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Swansea City 1-3 Southampton: Saints ease to pre-season victory

Southampton continued preparations for the new Premier League season with a comfortable 3-1 win at Swansea City.

Championship Swansea, who are close to appointing Russell Martin as their new manager, went ahead through a Mohamed Salisu own goal.

But the Saints levelled immediately through Nathan Tella's low shot and Nathan Redmond scored on the counter to put them ahead at the break.

Stuart Armstrong's measured finish secured Southampton's victory.

First-team coach Alan Tate was in caretaker control of Swansea, who opened the scoring on 15 minutes when centre-back Salisu attempted to clear Liam Cullen's dangerous cross but sliced the ball into his own net.