Premier League Results: 2016 EPL Week 8 Scores, Table and Top Sunday Scorers

Southampton moved up to eighth in the Premier League table on Sunday thanks to a comfortable 3-1 victory over Burnley at St. Mary’s.

Charlie Austin notched his third and fourth goals of the season to move up the division scoring charts, while Nathan Redmond was also on the scoresheet for the Saints.

In the day’s earlier game, Watford emerged victorious in a tense tussle with newly promoted Middlesbrough, as a stunning strike from Jose Holebas earned the Hornets a 1-0 victory.

Those three points sent Walter Mazzarri’s team into the top half of the table, as we see below:

Southampton haven’t quite hit top gear in 2016/17 just yet, but their performance in Sunday’s victory over Burnley suggested that everything is starting to click into place.

The 3-1 scoreline didn’t do Claude Puel’s side justice, because if it wasn’t for a string of excellent saves from Burnley stopper Tom Heaton, the Saints could have been out of sight.

The former Manchester United keeper twice thwarted Austin with tremendous saves in the opening half, but a scrappy passage of play from a corner allowed the English striker to bundle the ball home and start Southampton’s party on 52 minutes.

Nine minutes later, the Saints were 2-0 up. More poor defending from Burnley at a corner saw the ball break to Redmond 12 yards from goal, and he made no mistake by slamming home smartly.

NBC Sports’ Joe Prince-Wright was one of many singing Redmond’s praises after he found the net:

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