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Southampton 2-1 Inter Milan: Saints seal famous win to boost Europa League qualification hopes

Southampton took a significant step towards qualifying for the knockout stages of the Europa League after beating Inter Milan 2-1 at St Mary’s.

Goals from Virgil van Dijk and an own goal from Yuto Nagatomo handed the Saints a famous win after Mauro Icardi had opened the scoring for the Italian giants.

The result sees Southampton retain second place in Group K while also keeping Inter bottom of the group and four points behind the Premier League side.

Inter took the lead on the half hour mark after Icardi took advantage of a series of fortunate deflections.