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Southampton V Leicester City The Verdict

Once again Saints threw away a winning position due to poor goalkeeping not once but twice, this has to end now otherwise we will be looking over our shoulders and in trouble.

The last three games have seen 8 goals shipped in and to be perfectly blunt Alex McCarthy should have stopped 5 of them including two against Norwich and another two last night where he did not exactly cover himself in glory with one glaring error and a second that saw him caught at his near post yet again.

Football is a fine line and if we had taken all three points at Norwich as we should have done and again last night then those extra 5 points would have seen us now lying 7th in the table and only 4 points off a top four spot.

If it is frustrating for me as a fan to have to see points thrown away again due to goalkeeping error, how frustrating must it be for those out there on the pitch who have seen all their hard work come to virtually nothing and the single point we gained leaving us in 16th place.

Ralph Hasenhuttl in my mind has done a good job this season, but he held his hands up at Liverpool with the wrong team selection and now he has to hold his hands up again and remove Alex McCarthy from the firing line.

In a season a keeper should make no more than 4 or 5 errors for a goal, we have now had 5 in 3 games and to be blunt that is not good enough, especially when you consider that these are not his first of the season.

To have conceded 20 goals and over a quarter down to the keeper says something, indeed it will be nearer 50% if we look carefully.

At this level keepers have to be consistent, we are not asking him to make wonder saves, just keep out the attempts that any even average Premier League keeper should stop.

Ralph Hasenhuttl must be frustrated himself, but he is the only man who can rectify it on Saturday against Brighton, a change has to be made.

Aside from that Saints put up a good fight against Leicester, OK it wasn't perfect and McCarthy wasn't the only error, but overall it was a pleasing performance that started well when Jan Bednarek poked home from close range in the 3rd minute.

That got Saints in the ascendency, but the visitors were on level terms on 22 mins when what should have been a simple save saw McCarthy scoop the ball into the path of Johnny Evans.

Saints were not perturbed and were back in the lead 10 minutes later when Che Adams dived to head home and restore the lead, at the break Saints were good for the 2-1 scoreline.

But after a delayed start it was Saints who handed the impetus back to the Foxes when again poor goalkeeping allowed a shot to creep in at the near post, not a glaring error, but one at this level you expect your keeper to save.

Leicester now had the upper hand, but Saints dug in and clung to the point they had.

A disappointing result due to the way we handed a draw to Leicester that although on the run of play they deserved, but on the balance of things didn't, if we had Schmeichel in goal for us we win that is the plain truth.

But this game is done and dusted, Ralph Hasenhuttl has to now show he is the man to make a decision, after the Norwich debacle in fairness he stuck with his keeper, hindsight now shows he made a bad choice, now he has to rectify it.

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