Summary

  • Southampton: Gazzaniga, Clyne, Fonte, Alderweireld, Bertrand, Steven Davis, Wanyama, Long, Ward-Prowse, Mane, Pelle.

  • Aston Villa: Given, Bacuna, Okore, Vlaar, Hutton, Cleverley, Westwood, Delph, N'Zogbia, Benteke, Grealish.

Live Reporting

Shamoon Hafez

  1. Ian Holloway
    Ex-Blackpool and Crystal Palace manager on BBC Radio 5 live

    "I've literally in my life never seen anything quite as bizarre as the hat-trick and there was a goal disallowed before that. As a manager, I absolutely feel for Tim Sherwood.

    "All his preparation would've gone in minutes. Jack Grealish, who has had all the plaudits recently, has had an absolute shocker where he has played a ball blindly to someone in a Southampton shirt and that's led to a goal. It just shows the inexperience."

  2. What is this doing to Aston Villa's confidence? They don't want to go into the FA Cup final against Arsenal playing like this, it will be an embarrassment for Tim Sherwood and his side. They have one more game in the Premier League after this against Burnley to get it right.

    It could prove to be a crucial game as Villa are not safe just yet...

  3. Join the debate at #bbcfootball

    Blackburn Lad: Sadio Mane writes himself into Premier League history. Well done that man.

    Ben Dalton: Villa getting hammered should be motivation for #NUFC to really show up today & blow away a poor #QPR side. But it won't be.

  4. The Mane man

    Sadio ManeOpta

    Southampton's Sadio Mane - with the newly held title of fastest Premier League hat-trick scorer - has been everywhere, as this touchmap shows. He has even found time to help out his defensive colleagues.

  5. Have you ever seen anything like that? St Mary's is shellshocked, as is the rest of the country. So this is why they say the Premier League is the most entertaining league in the world?

  6. Ian Holloway
    Ex-Blackpool and Crystal Palace manager on BBC Radio 5 live

    "What a game! Everything that's near the net today is going in. Brilliant header and boy did they need that, Villa, but is it too late?"

  7. HALF-TIME

    What a half of football, incredible stuff.

  8. GOAL

    The comeback is on!! Surely not, surely they can't do it, can they? Leandro Bacuna whips a beauty of a ball into the box, and striker Christian Benteke leaps highest to plant a header into the net. Great power in that.

  9. Shane Long through on goal, but Fabian Delph is helping out at the back to clear the ball for a corner, which comes to nothing. Three added minutes for Aston Villa to suffer.

  10. Ian Holloway
    Ex-Blackpool and Crystal Palace manager on BBC Radio 5 live

    "Football today is numbers. You have to get defensive numbers back. You cannot leave three up front away from home and that simple fact has been totally overlooked by Aston Villa at the moment and Tim Sherwood is going to be absolutely furious at half-time."

  11. Southampton are not backing off here, they want more goals. Graziano Pelle has a shot blocked inside the box. Can they double their score in the second half?

  12. Ian Holloway
    Ex-Blackpool and Crystal Palace manager at BBC Radio 5 live

    "Unbelievable. Shane Long looked disinterested and then he just picked the player's pocket before bending in the most spectacular, fantastic shot in to the top corner."

  13. Alan Huttonnnnn! Nope, a pot-shot from way out dribbles into the arms of Paulo Gazzaniga. Ironic cheers from the Southampton fans.

  14. The good news for Aston Villa is that there is only four minutes play to half time.

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    Stevey Gee Sings!: Will Villa get back in this game? It's a Long shot and the Mane problem is they are 5-0 down already...

  16. Nabil Hassan
    BBC Sport at St Mary's Stadium

    What on earth is going? "It's flown in like a missile," former Southampton manager Dave Merrington tells BBC Radio Solent, and he is not wrong. What a brilliant strike from Long and what a brilliant performance this is from Southampton.

  17. Aston Villa boss Tim Sherwood has his head in his hands, more fans walk out of the stadium.

  18. GOAL

    OH

    MY

    WORD

    This is absolute stunning from Shane Long. Aston Villa give the ball away again, but what a finish. He picks the ball up around 30 yards out from goal...and lets fly! The ball sets off and everyone watches with mouths open, as it plonks into the top corner of the net.

    Nothing Shay Given can do about that. Just a simply, superb strike.

  19. Ian Holloway
    Ex-Blackpool and Crystal Palace manager on BBC Radio 5 live

    "If you could give the old NFL-style time out signal right now. Tim Sherwood would be out there. I had one of these days earlier in the season with Millwall where we fell 2-0 down against Norwich early on and it can be horrible to try and stop."

  20. What are Southampton playing at? They need to get their act together. They've not scored for over 10 minutes now.