Saints nearly gifted the visitors a goal in the opening moments when keeper Daniel Peretz passed the ball straight to Watford’s Edo Kayembe on the edge of the box but the shot that followed was a tame effort.<\/p>\n
The hosts had their best chance just before 20 minutes when Flynn Downes crossed a ball into the area from the right which found its way to Ross Stewart in a central position, but his shot was saved by Watford keeper Egil Selvik.<\/p>\n
There was a pause in play after half an hour as Downes and James Abankwah came together in a nasty-looking collision.<\/p>\n
The Southampton midfielder came off worse out of the two players and then spent a lengthy period of time on the ground before receiving treatment. He tried to continue but was brought off before half-time despite his best efforts.<\/p>\n
The visitors’ best chance came just before the break as the Hornets sprung on the counter-attack, working the ball to Giorgi Chakvetadze who fired narrowly over.<\/p>\n
Watford fans wanted a red card for Taylor Harwood-Bellis in the second half as he brought down Mamadou Doumbia who looked ready to burst in behind, but referee Elliot Bell produced just a yellow for the defender.<\/p>\n
Saints finally broke the deadlock when Bree swung a corner into the box from the left and his delivery found the head of Larin who powered the ball home just moments after being substituted on.<\/p>\n
The home support were signing his name in the moments after the goal, delighted at his contribution.<\/p>\n
Larin was a big physical presence up front on his first appearance in red and white, occupying the Watford centre-backs, hard at work in the air and with the ball at his feet during his 30-minute cameo.<\/p>\n
Southampton were denied a penalty in added time as Sam Edozie looked to be wrestled to the floor in the box but referee Bell waved away the appeals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saints nearly gifted the visitors a goal in the opening moments when keeper Daniel Peretz passed the ball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-413124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413124","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=413124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}