{"id":295185,"date":"2023-10-28T14:25:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T14:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=295185"},"modified":"2023-10-28T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T14:25:09","slug":"southampton-3-1-birmingham-rooney-suffers-a-third-successive-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/soccer\/southampton-3-1-birmingham-rooney-suffers-a-third-successive-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton 3-1 Birmingham: Rooney suffers a third successive defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Southampton 3-1 Birmingham: Wayne Rooney suffers a third successive defeat since taking charge of the Blues as the Saints cruise to victory<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Taylor Harwood-Bellis and Carlos Alcaraz struck in the early stages of the hosts\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jay\u00a0Stansfield pulled one back for Birmingham a minute after coming on<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Adam Armstrong sealed a 3-1 victory for Southampton in the closing stages\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Adam Armstrong scored his eighth goal of the season as Southampton eased to a 3-1 Sky Bet Championship victory and condemned Wayne Rooney to a third straight defeat as Birmingham manager.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Armstrong now has eight career goals against Blues, more than he has scored against any other side, as he settled the game with a fine finish.<\/p>\n<p>He had set up Taylor Harwood-Bellis&#8217; opener before Carlos Alcaraz tapped in &#8211; both players&#8217; first goals of the season. Jay Stansfield pulled one back for the visitors but it could not help end Rooney&#8217;s winless run.<\/p>\n<p>Southampton had monopolised the opening stages without creating anything clear-cut until Harwood-Bellis nodded in the ninth-minute opener.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrongs Stuart and Adam worked a short-corner routine before the latter lifted for the Manchester City loanee to power in his third professional goal, and first since last September.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/28\/14\/77114137-12683005-image-a-11_1698500195808.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Wayne Rooney has overseen three successive defeats since taking charge of Birmingham<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/28\/14\/77114285-12683005-image-a-12_1698500350820.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Adam Armstrong scored his eighth goal of the season to seal a 3-1 victory for Southampton<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/28\/14\/77114301-12683005-image-a-13_1698500444160.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Taylor Harwood-Bellis opened the scoring for the hosts with an eighth minute header<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Blues rallied but Oliver Burke&#8217;s lashed effort into the side netting &#8211; their only shot of the first half &#8211; poked the hosts back into life.<\/p>\n<h3>MATCH FACTS<\/h3>\n<p><span>Southampton: (4-3-3):<\/span> Bazunu, Walker-Peters, Harwood-Bellis, Bednarek, Bree, Downes, Smallbone (Charles 81), S. Armstrong (Edozie 82), Alcaraz (Aribo 69), A.Armstrong, Sulemana (Fraser 76)<\/p>\n<p><span>Subs not used:<\/span> McCarthy, Holgate, Manning, Amo-Ameyaw, Mara<\/p>\n<p><span>Scorers:<\/span> Harwood-Bellis 9&#8242;, Alcaraz 22&#8242;, A.Armstrong 86&#8242;<\/p>\n<p><span>Manager:<\/span> Russell Martin<\/p>\n<p><span>Birmingham (4-2-3-1):<\/span> Ruddy, Drameh, Sanderson, Aiwu (Roberts 76), Longelo, Bielik (Gardner 69), Sunjic, Dembele (Stansfield 57), James, Burke (Hogan 69),\u00a0Jutkiewicz (Miyoshi 76)<\/p>\n<p><span>Subs not used:<\/span> Etheridge, Laird, Long, Khele<\/p>\n<p><span>Scorer:\u00a0<\/span>Stansfield 58&#8242;<\/p>\n<p><span>Manager: <\/span>Wayne Rooney\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kamaldeen Sulemana and Stuart Armstrong linked up smartly on the left flank before the Ghanaian slid across the face of the goal for Alcaraz to push in.<\/p>\n<p>Rooney had been booed after Wednesday&#8217;s 2-0 home defeat by Hull, and Saints supporters rubbed their advantage in with a round of &#8220;sacked in the morning&#8221; aimed at the Manchester United great.<\/p>\n<p>But rather than rub further salt into the wound of Rooney&#8217;s poor start, Birmingham fans supported their boss with cries of &#8220;Rooney, Rooney&#8221; and &#8220;Wayne Rooney&#8217;s Blue Army&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Their support should have been rewarded with a spot-kick but goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu got away with flattening Burke in the box.<\/p>\n<p>Saints should have gone into the break with more than a two-goal advantage as Harwood-Bellis&#8217; free header from a corner skipped wide and Adam Armstrong clipped a one-on-one over John Ruddy but wide of the goal.<\/p>\n<p>After the break, Stuart Armstrong tamely ended a well-worked move and Adam Armstrong&#8217;s diving header flashed wide.<\/p>\n<p>But the hosts floundered and Blues capitalised. Stansfield jumped off the bench, met Lukas Jutkiewicz&#8217;s knockdown, bullied his way past Kyle Walker-Peters and rifled into the top corner &#8211; all within 52 seconds of his 57th-minute introduction.<\/p>\n<p>It was Stansfield&#8217;s fourth goal of the season and extended Southampton&#8217;s wait for a home clean sheet to 28 matches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/28\/14\/77114331-12683005-image-a-15_1698500551518.jpg\" height=\"441\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Carlos Alcaraz scored his first of the season to double Southampton&#8217;s lead in the 22nd minute<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/28\/14\/77114311-12683005-image-a-14_1698500507626.jpg\" height=\"447\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jay Stansfield scored less than a minute after coming on as a substitute for Birmingham<\/p>\n<p>But Saints held onto the ball well and made sure of the result in the 86th minute when top-scorer Adam Armstrong pounced and swivelled onto Sam Edozie&#8217;s nod down.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Hogan curled one onto the roof of the goal in additional time but it could not stop Saints moving to a sixth game unbeaten to cement their place in the play-off spots.<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12683005\/Southampton-3-1-Birmingham-Wayne-Rooney-defeat-Saints-cruise-victory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southampton 3-1 Birmingham: Wayne Rooney suffers a third successive defeat since taking charge of the Blues as the Saints cruise to victory Taylor Harwood-Bellis and Carlos Alcaraz struck in the early stages of the hosts\u00a0 Jay\u00a0Stansfield pulled one back for Birmingham a minute after coming on Adam Armstrong sealed a 3-1 victory for Southampton in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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