Southampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl has admitted that the 9-0 loss his side suffered at the hands of Manchester United on Tuesday was horrible, and hurt more than last season’s similar defeat by Leicester.
The Saints were on the receiving end of a record-equalling Premier League defeat once again with Manchester United running circles around them. Southampton was also undone by an early red card, played the majority of the game with 10 men, and ended with just nine.
Alex Jankewitz saw red after 79 seconds meaning the Saints had a mountain to climb and were quickly 6-0 down thanks to goals from Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Marcus Rashford, Jan Bednarek (own goal), Edinson Cavani, Anthony Martial, and Scott McTominay by the time Bednarek saw red for a controversial last-man challenge.
Bruno Fernandes added the seventh from the penalty spot while Martial got his second and United’s eight before Dan James completed the 9-0 win.
Hasenhuttl says his side are in a better place than they were following the defeat by Leicester in October 2019, he said the defeat hurts more.
He said after the game: “We lost in a horrible way, and 90 minutes can be long in the Premier League. We couldn’t help them from outside. In the end, it’s a little bit of a different situation [to the 9-0 defeat by Leicester] because we are in a position in the table where we haven’t been for a long time.
“You don’t need this result to know what we need to do better. It’s not that it hurts less [than the last 9-0], the opposite, it hurts even more when you get this result again, but the team is a different one now.
“The team is a different one now, that’s the reason we’ve played a good season so far. Let’s see how the season ends, it will end better than the last I think.
“It hurts, but I can’t change it any more. It happened. The only way for us to go on is to show that we are a better team that we showed today.
“I can take this result in a different way because I know this team is working well, we have had fantastic games. When nights like this happen, when you are one man down after two minutes, what do you expect?
“It was unacceptable. The last five goals were too easy. I don’t have energy to discuss any tactical parts of the game because it doesn’t make sense. But the situation is a different one to the last one, because the season is a different one.”
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Stats and facts from the match (Backed by Opta)
- Manchester United have won home and away against Southampton in a league season for the first time since their last title-winning campaign in 2012-13.
- Last season’s 9-0 loss to Leicester came at home – this was the biggest away defeat in Southampton’s history.
- Saints have lost four consecutive Premier League games for the first time since April 2018.
- Manchester United became only the second side to have seven different scorers in a Premier League match, after Chelsea against Aston Villa in December 2012.
- United scored four goals in the first half of a Premier League game for the second time this season, also doing so against Leeds. It is the first time since 1997-98 they have scored four or more in the opening period of two matches in a campaign.
- Only former United striker Eric Cantona and ex-West Ham forward Dimitri Payet (both 33 games) have assisted 15 Premier League goals in fewer appearances than Fernandes, with Tuesday’s his 36th appearance in the competition.
Other Premier League Matchday 22 results
TUESDAY 2ND FEBRUARY 2021
- Sheff Utd 2-1 West Brom
- Wolves 2-1 Arsenal
- Man Utd 9-0 Southampton
- Newcastle 1-2 Crystal Palace
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