Southampton secured a sixth straight home win with a comprehensive 4-1 victory over Peterborough, underlining their credentials for promotion this term.
Saints who were celebrating their 125th birthday started the game on the front foot but had to wait until the half hour mark to get the party started when Lee Barnard collected a Rickie Lambert pass well and duly smashed home into the top right hand corner of the net.
The three points were virtually sealed within the first five minutes of the second half, it took just 30 seconds after the restart for Jose Fonte to leap well to head Ryan Dickinson's cross from the far post across goal and into the bottom left hand corner.
And just two minutes later it was 3-0 after a some great play saw Richard Chaplow volley home from 8 yards after being picked out by Dean Hammond to finish off a really well constructed team goal.
Posh however did pull a goal back fifteen minutes from time courtesy of a Aaron Mcclean who found himself clean through and cooly lifted the ball over the advancing Kelvin Davis. A comeback wasn't on the agenda today however as Brazilian striker Guly Do Prado took advantage of some poor Peterborough marking from a corner to head home from a Lee Holmes free kick.
Goal scorers: Barnard 28, Fonte 46, Chaplow 50, McLean 76, Do Prado 80
Teams
Southampton: Davis, Richardson, Jaidi, Dickson, Fonte, Hammon, Chaplow, Chamberlain, Lambert, Barnard, Lallana
Substitutes: Bialkowski, Butterfield, Martin, Holmes, Do Prado, Schneiderlin, Connolly
Peterborough: Lewis, Langmead, Williams, Nyatanga, Little, Mccann, Davies, Tomlin, Mclean, Mackail-Smith, Boyd
Referee: Sarginson
Attendence: 22,177
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