Hasenhüttl faces the music
Match report: Manchester United 9-0 Southampton
Premier League: Jamie Jackson had his abacus out at Old Trafford as he watched Southampton get slaughtered following the very early dismissal of their midfielder Alexandre Jankewitz. Read on ...
Tonight's Premier League results ...
- Wolves 2-1 Arsenal
- Sheffield United 2-1 West Brom
- Manchester United 9-0 Southampton
- Newcastle 1-2 Crystal Palace
- View the Premier League table
A decidedly numb looking Ralph Hasenhuttl speaks ...
“It was tough,” the Southampton manager tells BT Sport. “You lose a player after two minutes against this team ... it’s already tough to compete here without going a man down and with all the players we are missing at the moment, it’s even more tough. We tried to keep the clean sheet in the second half as long as possible but ... yeah, it was tough to defend. And finally, to concede again nine goals ... you have your story now and we have the blame but I can take it ... I can take it. We stood up after the first one and we will also stand up after this one. It’s Ok.
On Alex Jankewicz’s dismissal: “I don’t know what I can say to him,” he says. “He abandoned the guys on the pitch and they were helpless immediately after his send-off ... and then it’s gone, very quick. You know the 90 minutes can be very long, but afterwards nobody will speak about the one player sent off or the second player sent off. The result is there and we have to live with the result again. And that’s it.”
Ole Gunnar Solskjær speaks ...
On the performnces of his forwards: “We have been waiting for them to show the magic but that was a night they could go and enjoy,” says Manchester United’s boss in an interview with BT Sport. “We haven’t had too many of those, where I can just sit down in the second half and enjoy the football. They enjoyed it - some good performances. We’ll get lots of confidence from a performance like this and scoring goals is always good for forwards and a team.”
On the first sending-off: “You don’t really see many of those tackles around any more and I’m glad Scott is OK. It looked like a bad one when he stayed down, but he’s got away with a couple of bruises there.”
On his full-backs: “They were brilliant. Aaron kept going in there to the far post and Luke kept putting crosses in, like I asked him to do. It’s always hard but it’s just about getting quality balls into the box, which we did.”
On Edinson Cavani: “He got a bad tackle on his ankle so there was no point in taking any risks.”
Well, that was interesting. Following a record-equalling win in which a teenager making his full Premier League debut was sent off within two minutes and several fine goals were scored, BT Sport, as is customary, are devoting almost all their post-match attention to various VAR decisions they believe are ruiining ther game.
“It’s a shame we have to talk about this again,” says Jake Humphrey, who is leading the post-match chat between himself, Glenn Hoddle and Rio Ferdinand, but apparently oblivious to the fact that he could talk about something – anything – else instead: Cavani’s fine header, McTominay’s wonderful long-range strike, the potentially devastating effect of his dismissal on Alex Jankewitz. But no, let’s obsess over VAR ... again. Gah!
Full time: Manchester United 9-0 Southampton
Peep! Peep! Peeeeeeep! It’s all over and Manchester United have edged it at the death. Following the dismissal of Alexandre Jankewitz on 76 seconds, Southampton capitulated completely. They shipped nine goals and lost another player along the way in yet another top flight game riddled with baffling, finicky VAR decisions.
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GOAL! Manchester United 9-0 Southampton (James 90+3)
Stop! Stop! They’re already dead! Dan James gets on the scoresheet in the final minute of added time. He scores courtesy of a deft touch off the outside of his right boot, converting a cushioned Bruno header across the face of goal from a few yards out.
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GOAL! Manchester United 8-0 Southampton (Martial 90)
Wow! At the far post, Anthony Martial chests down a cross from Aaron Wan-Bissaka and buries the ball from close range.
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GOAL! Manchester United 7-0 Southampton (Fernandes 88pen)
United go 7-up: Bruno Fernandes ends a fairly barren spell by his own lofty standards, making no mistake from the spot. This is almost cruel now - the equivalent of United kicking a blind man’s stick.
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Jan Bednarek gets sent off ...
In an almost identical incident to the one that did for David Luiz in Arsenal’s defeat at the hands of Wolves earlier this evening, Jan Bednarek is sent off. It’s the correct decision by the letter of the law, but seems particularly harsh ... not least because the deefender was trying to get out of Martial’s way. Southampton are 6-0 behind, down to nine men and have a penalty to face.
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PENALTY FOR MANCHESTER UNITED
Anthony Martial goes down under a “challenge” of sorts from Jan Bednarek, making the most of what looks like a very inoccuous challenge indeed. VAR Graham Scott tells referee Mike Dean to goi and have a look at his pitchside monitor. Bednarek could get sent off here - he made no effort to play the ball but his knee clipped Martial’s thigh. If he’s adjudged to have denied Martial a goalscoring opportunity without trying to play the ball he’ll be off.
