SAINTS maintained their unbeaten home record with a 2-1 win against Sunderland at St Mary's this afternoon - thanks to an injury-time Jo Tessem goal.
It was a result that stretches their impressive unbeaten run to seven.
It was no more than Gordon Strachan's men deserved after dominating the majority of the match against an extremely physical Sunderland side.
The Black Cats have scored the least goals in the Premiership this season, while Saints have the best defensive home record.
And it showed as Saints created all the early goal-scoring chances.
The deadlock was finally broken by in-form striker James Beattie, who rose to head a Chris Marsden cross past Jurgen Macho.
Four minutes later, Tore Andre Flo headed home Gavin McCann's corner to level it up but, in the fourth minute of injury-time, Tessem headed Matt Oakley's corner towards goal, where the man on the line failed to clear.
There were amazing scenes in the first half when referee Mike Riley suspended the game to deal with a touchline row between Saints' assistants Dennis Rofe and Garry Pendrey and Sunderland's Steve Cotterill after crunching tackles from Kevin Kilbane.
Full report in tonght's Pink
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