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Your Southampton v West Ham United Match Reports

WestSussexSaint added 20:06 - Oct 16 Positives First half performance much improved Maitland-Niles looked far more comfortable in the CM role Didn’t lose Negatives Second half performance - what is said at half time? Ward Prowse - the only time he passed forward it was to a West Ham player Didn’t win and finish the weekend in the relegation zone Anything other than a win on Wednesday and I don’t see Ralph surviving.

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Bawdrip added 20:15 - Oct 16 Even and competitive first half with good chances for both sides but under real pressure in the second half. Relieved to get a point really. Not a bad performance but struggled in midfield and upfront again. Losing Bella-Kotchap was a big blow and I think that impacted on our second half showing. Really need a result against Bournemouth as can't see them getting anything out of the Arsenal game.

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I_would added 20:22 - Oct 16 Ralph should have had Ward Prowse in the team.
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Block8 added 20:37 - Oct 16 So we know exactly why Rice is going to the world cup & JWP probably isn't! Soucek allows Rice to play and he drives West Ham. That for me was the main difference between the sides today & we definitely lack drive from our midfield. And we so need a regular goal scorer, we started well but missed some good chances and faded badly after half time. We have become so reliant on attacking full backs our drive in the middle has evaporated, Maitland Niles needs games as he tired quickly & JWP despite his obvious work rate is not the player from last season. Neither at present is Stu Armstrong which is a concern. We have some good youngsters but they may need a bit more time than we have to fulfill their potential? Wednesday's game is Ralph's last chance in all probability.

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silverspringsaint added 20:39 - Oct 16 Good point for us in the end. Aside from losing Bella Kotchap, first half was OK. Che played well but - didn’t take the chances he had and faded in the second half. As the game went on we were overrun in midfield and Salisu started to go wobbly. We had no one of the class of the likes of Scamacca and Rice. Our youngsters may come good eventually, but we are right now very light on PL nous and experience, especially off the bench up front.

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SaintPaulVW added 21:56 - Oct 16 Improvement over the last few games. Played well in the first half but same old story-should have got more out of it. Players looked better both individually and as a team. Arma looked good everywhere but in front of goal. JWP and Stu A were both better than previous week's although still not back to their best. AMN also did better. Salisu had an odd game slicing the ball disastrously on a couple of occasions and then making some great tackles. Best player for me was Bazunu. Nothing he could really do about the goal but otherwise a really lively performance. COYR hopefully we have started to turn things around.

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Benali_Saint added 07:30 - Oct 17 Another game, another poor midfield performance.
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ElijahK added 10:22 - Oct 17 Just seen the highlights on MOTD and do think we were lucky to get away with a few things today. As how VAR didn’t give that penalty to West Ham when Parraud basically decked that West Ham lad to the ground when they had their corner just doesn’t make sense whatsoever! And with regards to our first goal, the throw in was perfectly fine, but in all fairness we were very lucky that the refs positioning helped us out there. As under the LOTG he can’t give anything, but still shouldn’t have been in the way anyway, so again had a bit of luck for us. Still I’d of taken a point before KO against West Ham, but we’ve gotta win on Wednesday as a point just won’t be enough and unless we do win I do think it’ll be time for a change

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