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81 min: Mason Greenwood tries his luck from some way out. His low drive is on target but easily saved by McCarthy.
77 min: Southampton substitution I hadn’t got around to telling you about yet: Nathan Redmond on for Danny Ings. And just now: 19-year-old Frenchman Allan Tchapchet on for his Southampton debut, Moussa Djenepo off. No pressure, son.
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74 min: Anthony Martial darts down the inside left, running on to a superb pass from Fred. Alex McCarthy dashes off his line, prompting Martial to clip the ball over the advancing goalkeeper in the direction of the far post. It’s a great effort, which bounces and spins inches wide of the upright.
Moments previously at the other end of the pitch, Che Adams had failed to hit the target when presented with a glorious opportunity to take the bare look off Southampoton’s half of the scoreboard.
GOAL! Manchester United 6-0 Southampton (McTominay 71)
That’s a beauty! Meeting a ricochet from a blocked Donny van de Beek effort first time about 25 yards from goal, Scott McTominay drills a low, gun-barrel straight daisy-cutter through the penalty area and into the bottom right-hand corner.
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GOAL! Manchester United 5-0 Southampton (Martial 69)
Anthony Martial scores! After eight games without a goal, the substitute chests down a ball over the top into a crowded penalty area from Bruno Fernandes, swivels and smashes the ball past Alex McCarthy.
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68 min: Manchester United corner. The ball sails through the penalty area, dropping for Fred. He shapes to shoot and pulls the trigger, but his effort is blocked.
66 min: Aaron Wan-Bissaka continues but is clearly in discomfort, his manager already having used all three substitutions available to him.
63 min: Relentless pressure from Manchester United, as they stretch the 10 men of Southampton over and back across the pitch. Southampton lump the ball forward towards Che Adams, who holds it up brilliantly before playing a weighted pass forward towards the willing runner from midfield that is Danny Ings. Aaron Wan-Bissaka stretches to intercept and injures himself in the process.
63 min: Dan James gets in behind Moussa Djenepo and Kayne Ramsay and sends a cross into the penalty area from the left. He overcooks his delivery and the ball sails towards the far touchline.
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There is no actual football fan wanting a goal ruled out for this offside pic.twitter.com/Q7IaBsZNe9
— Rob Harris (@RobHarris) February 2, 2021
60 min: Manchester United substitution: Dan James on for Marcus Rashford.
58 min: With Southampton down to 10 men, Manchester United have been targeting inexperienced Southampton right-back Kayne Ramsey, who is making his first Premier League start tonight and has been left isolated time and again, thanks in no small part to the early dismissal of his fellow debutant Alerx Jankewitz. He’s coped as best as he can, all things considered, but is unlikely to forget his full league debut in a hurry.
Goal overturned by VAR!!!
It’s as you were, as Adams’s goal is ruled out by the curtain-twitchers at Stockley Park. It takes a couple of minutes of fiddling about with the set square and protracter for them to decide Adams was offside by a whisker. It remains Manchester United 4-0 Southampton.
GOAL! Manchester United 4-1 Southampton (Adams 53)
The comeback is on! Che Adams scores from a tight angle after burrowing his way through the Manchester United penalty area after a quickly taken free-kick. His low drive goes through the legs of Harry Maguire, past David De Gea and into the far corner.
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52 min: Now Van De Beek gets booked for a rash lunge on Stuart Armstrong.
51 min: Harry Maguire gets booked for a foul on Jack Stephens that leaves the Southampton defender in need of medical assitance. He’s OK.
49 min: Will Manchester United take pity on their opposition, or try to emulate the nine goals without reply Leicester scored against Southampton in October 2019? The early indications in this second half suggest they are going to try to fill their boots. Martial and Van De Beek link up inside the Southampton area, before the Frenchman shoots wide from a tight angle.
48 min: Fred seems to have moved into the spot previously occupied by Luke Shaw, with Donny van de Beek taking up position in the centre of midfield.
Second half: Manchester United 4-0 Southampton
46 min: Play resumes, with two changes in personnel for the hosts. Anthony Martial and the lesser-spotted Donny van de Beek are on for Edinson Cavani and Luke Shaw.
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Premier League latest: In the evening’s remaining game, Crystal
Palace lead Newcastle United 2-1 during the interval at St James’ Park. Jonjo Shelvey put Newcastle ahead in the second minute, but Crystal Palace have since turned things around courtesy of goals from Jairo Riedewald and Gary Cahill.
