A loss was not unexpected, but we could justifiably have taken a point here. We did enough in attack, Dibling and Onuachu put in some memorable work. It was defence that let us down today - the usual futzing around at the back, a McCarthy howler and a lot of standing around and not anticipating. Sugawara was a bit unlucky on that penalty call. We have a long way back out of the hole we have dug for ourselves. Doesn’t look promising right now.

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Someone wrote:

Southampton 2 Southampton 3.

Sounds about right.

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What do expect with Downes @ Centre Half & Fraser @ Left Back. Add in the McCarthy factor & you get another defeat. At least there was a more positive intent but the senseless playing out from the back is killing us.
For gods sake sack RM me now.

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TAXI FOR MARTIN

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Gifted all three goals. Painful to watch. Battled well but terrible errors at the back. Two more injuries as well.

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The one thing we know is how to lose if only we new how to win that would be great. Actually l was glad to see Tall Paul playing he done a good job in my opinion and Dibling was excellent just hope we are able to keep him.Fernandes is the real deal but some dumb defending mistakes again did not help.

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McCarthy started so well. He made some great saves, including a near-post rocket, and was well on his way to becoming the man of the match, but then came that quite ridiculous rolled-out clearance. We could have got away with it if our defenders had been a little more awake, including a poor clearance from Downes.
In general, we did well against one of the best European sides and it took a great Salah touch and an unlucky penalty award to defeat us.
We may well get defeated, but if they try as they did today, they deserve our support. I hope Tall Paul is fit for our remaining games. He grew into his role, and the crowd loved him.

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Again we did it to ourselves. AM is at fault for 2 goals and their penalty was just bad luck. All the play form the back crap we did in the first 15 minutes was not a warning and for this RM should be sacked. He has not adapted his tactics and this is what cost us the game (along with AM).

On a separate note - on other sites the LPool fans are complaining that TD wasnt fouled and he "ran" in to their player. Typical whiners, yet VAR said there was not irrefutable evidence to over turn the on field decision - So basically, the ref got it right and leave it at that.

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edit - "was a warning"

P.S. - Tall Paul showed he can play and again just shows how bad RM has done in picking players.
P.S.S. - Bench Jack - he is a sub at best and made multiple horrible passes.

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A reasonably good showing with the usual shoot ourselves in the foot moments.
Onuachu showed he has the touch and ability to help us going forward. Got to feel a bit sorry for McCarthy, who pulled off some great saves but let himself down trying to comply with the ridiculous instruction to play out from the back, even so we could have let the first one go for a goal kick?
If RM learns nothing from this game then he is a far more obstinate than he appears to be!

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