Southampton0-0Bolton Wanderers

Southampton 0-0 Bolton Wanderers

Southampton drew 0-0 with Bolton Wanderers at St. Mary’s Stadium in the Championship. Saints had 62.6% possession, but only two of their 14 shots were on target. Bolton Wanderers also had 14 shots, with three on target. Our share of the ball brought no reward on the scoreboard.

Léo Scienza shot just over from James Bree’s pass at 4’. Gavin Bazunu then saved his effort from outside the box at 12’, after a pass from James Ward-Prowse. Southampton’s first half also featured repeated offside decisions against Scienza, Tom Fellows and Cyle Larin. The offside flag had no shortage of work.

Fellows had a shot blocked at 30’, and Larin met the same outcome from Welington’s cross at 41’. Lewis Dobbin replaced Larin because of an injury at 41’. Welington shot too high at 42’. At 43’, Daniel Peretz saved Thierry Gale’s shot, before Gale sent another effort over. The first half ended 0-0 at 45’+1’.

Kuryu Matsuki replaced Fellows at 45’, while Rúben Rodrigues replaced Atsuki Ito for Bolton Wanderers. Matsuki supplied Dobbin at 57’, but his shot from the center of the box missed to the left. Matsuki then missed to the left at 60’ after Finn Azaz’s pass. Saints had two more chances and still no goal.

Peretz saved Sam Dalby’s header at 64’ after a cross from Rúben Rodrigues. Eoin Toal headed wide from another Rodrigues cross at 65’, and a Rodrigues shot was blocked in the same minute. Ryan Manning and Samuel Edozie replaced Welington and Cameron Bragg at 73’. At 77’, Manning supplied Edozie, whose shot from the left side of the six-yard box drew a save from Bazunu.

Bolton Wanderers also threatened at 77’. Kyliane Dong had a shot blocked, Theo Bair headed wide from very near goal, and Peretz saved from Josh Sheehan. Dobbin then missed to the left from very near goal at 80’, after Edozie’s cross. That was another chance for Saints to change the score.

Bree shot wide at 84’, and Edozie had an effort blocked at 90’. Keven Schlotterbeck shot high and wide at 90’+1’. Bair missed to the left at 90’+6’. The match ended 0-0 at 90’+7’.