A cupset looked on the cards on the stroke of half-time when Richard Chaplow burst into the Manchester United box and hammered a shot past Lindegaard to put Southampton 1-up.

Southampton: Bialkowski, Butterfield, Fonte, Seaborne, Harding, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Schneiderlin, Chaplow, Do Prado, Lambert, Barnard. Subs: Davis, Richardson, Dickson, Martin, Gobern, Doble, NGuessan.

Man Utd: Lindegaard, OShea, Evans, Smalling, Fabio Da Silva, Gibson, Anderson, Scholes, Obertan, Hernandez, Owen. Subs: Kuszczak, Brown, Berbatov, Rooney, Giggs, Nani, Bebe.