00:00No changes by Everton, who'd scored 15 goals in winning four of their last five games.
00:05Tony Gubber was at the Dell.
00:10Ben Ali lets it go past him to Mark Hughes.
00:16Letiz on the chest, trying to get some...
00:18Oh! Well, he's back to goal.
00:21It seemed impossible that he'd get a strike anywhere near the target.
00:26That's the closest that Southampton have come.
00:32Myra watching it just flash wide of the post, and not by much.
00:36Oh, it was inches.
00:43Free kick.
00:48Short to take the free kick.
00:51Midway through this first half, helped on by Campbell Jeffers!
00:55That would have to go down as the best chance of the first half.
01:02Everton haven't read the script, which says that Southampton are going to win and retain their Premier Division status.
01:08A simple free kick, helped on by Campbell, finding Francis Jeffers in lots of space.
01:19Hutchison.
01:20Hutchison.
01:22This is Dodd for Southampton.
01:26Oh, Beatty's helped it on.
01:28Here's Pahaz.
01:29There's no defender in front of him.
01:34The down erupts.
01:37Southampton take the lead after 24 minutes.
01:41And it was the aerial threat of James Beatty which brought the goal for the Latvian International.
01:48There's seen plenty of Everton defenders to deal with it.
01:53But Beatty with a real spring in his step to get underneath that ball, played in by Dodd.
01:59Knocked it down into the path of Pahaz, who took his time, steadied himself, and thumped it past Thomas Myra.
02:10Get out, Freddie, get out!
02:15Two minutes have added on time, signalled by the fourth official, Keith Birch.
02:20Letizia sizing things up.
02:22Oh!
02:24Well, he couldn't have hit that any harder.
02:26He could hardly have hit it through.
02:28He just needed to dip a little bit quicker, and that would have ballooned the back of the net.
02:38Well, here's Beattie, brought down by Unsworth-Wazie.
02:43It's a corner.
02:47And Matthew Letizia to swing in another of these teasing corners.
02:56Bernani to knock it back.
03:00Hughes!
03:01Oh, Mark Hughes!
03:04Well, the veteran Welsh international, former Manchester United Chelsea player, with a chance to really make this secure.
03:17Here's Bakayoko.
03:20Jones comes and punches.
03:23Gemmell gets it back to Dakor.
03:26Marsden wouldn't allow it to reach them.
03:27And now Salamton on a quick break.
03:29Pahaz has run.
03:30Here's Beattie.
03:35Pahaz!
03:36Oh, yes!
03:37Oh, yes!
03:39Surely now, Salamton are safe.
03:43Their own goal under threat from the Everton substitute.
03:47Bakayoko.
03:47And quick as a flash, and quick as a flash, Salamton have carried the ball downfield.
03:52And a stunning header from the little Latvian on his knees at the near post.
03:59To make it 2-0 to Southamton, with just over 20 minutes left to play, but well delivered to by
04:06Beattie, who gets his second assist.
04:14Campbell gets back to Bakayoko, and out by Monkau, it'll be a corner.
04:23Anxiety in the Southamton dugout, we're into the three minutes of added on time, as Everton take this corner.
04:32Here's Hutchison.
04:35Oh, Jones saved that with his legs, but he surely didn't know how.
04:46Letizia on the dugout as the final whistle goes.
04:51Southamton have won their final league match of the season for the first time since 1984, and it's helped to
04:58keep Letizia and Southamton in the Premiership.
05:02Southamton defeat Everton by two goals to nil, regardless of what has happened elsewhere, that is good enough to retain
05:09Premiership football at the Dell next season.
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