Southampton 0-2 Brentford: Saints remain bottom as goals from Ivan Toney and Yoane Wissa see the Bees take all three points at St Mary’s… and fans start dreaming of European football
In case a final push was needed, Ivan Toney gave one to Gareth Southgate in Southampton.
On the eve of Southgate’s next team announcement, Toney struck again, setting up Brentford’s second Yoane Wissa to give the England manager some more thought.
His form since the World Cup had already done so, but one more goal would not have hurt his chances with Southgate prepared to look past the FA betting case looming over the Brentford striker and consider its merits, it has reported. MailOnline on Wednesday. .
Toney has emphatically made his case with 17 goals this season, including six of nine since the post-Qatar season resumed.
Of Southgate’s options, only Tottenham’s captain and Harry Kane have more.
In case a final push was needed, Ivan Toney gave one to Gareth Southgate in Southampton.
Toney has emphatically made his case with 17 goals this season, including six of nine since the post-Qatar season resumed.
In form, there’s no reason not to include Toney.
Thanks to his talismanic goal, the assist and how defiantly defending in the middle by his teammates, Ben Mee and Ethan Pinnock in particular, Brentford’s response to the loss at Everton that ended their 12-game unbeaten run was instantaneous, the victory made his bid for European football come fast. get back on track.
For Southampton, an opportunity to drop from the bottom of the table and out of the bottom three was missed in what turned out to be a somewhat daunting night that ended with boos at St Mary’s.
Brentford had the better part of the first half by far and when Toney opened the scoring with a touch he deserved it.
Before that, goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu deployed well to prevent Bryan Mbeumo’s close-range volley and Southampton defender Armel Bella-Kotchap did the same to block another attempt from Brentford’s lively Cameroonian striker after an impressive run and a ability of
The Brentford breakthrough came just after the half hour mark.
The spike looked simple, Toney driving Christian Norgaard’s quick move into an empty net from a yard.
But his anticipation to read the flight of the ball better than anyone and launch himself into space while holding off the challenge from Kyle Walker-Peter made the goal.
On the eve of the Southgate team’s next announcement, Toney struck again and set up Brentford’s second Yoane Wissa to give the England manager some more thought.
Aside from a Carlos Alcaraz shot that flew over Southampton’s head, he was surprisingly flat in the first half, but he tackled it with a quick start after the break.
During it, Mohamed Elyounoussi saw a shot blocked on the line and Kamaldeen Sulemana shot just wide.
Even once a bit of the sting had worn off his reply, Southampton continued to threaten, with James Ward-Prowse lashing out on a free kick that had David Raya scrambling but arching wide.
And having failed to seize their chances to equalise, Southampton were punished when Toney’s touch sent Wissa scoring with the last significant shot of the game.