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Coventry City 1-2 Southampton: ‘Statement’ win buoys Saints’ push for the play-offs

Tonda Eckert claimed Southampton made a statement by downing leaders Coventry City to improve their bid to make the Championship play-offs.

Southampton’s Kuryu Matsuki scores their second

By Harry Wright

COVENTRY CITY 1
Torp 90+2 (pen)

SOUTHAMPTON 2
Downes 48, Matsuki 85
Tonda Eckert claimed Southampton made a statement by downing leaders Coventry City to improve their bid to make the Championship play-offs.
Flynn Downes opened the scoring shortly after half-time, before Kuryu Matsuki doubled the lead with five minutes to go.
Victor Torp gave Frank Lampard’s side hope with an injury-time penalty, but they saw their six-match winning run ended with just their second home loss of the season.
“It’s a big result,” said the German. “We had so many questions this week [about] w...

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