Southampton’s Twitter account gave up on tweeting aim updates throughout their 9-Zero defeat to Manchester United on Tuesday night time.
Ralph Hasenhuttl’s sorry Saints had been hammered by the identical scoreline as their 2019 humiliation at residence to Leicester – a document equalling feat.
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Having seen full debutant Alexandre Jankewitz despatched off inside two minutes of kick-off for a horrible problem on Scott McTominay, it was at all times going to be a tricky night for Saints.
They had been 4-Zero down at half-time with Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Marcus Rashford and Edinson Cavani discovering the online, alongside a Jan Bednarek personal aim.
An additional 5 targets got here after the break because the Crimson Devils ran rampant.
Anthony Martial bought two, whereas Scott McTominay, Bruno Fernandes and Daniel James added the others.
Bednarek’s crimson (when the rating was 6-0) noticed the Saints end with 9 males.
In the long run it was 9 targets, however seven was all Southampton’s Twitter account might deal with.
Their reside thread tweeting aim updates listed each United strike up till Fernandes’ penalty.
The admin seemingly had seen sufficient and determined to not point out Martial’s second (to make it eight) or James’ last-gasp tap-in (which made it 9).
The subsequent tweet after the 7-Zero aim replace was the 9-Zero full-time display screen.
