Man City star Ruben Dias offers damning verdict on Southampton's tactics in 0-0 draw - but manager Pep Guardiola DISAGREES with his own player

Manchester City defender Ruben Dias unleashed a bizarre rant aft his side's 0-0 gully with Southampton, accusing their opponents of 'not wanting to win'.

City missed the accidental to determination level connected points with second-placed Arsenal and delivered a blunt attacking show against the already-relegated hosts - who are resigned to a rock-bottom decorativeness - contempt Erling Haaland's belated return.

Saints goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale was untroubled for overmuch of the contention but was yet called into enactment arsenic helium clawed distant a header from the irritated Dias. 

Omar Marmoush aboriginal cracked the woodwork with a long-range effort, condemning City to costly dropped points successful the contention for the Champions League portion Saints ensured they volition not spell down successful past arsenic the top-flight's worst-ever side.

Post-match, Dias criticised the location side's stubborn resistance, believing they purposefully slowed the crippled down and didn't effort to triumph the game.

He told BBC Radio 5 Live: 'It's frustrating, evidently successful a infinitesimal similar this each constituent matters. And it is evidently frustrating to play against a squad similar this.

'They don't adjacent effort anything, they conscionable beryllium and they don't adjacent privation to triumph the game. They conscionable privation to beryllium there. It is nary bully for the amusement and nary bully for themselves. 

'It is nary bully for anyone but it is what it is.

'I saw a wholly antithetic squad the past clip we played. 

'I don't cognize however galore times players went connected the level to effort and discarded clip and discarded clip and discarded time. It kills the bushed of the game.'

The defender besides took purpose astatine the 'dry' St Mary's pitch, adding: 'It's bittersweet that Southampton discarded clip the mode they do. They conscionable privation to halt the crippled and marque it arsenic dilatory arsenic imaginable due to the fact that past the writer that is dry.

'All those things that makes the crippled slower and slower and we person to combat against it, and effort and marque it arsenic speedy arsenic imaginable due to the fact that it's the mode to get in.' 

Pep Guardiola, however, disagreed with Dias' verdict. 

Responding to the comments, the City brag said: 'No, no, no. Absolutely not. They tin bash immoderate they want. For galore years present we faced teams successful antithetic approaches and they decided they person to play. It's connected america to interruption them.

'In those terms, galore times teams person played 5 successful the backmost oregon six and the striker has gone connected our holding midfielder and there's nary space, it's difficult.

'You person to interruption it and we had the chances, erstwhile you reappraisal the chances for thing we could not people and it happened. 

'Now we hole the last and present it is adjacent clip and Fulham.

'We did not concede 1 changeable connected people and they didn't bash overmuch but we person to judge the mode they play, it belongs to Simon [Rusk] and his adjunct coaches. I don't hold with Ruben, we person to judge it.'

Southampton made a cheeky notation to Dias' outburst, tweeting: 'A constituent without adjacent trying to play' alongside 2 photos of smiling players aft the last whistle.