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Bryan Mbeumo scored two goals Brentford thumped sorry Southampton 5-0 for their first Premier League away win of the season.
Cameroon striker Mbeumo, linked with a potential January move to Arsenal, piled on Saints’ misery at the bottom, after Kevin Schade fired the Bees in front.
Keane Lewis-Potter and Yoane Wissa added insult to injury in stoppage time at the end of another utterly miserable afternoon for Southampton.
The bounce in new manager they were looking for after replacing Russell Martin with Ivan Juric has turned into more of a blow for the new manager after their third straight defeat since the Croatian was appointed.
They remain stuck on six points from 20 matches and look not only relegated but in serious danger of breaking Derby’s unwanted record of collecting just 11 points in an entire Premier League season.
Brentford had to wait just six minutes to take the lead when Mikkel Damsgaard snatched the ball from Joe Arib and brilliantly denied Lesli Ugochukwu’s challenge.
The Danish midfielder then played a great diagonal ball to Schade, who calmly put it over Aaron Ramsdale and into the back of the net for the first time.
Brentford should have doubled their lead when Mbeumo raced forward and flicked the ball through Jan Bednarek’s legs to tee partner Wiss, but Ramsdale was quickly out of the game to block his shot.
Moments later Mathias Jensen’s cross found Bees captain Kristian Norgard, whose header hit the crossbar.
The closest the toothless Saints came to an equalizer was Tyler Dibling’s drive that crashed into the side netting.
Early in the second half Ramsdale made a save from Mads Roerslev at his near post before Taylor Harwood-Bellis somehow got away from the Visse goal line.
Brentford had the ball in the net after 50 minutes, when Sepp van den Berg was completely uncharacteristic when he ducked and headed in Mbeum’s corner, but a VAR check spotted a push from Vissa on Bednarek.
Wissa should have put the game to bed on the hour when he was played through by Schade’s clever back-header, but in an attempt to lob Ramsdale he almost cleared the stand behind the goal.
Instead, it was left to Mbeuma to finish off the Saints, the forward playing at Vissa and running in front of his team-mate before slotting the rebound into the roof of Ramsdale’s net.
Then, with 20 minutes to go, Ugochukwu brought down Van den Berg as they battled for Mbeum’s cross, and the Cameroon striker scored a penalty off the back of Ramsdale’s dive.
In stoppage time Mbeumo set up Lewis-Potter to slot in the fourth and Wissa pounced on a defensive error to go through and hit a fifth to deepen the darkness around Saints.