Southampton’s frustrating start to the season continued as they were held to another draw despite dominating against Swansea City.<\/p>\n
Saints created a string of chances, with Caspar Jander wasting the clearest opportunity when he hit the post from point-blank range 12 minutes from time.<\/p>\n
Leo Scienza also struck the woodwork as Southampton were once again left to rue their inability to find a finish.<\/p>\n
The result was a fifth draw in the past seven Championship games for Will Still’s team, who have won only two league matches in 2025-26 having been relegated from the Premier League last season.<\/p>\n
While manager Still is left wondering how his side did not claim all three points, opposite number Alan Sheehan will be delighted to come away with something after Swansea’s uninspiring display.<\/p>\n
Cameron Archer, Adam Armstrong and Shea Charles had all shot off target before Scienza’s curling effort from outside the area missed everyone and cannoned off the far post just after the half hour.<\/p>\n
The rebound fell to Archer, who could only turn an instinctive effort wide with Swansea goalkeeper Lawrence Vigouroux stranded.<\/p>\n
The lively Scienza then twice beat Josh Key down the Southampton left only for last-ditch interventions from Marko Stamenic and Vigouroux to save Swansea.<\/p>\n
There was more frustration for Still before the break, with Armstrong and then Nathan Wood denied by Vigouroux when better finishes would have brought the lead his team deserved.<\/p>\n
Swansea did a better job of containing their hosts in the second period, though the Welsh side continued to offer almost nothing in attack.<\/p>\n
Southampton thought their moment had finally come when Armstrong’s shot was only parried by Vigouroux.<\/p>\n
Midfielder Jander was first to the rebound, but his poked effort from four yards hit the inside of the post and then rolled agonisingly across the face of goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southampton’s frustrating start to the season continued as they were held to another draw despite dominating against Swansea…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-209053","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}