Ralph Hasenhuttl: Southampton’s 9-0 loss to Man Utd is horrible and hurts more than Leicester’s loss | Football news

Ralph Hasenhuttl admitted that Southampton’s 9-0 loss to Manchester United on Tuesday was horrible and hurt more than last season’s similar loss to Leicester.

Hasenhuttl’s side were once again on the receiving end of a Premier League record loss when Manchester United raged at Southampton, who played 10 men for most of the game, and finished with just nine.

Alex Jankewitz’s red after 79 seconds gave the Saints a mountain to climb, and they were 6-0 down thanks to goals from Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Marcus Rashford, Jan Bednarek (own goal), Edinson Cavani, Anthony Martial and Scott McTominay at the time. Bednarek saw red for a controversial last man challenge.

Bruno Fernandes (pen), Martial again and Dan James rounded out the 9-0 win, and while Hasenhuttl says his team is in a better position than after the loss to Leicester in October 2019, he said the loss hurts more.

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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 the outside. In the end, it’s a bit of a different situation.” [to the 9-0 defeat by Leicester] because we are in a position on the table that we have not been in for a long time.

“You don’t need this result to know what we have to do better. It’s not that it hurts less [than the last 9-0]On the contrary, it hurts even more when you get this result again, but now the team is different.

“The team is different now, that’s the reason why we’ve played a good season so far. Let’s see how the season ends, it will end better than the previous one, I think.

“It hurts, but I can’t change it anymore. It happened. The only way to move forward is by showing that we are a better team than we are showing 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 have one man less after two minutes, what do you expect?

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“It was unacceptable. The last five goals were too easy. I don’t have the strength to discuss any tactical part of the game because it doesn’t make sense. But the situation is different than before, because the season is different.”

Hasenhuttl, however, admitted that he had memories of the 9-0 loss to Leicester on his mind as the match progressed, saying: “I’m sure he comes into his [the players] minds. I can’t deny that I didn’t have it in mind. It’s like this. “

He also told BT Sport: “Yes [it is a nightmare night]It’s difficult when you lose a player after three minutes against such a team. It’s already difficult to compete here, much less with one less man.

“We have played a very good season so far and nobody expected such a night to come today. There were no signs, and this does not reflect what we have given so far this season. It is difficult to explain what is happening” in my mind, but we have to live with that again. “

‘I don’t know what to say to Jankewitz’

Jankewitz, just 19 years old, was making his full Premier League debut on Tuesday night, and saw red for a horrible high tackle on McTominay. When asked about the young man’s actions, Hasenhuttl admitted that he didn’t know what to say to him.

He told BT Sport: “I don’t know what I can tell you, the guys were helpless on the field after their immediate expulsion. Then he went very fast and you know the 90 minutes can be very long. Afterwards nobody talks about the first or second. player sent off, the result is there, and we have to live with him again. “

He said at the post-match press conference: “He is a young player who has to learn a lot, but today was a horrible start for him.”

Ole: The forward players got their mojo back

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The game saw Martial return to the roster after seven without a goal, while Rashford and Cavani had their second goal in nine games.

Solskjaer was delighted to see his forwards back in action and praised his team for “playing properly” at all times.

He told BT Sport: “We have been waiting for you [the front players] to show the magic, and tonight was the night for them to enjoy, we haven’t had too many.

“They enjoyed it and there were good performances. Han [recovered their mojo]. There were a lot of good performances and a result like this, scoring goals, is always good for the team. “

He then said in his post-match press conference: “What I liked about the performance was the hunger and the attitude of doing the right things, getting better and better, practicing good habits, and that’s the only way we can improve. and get better”. .

“You can see a lot of things that we were working on, but we don’t want to be predictable, we want to be a bit unpredictable, and that has to come from the players. The freedom, creativity and imagination were there. The performance was positive and somewhat. that we can see: of course, you have to see them with 10 men, but it is not easy to play against 10 men either. “

Cavani and fit Luke Shaw were eliminated at halftime, but Solskjaer insists both substitutions were as a precaution.

On Cavani, Solskjaer told BT Sport: “Cavani was fine, but he had a bad ankle tackle so there was no point in taking risks. Hopefully he doesn’t swell too much.”

About Shaw, he said: “He has played very well. Of course we have Alex. [Telles], who can cover it up and play well too, but the way Luke plays right now, with intensity, high-speed running and the spaces that appeared for him, you run the risk if you keep doing that of injuring yourself. We wanted Anthony, Donny [van de Beek] and Dan [James] to come, so it was the changes we made. “

Whats Next?

Man Utd now host Everton on Saturday in the Premier League, live on Sky Sports Premier League at 8pm, before hosting West Ham in the fifth round of the FA Cup on Tuesday at 7:30 pm

Southampton will head to Newcastle on Saturday at 3pm in the Premier League, before a trip to Wolves in the FA Cup fifth round on Tuesday at 5:30 pm.