Southampton reach FA Cup quarter-finals buy beating Wolves 2 – 0. Southampton reached the quarter-finals of the FA Cup with a routine victory over Wolves at Molineux.
A Danny Ings goal from close range and Stuart Armstrong’s neat late finish secured a win that ended a run of four consecutive defeats.
While both managers made significant changes to their weekend line-ups, Saints coped better and showed greater fluency to deserve to progress.
Southampton travel to Bournemouth in the quarter-finals on 20 or 21 March.
Despite arriving in the Midlands on a poor recent run of form, Ralph Hasenhuttl’s side displayed no shortage of early confidence as they took the game to the hosts.
With full-backs Ryan Bertrand and Kyle Walker-Peters both marauding forward at every opportunity, Ings, Armstrong and Moussa Djenepo all went close to breaking the deadlock.
Wolves did improve – seeing a Morgan Gibbs-White penalty appeal turned down after a VAR review – and were left to lament defender Romain Saiss’ wayward volley from 10 yards just before the interval.
While their was an element of fortune to Ings’ goal – which hit Wolves goalkeeper John Ruddy before deflecting back past him off England forward – once the visitors went ahead they rarely looked like surrendering their lead.
Substitute Adama Traore was given a rare sight of goal for the hosts but Southampton keeper Fraser Forster blocked his close-range effort before a Ruddy mistake with a clearance allowed Armstrong to seal victory with a cool side-foot finish.
Source – BBC News