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We'd be better off playing the long ball out from defence and give up trying to pass through the Chelsea press. Expect Bertrand to pick up another yellow now too. The ref was never going to change his mind on the free kick so why the strop?

Gifting the ball to them. Goal.

At least we're getting plenty of practice defending corners.

1-5 at Fulham then. What chance a similar score at St Mary's?

Strangely relaxed ahead of this game. Defeat to at least a couple of Giroud goals is almost a foregone conclusion so why worry?

Playing at St Mary's hasn't felt like any sort of home advantage for quite some time now. Might be best to think of this one like an away cup fixture.

I think I like that red and black kit.

Well at least we managed to keep a clean sheet for 45 minutes. Saints can really only look to grind out the points towards safety for the rest of the season against the other also-ran teams. The EPL is now almost as boring as virtually every other top league in the world.

Saints happy to protect a 3-0 defeat.

Liverpool have hardly had to try very hard and they're 3-0 up at half time. You'd have thought that they'd have learnt by now not to give the ref a chance to award a soft free kick. If Saints had a decent defence we might stand a chance but at this rate will be well adrift by Christmas.

Saints defence is really slow. Any decent pace skins them.

Said last week our defence was too easy to score against. Shambles.

Just watched a recording of the game didn't know the result but predicted it, especially the late equaliser. Saints looked horribly disjointed, slow and with little idea in the final third. Defence is going to be totally found out this season. Another relegation scrap I fear.

On balance of play Saints probably deserve to be ahead. All a bit rushed in the final third though. Austin to come on and score in the last minute.

Oh yeah. Forgot about that. St Mary's will continue to be visitor friendly then.

Build a 2nd tier on top of the Northam and chuck the away fans up the back of that. All done for the same cost as one more record signing failure.

Beginning to think there's some sort of St Mary's hoodoo. Even that win against Bournemouth had an element of luck. Opposition seem to like playing there, especially with their supporters camped behind a goal. Solution. Stick another tier on the gasworks end and plonk the away fans up there well away from the pitch. Mind you we might be back in Div 1 before that ever happens at this rate.

Yes. It would have been easier to stay on his feet and shoot. Not that I'd expect him to hit the target.

Can't score and can't defend. Doesn't bode well.

Started well and then tailed off badly. St Mary's has turned into a bit of a jinx ground.

Typical.

Hoedt nearly scores. At the wrong end.

It would ave been easier for PEH to get a shot off. So why didn't he?

Stupid dive.

Saints very poor with 50/50 tackles.