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Southampton’s Shane Long stuns Watford with a goal within the first 10 seconds, the fastest in Premier League history.
Southampton forward Shane Long broke a Premier League record for the quickest-ever goal when he scored after just seven seconds against Watford on Wednesday.
The previous fastest goal was scored after 10 seconds by Ledley King for Tottenham against Bradford in 2000.
Long beat Ben Foster after intercepting an attempted clearance by Watford’s Craig Cathcart just after kickoff.
Southampton’s Shane Long stuns Watford with a goal within the first 10 seconds, the fastest in Premier League history.
English Premier League: Shane Long (9′) Southampton 1-0 Liverpool
The pressure continues to mount for bottom-of-the-table Sunderland after Southampton cruised to an easy win.
English Premier League: Shane Long (90’+2) Sunderland 0-4 Southampton
English Premier League: Shane Long (88′) Sunderland 0-3 Southampton
English Premier League: Vito Mannone (74′) Sunderland 0-2 Southampton
Manolo Gabbiadini continued his sensational start to his Southampton career by scoring twice in Saturday’s 4-0 rout of bottom club Sunderland at the Stadium of Light.
The Saints added a third via a Jason Denayer own goal and substitute Shane Long bagged a fourth late on as the EFL Cup finalists claimed a morale-boosting win ahead of their big Wembley date with Manchester United.
It was only the south coast side’s second Premier League win since mid-December.
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Gabbiadini has taken no…
Jurgen Klopp’s side lacked a Plan B or the nous to break through vs. Southampton in Wednesday’s cup exit.
LIVERPOOL, England – Three points from Anfield as Liverpool failed to overturn a 1-0 first leg deficit in the EFL Cup semifinal before Shane Long struck to give Southampton a 2-0 aggregate victory.
1. Liverpool beginning to unravel
Southampton secured their first League Cup final since 1979 with a stunning 1-0 victory at Anfield, deservedly claiming a 2-0 aggregate semifinal win over Jurgen Klopp’s team, who are now under threat of seeing their season unravel.
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While Claude Puel and…
Claude Puel should start Shane Long against champions Leicester and give the striker time to return to top form.
This time last year, Shane Long’s stock had never been higher.
Long was in the middle of the most prolific goal-scoring season of his Premier League career — having just demolished title-chasing Arsenal – and en route to hitting double figures in the top flight for the first time.
With Southampton’s No. 1 front man Graziano Pelle suffering from a lack of form prompted by a spate of injuries, Long’s goals were the single biggest factor in the club achieving Europa League qualification.
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Southampton were uninspiring and left it late but grabbed a late winner to advance to the FA Cup fourth round.
Shane Long scored a dramatic stoppage time winner to lead Southampton to a 1-0 FA Cup third round replay win at home against Championship side Norwich.
Long’s scrappy 92nd minute effort set up a fourth round clash at home to Arsenal — but the laboured performance did little to restore the fans’ faith in under-pressure manager Claude Puel.
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Southampton had no fewer than six home-grown players in their starting line-up, suggesting the future remains bright on the south coast.
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Nathan Redmond and Southampton were deserved winners, taking the game to Liverpool at St Mary’s.
Southampton took a big step towards their first League Cup final in more than 30 years by upsetting the form book with a 1-0 semifinal first leg win at home against a disappointing Liverpool.
Nathan Redmond’s early goal was enough to give the Saints a narrow, but deserved, lead to take to Anfield in two weeks’ time.
Redmond and Cedric Soares both missed gilt-edged opportunities to give the Saints a 2-0 lead, which would have put them within touching distance of Wembley.
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