The teams walked out to a cauldron of noise inside St Mary’s, both sets of fans willing their sides on with hopes and dreams of achieving an automatic return to the Premier League.<\/p>\n
Jaden Philogene struck from distance after a fast start by the visitors with an effort that stung the palms of Peretz. Dan Neil then followed up moments later with a shot that took a deflection and looped narrowly over the Saints crossbar.<\/p>\n
The first half was played at a high pace but lacked clear cut chances as both sides enjoyed spells on the ball but rarely ventured into noteworthy shooting positions. <\/p>\n
Despite the lack of chances, the energy and the atmosphere hinted at something greater that was ready to unfold after the break.<\/p>\n
Larin nearly broke the deadlock early in the second half as he connected well with a bicycle kick that was tipped over the bar by Christian Walton.<\/p>\n
The Tractor Boys found a breakthrough early in the second half as Ivan Azon poked a pass through to Burns who was in space on the right-hand side of the box.<\/p>\n
The winger then took a touch before putting his foot through the ball and into the net via the hand of Peretz – the power of the strike proving too great for the Saints keeper.<\/p>\n
Just before the hour mark Saints managed to level as Manning’s low and powerful free-kick on the edge of the box took a deflection off Marcelino Nunez and flew over the line via the foot of Walton.<\/p>\n
Larin then produced a moment of quality to give his side the lead, controlling a through ball before cutting inside and using the outside of his foot to chip the ball over Walton and into the back of the net.<\/p>\n
But the visitors were far from done as Clarke struck a ball into the back of the net with three minutes remaining, hitting his effort on the volley and into the bottom right-hand corner.<\/p>\n
Clarke nearly had the final say, only to be denied by Peretz’s outstanding fingertip stop – a save that keeps the race to join Coventry City in the Premier League alive for another few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The teams walked out to a cauldron of noise inside St Mary’s, both sets of fans willing their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-635059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}