Southampton surrendered a first-half lead at Crystal Palace to lose 2-1, extending their winless run within the Premier League to 9 video games.
New Saints boss Ivan Juric, with back-to-back defeats in his first two video games, faces a frightening process if he’s to maintain Southampton up – with no aspect in Premier League historical past avoiding relegation after taking solely six factors on the midway stage within the season.
Southampton responded nicely to his pragmatic tweaks early on at Selhust Park, ending a run of 4 video games within the league with no aim when Tyler Dibling opened the scoring after 14 minutes after a mazy run from Kyle Walker-Peters.
Crystal Palace equalised from a nook after 31 minutes by Trevoh Chalobah’s header after surviving a VAR examine, with Southampton feeling it ought to have been dominated out for a foul on Aaron Ramsdale by Jean-Philippe Mateta.
Trevoh Chalobah heads in Crystal Palace’s equaliser towards Southampton
Palace accomplished the turnaround within the second half as Eberechi Eze scored his first aim since October from outdoors the field, helped by a deflection off Mateus Fernandes, to seal simply their second house win of the season.
The guests didn’t create sufficient to get again into the sport and stay backside, six factors behind Nineteenth-placed Ipswich, whereas Crystal Palace create a six-point cushion between themselves and the relegation zone.
The damning Southampton stats
- Southampton have simply six factors after 19 Premier League video games this season (W1 D3 L15) – on the midway stage of a Premier League marketing campaign, solely Sunderland in 2005-06 (6) and Sheffield United in 2020-21 (5) have additionally ever had as few as six factors.
- Southampton have conceded 9 Premier League objectives from corners this season, with solely Wolves (10) conceding extra.
- Southampton have gone 17 consecutive away top-flight video games with no win for simply the second time of their historical past, after a 19-game winless run between March 1985 and February 1986.
