Southampton captain Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg has apologised to the club’s fans for their 9-0 thrashing at home to Leicester on Friday night, vowing: “something like this can never happen again”.
After Ryan Bertrand was sent off early on for a bad foul in the lead-up to the opening goal, Brendan Rodgers’ Leicester racked up a Premier League record-equalling scoreline.
Swathes of the home support had vacated St Mary’s by half-time as the home side went in 5-0 down, ratcheting up the pressure on manager Ralph Hasenhuttl.
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"If I speak from the heart, I don't think it will end very well," former Bayern Munich man Hojbjerg told Sky Sports.