Victor Wanyama is sent off as Southampton are beaten 1-0 by Norwich at Carrow Road

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Mane was left out of the side for being late to a pre-match team meeting for the second time in his Saints career and watched his side fail to take several good first half chances at Carrow Road and they ultimately paid the price again.

Wanyama was dismissed for a second yellow card after a rash challenge in the second half and just three minutes later Alexander Tettey scored the only goal of the game.

The defeat means it is just four points from a possible 24 for Saints.

Saints started the game with real intensity, pressing Norwich very high up the pitch.

The Canaries seemed content to sit fairly deep to prevent Saints having space in behind for Shane Long to attack, but were therefore allowing their opponents plenty of possession.

Long was the first to threaten as he rose above goalkeeper Declan Rudd in the six yard box but could only head over a cross from Dusan Tadic.

Victor Wanyama was the next to have a shot but fired well over the bar from just outside the area.

Norwich had their first sight of goal on 11 minutes as Jose Fonte failed to clear and Jonny Howson broke into the area. The ball was bouncing awkwardly under pressure so he had to take it fairly early and could only steer it wide.

The game was getting end to end and James Ward-Prowse had an opening as Ryan Bertrand found him with a cut back after an overlapping run down the left.

Ward-Prowse took one touch to control and a second to get away a shot from just inside the box but it was straight at Rudd.

Saints were seeing so much possession but generally only in areas that Norwich were allowing. When they slipped up the Canaries tried to move quickly and Howson’s ball across the six yard box couldn’t quite find anyone to turn it home.

Saints’ biggest threat was Bertrand down the left and he had the chance to shoot himself on 29 minutes as a high diagonal cross field ball from the right found him in the area, but it was a really hard ask first time as it dropped and he could only fire across goal and wide.

There was a miss for Norwich moments later as Russell Martin’s pass into the area took a slight deflection off of Bertrand and was reached first by the leg of Dieumerci Mbokani six yards out but his touch at the near post couldn’t steer it home.

Saints finally got Long in behind on 32 minutes thanks to Cuco Martina’s curling ball round the back which created a terrific opening. The striker was one-on-one with Rudd but he could only finish into the body of the advancing keeper and it went wide.

From Bertrand’s inswinging corner Long headed into the ground and this time Rudd tipped over.

Wanyama became the first player in the book for a late challenge on Nathan Redmond.

Another decent chance went begging for Saints on 37 minutes as Ward-Prowse’s corner found the head of Virgil van Dijk eight yards out but he put over.

Jordy Clasie extended Rudd just before half time with an effort from 25 yards that was bending away from the Norwich stopper towards the bottom corner before he got down to his left to save.

Mbokani had one last opportunity for the Canaries before the half time whistle but on the stretch could only volley over from a right wing cross.

The second period picked up with a similar theme as Saints bossed possession as Norwich sat deep and made themselves very hard to break down. The problem for Saints was creating chances.

For their part Norwich were posing very little threat, Alexander Tettey’s shot slashed well over the bar the best they could conjure early on.

They tried to change that with a first change on 63 minutes with Vadis Odijdja-Ofoe coming on for Redmond.

Tadic had the first presentable second half chance for Saints five minutes later but from a tight angle he could only a lift a shot over the bar.

With Saints having looked like the only team who would win the game for so long they were suddenly dealt a huge blow on 73 minutes as they were reduced to ten men.

Wanyama flew into a sliding challenge on Odjidja-Ofoe but took the man rather the ball and Mark Clattenburg had no hesitation in producing the midfielder’s second yellow card of the game, followed by a red.

Just three minutes later Norwich went ahead.

The Canaries got the ball to Odjidja-Ofoe on the right, he breezed past Clasie and into the area and cut back to Tettey who finished first time left footed from 12 yards out into the opposite top corner for 1-0.

Saints made a double change with ten minutes remaining with Harrison Reed and Sadio Mane replacing Clasie and Tadic.

Norwich responded with Cameron Jerome and Martin Olsson coming on for Mbokani and Wes Hoolahan.

Koeman had one last roll of the dice with Gaston Ramirez replacing Ward-Prowse with three minutes left.

However, it was too late to have any impact as Saints failed to create anything in the final stages and were condemned to another defeat and grateful that at least results elsewhere meant they were drawn no nearer to the drop zone.