Ruben Selles speaks
“We had a plan and we knew what we wanted to do,” the Southampton boss tells Sky Sports. We played well until the second goal and had an opportunity to go 1-0, we missed that. We tried to stay in the game as much as possible.
“We wanted to keep them in their own half. We wanted to make it difficult for them to arrive in our half. We tried to do our thing and I think it worked for a big part of the game. We went into the second half believing we could do something because of the standards we set in the first half but then the second goal came. It was the second goal that let us a little bit down.
“They are working well and we are trying to show those connections. We need to continue working to get those last bits there for us. We keep the boys believing and keep working hard. Every game is big. We tried to win today.”
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Match report: Southampton 1-4 Manchester City
“There is little chance of Manchester City going away,” writes Nick Ames from St Mary’s. “This was a second successive 4-1 win owed to clinical finishing and impeccable timing, the returning Erling Haaland breaching a spirited Southampton at the end of a relatively flat first half.”
