Supervisor Ivan Juric stated Southampton shall be relegated from the Premier League this season after watching his beleaguered aspect lose at house to Seventeenth-placed Wolves at St Mary’s.
The 2-1 defeat leaves Saints 17 factors behind Vitor Pereira’s workforce – and with a vastly inferior aim distinction – with 9 video games left.
Southampton have now misplaced 24 of their 29 video games this time period and are solely the fourth aspect in English top-flight historical past to lose 9 consecutive house video games in the identical season, after Birmingham in 1985-86, Wolves in 2011-12 and Watford in 2021-22.
Information suppliers Opta additionally imagine Southampton’s destiny is sealed, giving them a 0% likelihood of avoiding a direct return to the Championship.
“We’ll go down, however [we want to go down] with extra battle, extra dignity and extra all the pieces,” Juric informed BBC Match of the Day.
“At the moment was one other recreation [that suggests] we aren’t able to take factors. There may be at all times one thing lacking.
“The desire to play properly and to assault is there. The lads wish to win and do their finest. There are moments when we aren’t ok, and that is it.”
Southampton’s destiny might be sealed in early April if outcomes go towards them, which might make them the third-earliest aspect to be relegated from the highest flight after Derby County in 2007-08 and Huddersfield City in 2018-19.
They nonetheless want two extra factors to match Derby’s all-time Premier League low of 11 from 17 years in the past.
