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LONDON — Southampton secured an immediate return to the Premier League on Sunday by beating Leeds 1-0 at Wembley Stadium in the Championship playoff final, the richest one-off match in world soccer. An uplift of 140 million pounds in future earnings from broadcast revenue and prize money is guaranteed for the south-coast club thanks to Adam Armstrong’s 24th-minute winner at England’s national stadium.
Armstrong ran onto a through ball that pierced the Leeds defense and slotted a low finish into the far corner for his 24th league goal of the season for Southampton, which spent the entire game sitting back and playing on the counterattack. Leeds had no answer, barely troubling Southampton’s five-man defense in what proved to be a tame ending to the season for one of England’s most celebrated clubs which — like Southampton — was relegated from the Premier League at the end of the 2022-23 season.
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