In the early stages, neither side dominated proceedings, but one man who stood out was Saints forward Leo Scienza.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old Brazilian unsettled the Preston defenders with his direct play and trickery, and just before the half hour mark he forced Daniel Iversen into a smart save, cutting in and curling an effort goal-bound with his right foot.<\/p>\n
The away side had a great chance to score 10 minutes before the break as Dobbin was found in space just outside the box, but to the frustration of a team-mate in space out to his left, he opted to shoot, with his effort flying over the bar.<\/p>\n
But minutes later he was able to find the net – after an initial effort was saved by Alex McCarthy, Dobbin was in the right place to tap home his third of the season.<\/p>\n
Alongside the joyous Preston cheers, St Mary’s then broke out into boos with a large section of the home fans chanting against their owners.<\/p>\n
Saints started the second half with more urgency but they still struggled to carve out any clear-cut chances in their pursuit of an equaliser.<\/p>\n
Still’s side had their best chance of the game in the 70th minute when Jander curled a right-footed effort towards the top corner that hit the bar.<\/p>\n
But the travelling Lilywhites were able to finish the game in style as Frokjaer-Jensen produced a fine finish in injury time to seal the three points for Preston who move into the play-off positions.<\/p>\n
The defeat now means that Southampton have lost five times in the Championship this season alongside their six draws and two wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the early stages, neither side dominated proceedings, but one man who stood out was Saints forward Leo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-116349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}