Dias fumes at Southampton: They didn't even try

Manchester City defender Rúben Dias sounded disconnected implicit Southampton's benignant of play aft the 2 sides drew 0-0 successful the Premier League connected Saturday, accusing them of "not adjacent trying to play."

Rock-bottom and relegated Southampton had looked poised to adjacent Derby County's season-low tally of 11 points successful 2007-08, but the gully moved them to 12, which had their fans astatine a sun-drenched St Mary's Stadium singing successful celebration.

City dominated with 26 shots compared to Southampton's two, but the visitors defended successful numbers, peculiarly successful the dying minutes, to contradict them.

"It's frustrating. Every constituent matters close present until the end, and it's frustrating to play a squad similar them. They don't adjacent effort to play. They conscionable wasted clip the full game," Dias told Sky Sports.

"I don't adjacent consciousness similar they privation to play the crippled oregon triumph the game. They're conscionable sitting around. But it is what it is. We tried each way. We had chances, but we didn't score. It is what it is. We didn't score, truthful we instrumentality the gully and we determination forward.

The effect near City 3rd successful the array connected 65 points with 2 games remaining successful their bid for Champions League qualification.

Information from Reuters contributed to this report.