Ryan Manning\u2019s own goal and Sam Bell\u2019s glancing header twice had the Robins ahead but Cyle Larin and Ross Stewart cancelled them out.<\/p>\n
Saints extended their unbeaten run to 20, but their winning spell ended at eight ahead of their FA Cup semi-final against Manchester City on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The dugouts saw the oldest and youngest Championship managers face off, with Roy Hodgson\u2019s 78 years of experience and Tonda Eckert\u2019s 33 years of youthful energy.<\/p>\n
Southampton\u2019s pre-match plans were ripped up in the build-up to kick-off when captain Jack Stephens suffered an injury in the warm-up.<\/p>\n
He was replaced by Nathan Wood at centre-back, and within two minutes had been caught out up a long ball down the middle.<\/p>\n
Delano Burgzorg found himself with the whole half to himself but lacked the composure to slide the ball past Daniel Peretz as the Israeli goalkeeper dived at his feet.<\/p>\n
The hosts\u2019 disarray continued in the fifth minute when Manning headed into his own goal.<\/p>\n
The left-back, who will miss the City clash through suspension, challenged Bell to meet an impeccable Scott Twine in-swinger but nodded past his own goalkeeper.<\/p>\n
No one grabbed the initiative until Manning\u2019s free-kick into the six-yard box was met by Larin just before the half-hour mark.<\/p>\n
It was the seventh goal for the Canadian since arriving on loan from Mallorca, including in his last four starts.<\/p>\n
City hadn\u2019t created another opportunity after their goal until the 38th minute when Burgzorg curled over the bar and a minute later Sam Morsy rasped over from the edge of the box, but neither tested Peretz.<\/p>\n
Southampton\u2019s start to the second half was much more assured, as Cameron Archer forced Radek Vitek into a full dive to push behind.<\/p>\n
Bell might not have got the decisive touch to the opener, but there was no doubt he would be credit with the Robins\u2019 second as he netted in back-to-back appearances.<\/p>\n
The forward ghosted in at a corner to flick Tomi Horvat\u2019s delivery goalbound, as Saints conceded twice at home for the first time since January 17.<\/p>\n
But they lost their lead for a second time when Tom Fellow\u2019s stood-up cross was headed in by the unmarked Stewart \u2013 barely three minutes after coming off the bench.<\/p>\n
The home side\u2019s big chance to win it fell to Shea Charles but he was denied at point-blank range by Vitek, with Saints only dropping their eighth point from the last 51 available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Manning\u2019s own goal and Sam Bell\u2019s glancing header twice had the Robins ahead but Cyle Larin and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-172186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}