Match summary
Southampton beat Newcastle 2-0. Southampton led 1-0 at half-time.
Che Adams put Southampton ahead in the 7th minute, set up by Theo Walcott and Stuart Armstrong made it 2-0 in the 82nd minute.
The chances backed that up: Southampton created 0.99 expected goals (xG) from 15 shots to Newcastle's 0.18 from 4.
Before kick-off
Southampton win
44%
Avg odds 2.16
Draw
28%
Avg odds 3.43
Newcastle win
28%
Avg odds 3.46
Chances implied by the average closing odds, with the bookmaker margin removed.
Shots, expected goals and player data from Understat. Results and odds from football-data.co.uk. Referee data before 2025/26 from the Transfermarkt datasets project.