Match Centre: Southampton vs Birmingham City
Player of the match Adam Armstrong 8.3
GolVolt rating 4.5GolVolt rating
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The match in 30 seconds
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3 of 8
Southampton turned that many shots on target into goals with only 40% of the ball.
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16 → 11
Southampton climb 5 places in the table. Birmingham City stay in place 8.
Key stats
Why this rating
Four pillars, each measured against the same league over the last 12 months.
Plenty of chances.
- Dramaweight 50% Settled by 58′.The result was clear early — little to hold on for. Drama: 2.7 out of 10
- Heroesweight 20% Armstrong scored the winner.Solid performances, no single big hero. Heroes: 5.4 out of 10
- Stakesweight 15% It mattered for the table but settled nothing. Stakes: 3.6 out of 10
- Quality of playweight 15% Plenty of chances, 40 shots. Quality of play: 9.5 out of 10
Match ECG
A spike = a twist. The shading = how open the result still was.
GolVolt rating 4.5more watchable than 45% of Championship matches
The GolVolt rating comes from four pillars — drama, heroes, stakes and quality of play — measured against this league's matches of the last 12 months (model nap-v2).
Similar matches
A similar story: twists, the finish, chances. Same league, last 12 months.
How the match went
4 goals3 cards
Counts cover only events captured in the retained timeline.
Timeline
- 6' Goal: Finn Azazassist: Scienza1:0
- 24' Goal: Adam Armstrongassist: Azaz2:0
- Half-time · 2:0
- 49' Tomoki Iwatayellow card
- 54' Goal: Demarai Grayassist: Cochrane2:1
- 58' Goal: Adam ArmstrongSouthampton3:1
- 59' 2 substitutionsFuruhashi for DuckschRobinson for Cochrane
- 63' 2 substitutionsArcher for ArmstrongRobinson for Scienza
- 80' SubstitutionAnderson for Roberts
- 80' 2 substitutionsAribo for AzazRomeu for Jander
- 86' 2 substitutionsDykes for StansfieldKoumas for Gray
- 87' SubstitutionEdwards for Fellows
- 90+2' Joe Ariboyellow card
- 90+6' Tonda Eckertyellow card
- Full-time · 3:1
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Lineups and ratings
The highlighted rating is the player of the match.
Starting XIs · provider ratings
Southampton
Birmingham City
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Midfielders
Forwards
Came on
Bench
Southampton
- 1 Alex McCarthy GK —
- 12 Ronnie Edwards DEF on
- 17 Joshua Quarshie DEF —
- 7 Joe Aribo MID on
- 26 Ryan Fraser MID —
- 28 Oriol Romeu MID on
- 48 Cameron Bragg MID —
- 19 Cameron Archer ATT on
- 46 Jay Robinson ATT on
Birmingham City
- 21 Ryan Allsop GK —
- 6 Jack Robinson DEF on
- 26 Bright Osayi-Samuel DEF —
- 41 Eiran Cashin DEF —
- 12 Marc Leonard MID —
- 14 Keshi Anderson MID on
- 9 Kyogo Furuhashi ATT on
- 17 Lyndon Dykes ATT on
- 30 Lewis Koumas ATT on
Match sheet
- Stadium
- St. Mary's Stadium, Southampton
Player ratings
Ratings from the data provider, scale 1–10.
- Player of the match · Southampton Adam Armstrong
- 2. place · Southampton Leo Scienza
- 3. place · Birmingham City Demarai Gray
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