Saint Albert

0-5 Walcott gets a hat trick

It's hard to say given that we have conceded 4, but Gardos looks alright.

Iwobi on for Adelaide.

Clasie needs to work on his shooting....

0-4 Walcott.

Tadic and Redmond on. Sanchez on. Isgrove, Long and Wellbeck off.

Looks like some Saints subs coming up...

Sims looking so good again troubling the Arsenal defenders.

Well, that was a ****e half. Wednesday night made it bearable.

I do enjoy watching Sims with the ball at his feet.

0-3 Walcott.

We have a dangerous looking free kick...Hojberg and McQueen standing over it. Not the worst effort by Hojberg.

Long forces a good save from Ospina.

I feel sorry for the supporters who paid money to watch this.

0-2 Wellbeck. Ball looped irritatingly over Stephens' head.

0-1 Wellbeck

According to this, Saints have reached an agreement with Gabbiadini, but not yet with Napoli: http://sportwitness.co.uk/southampton-reach-agreement-player-january-transfer-want-wrap-deal-asap/

So just an ordinary, run of the mill slow news week for Saints supporters then. I still have reservations about Lander based on the info already dug up about them here. I certainly hope that this is not a Man U style leveraged takeover.

VVD Twitter: Un-believable! What a performance @jackstephens_18 ! So happy for the team, fans and everyone around the club! WE are going to Wembley!!

Thanks for posting this. Sims looks so comfortable with the ball at his feet. We could have a good'un there.

Thank you Shane Long!!!!

Adam Blackmore had an exchange with a Saints supporter on Twitter on Tues with the supporter claiming ITK that VVD has broken a bone in the top of his foot. Hopefully he was on a wind up but he seemed pretty confident about his source of info.

According to the match preview, Puel will make a "late assessment" on VVD's fitness for the Liverpool game: https://southamptonfc.com/news/2017-01-24/match-preview-liverpool-southampton-efl-cup-semi-final-second-leg

Bloody fantastic news. He's become such an important player this year. Well done Saints and Romeu.

Sods law would dictate that VVD breaks his foot the first PL game after Fonte's departure. I hope it isn't true..