Southampton vs Portsmouth 1-0

Southampton beat Portsmouth 1-0 at St Mary's Stadium, with James Bree's first-half goal settling the match. Cameron Bragg's red card before the interval left Southampton protecting that lead for more than half the game.

Bree opened the scoring in the 20th minute, steering in Finn Azaz's assist for 1-0. The score stayed there at half-time.

Portsmouth made a change at the break, bringing on Adrian Segecic for Ryan Kavuma-McQueen, but the visitors could not find an equaliser. Southampton lost Bragg to a red card in the 44th minute, then replaced Léo Scienza with Kuryu Matsuki on 57 minutes and Cyle Larin with Caspar Jander on 72. Portsmouth made three changes together on 65 minutes, with Ebou Adams replaced by Odin Bailey, Jayden Meghoma by Terry Devlin and Colby Bishop by Marko Milovanović, before Keshi Anderson came on for Zak Swanson on 77 minutes. The visitors had 15 shots to Southampton's 7 and 4 corners to 2, but only 2 shots on target to Southampton's 3. Southampton had 51% of the ball and 396 passes to Portsmouth's 366, while xG finished at 1.35 to 0.69 and each side made 2 saves.

Southampton were booked three times, for Cameron Bragg, Cyle Larin and Finn Azaz, while Bragg also went off with a red card. Portsmouth were shown three yellow cards too, to Ebou Adams, Jayden Meghoma and Terry Devlin, with Devlin booked after coming on.