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Hardly deserved but I'll take it.

Cool penalty.

No idea in attack. Just hopeful and mostly aimless.

West Ham know that all they have to do is lump long balls at our defence.

Yet again lost a header in defence.

Embarrassing Saints.

If only, eh?

Saints almost certainly need a third here but the attacking build up is rubbish. The final shot is worse.

Lemina off. Ward-Prowse on please.

Have Saints defence won anything in the air yet? Also, why 11 back for a corner against 10?

Saints passing in midfield continues to be ordinary.

I'm not so sure we should blame FF so much as allowing the shot in the first place.

Saints just so wasteful in attack. I thought they were practising shooting this week.

Shocking defensive work. Saints seem to have gone to sleep.

Tadic must be one of the worst penalty takers we've seen at Saints for many years. Still, 2-0.

Too many passes going astray.

Ref will try and even it up. Careful Saints.

Last season we'd have lost that so I'm taking a 0-0 as an improvement. Now all that's required is to find the back of the net.

Can I suggest that Saints spend a few days at St Marys just practising putting the ball in the net?

Saints trying to walk it into the net.

Sloppy start to the 2nd half.

Saints look better than they did last season but still no goal to show for it. Ref is the poorest person the pitch.

Romeu booked for heading the ball. Ref certainly has it in for Saints today.

On balance I'd prefer him to stay rather than throw things up in the air again. Yes, the performances at home have been lacklustre but he deserves the chance to make amends. One change I would make is to get rid of Black. The man is mediocrity personified.

That game pretty much summed up the whole season. Some flashes of good football but essentially boring and aimless without any sort of calmness in front of goal. Gabbi did well when he first arrived but Puel seems to have knocked whatever he had out of him. Very uninspiring.