Championship: Southampton Have Changed Dynamic Of Premier League Promotion Race 바카라� Martin

Russell Martin said the Sky Bet Championship automatic promotion race 바카라�dynamic바카라� has changed after Southampton바카라�s 3-0 domination of Preston. (More Football News)

Saints had looked destined for a play-off place after three defeats in four games during February, but three home wins in seven days has them just four points off the top two.

A Che Adams brace and Stuart Armstrong바카라�s fourth goal of the season sealed the points on Tuesday and Saints boss Martin said: 바카라�I think it was a brilliant performance with some really beautiful stuff.

바카라�It has been a big week for us. It has changed the dynamic. We were written off some point ago but the players have stuck at it and been resilient.

바카라�We have the opportunity to take the points off teams around us but if we have to take care of the next one against Cardiff and if we don바카라�t then the others become a bit pointless.바카라�

Adams opened the scoring in the 19th minute when he tapped in Adam Armstrong바카라�s centre for his 100th career goal.

He doubled his tally by finishing a fine team move with a cool finish before Stuart Armstrong capitalised on a defensive howler to smash in.

The only taint on the evening was an Achilles injury to goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu in the warm-up that looks to have ended his season.

Martin, who promoted Alex McCarthy, said: 바카라�He has felt something in his Achilles and will have a scan tomorrow. We don바카라�t expect to see him any time soon and we바카라�ll give him all the support he needs.

바카라�Al has trained so well. He has travelled everywhere and trained like a beast. We바카라�ve seen what Joe (Lumley) can do and has done really well and we wanted to see Al. It was a feeling I had in my gut at the time.바카라�

But Martin added on the performance of Adams, who he subbed off before he could score a hat-trick: 바카라�He has just threatened to beat me up out there! We had a hug and a laugh and he understands why I had to take him off.

바카라�He looks like he is going to score all the time at the moment.바카라�

Preston had the third lowest expected goals of the Championship season with 0.07 and manager Ryan Lowe said: 바카라�The be all and end all was the first half has cost us. The game plan that we set out to do in the first half was nowhere near.

바카라�The game was probably over at half-time at 3-0. You can바카라�t give a team like Southampton chances like that because they바카라�re a fantastic team.

바카라�The game plan was to try and nullify their strengths and capitalise on their weaknesses and we didn바카라�t really do either.

바카라�They could end up going up automatically, if not they바카라�re going to be a real force in the play-offs.바카라