McNulty grabs winner as Blades stun Saints

Sheffield United 1 Southampton 0 

The League One Blades, who reached the last four of the FA Cup last season, saw off West Ham in the second round and were at it again in a one-sided quarter-final as Marc McNulty’s 63rd-minute winner gave them a 1-0 victory at Bramall Lane.

McNulty pounced from close range and that proved enough, but their winning margin and Southampton’s humiliation would have been far greater had goalkeeper Fraser Forster not made a string of fine saves. The defeat is a fifth in a row and on this evidence the bubble has firmly burst on Southampton’s stellar start to the campaign, with the visitors worryingly out-fought by Nigel Clough’s men.