obelisk

Got away with that. Saints showed no desire to win that game at all.

Awful from Saints these last few minutes.

Stewart making runs into the channels but totally ignored in favour of dangerous tipp-tappy. Corner WBA

Stephens again. Bloody liability.

Stephens with another hospital pass leads to panic stations.

There's going to be about half an hour of added time at this rate.

Fellows just strolled past Stephens. McCarthy saves well. Stewart unlucky at the other end.

Saints seem determined to lose this leg.

Tippy-tappy give it away. WBA corner.

Again. Tippy-tappy and then give it away.

Close from WBA. Wake up Saints.

That WBA attack came about from slow Saints tippy-tappy go nowhere football that ended with a poor pass.

Ball bouncing off Arma all the time.

Saints have enough about them to win this game but they also have enough about them to hand it to WBA. Manning defensively is shocking while Stephens in midfield has given it away rather a lot. Expect another WBA assault at the start of the 2nd half. Ride that out and nick a 0-1 win would be an adequate day's work.

It'll be interesting to see whether Stewart provides more of an attacking threat from corners and free kicks. So far pretty much like so many Saints games this season. Plenty of possession but little threat. Still, 0-0 at half time in the 1st away leg will just about do.

Saints don't look very dangerous from corners.

KWP gets trodden on but no yellow card.

OK then. Next job is to reach half time without conceding.

Too much fannying around against the high press. That's the time to play the long ball when danger lurks.

Manning seems to be unable to stop any crosses at all.

How many chances are Saints going to spurn in this game I wonder.

Chance goes begging.

Manning completely taken out of the game there.

Nothing sticking up front or even in midfield.

Important for Saints to ride this out.