Southampton 1-2 Arsenal: Gunners secure late win
Martin Odegaard wins it late on for Arsenal as they finished in second place once again.
Arsenal beat Southampton 2-1 at St Mary's on Sunday as they finished in second place in the table.
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Both teams made plenty of changes as Kieran Tierney gave Arsenal the lead in the first half. Saints battled away and Ross Stewart scored his first goal for the club to make it 1-1, but Martin Odegaard jumped off the bench and won it late on.
With the win Arsenal finished the season on 74 points, 10 points behind Premier League winners Liverpool. Southampton finished bottom of the table on 12 points and set a new Premier League record for the most defeats in a single season, 30.
Stewart 56'; Tierney 43', Odegaard 89'
Surely that is the winner. Captain Odegaard is off the bench and he's secured the win.
After a terrible run with injuries "The Loch Ness Drogba" scores his first goal for Southampton. St Mary's goes wild.
What a moment for Kieran Tierney. The Scotsman flicks home superbly to give the much-changed Gunners the lead just before half time.
Saints have been okay and whip in a cross which Stewart heads wide. He should do better with that. New manager Will Still will be happy with what he's seen, so far, from a much-changed Saints side.
Sugawara smashes a shot towards goal but Declan Rice has his arm out. The ball smashes Rice but it looked to hit his chest. No penalty kick. The hosts are hanging in there.
Ramsdale; Sugawara, Wood, Taylor, Welington; Downes, Ugochukwu; Robinson, Fernandes, Sulemana; Stewart
Raya; Partey, White, Kiwior, Tierney; Rice, Zinchenko, Merino; Nwaneri, Martinelli, Sterling
QUESTIONABLE: Jan Bednarek (knee), Taylor Harwood-Bellis (ankle), Albert Gronbaek (achilles) | QUESTIONABLE: Kyle Walker-Peters (illness)
OUT: Jurrien Timber (ankle), Gabriel Magalhaes (hamstring - MORE), Gabriel Jesus (torn ACL - out for season), Takehiro Tomiyasu (knee), William Saliba (thigh)
Hopefully a close game with a lot of goals. It would feel a little wild to predict even a half-strength Arsenal to lose to Saints on Sunday so we're going to optimistically project entertainment. Southampton 2-4 Arsenal.
Long-relegated Saints sit 20th on the table with 12 points and have just dodged the worst statistical season in the Premier League.
Arsenal, meanwhile, have fallen short of most of their season goals but are all but certain to finish second on the table again and will return to the UEFA Champions League with renewed vigor next season.
How to watch Southampton vs Arsenal live, stream link and start timeKick off time: 11am ET Sunday
Venue: St. Mary's Stadium — Southampton
TV Channel: Syfy
Streaming: Watch live on NBC.com



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