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Half-time: Manchester United 4-0 Southampton
Peep! Depleted by injury before a ball had been kicked, Southampton were reduc ed to 10 men after just 76 seconds when Alexandre Jankewitz saw red for a preposterously high lunge on Scott McTominay. United have since made hay, their goals coming from Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Marcus Rashford and Edinson Cavani, while Jan Bednarek also chipped in with an own goal.
45 min: Bruno Fernandes shoots low and hard, hoping the defensive wall will jump and his effort will fizz underneath it. They oblige, but don’t jump high enough and his shot is blocked.
Penalty overturned ...
43 min: Graham Scott is on VAR duty tonight and decides to take pity on Southampton. He adjudges, incorrectly in my opinion, the Ramsey foul to have taken place just outside the penalty area, so Manchester United get a free-kick instead.
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Penalty for Manchester United!!!
Kayne Ramsey fouls Edinson Cavani on the edge of the penalty area and a merciless Mike Dean points to the spot. That was right on the line, which means it’s a spot-kick.
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GOAL! Manchester United 4-0 Southampton (Cavani 39)
Ouch! Edinson Cavani gets between two defenders in a crowded penalty area to power home a header from seven yards out. The cross came from Luke Shaw on the left.
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37 min: Marcus Bean, former professional footballer and a regular guest on the Guardian’s Football Weekly podcast, was sent off early on his debut for ... I think ... Queen’s Park Rangers as a youngster. At the time, he would later recall with the benefit of 20 odd years of hindsight and experience, he thought that was it ... that his career was over before it had even started. It wasn’t.
GOAL! Manchester United 3-0 Southampton (Bednarek 34og)
Oh dear. Marcus Rashford whips the ball acrossd the face of the Southampton six-yard box. With Fred behind him waiting to poke it home, Jan Bednarek tries to intercept the delvidery but succeddes only in steering it into his own net. He beats the ground with his fist in frustration. A penny for the thoughts of young Alex Jankewicz, who was se4nty off after 76 seconds, as his team go three down in just over half an hour.
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33 min: Jack Stephens concedes another corner, stretching every sinew to head the ball over his own bar as Edinson Cavani lurked behind him hoping to get on the end of a whipped cross from the right. From the set piece, the ball drops kindly for Luke Shaw, who brings another save out of McCarthy.
31 min: Alex McCarthy dives low to his left to palm a Bruno Fernandes drive from distance out for a corner. Fernandes takes the set piece and Jack Stephens heads the ball clear.
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Meanwhile at St James’ Park: Crystal Palace have come from behind and lead Newcastle 2-1 after 30 minutes of their Premier League clash.
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29 min: Using his fists of fury for the second time in as many minutes, David De Gea punches Ward-Prowse’s delivery from the corner clear.
27 min: Southampton win a free-kick right on the edge of the United penalty area, slightly left of centre, for a Cavani foul on Djenepo. James Ward-Prowse curls the ball towards the top right-hand corner, but David De Gea punches it out for a corner.
GOAL! Manchester United 2-0 Southampton (Rashford 25)
United double their lead. After excellent work by Shaw down the inside left, Mason Greenwood pulls the ball back to Rashford about 14 yards from the Southampton goal. He makes no mistake, adjusting his feet before firing past McCarthy. The goalkeeper got a fingertip to the ball but was powerless to keep it out.
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22 min: Moussa Djenepo is penalised for a foul on Harry Maguire out by the left touchline. Free-kick for United in a good position. Luke Shaw sends a cross into the penalty area, where Victor Lindelof sidefoots wide. Offside.
20 min: Southampton corner. James Ward-Prowse provides an excellent delivery, which David De Gea punches clear despite being saurrounded by rival players. The Manchester United goalkeeper is awarded a free-kick, Stuart Armstrong the aggressor.
GOAL! Manchester United 1-0 Southampton (Wan-Bissaka 18)
Manchester United lead! Luke Shaw provides the cross from the left and Aaron Wan-Bissaka converts from close range, left unmarked after Danny Ings had failed to track his run to the edge of the Southampton six-yard box.
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17 min: Southampton get the ball out of their own half and Che Adams holds it up well before teeing up James Ward-Prowse. His long-range effort fizzes wide of the upright.
16 min: A low Marcus Rashford drive from distance takes a deflection on its way goalwards but bobbles into the arms of Alex McCarthy.
15 min: Jan Bednarek leaps to clear an excellent Scott McTominay cross into the Southampton penalty area, with Marcus Rahsford and Edinson Cavani lurking behind him. Southampton are seriously under the cosh.
13 min: In the absence of Jankewitz, Southampton have pulled Danny Ings back into midfield and left Che Adams on his own up front. As United go to play the ball out from the back, he tries to press but is told to desist by his manager, Ralph Hasenhuttl, who is probably aware of the futility of the exercise.
12 min: The ball’s played down the left flank from deep for Luke Shaw to chase. It skids off the surface and out of play for a goal kick.
