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I think you could be right. And if memory serves, I believe he also scored a penalty in that game.

Looked to me like he was going to go for the ball then when he saw that Lamela was going to get to it before him, he tried to back out of it. But he still impeded him all the same.

Danny Murphy singing his praises on MOTD just now. Reckons his all round performance was very good. He would have had a first goal too, if not for a very good save from Foster.

Was a clear shirt pull from Hegazi before their first goal.

Phew. Thank buggery for that. We held on to a lead for once!

FFS Long. You HAVE to hit the target there. No excuses.

Weirdly, perhaps MP's cautious tactics might serve us better away from home against those teams.

Yeah I did wonder if he was trying to emulate De Bruyne's goal last week where he rolled the FK low under the wall.

I don't think many people would disagree with this lineup. You can bet your granny that MP won't pick it to start though.

Really? You've never seen him b!tching and moaning at his team mates after he's cocked up and given the ball away, which he does multiple times every game?

https://twitter.com/SouthamptonFC/status/959067605465051142 I hope the club's digital media department (or whatever it may be called) is paying close attention to the comments on here. Absolutely scathing, and rightly so.

They can't do that if they're sat on the bench though.

Their defence was much better organised.

This. His approach to that game summed up the mistakes he had been making all season. He hasn't learned a damn thing since day 1.

But you've got JWP playing as a lone striker. He's hardly going to be pinging balls in to himself now is he. No, he'll receive the ball with his back to goal and pass it straight back to the centre circle for the whole game.

We should make him captain already. Davis is a busted flush. He's too quiet and he doesn't lead by example, and he's no longer good enough to be anything other than a handy backup player.

One thing that stood out for me last night was a moment where he actually won a header in the Brighton box and the ball dropped somewhere near the penalty spot. I can't remember the last time Long did that. OK, on this occasion there was no-one there to latch onto it and Brighton cleared it, but that is something we have been missing so far this season. If he can develop an understanding with the other attacking players then we might actually manage to score a few goals from this threat.

We were apparently prepared to part with £30m to buy Promes in the hope his ability would keep us up. We failed in that bid. The next best investment we can make now to try and avoid the drop is to pay off this charlatan and get in somebody, anybody, who has the slightest grasp of the realities of PL football. I can't even see where a win is possibly going to come from with this guy in charge, if he can't even set us up properly to beat Brighton at home. Go now Mauricio. Clear your desk and f**k off.

Absolutely not good enough. We didn't win a game we needed to win, and we didn't deserve to. Pellegrino HAS to go now. No possible defence for keeping him in charge. His team selection and tactical approach to this game was criminal. Starting a home game against a relegation rival with Shane LOng as a lone striker and keeping our 4 most expensive signings ever on the bench, Playing Steven Davis ahead of Boufal and/or Lemina, and keeping him on at HT after he had been sooo bad, swapping him to a position where he is even less effective. Simply not good enough. We are going down and we will probably finish bottom. In fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised if we don't win another game this season. Heads must roll for this. It was all so avoidable.

I know he has been a great servant and everything, but I would be happy if I never saw Davis in a Saints shirt ever again. He's been dreadful tonight. Slows things down every time he gets the ball. Never gets truly stuck in, and can never play a decent forward pass or through ball. He's na empty shirt in the middle of the pitch. How can he possibly get in the starting lineup ahead of Lemina? It's astounding.

Do you mean divine right?

Happy we've scored. Happy we're not losing. It's ironic though that we never score from JWP's good free kicks but somehow fortuitously manage to scrape one from possibly the worst one he has ever delivered.

Jesus f*cking CHRIST! We finally get a chance to break at pace after a Brighton attack, and Davis - like he ALWAYS does - slows down, dithers and waits for tyhe entire opposition defence to get back in position before deciding what to do with the ball.

Does that count as a shot on target from Boufal?

Well it's [positive to see Boufal and Carillo on. But why the f*ck are Long and Davis still on? This guy does not have a fg*cking scooby what he is doing.