Hasenhuttl’s side were once again on the receiving end of a record-equalling Premier League defeat as Manchester United ran rampage over Southampton, who played with 10 men for the majority of the game, and was ended with just nine.

Alex Jankewitz’s red after 79 seconds gave Saints a height to climb, and they were 6-0 down, thanks to goals from Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Marcus Rashford, Jan Bednarek (own goal), Edinson Cavani, Anthony Martial and Scott McTominay by the time Bednarek saw red for a controversial last-man challenge.

Bruno Fernandes (pen), Martial again and Dan James completed the 9-0 win, and in spite of the fact that Hasenhuttl says his side are in a better place than they were following the defeat by Leicester in October 2019, he said the defeat hurts more.

After the game, he said: “We lost in a horrendous way, and 90 minutes can be long in the Premier League. We couldn’t help them from outside. In the end, it’s a little bit of a different spot [to the 9-0 defeat by Leicester] because we are in a position in the table where we haven’t been for a long time.

“You don’t need this result to know what we need to do better. It’s not that it hurts less [than the last 9-0], the opposite, it hurts even more when you get this result again, but the team is a different one now.

“The team is a different one now, that’s the reason we have participated in a good season so far. Let’s see how the season ends, it will end better than the last I think.

“It hurts, but I can’t change it any more. It happened. The only way for us to go on is to exhibit that we are a better team that we exhibited today.

“I can take this result in a different way because I know this team is doing great, we have had fantastic games. When nights like this happen, when you are one man down after two minutes, what do you expect?

“It was unsatisfactory. The last five goals were too easy. I don’t have energy to talk through any strategic parts of the game because it doesn’t make sense. But the situation is a different one to the last one, because the season is a different one.”

Hasenhuttl did, however, admit he had remembrance of the 9-0 defeat by Leicester in his mind as the game wore on, and saying: “I’m sure it enters the players’ minds. I cannot deny that I didn’t have it in my mind. It’s like this.”

“Yes it is a nightmare night, it’s tough when you lose a player after three minutes against such a team. It’s already tough to compete here, let alone with one man down”.

“We’ve played a very good season so far and nobody expected that such an evening would come today. There were no signs, and this doesn’t reflect what we have given so far this season. It’s hard to explain what is going on in my mind, but we have to live with it again.”