Saints suffered their first pre-season defeat as they were crushed 5-2 by Lazio.

Just short of 20,000 fans turned up at St Mary's for Saints' only home pre-season friendly of the summer and saw their side outclassed by the Serie A team.

Saints were 3-0 down after 16 minutes with Goran Pandev, Stefano Mauri and Tommaso Rocchi grabbing the goals.

Mauri and Rocchi later went on to add another each while Saints struck back from a penalty in each half - the first converted by Kenwyne Jones and the second by Grzegorz Rasiak.

George Burley's men now have two friendlies left before the start of the Championship season - at Millwall on Tuesday night and Brentford next Saturday.

Teams: Saints: Bialkowski, Ostlund, Powell (Makin 45), Pele, Vignal, Hammill (Licka 45), Wright, Surman, Skacel (Dyer 70), Jones (Rasiak 55), Saganowski (Wright-Phillips 76).

Lazio: Ballotta (Berni 90), Scaloni (De Silvestri 45) (Belleri 55), Stendardo, Cribari (Diakite 82), Zauri (Kolarov 76), Behrami (Firmani 72), Ledesma (Baronio 86), Mauri, Mutarelli (Sisostri 74), Pandev (Makinwa 66), Rocch (Del Nero 80).

Goals: Saints: Jones pen 29, Rasiak pen 58 Lazio: Pandev 4, Mauri 6, 30, Rocchi 18, 64.

Att: 19,401.

Full report, analysis, reaction and pictures in Monday's Daily Echo