Southampton supervisor Ivan Juric attributed his crew’s early relegation to a major hole in physicality between the Premier League and the Championship.
The membership’s 3-1 loss to Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday confirmed their relegation with a historic seven matches to spare, marking the earliest drop in Premier League historical past.
Ipswich Town and Leicester City, the opposite two groups promoted from the Championship, are additionally dealing with relegation, with Seventeenth-placed Wolverhampton Wanderers sitting 12 factors away from the drop zone.
“What I notice the most in these three or four months I’ve been here is the completely different physicality between us and the other teams in the Premier League,” stated Juric, who joined Southampton in December after the membership’s poor begin to the marketing campaign.
“I feel the identical factor occurred to Leicester and Ipswich Town. The distinction in physicality between the Championship and the Premier League.
“Physically, when it’s a moment of transition, when it’s a moment like a basketball game, you cannot do it because they are physically stronger, faster, and this is the huge difference.”
Juric, whose contract with Southampton runs by way of the tip of the 2025-26 season, stated he was prepared to assist the membership discover its means again to the highest flight if potential.
“It is really good to be a coach in the Premier League, and if I took the long way to come back here, I am ready,” the previous Genoa, Torino, and AS Roma coach stated.
“Then I have to see with the club, with the ideas, with everything and what they think, what I think, and whether we can do it or not.”
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