Southampton's Nathan Wood celebrates at the final whistle after the Emirates FA Cup, quarter-final match at St Mary's Stadium, Southampton. Picture date: Saturday April 4, 2026. PA
Southampton's Nathan Wood celebrates at the final whistle after the FA Cup quarter-final win against Arsenal.
Southampton has stunned Premier League leaders Arsenal, knocking them out of the FA Cup - as well as their hopes for a treble.
The Saints are the only non-Premier League side left in the competition. And it is the third time they have reached the cup semi-finals in the last 10 years - the last time being in 2021.
Mikel Arteta’s injury-disrupted Gunners arrived at St Mary’s as overwhelming favourites a fortnight on from their galling Carabao Cup final defeat to Manchester City.
However, their treble tilt ended on the south coast after Charles secured a late 2-1 victory as Southampton bounced back from Viktor Gyokeres cancelling out Ross Stewart’s first half opener.
A semi-final at Wembley awaits later this month for the Championship play-off hopefuls, who are dreaming of replicating Lawrie McMenemy’s second-tier Saints winning the FA Cup in 1976.
It was just a fifth defeat of the campaign for Arsenal, who sit nine points clear at the top of the Premier League but have plenty of soul searching to do after costly back-to-back cup losses.
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