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Fucking Bednarek ball watching again and completely missing the run of the scorer. Please Ralph, for the love of god, will you just drop this useless cunt!

FFS this ref is giving Leeds everything isn't he. That was never a foul by Moi.

He clearly made contact with Stu and took his trailing leg out before he got the ball.

And how the fuck is that not a FK for a dangerous high boot? Right in front of the Lino as well.

Wasn't it Llorente who escaped a certain red for an awful tackle on Broja after he had hit the shot for the winning goal last season?

He took the man first though. It's a foul and a red card. Guarantee it would have been given to Liverpool.

Yeah that's my assumption too. Leeds will press hard and early so I guess the thinking is to have the fairly solid Ely on while they burn themselves out, then swap him for a fresh Aribo. I still don't get Djenepo at LWB though. I remember Ralph trying that experiment at Sheff Utd 3 years ago and it was a disaster, and there was nothing about his performance (defensively at least) last week to suggest anything had changed. Surely we have a better option don't we?

Indeed. Everton are already in serious trouble. DCL injured before the season started, and Mina and Godfrey both going off injured in the first game. All 3 of them are seemingly made of glass and can't be relied on to play even half a season. No replacement for Richarlison as yet. I would still fancy us to finish above them this year even if we don't replace Ralph.

As bad as yesterday was, there were some positives to draw from it. Lavia looks very tidy and assured for such a young lad. Didn't look fazed by the occasion and I think he will prove to be an excellent signing. Aribo looks like he will be a very useful addition to our attack, when he's played in the right position that is. Was a mistake moving him up front in the second half IMO. Despite looking a bit nervous with his kicking, I thought Bazunu looked like an upgrade on Macca. He came and collected a few balls that Alex would never have come for. He's a young keeper, making his first PL appearance away at a team with the best strike partnership in England (and Europe, maybe?). A few nerves can be excused. As for the striker situation - well it's pretty clear now that Arma is not up to playing a lone striker role in the PL. I still think he has something to offer in a different setup but he was completely anonymous yesterday. Taking him off at HT was the right thing to do, but not replacing him with Che was bizarre. There just has to be something in the transfer rumours because leaving him on the bench and putting two MFs up front is an insult to him otherwise. Ralph has said we will get another striker, so hopefully our options won't be so limited in that department for the rest of the season. If Che is off then we need another two IMO. So, being as generous as possible here, I don't think the attacking changes made yesterday would have really been Ralphs's first choice if he had other options. The main thing for me, as so many have already alluded to, is that we had all summer to prepare for this game, and the formation and tactics were a total fucking shambles. I could overlook us losing away to Spurs on our opening day if we played OK and gave them a good game, but for us to look so lost and gift them a big win without needing to play anywhere near their best is seriously alarming. Once our transfer business is complete, Ralph will have no more free passes left. He'll have to start delivering, and if he serves up any more baffling formations and tactical shitshows like yesterday then he simply has to go, otherwise we are dead certs for relegation.

Well that was pretty horrific. Started OK and scored a decent goal from open play, then did the very Saintsy thing of capitulating at the back and gifting the opponents a comfortable win. The defending for each of their goals was comical. Salisu well short of his best today, and Bednarek very much at his terrible best. I really hope we can replace him soon. We are always going to concede with him playing, whatever the formation. Up front, A Armstrong did literally nothing. So instead of replacing him with another striker, Ralph plays out the second half with two MFs up front. I know we are still in the market for another striker, possibly two, but really? What has Che done to deserve that? he scored twice at that ground last season and can't even get on the pitch today? Baffling. I'm very sorry to day that any goodwill I still have left towards Ralph is fast evaporating. I know Spurs are a top side with some of the best attacking talent in Europe, but what happened today was mostly self inflicted and that is the most frustrating thing. He'd better learn some lessons from today's game and make them count or he can do one IMO.

No, it was actually Salisu playing him on.

Fucking hell. Did he seriously not get a card for that!?

Oh FFS. Well at least we scored.

Negatives: Valery has had better games at RCB so I'm not going to write him off just yet, but he's been poor today. Adam Armstrong is just completely anonymous. He has no ability to hold the ball up so as soon as it comes near him we lose it again. He needs to be swapped for Che at HT. Bednarek is just a fucking dreadful defender who wouldn't be a regular starter in any other PL side. I'm really hoping ABK will quickly prove to be an upgrade on him. Positives: Lavia looks very good. Aribo also looks like he will be handy. Djenepo did very well for our goal - first bit of end product we have seen from him in a long time. A bit suspect defensively still though.

Oh dear Valery. Got lucky there.

These taters have no idea about our formation do they.

Tottenham Hotspur vs Southampton live stream - soccer streams Never used it before so don't know if it is reliable or not. Will probably need a VPN for many if not all of the links to work.

What exactly is the formation then? 3-4-1-2?

Everton fans will be pissed. They were convinced he would sign for them.

Yeah but if he came to Saints he would be able to do some shooting practice with Big Willy.

He will certainly inject some life into to an otherwise impotent attack.

Same name. Just a fake account pretending to be him.

Ignore the blue shorts Lyanco was wearing in his original pics. The actual 3rd kit shorts are consistent with the shirt... I quite like this TBH. I won't be buying it anyway so I don't have to worry about what it looks like on me. I seem to be in a minority of people who actually like all of this season's kits. I don't understand how the biggest complaint about our home kit is that it is too white and not red enough, when seemingly everyone's favourite kit in recent years was the 2010-11 sash kit which had even less red on it. Weird.

Not really. Telling a new player they will play in the PL, with the new 5 sub rule this season, does not mean guaranteed starts.

And for the second goal, watch Bednarek lose his man completely and then just fall over as the ball is played through, followed by a shrug of the arms as if to say "who's fault is that then?" It's yours, Jan. Yours. A big plus for me from that highlights reel, aside from Aribo's goal of course, is ABK seems to have a decent whipped diagonal cross on him. A couple of times he found Djenepo making a charge in from the wing with them.