Southampton suffered a devastating blow to their survival hope with a 3-2 loss to Chelsea.
To make matters worse, teams directly above them in the table gained points over the weekend and the gap to 17th is now five points; a potentially crucial margin at this stage of the season.
Saints threw away a two-goal lead thanks to being far too deep in defence late on, and some slack marking and poor clearances didn’t help their cause. The game on Thursday away to Leicester City now becomes vital.
Dusan Tadic and Jan Bednarek had put Southampton two-nil up on Saturday, but Chelsea hit back with three goals in nine second-half minutes to snatch the three points.
A brilliant performance up until late on in the game had put Saints in a great position in front of a St Mary’s crowd that was fully behind their team all afternoon. Here are the player ratings from the Southampton performance: