Southampton have been relegated from the Premier League (Getty Pictures)
have been relegated from the after a 3-1 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur.
A twenty fifth lack of the marketing campaign for Ivan Juric’s facet condemns them to a right away return to the having been
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The south-coast membership have collected simply 10 factors from 31 video games, and can’t overhaul Wolves with solely 21 factors left to play for and the Seventeenth-placed membership 22 factors forward.
A file low factors tally continues to be doable, too, with Southampton needing two extra factors to surpass ’s 11-point marketing campaign in 2007-08,
Southampton started the season with optimism that they might construct on their promotion by way of the play-offs after catching the attention final season with an entertaining model of soccer underneath .
However Martin’s strategies appeared ill-suited to a Premier League relegation battle, whereas a busy summer time of incomings didn’t essentially dramatically enhance his squad.
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A 5-0 defeat to Spurs in December proved the previous defender’s closing recreation in cost,
The Croatian has failed, although, to remodel fortunes on the pitch, matching Martin in successful solely as soon as to this point this season.
The 2 league successes to this point got here in opposition to Everton in November and at Ipswich in February, with Southampton at present possessing the highest flight’s worst defensive file and having scored the fewest targets within the division.
No Premier League staff has ever been relegated with extra video games to go in a season. Solely that record-setting Derby facet, Huddersfield and Fulham (each in 2018-19) have ever had their relegation confirmed earlier within the 12 months in a Premier League season.