LES LEVELS LATE AS SAINTS AVOID DREADED RECORD

LESLEY UGOCHUKWU volleyed in an injury-time equaliser that ensures Southampton will not be the absolute worst team in Premier League history.

- By Steve Judge AT THE LONDON STADIUM

Their return to the Championship may have been sealed in record time, but this point took them to 11 points - the same miserable tally Derby scraped to in 2007-08.

Pretty much since the turn of the year that has been the target for these Saints players, now onto their third manager of the season.

Interim boss Simon Rusk may well go down as the man who saves the club from going into the record books for the worst possible reason as Saints picked up their second point under him. Ugochukwu's first Premier League goal denied West Ham boss Graham Potter a much-needed victory.