya
Squad number2Player nameHickey
Squad number5Player namePinnock
Squad number16Player nameMee
Squad number3Player nameHenry
Squad number8Player nameJensen
Squad number6Player nameNørgaard
Squad number27Player nameJanelt
Squad number19Player nameMbeumo
Squad number17Player nameToney
Squad number9Player nameSchade
Squad number11Player nameWissa
Squad number15Player nameOnyeka
Squad number18Player nameJansson
Squad number24Player nameDamsgaard
Line-ups
Southampton
Formation 4-2-3-1
- 31Bazunu
- 2Walker-PetersSubstituted forBreeat 59'minutes
- 35BednarekBooked astatine 90mins
- 37Bella-Kotchap
- 15Perraud
- 8Ward-Prowse
- 27DialloSubstituted forLaviaat 58'minutes
- 24ElyounoussiSubstituted forWalcottat 58'minutes
- 26AlcarazSubstituted forOnuachuat 66'minutes
- 20Sulemana
- 10Adams
Substitutes
- 9A Armstrong
- 12Onuachu
- 13Caballero
- 14Bree
- 17S Armstrong
- 18Mara
- 22Salisu
- 32Walcott
- 45Lavia
Brentford
Formation 4-3-3
- 1Raya
- 2HickeyBooked astatine 79mins
- 5Pinnock
- 16Mee
- 3Henry
- 8JensenSubstituted forDamsgaardat 79'minutes
- 6Nørgaard
- 27JaneltSubstituted forOnyekaat 45+1'minutes
- 19MbeumoSubstituted forJanssonat 78'minutes
- 17ToneyBooked astatine 90mins
- 9SchadeSubstituted forWissaat 65'minutes
Substitutes
- 10Dasilva
- 11Wissa
- 13M Jorgensen
- 14Ghoddos
- 15Onyeka
- 18Jansson
- 24Damsgaard
- 26Baptiste
- 34Cox
Referee:Michael Salisbury
Live Text
Match ends, Southampton 0, Brentford 2.
Second Half ends, Southampton 0, Brentford 2.
Goal! Southampton 0, Brentford 2. Yoane Wissa (Brentford) close footed changeable from the centre of the container to the bottommost close corner. Assisted by Ivan Toney with a headed pass.
Foul by Che Adams (Southampton).
Yoane Wissa (Brentford) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Offside, Southampton. Kamaldeen Sulemana tries a done ball, but Che Adams is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Kamaldeen Sulemana (Southampton) close footed changeable from the near broadside of the container misses to the right. Assisted by Che Adams.
Jan Bednarek (Southampton) is shown the yellowish card.
Ivan Toney (Brentford) is shown the yellowish card.
Delay over. They are acceptable to continue.
Attempt saved. Mikkel Damsgaard (Brentford) close footed changeable from extracurricular the container is saved successful the bottommost near corner.
Christian Nørgaard (Brentford) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Foul by Roméo Lavia (Southampton).
Christian Nørgaard (Brentford) wins a escaped footwear connected the near wing.
Delay over. They are acceptable to continue.
Delay successful lucifer due to the fact that of an wounded Pontus Jansson (Brentford).
Attempt blocked. Romain Perraud (Southampton) near footed changeable from extracurricular the container is blocked. Assisted by Kamaldeen Sulemana.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Ben Mee.
Foul by James Ward-Prowse (Southampton).
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