It never rains it pours for Southampton right now. But the sun is well and truly shining on Gary O’Neil and Bournemouth.
The Cherries took another huge step towards survival in difficult conditions on the docks as Marcus Tavernier struck to win the south coast derby and leave Saints looking like they need a miracle to stay up.
But it was the manner of this defeat, played out during a couple of torrential downpours, that will worry Southampton fans.
Outclassed by a team not so long ago gazing up at them from the foot of the table, the home side also lost skipper James Ward-Prowse at half-time to illness and Romain Perraud to injury.