Southampton brutally mock Ruben Dias with seven-word putdown after Man City star's bitter post-match interview following stalemate at St Mary'

Southampton person aimed a excavation astatine Ruben Dias pursuing their stalemate with Manchester City connected Saturday. 

The Saints held Pep Guardiola's men to a 0-0 gully astatine St Mary's, officially passing the lowest Premier League points tally held by Derby County, successful a tiny boost astatine the extremity of a disappointing season.

City defender Ruben Dias launched an onslaught connected the relegated broadside arsenic helium criticised their attack to the match.  

‘They don’t adjacent effort to play, conscionable wasting clip the full game,’ stormed Dias. ‘It’s not bully for anyone.’ 

Southampton, though, person since responded to the Portugal planetary arsenic they posted a TikTok compilation of respective of City's failed crosses passim the 90 minutes.  

The South Coast nine captioned it: 'Guess neither of america wanted to play'. 

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 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 while the Saints ensured they volition not spell down successful past arsenic the top-flight's worst-ever side.

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 [for the FA Cup final] 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 besides 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.