Sofiane Boufal marked his St Mary's debut with a stunning strike to fire Southampton into the quarter-finals of the EFL Cup.
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 shut for the fourth-round tie.
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 £21million summer signing from Lille, scored a fabulous winner to pile on the misery for Sunderland.
Sofiane Boufal scores on debut as Southampton beat Sunderland in EFL Cup
