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Southampton's Stuart Armstrong celebrates scoring their side's first goal of the game with team-mates during the FA Cup fourth round match at Vicarage Road, Watford, January 28, 2024

Watford 1-1 Southampton
by Layth Yousif
at Vicarage Road

A LAST-GASP equaliser for Southampton by Stuart Armstrong denied Watford a trip to Liverpool in the fifth round of the FA Cup.

Valerie Ismael’s side had led for the majority of this fourth round clash following Matheus Martins’s early opener this afternoon in Hertfordshire. 

Martins, a 20-year-old former Fluminense winger, now on loan at Vicarage Road via Udinese, fired home after only five minutes.

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