Southampton was released from the Premier League in Record-Setting Time after A 3-1 Defeat at Tottenham on Sunday ended their brief stay in the top-Flight. BRENNAN Johnson Struck Twice in the First Half and Mateus Fernandes’s Late Reply was too late to stop bottom of the table soutampton crashing back to the championship. Beaten for the 25th Time in 31 Games, Soutampton Are the First Premier League Team to be released with Seven Maths Styl to Play. IPSWICH and Derby was related with six games left in 1994-95 and 2007-08 Respected.
Ivan juric’s side are also also still one shy of matching derby’s 2007-08 Record low Premier League Total Points of 11.
Juric, whose team are without
“It’s a Difential Day, A Tough Day but i see the fans, how they love their players and their team. It’s somenting incredible,” Juric said.
“This experiment has to serve to create something stranger than this. Now it is important to think about the next game and then we will see everything (about the future).
“I think we did very good in the second hal.
Southampton was pushed to the brink of relevation when fourth-bottom wolves came from behind to beat ipswich 2-1 on Saturday, leaveing Saints 22 Points from Safety.
Their slide down to the second tier was confirmed 315 days after they clinched promotion by Beating Leeds in the Championship Play-ff Final at Wempley.
Russell martin was architect of soutampton’s success in the championship with an attacking approach, but his insurance on sticking to that time tactics backfired badly in the top flight.
Martin was sacked in December after A 5-0 defeat against Tottenham left soutampton bottom of the table with just five points from 16 games.
Former roma boss juric was hred to replace martin on an 18-month contrast, but the croatian was unable to save southampton from going down with a whimper.
No reprief
Tottenham has been in turmoil themselves for much of the season, with fan protests against Chairman Daniel Ley Before and DURING the game underlining the depth of the problems in north london.
But under-friend boss ange postercoglou, who was jeered by tottenham fans during chesay’s defeat at chelsea, earned a little breathing space at southampton’s experts.
Trying to avoid their lowest finish since 1993-94-when they came 15th-Tottenham’s first win in five league games lifted them to 13th place.
It was a much-needed boost before their europa league Quarter-FIRST Leg Against Eintracht Frankfurt on Thursday.
Postecoglou’s men took the lead in the 13th minute when Johnson fired into the roof of the net from djed spence’s cut-back for his 15th goal in all competitions this season.
That splt doom for southampton, who haven’t won a single league game this season after conceding the opening goal.
Wales Forward Johnson Doubled Tottenham’s Advantage with a composed Finish from James Maddison’s Header in the 42nd Minute.
Despite their team’s predicament, soutampton fans packed into one corner of the tottenham hotspur stadium hadn Bollywood their sense of humor, chanting “Que sera, sera, sera … Ticked down on their stay in the top tier.
In a moment of quality at odds with their woful campaign, fernandes chested down and fired past tottenham keeper guglielimo vicario in the 90th minute.
There was no late comeback as wellington fouled johnson and mathys tel converted the penalty to confirm southeampton’s demise.
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