{"id":144311,"date":"2026-02-24T23:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144311\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T23:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:43:10","slug":"southampton-hit-five-past-queens-park-rangers-as-matsuki-nets-brace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144311\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton hit five past Queens Park Rangers as Matsuki nets brace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southampton hit <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/queens-park-rangers-582\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Queens Park Rangers<\/a> for five at St Mary&#8217;s after a ruthless, professional display. Sainstmarching.com notes that several <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/southampton-615\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saints<\/a> delivered standout performances.<\/p>\n<p>Finn Azaz curled in from range early to set the tone. As Rangers chased a leveller, Taylor Harwood-Bellis headed against the post on 38 minutes. <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/kuryu-matsuki-469026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kuryu Matsuki<\/a> then nodded in L\u00e9o Scienza\u2019s corner just before the interval.<\/p>\n<p>Moments after the restart, Matsuki pounced on a rebound from Scienza\u2019s shot to make it three. Scienza added the fourth with a low strike that crept in off the far post.<\/p>\n<p>James Bree rounded off the scoring with a fine effort from the edge of the area for 5-0.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Peretz commanded his box and handled high balls calmly. Harwood-Bellis excelled at both ends, while Bree, Azaz and Cyle Larin impressed throughout.<\/p>\n<p>In midfield, Flynn Downes and Caspar Jander were assertive, and Ryan Manning steadied after a testing first half. The result lifts <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/southampton-615\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Southampton<\/a> to seventh in the Championship, four points adrift of the play-off places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southampton hit Queens Park Rangers for five at St Mary&#8217;s after a ruthless, professional display. Sainstmarching.com notes that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-144311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}