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full-time: newcastle 3-1 saints

despite a really spirited second-half display, southampton fall to defeat against newcastle united in the premier league at st. james' park, with ayoze perez scoring a hat-trick.

redmond's ferociouss strike deflects out

redmond drops the shoulder to jink inside and unleash a powerful right-footed effort which deflects over the bar.

dubravka denies yoshida

ward-prowse's corner is met by the head of yoshida at the front post but dubravka makes a superb stop to turn it around the post.

dummett heads bertrand's cross away

romeu wins off perez and saints then advance down the left. bertrand's inviting delivery has to be turned behind by dummett.

lemina strikes 📸

this is the moment that mario lemina halved the deficit with a strike from the edge of the area. can saints find an equaliser? 🙏

Southampton substitution: Shane Long replaces Danny Ings

third and final saints change as we seek an equaliser. can longy make it three goals in three games?

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ings can't keep his shot down

armstrong advances from inside saints' half before picking out ings, but he can't keep his curling effort down to test dubravka.

ings offside

lemina checks inside from the left and crosses towards the back post to ings, who mishits his volley but is then called offside.

a huge chance for yoshida

ward-prowse's corner drops to redmond, who controls and cuts the ball back. yoshida's left-footed strike from close range goes over. getting closer! 😫

redmond keeps it alive...

armstrong's cross looks to be going out but redmond doesn't give it up and his hooked cross back into the box has to be cleared by dummett. corner to come in from ward-prowse...

Yellow Card for Oriol Romeu (Southampton)

romeu goes into the book for pulling down almiron, who is still down receiving treatment and may not be able to continue.

GOALSCORER 18 Mario Lemina

mario's first of the season

that's been coming! redmond's ball inside is touched down by armstrong into the run of lemina and he wraps his foot around the ball to find the far corner. get in there!

lemina's shot flies over

lemina finds a pocket of space on the edge of the box, but his effort is never troubling dubravka.

ward-prowse's free-kick is collected by dubravka

armstrong's driving run sees him win a free-kick after a foul from manquillo. james ward-prowse is over it, but it is perhaps a touch too far out for one of his specials and dubravka gets down to make a comfortable save.

armstrong catches manquillo

armstrong plays the ball on but then catches manquillo with his follow through accidentally. the referee decides it's a foul.

yoshida's header inches wide

good start to the second-half by saints! after armstrong's run results in a corner, yoshida's glancing header from it goes agonisingly wide.

armstrong's burst causes a problem for the hosts

early encouragement for saints as stuart armstrong gets to the byline, but his cross is cut out for a corner.

we're back under way!

two switches at the break and potentially a switch of system as we look for a way back into the contest. come on!

Southampton substitution: Mario Lemina replaces Jack Stephens

THE SECOND CHANGE SEES MARIO LEMINA REPLACE JACK STEPHENS.

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Southampton substitution: Stuart Armstrong replaces Josh Sims

a DOUBLE SWITCH AT THE BREAK FOR SAINTS...

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half-time: newcastle 2-0 saints

a lot of work to do for saints, who trail to two ayoze perez goals heading into the break at st. james' park.

sims' shot is blocked away by dummett

sims makes a good diagonal run and is found by redmond, but his left-footed strike is blocked on the stretch by dummett.

romeu draws a foul from hayden

saints are under pressure but as oriol romeu looks to play out he's fouled from behind by hayden and a free-kick is awarded.

ings' header saved by dubravka

ward-prowse sees a shot blocked by almiron, before his corner is met at the front post by ings' head. it takes a nick off schar on the way through but dubravka collects.

bednarek fouls perez

perez is involved again on the edge of the box and bednarek brings him down. free-kick in a promising position to come from ki or ritchie.

Yellow Card for James Ward-Prowse (Southampton)

newcastle break from the resulting saints corner, almiron is blocked on the halfway line by ward-prowse, who is booked. almiron would have been in had it not been for that but due to the distance from goal it's deemed not to be an obvious scoring opportunity. newcastle's assistant has been sent to the stand for his protest.

ward-prowse's shot blocked 

yoshida picks out redmond with a through ball and the flag stays down. he drives into the box and pulls it back to ward-prowse, who sees his effort blocked by matt ritchie.

ings breaks away after intercepting

ings is involved again and breaks through the middle with redmond left and sims to his right but he can't quite get his feet sorted to play the right pass and the move breaks down.

good pressure from ings

newcastle's fabian schar has the ball in the corner in his own half and the saints man presses him to block it out for a goal kick.

SAINTS SEEING MORE OF THE BALL here

RYAN BERTRAND SENDS THE BALL DOWN THE LINE TO DANNY INGS, BUT THE STRIKER IS ADJUDGED TO BE OFFSIDE WHEN HE TOOK IT DOWN.

HANDBALL APPEALS waved away 

newcastle go forward early on and as the ball is hooked back into the box, it strikes the arm of pierre-emile højbjerg, but it's far too close to him to be a penalty.

LET'S GO!

WE'RE UNDER WAY AT ST. JAMES' PARK. COME ON YOU YELLOWS!

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📍 Checking in at st. james' park

watch as the southampton squad made their way in at st. james' park ahead of today's clash.

🚨 THE TEAMS ARE IN 🚨

starting xi: gunn, STEPHENS, bednarek, yoshida, bertrand, ward-prowse, højbjerg (C), romeu, SIMS, redmond, ings.

SAINTS HAVE ARRIVED AT ST. JAMES' PARK 📸

LOOKING SHARP, LADS! TAKE A LOOK THROUGH A SELECTION OF IMAGES AS THE SAINTS SQUAD MADE THEIR WAY INTO ST. JAMES' PARK FOR THIS EVENING'S MEETING WITH NEWCASTLE.

today we can make another great step and show ourselves in the best way, stay together and give newcastle a hard battle.

pierre-emile højbjerg

southampton captain

tHE SCENE IS SET! 😇

it's a perfect afternoon for football at st. james' park! we'll bring you the team news at 4:30pm bst.

memories of SAINTS IN yellow at newcastle!

take a look back at saints' 2-1 victory over newcastle united back in 2015, thanks to a double from eljero elia! 😇

inside staplewood: saints prepare for newcastle

check out footage from training at staplewood campus this week as the players prepared for today's meeting with newcastle. that redmond volley 👏 

it will be an interesting game tactically for us and i think we should stay in the way of being brave. against a well-organised team you have to stress them sometimes but also be clear in the mind and find a good balance of not giving them chances to counter-attack.

RALPH HASENHÜTTL

southampton manager

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it's a 700-mile round trip today, but saints fans heading to newcastle got some extra fuel this morning, with a free breakfast from virgin media to go with their £20 subsidised tickets.

all you need to know ahead of today's match

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