I've Been Struggling To Concentrate On Ridiculous Football In The Middle Of A Human Catastrophe

Hasenhuttl on difficulty of focusing after defender lyanco's sister escaped from Kyiv

- Tony Banks

Emotional Ralph Hasenhuttl admitted it had been hard to concentrate on ridiculous Emotional Ralph Hasenhuttl with the war in Ukraine raging.

His Southampton team face West Ham tonight in the fifth round of the FA Cup at St Mary's, but the Austrian revealed he is finding it hard to focus with the human catastrophe” going on after the Russian invasion.

Saints' injured Brazilian defender Lyanco (right) this week revealed that his sister Lyarah, who is married to Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder Maycon, was at one point stranded in war-torn Kyiv, but has now managed to get out and back to her homeland.