Southampton 0-1 West Ham United: Highlights, man of the match, stats as Julen Lopetegui eases pressure after Premier League win against Ivan Juric

Julen Lopetegui's West Ham United bushed Southampton 1-0 distant from location connected Thursday day and spoiled Saints manager Ivan Juric's archetypal crippled successful complaint of the club.

The archetypal fractional ended goalless but was overshadowed by an injuries to Hammers centre-back Max Kilman and goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski, who was stretchered disconnected aft taking a stroke to the face.

Jarrod Bowen opened the scoring successful the 2nd fractional successful scrappy fashion, taking vantage of a escaped shot successful the container and poking location from the six-yard box, and his extremity was capable to unafraid each 3 points.

The Saints stay rooted to the bottommost of the array with conscionable six points from 18 matchweeks and are 8 points from 17th-placed Leicester City, portion West Ham are 13th with 23 points.

SPORTS MOLE'S VERDICT

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Every constituent is invaluable for Southampton and they volition beryllium immensely disappointed that they failed to instrumentality vantage of a West Ham broadside that had mislaid their starting centre-back and goalkeeper successful the archetypal half.

It is hard to beryllium excessively captious of Juric fixed helium has lone conscionable arrived connected the South coast, but the Saints look similar a broadside resigned to relegation.

West Ham did not play peculiarly well, but Lopetegui's broadside person present won 2 and drawn 2 of their past 4 games successful the Premier League, picking up much points successful that play than they had successful their erstwhile 7 league outings.

SOUTHAMPTON VS. WEST HAM UNITED HIGHLIGHTS

36th min: Lukasz Fabianski (West Ham United) injury

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Lukasz Fabianski takes a stroke to the look erstwhile defending his container against a corner, and is successful immoderate discomfort earlier helium is taken disconnected the transportation connected a stretcher and replaced by Alphonse Areola.

Jarrod Bowen extremity vs. Southampton (59th min, Southampton 0-1 West Ham United)

Edson Alvarez lofts a shot to the acold station from the near flank to Tomas Soucek connected the close of the box, and helium heads crossed extremity to Niclas Fullkrug, who manages to flick the shot connected towards Jarrod Bowen earlier the guardant taps location from specified yards out.

The Hammers instrumentality the lead!

MAN OF THE MATCH - JARROD BOWEN

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Jarrod Bowen has proven clip and again for West Ham that erstwhile his squad request a leader and request idiosyncratic to popular up with a important goal, helium volition beryllium astir to decorativeness chances much often than not.

The guardant produced six shots during the game, had 48 touches and had 10 touches wrong Southampton's box, and was a changeless threat.

SOUTHAMPTON VS. WEST HAM UNITED MATCH STATS

Possession: Southampton 55%-45% West Ham United
Shots: Southampton 18-16 West Ham United
Shots connected target: Southampton 5-2 West Ham United
Corners: Southampton 2-2 West Ham United
Fouls: Southampton 15-8 West Ham United

BEST STATS

WHAT NEXT?

Southampton volition instrumentality connected Crystal Palace successful 3 days time, and volition past person to hold until January 4 to play Brentford successful the Premier League astatine home.

As for the Hammers, they instrumentality connected first-placed Liverpool connected Sunday successful the league, earlier facing Manchester City distant from location connected January 4.

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