Southampton’s loss against Manchester United in the Premier League on Saturday afternoon has resulted in the setting of two undesirable records.
At St. Mary’s Stadium, the Saints controlled the majority of the first half’s play and were given a penalty when young player Tyler Dibling was fouled in the area by Diogo Dalot.
The visiting team awoke after Cameron Archer missed the penalty kick, and thanks to goals from Marcus Rashford and Matthias de Ligt, they scored two goals prior to the half.
After the interval, Russell Martin’s team found it difficult to control the game and lost a third of the afternoon to extra time when Alejandro Garnacho, a replacement, beat Aaron Ramsdale with a near-post shot.
The Saints’ inability to produce a shot on goal against Andre Oana in the second half of the game demonstrated their inability to consistently create opportunities.
Southampton are the king of poor starts
With Stuart Attwell‘s whistle bringing an end to the match on the South Coast, Southampton were sentenced to their fourth straight loss at the start of the Premier League season.
The Saints have now lost their first four games in the division during three separate campaigns, a record that cannot be matched by any other side in the competition’s history.
Before the present day, the most recent of those seasons arrived in 2012-13, when Southampton were also a newly-promoted club at the top table of English football.
Perhaps a good omen, the South Coast outfit managed to survive rather comfortably that term, finishing 14th, five points above 18th-placed Wigan Athletic.
Fastest to an unwanted milestone
Martin’s troops broke another undesired record by losing out to Erik ten Hag‘s troops on the weekend, notching up the club’s 400th Premier League defeat.
The Saints have become the fifth team in the history of the league to reach the unwanted milestone, and managing it in just 928 games, Southampton are the quickest to the 400-defeat mark.
Top-flight stalwarts West Ham reached that number in 976 matches, Aston Villa in 1,072 games, Newcastle in 1,090 contests and Everton in 1,128 matches.
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