{"id":483536,"date":"2024-05-26T12:59:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T16:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483536"},"modified":"2024-05-26T12:59:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T16:59:41","slug":"southampton-beat-leeds-1-0-to-return-to-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/southampton-beat-leeds-1-0-to-return-to-premier-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton beat Leeds 1-0 to return to Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southampton won against Leeds United 1-0 at Wembley Stadium in the Championship play-off final and will play in the upcoming campaign in the Premier League, while the Whites suffered a 4<sup>th<\/sup> straight play-off final loss.<\/p>\n<p>As the only team to double over Leeds during the campaign in the 2nd tier of English football \u2013 featuring a 2-1 triumph at Elland Road on the final day \u2013 Russell Martin\u2019s side entered the match with confidence that they could win the so-called \u2018richest game in football.\u2019 That\u2019s how things went, as the only goal in the match was scored by Adam Armstrong in the 24<sup>th<\/sup> minute after William Smallbone\u2019s assist.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Southampton are back in the Premier League \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>Play-off final winners. Congratulations, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SouthamptonFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@SouthamptonFC<\/a> \ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b0DRzR7HEI\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/b0DRzR7HEI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Professional Footballers\u2019 Association (@PFA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PFA\/status\/1794761400507937216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Saints kept the 1-goal lead until the end including 9 minutes extra time as Leeds hit the woodwork in the final minutes of the game.<\/p>\n<p>The return to the Premier League means that Southampton will receive more than 100 million pounds as the Saints return to the EPL after just a single campaign in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> tier with a triumph in their 1<sup>st<\/sup>-ever Championship play-off final ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southampton won against Leeds United 1-0 at Wembley Stadium in the Championship play-off final and will play in the upcoming campaign in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":483537,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[22949,17197,17454],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[22951,19335,18674],"acf":{"announce":"The Saints won the Championship playoff and will play in the EPL.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483539,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483536\/revisions\/483539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483536"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483536"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}