Southampton vs Liverpool: Premier League as it happened

Goal updates and latest action from the top-flight meeting at St Mary's

Roberto Firmino scores past Southampton goalkeeper Alex McCarthy (Getty)

Liverpool arrive at St Mary's resembling something akin to Southampton's parent club. So many of the graduates at Saints have ended up at Anfield in recent years and today Virgil van Dijk plays in the centre of Jurgen Klopp's defence, with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Sadio Mane also starting and Dejan Lovren and Adam Lallana on the bench.

Mauricio Pellegrino – a former Liverpool player himself – will be desperate to build on last week's 3-2 win over West Brom and ride their momentum away from the drop, especially given Saints' run of five away games in their next six Premier League encounters.

However they face a Liverpool side determined to keep up their top-four push and a forward in Mohamed Salah who cannot stop scoring, with plenty of foils around him that will keep Southampton's defence occupied.

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[11 February 2018 18:10 · Liam Corless]

83' - Southampton have been going for this a bit more over the last 10 minutes or so but Liverpool have defended really well so far. You'd also expect the visitors to get even more chances on the counter with Saints committing more men forward for attacks of their own.

[11 February 2018 18:11 · Liam Corless]

Adam Lallana enters the fray against his former club 

[11 February 2018 18:13 · Liam Corless]

86' - Adam Lallana plays a one-two with Mo Salah on the edge of the box before putting his shot just wide of the far post from just 12 yards out.

He's got to be hitting the target there!

[11 February 2018 18:15 · Liam Corless]

89' - Dejan Lovren replaces Mo Salah for Liverpool.

[11 February 2018 18:17 · Liam Corless]

90' - We'll have a minimum of four additional minutes at the end of the match.

[11 February 2018 18:21 · Liam Corless]

Full-time - Southampton 0-2 Liverpool

The referee blows the final whistle and Liverpool are up to third in the table courtesy of a comfortable 2-0 victory here.

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Goals from Roberto Firmino and Mo Salah sealed all three points for Liverpool on the South Coast