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If anything Saints have got worse this half. Backwards passing has returned and hardly making any progress over the half way line. It's like they've given up. But here come the subs.

Saints slightly more direct in attack but still over-passing and missing runs off the back of Utd's defence. Doesn't help if missing with a free shot from 12 yards out though.

Ever since that penalty miss Saints have just fallen apart. Stephens playing 3 attackers onside for their first goal and the 2nd was just a shambles. Ramsdale playing a blinder otherwise it'd be even worse.

Get Tall Paul on - in defence.

Saints on the ropes here.

Oh well. The defending is dreadful though. Nobody left upfield to control the edge of the area.

Why Saints don't leave a player upfield when defending a corner I don't know.

Stephens playing them all onside.

Typical.

Bugger

Well I'm hopeful that we'll see something a bit more exciting from that line-up. RM with a desperate throw of the dice?

Says nothing about the nation or its people. Just asking for some deity to save some rich person. I never sing it either. Always used to leave cinemas along with everyone else when it struck up back in the day.

Backwards or sideways?

A bit daft to walk straight into their trap and present them with a couple of tap-ins then wasn't it? Mind you, if Armstrong hadn't caught the Adams disease of missing open goals then maybe it could have turned out different although I wouldn't be confident about that.

Edozie possibly off to Anderlecht on a loan with option to buy.

If that Leeds shot against the bar towards the end of the game had been 2mm lower I reckon we'd be watching a mid-table Championship side at St Mary's this season. But then again if Edozie could find the target we'd have had a two goal cushion. 😐

There's still no extra points for artistic impression in football.

Work permit problem for Sulemana apparently.

I was hoping that Saints might at least have managed to squeeze a point from those first 3 games but it looks like Russball has been well and truly sussed by everyone else in the league. Just can't see where a win is going to come from if Saints continue with this slow suicidal walking football.

Saints score!! Good move. Pity it wasn't 3-0 at the time.

Giving the ball away after a few backward passes right until the end.

Not even close.

Dibling seems to be ignoring RM's instructions by looking to get forward and trying to score.

Every time Brentford attack they do so with pace and look dangerous almost every time. Saints slow and predictable.

Odds shortening on RM getting the sack.