Southampton 3-2 West Bromwich Albion: Armstrong’s double continues Eckert’s fine start

West Brom academy graduate Tom Fellows showed the Baggies just what they are missing since his £10m summer switch to Southampton as he created the opening goal.

Fellows turned and ran three quarters of the pitch before finding Scienza on his right, who scored expertly into the far corner.

As fluent as Southampton were, West Brom didn’t help themselves and they gifted Saints a second when Callum Styles played the ball back to Phillips, who was robbed by Armstrong to score his first of the night.

West Brom goalkeeper Joe Wildsmith then gave the ball away for Caspar Jander to shoot over before Saints grabbed their third after some intense pressing.

Taylor Harwood-Bellis pounced on an errant pass and found Finn Azaz, who fed Armstrong to score with a neat finish across goal into the far corner.

West Brom turned the game on its head in the second half and Grant scored his first goal of the season with a left-footed effort.

The Baggies rallied and Isaac Price had a couple of efforts before Phillips headed home from close range four minutes from time to set up a grandstand finish.

Samuel Iling-Junior came close to an equaliser only to shoot wide in stoppage time.