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Your Southampton v Brentford Match Reports

SaintPaulVW added 22:07 - Mar 15 Possession means nothing. Just not good enough in defence or attack. Why you bring a 6ft 7 striker on and continually cross to his feet escapes me Not fatal but time and opportunity are fast running out.
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codge added 22:10 - Mar 15 So obvious we have needed someone to know where the goal is we cannot expect to survive playing like this with the amount of shots on target it has gone on far to long and this will be the reason we will go down.
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YosemiteSaint added 22:12 - Mar 15 When we went up a man at Old Trafford, I thought that that might even things up better, because we have an uncanny knack for always making it look like we're down a man—and we did it again tonight.
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silverspringsaint added 22:17 - Mar 15 Blurgh! I had high hopes we would get something out of this game. If we cannot score, then any other improvements to team structure and selection will not help! Only Alcaraz and JWP look like they have (on occasion) the wit to find the net. We crossed more today than previously but the quality was just not there. Got to get the best front 2/3 sorted out quickly. Fortunately we are still not out of it - just 5 points behind Palace in 12th.

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1ASIN12 added 22:39 - Mar 15 Walcott - 3
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StRipper added 22:52 - Mar 15 Clear to me that Selles got it badly wrong tonight. The team at home, as we saw against Leicester, needs the fans behind them. And they're not going to get that by constantly turning over possession, passing the ball around with no threat or movement and by reselecting players who, for valid reasons, the fans have lost faith in. There was no reaction from the crowd to going behind. But who can blame us when we see that the team could have played until Saturday and still wouldn't score. Why focus on saving players for Spurs, when the win tonight was more realistic? I thought Selles claimed that he was only ever looking at the next game? Instead, we blew any momentum that we had by some terrible negative and ineffective football. Please can someone ask JWP to play a forward pass? Or ask the team to move more to receive one? Best player on the pitch tonight for me was ABK. Showed hunger and even looked to join the attack, unlike our midfield for most of the game.

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Rich1950 added 22:52 - Mar 15 Walcott 1.5 not on your list
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Avior added 22:54 - Mar 15 That was painful. Lots of effort and commitment and all that guff but totally lacking any passion, pace or intelligence. Selles has surely been around long enough to realise that Diallo and Mo are simply not up to it and that Walcott is not an impact player off the bench. As such we gifted them the first half and lets face it they were pretty ordinary. Should have made changes at half time. When subs did come on I struggle to see how Lavia, Walcott and Bree will find us a goal. If we are going down we might as well go down fighting. Show a bit of passion and gamble a bit.

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WestSussexSaint added 23:09 - Mar 15 I hope the irony was not lost on anyone tonight that on an evening where we struggled to get only one shot on target, Nathan Tella was scoring a hatrick for Burnley.🤔
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WestSussexSaint added 23:09 - Mar 15 I hope the irony was not lost on anyone tonight that on an evening where we struggled to get only one shot on target, Nathan Tella was scoring a hatrick for Burnley.🤔
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SanMarco added 23:24 - Mar 15 A full house and a little bit of optimism after recent results so pick the best starting 11 and get at them. Or alternatively start with Mo, Diallo and Bednarek, give the ball away a lot, don't look like scoring all evening (apart from Che's obligatory miss) and then, to cap it all don't bother to mark at corners, the one thing that Brentford are good at... Sadly, I think we are done now. Tonight was the big night. Brentford should not be able to play poorly and beat us so comfortably. Why on earth would be think we can beat the likes of Fulham, Bournemouth and Palace when we play like that. A truly miserable evening in every way. Why did we buy the big guy up front - has he had a decent headed opportunity yet? And finally, that guy going through at the end and scoring. Would Che or Walcott have put that in to equalize? Of course not...

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I_would added 23:50 - Mar 15 Ward Prowse just does not want to link up with attackers. He just passes the ball, usually sideways or backwards, and then jogs, never any attempt at running through to overload in the box or create triangles like quality midfielders. Also with Elyounooseyourself starting we're pretty sure of conceding and with Adams playing we're sure not to score. I didn't know it was possible to have any sort of football team in which nobody at all is able to find the net, it's quite an achievement really. The manager is getting it wrong and needs to throw away Ralph's old coaching and management manual. Still I suppose it's academic now really as we've left it too late. Ingsy's 10-15 certain one-man-effort goals would have seen us as safe as a church.

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allsaint54 added 00:35 - Mar 16 Mo & Diallo have been dire all season, so why on earth do you play them both in a must win game. Surprise surprise we played with no ambition & created next to nothing. Still
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YosemiteSaint added 01:15 - Mar 16 We've spent a lot of money to get goals from the Championship. Yet all our goals have just ended up going back there (as Nathan Tella bagged another three today): https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/64884200.
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Bawdrip added 07:03 - Mar 16 66% possession and one shot on target days it all. A frustrating and depressing night. A poor first half with Brentford well on top. Dominated the second half but only as Brentford sat back confident we wouldn't score. We never looked like winning this game. Brentford's time wasting tactics and breaking the game up Newcastle style worked well. Seven minutes of injury time...a goal for them and nothing of note from us.

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Block8 added 10:14 - Mar 16 Lost this before we even kicked a ball, a truly defensive set up for a game we needed to win. Frank pushed a man on both our full backs and our attacking options were negated!
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Flamingbankers added 19:15 - Mar 16 Getting paid £50,000 a week buck your ideas up or fehk off. Any body else earning this amount for what do do would be imprisoned by now let alone playing in the Premier League. What a joke. The owners haven't had a clue for the last two years.
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darthvader added 12:44 - Mar 18 Game was lost an hour before it started
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