Spurs 3 – 1 Southampton
Southampton suffered the earliest relegation in Premier League historical past after a 3-1 defeat at Tottenham, as Saints stay on target for the lowest-ever factors tally within the competitors.
Brennan Johnson’s first-half double and Mathys Tel’s stoppage-time penalty, after Mateus Fernandes’ Ninetieth-minute aim, noticed Southampton relegated with seven video games left to play – surpassing the earlier file of six matches – for a direct return to the Championship.
However the south coast membership’s nightmare season might get even worse with Ivan Juric’s 10-point facet nonetheless some extent from equalling the lowest-ever tally in a Premier League season, which is held by Derby County, who managed 11 in 2007/08.
Southampton have been two down by half-time at Tottenham
A woeful Southampton supplied the proper opponent for Spurs to construct some confidence and momentum forward of Thursday’s pivotal Europa League quarter-final first leg towards Eintracht Frankfurt on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
The win was additionally a welcome reduction for under-pressure Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou as Spurs ended their four-game winless league run to maneuver as much as Thirteenth within the desk.
Earlier than kick-off, a whole bunch of Tottenham followers protested outdoors the bottom towards the membership’s possession and chairman Daniel Levy – the second protest organised by the ‘Change For Tottenham’ group after a march in February forward of the house recreation towards Manchester United.
However these supporters’ frustrations have been briefly put to 1 facet as Johnson powered Spurs right into a Thirteenth-minute lead as he completed first time from Djed Spence’s cross.
Southampton have suffered 25 league defeats thus far this season
A five-minute VAR examine then denied Lucas Bergvall doubling the lead as Cristian Romero was dominated offside within the build-up, however three minutes later, Johnson scored his second within the forty second minute after some poor Saints defending that summed up their dismal season.
The travelling Saints followers had one thing to cheer about within the Ninetieth minute as Fernandes hammered house from shut vary to offer them hope of an unlikely comeback.
However that was shortly extinguished six minutes later as Wellington introduced down Johnson inside the realm and Tel transformed the spot-kick to verify Saints’ relegation with a twenty fifth league defeat of the season.
