JOHN BRADLEY: Well, it certainly feels like
Liverpool are being put through the ringer at the moment,
the new season may only be a couple of weeks old
but it feels like we've been going for months,
such has been the drama and the incident that Liverpool have been involved with.
Alexander-Arnold on the charge.
Not a good ball from Salah.
It's Redmond.
Adams for Redmond again, Adams continues his run.
It's in between Matip and Van Dijk, it's a really good recovery by Virgil van Dijk,
who did just enough to put him off and enable Adrian to come and gather.
GARY GILLESPIE: It's a lovely little run in between the two centre-backs.
And he's a little bit unlucky, Che Adams.
Virgil van Dijk gets a little bit on it, but not quite enough.
And really had to rely on Adrian to be where he was.
JOHN: That's Salah on the chase, Vestergaard and Yoshida the defenders,
taken out of the game by Salah,
and Oxlade-Chamberlain never really got the ball to where he wanted it.
GARY: He gets the ball stuck under his feet a little bit, just there,
and hence the reason he kind of hits it into the ground and it's a bobbler.
JOHN: Adrian's clearance goes straight to Ryan Bertrand,
and Matip's header...
was a dangerous one in that situation, trying to guide it back towards his goalkeeper.
GARY: You can see his intention in just trying to glance it back to Adrian.
For me, Adams is offside, I think it should be given but it's not.
JOHN: Ward-Prowse to deliver.
That's an astonishing save by Adrian!
He reacts and gets a fingertip on it, and manages to keep the ball out.
Here's Salah trying to break.
Romeu took the ball off him fairly.
Here comes James Milner back onto the field.
GARY: Well, it's a wonderful save by Adrian,
that's point-blank, Yoshida will be wondering how he doesn't score.
He just gets wrong side of Oxlade-Chamberlain,
who's trying to block him off - he doesn't,
and hence the reason he gets the jump on Van Dijk.
And really, from that sort of distance,
a little bit more power on the header and the goalkeeper's got nowhere to go.
JOHN: Delivered towards Adams with the header!
And he may feel he should have done a little better.
GARY: You can just see there, Joel Matip caught watching the ball really.
Goes to sleep and you can't afford to do that,
and what you would say, in any criticism about Adams,
you've got to hit the target there.
If you hit the target, eight times out of ten you score.
JOHN: Wijnaldum, Milner, Mane.
Looks to buy himself a yard, and goes for goal!
Oh, he is so special, Sadio Mane.
It is scintillating, it is stunning, it is another special goal from Mane.
Absolutely world-class.
GARY: You can see he's got a little bit of room,
but as soon as he comes in-field he really should be closed down.
Southampton get bodies around him but don't get them close enough.
He just opens his body up and fires it in,
the pinpoint accuracy is absolutely to be admired,
and Angus Gunn has got absolutely no chance,
and Liverpool probably get one against the head.
JOHN: That's Alexander-Arnold for Milner.
Helped on downfield for Salah.
Great strength to hold off Vestergaard.
Yoshida in the way.
It's Alexander-Arnold with the corner,
towards Mane, Milner, little flick!
Joel Matip tried the little backheel, and very nearly found Liverpool a second goal.
GARY: I don't think Milner will put his hand up and say that he meant this.
Little flick from the big centre-back, not a million miles away, is it?
JOHN: Mane.
On for Salah, flag stays down, chance for Liverpool!
Saved well by Angus Gunn.
GARY: Well, the question is whether he's offside or not,
you can clearly see there, I think he's dead-level.
And then it's all about - can he finish?
So often we see Mohamed Salah do this.
The one thing you always say,
more often than not he makes the goalkeeper make the save.
And the same on that occasion.
JOHN: Andrew Robertson's quite fortunate that Gini Wijnaldum's so brilliant on a football,
cos he's done so well, and Mane, to Firmino!
Oh...
Well, it would have been one of those - and you know the ones I mean -
one of those Liverpool goals. As it is, it's not.
GARY: It's scintillating from Liverpool,
Roberto Firmino opens his foot up a little too much,
and hence the reason he puts it past the upright.
JOHN: Nice switch for Ryan Bertrand.
That's comfortable for Adrian.
All he had to do is watch the bounce.
Milner's given it away, Southampton's turn to come back into the game,
it's Danny Ings, and still Danny Ings...
Wasn't far away.
GARY: Had this been on target, I don't think Adrian's saving it.
James Milner throwing his body in,
it's not a million miles away from the man that's just come onto the pitch.
That's Mane, on towards Firmino,
he has support, he's still trying to find his way in!
He does find his way in, Roberto Firmino.
He might have missed a sitter a couple of minutes ago,
he wasn't missing that one.
A second for Liverpool and a clinical finish from Firmino.
GARY: Southampton will be kicking themselves really,
because they lose possession in a really dangerous area of the pitch,
it's their throw in, but he does exceptionally well, Firmino,
because he was thinking about the shot early on,
and then he was looking for the pass for Salah,
but then just the reverse shot.
You might question Gunn's positioning,
but he had an awful lot of bodies in front of him, pretty unsighted.
JOHN: Oxlade-Chamberlain for Salah.
Switch for Robertson, header for Mane, Mane for Robertson!
Brilliant from Liverpool and a really good reaction stop from Gunn.
GARY: It's a lovely little cushioned header and then the audacity from Mane.
That little backheel sets up the shooting opportunity,
and he hits it as well as he can hit it.
It's a lovely save by young Angus Gunn.
JOHN: Armstrong making good ground again
but the ball doesn't do him any favours.
Oh, it's Adrian, who's gifted a goal to Danny Ings.
Just wanted a little too long, a little bit too much time,
and made a real mess of it, and Southampton are back in it,
and they have a little more than seven minutes plus stoppage time.
GARY: You just didn't see Southampton being able to score,
but they've been gifted a goal here, he gets caught in two minds, Adrian.
The initial idea was to play it wide, and that's the one he should have gone with.
He'll know that.
JOHN: Change in the direction for Vestergaard. Djenepo.
Lots of movement, lots of red and white shirts forward,
it's a lovely ball for Valery,
they're queueing up in the middle!
Oh, it's wide, it's Danny Ings.
Liverpool opened up, and get a big, big letoff.
GARY: Wow, wow, wow.
Danny Ings, you would think that's meat and drink for a player of his ability.
It's a simple tap in really, but he gets it all wrong,
he doesn't get enough of his right foot on it.
He should maybe just let it go across him
and try and hit it with his left foot.
But it's a big, big letoff for Liverpool.