10 min: With their visitors down to 10 men, Manchester United are dominating as much as you might expect but have yet to create anything resembling a decent scoring opportunity.
Weird Al Jankewitz.
— John Brewin (@JohnBrewin_) February 2, 2021
6 min: Alex Jankewitz went in high on McTominay with that preposterous challenge, so high that he left two stud marks down the length of the Manchester United midfielder’s inner thigh. What on earth was he thinking?!?!?! Fred aims for the top right-hand corner from distance but sends the ball high and wide.
4 min: Down to 10 men after 79 seconds, Southampton are in for a very, very long night. Marcus Rashford cuts inside from the left and eschews a shooting opportunity, choosing instead to cut the ball back to Bruno Fernandes near the penalty spot. Southampton clear.
RED CARD! Alexandre Jankewitz is sent off!
Mike Dean brandishes red in the direction of Southampton’s midfielder, who is making his first start for Saints tonight. His game is over - he went over the ball and clattered studs-up into the inner thigh of Scott McTominay and now he’s heading for the dressing-room.
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2 min: Severely depleted because of injury, Southampton have four teenagers on their bench tonight, three of whom have yet to make their first team debuts.
Manchester United v Southampton is go ...
1 min: Southampton get the ball rolling, their players wearing navy shirts, shorts and socks. Manchester United’s representatives wear their customary home kit of red shirts, white shorts and black socks.
Not long now: It’s another wet, rainy night in Manchester and the teams are out on the pitch ahead of kick-off. Southampton were first out of the tunnel, followed by their hosts, led by Harry Maguire with Edinson Cavani bringing up the rear. The last of the pre-match niceties are under way.
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Full time: Sheffield United 2-1 West Brom
Premier League: Sheffield United have come from behind to beat West Brom by the odd goal of three in a critical relegation dogfight at Bramall Lane. Matt Phillips put the visitors ahead, but second half goals from Jayden Bogle and Billy Sharp won all three points for the Blades.
Those teams ...
Ole Gunnar Solskjær makes just one change to the side that drew against Arsenal over the weekend, but it’s quite a significant one. Paul Pogba is droppede to the bench, with Mason Greenwood taking his place.
Southampton make four changes to the side that lost against Aston Villa. Kayne Ramsey and Alex Jankewitz make their first Premier League starts, while Moussa Djenepo and Che Adams also come into the side. Nathan Redmond starts on the bench tonight, while Theo Walcott, Oriel Romeu and Ibrahim Diallo are all injured.
Manchester United v Southampton line-ups
Manchester United: De Gea, Wan-Bissaka, Lindelof, Maguire, Shaw, Fred, McTominay, Fernandes, Rashford, Greenwood, Cavani
Subs: Henderson, Bailly, Pogba, Martial, James, Telles, Matic, Williams, Van de Beek
Southampton: McCarthy, Ramsay, Stephens, Bednarek, Bertrand, Ward-Prowse, Jankewitz, Djenepo, Amstrong, Adams, Ings
Subs: Lewis, Forster, Redmond, N’Lundulu, Ferry, Finnigan, Tchaptchet, Watts, Chauke
Tonight's match officials
Referee: Mike Dean
Assistants: Ian Hussin and Darren Cann
Fourth official: Lee Mason
VAR: Graham Scott
Assistant VAR: Stephen Child
Early team news
Scott McTominay is available for selection for Manchester United despite being forced off the field during their draw against Arsenal following a 37-minute long interstinal roller-coaster ride that must have seemed like an eternity for the poor sod. With just three days between matches, Ole Gunnar SOlskjær may freshen up his side. Eric Bailly, Anthony Martial and Nemanja Matic may be in line for recalls.
By comparison, Southampton are decimated by injuries, with Michael Obafemi, William Smallbone, Nathan Tella and Mohammed Salisu all sidelined, while Jannik Westergaard, Theo Walcott, Ibrahima Diallo and Kyle Walker-Peters are also major doubts. Oriel Romeu is likely to be available for selection after recovering from the knock he picked up against Villa. A late Deadline Day arrival on loan from Liverpool, Takumi Minamino is unavailable for selection tonight.
Premier League: Manchester United v Southampton
Old Trafford is the venue for tonight’s set-to between Manchester United and Southampton. Second in the table, four points behind leaders Manchester City and with one game more under their belt, United could certainly do with a win after dropping five of the last six points available.
On a run of three consecutive defeats, Southampton also need to steady the ship, but showed signs of a return to form against Aston Villa over the weekend in a game they were desperately unlucky to lose. Kick off at Old Trafford is at the ungodly hour of 8.15pm (GMT), but stay tuned in the meantime for team news and build-up.
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