Southampton's 10 Best Premier League Victories Ever

10. Southampton 3-0 Leeds - 30.01.1999

The 1998/99 season had begun appallingly for Saints. It had taken them ten games to record a win and their opening matches had involved a 5-0 humiliation against newly promoted Charlton and a comfortable 3-0 loss to Leeds. By the time of Leeds' return visit to The Dell in January, Southampton were still only on four wins for the whole season and were coming off the back of a 7-1 defeat to Liverpool. Leeds, meanwhile, had built one of the most exciting young sides in recent years. Led by then highly rated boss David O'Leary, the team featuring the likes of Jonathan Woodgate, Lee Bowyer, Harry Kewell, Alan Smith, and goal machine centre forward Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink were chasing a top four finish and a place in Europe. The match began badly for Saints with talismanic star Matthew Le Tissier taken off after just ten minutes. However, the game was turned in Southampton's favour by newly arrived Moroccan winger Hassan Kachloul, who was in the form of his life in his first few months at Southampton and would never quite recapture that quality. Kachloul scored after half an hour to let Saints go in a goal up at half time and in the second half Matt Oakley added a second before Egil Ostenstad's late goal completed a dominant win for Southampton. Leeds would lose their next match before going on a seven game winning streak to finish 4th. Saints would narrowly confirm their Premier League place by five points after significantly improving in the second half of the season. Southampton Starting XI: Jones, Dodd, Colleter, Lundekvam, Hiley, Kachloul, Oakley, Hughes, Le Tissier, Ostenstad, Beattie