Sofiane Boufal’s stunner so sweet for Southampton

Southampton 1 Sunderland 0: Sofiane Boufal marked his St Mary’s debut with a stunning strike to fire Southampton into the EFL Cup quarter-finals. The club’s record signing, whose introduction to English football has been delayed by injury, curled in sensational effort to sink Sunderland 1-0.

It was just a shame that so few were there to see it, with Saints’ ground half empty and an entire stand shu. The stay-aways looked to have made the right decision, however, as an hour desperately short on quality ticked painfully by.

But in the 66th minute Boufal, the £21m summer signing from Lille, scored a fabulous winner to pile on the misery for Sunderland.