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Actually, having watched it back he does thrust his head firmly at the ball but it looks as though he is so eager to put the ball in the net he rushes and misjudges the flight and it spins away from him. He is then left too far from the ball and hence doesn't make solid contact. A lethal striker would have waited a split second longer and got a solid head on it. As others have said the spin worked against Che but a Premier league striker should never miss a chance like that.

Might be wrong but I think any goal where there is a hint of handball is automatically chalked off. Feel a bit sorry for Che but there were probably fifty ways he could have legally put that ball in the net...unfortunately, he somehow managed to come up with the single way to score and have it disallowed. Looked as though he forgot to use his neck muscles to get any power behind his attempted header. Had he done so it would have gone in and not bobbled onto his arm.

Think we need to remember there are no easy games in this league. Often you need that little bit of luck which we didn't get today. We clearly missed the influence of Lavia. Have to take your chances at this level and today we didn't. I half expected this result after beating Chelsea.

Cut out the major errors at both ends and we win that game.

Who've we brought on?

Need to bring on AMN to add much needed power in midfield that has been lost through injury to Lavia. Surprised he didn't start for this reason although I accept that he's hardly trained with the squad.

Still can't shake off the mistakes leading to soft goals. Bad time to concede too.

That's why I would have given AMN a start. You can't expect to take out the power Lavia brings and replace that with a lightweight like Diallo.

Looks slightly clumsy from what I've seen so don't think he'll find it easy to dislodge either ABK or Salisu on current form but decent back-up. We'll see.

Bazunu KWP ABK Salisu Perraud JWP AMN Moi AA Che Djenepo

That's not good - minimum 6 weeks probably means 8 weeks. He'll be a big miss and it's also not great in terms of his development because he has looked a great player so far. Still, we've extra bodies in the squad now so hopefully can carry on our decent form until Lavia returns.

Anyone heard any updates on Lavia's injury?

Doubt Ralph will drop Moi - other than that this will probably be the line up tomorrow.

Hope you're right and obviously Joe Shields knows both lads very well. Just wonder if they might be a little lightweight for the Prem in terms of this season.

My feeling on the two kids from City is that they are very much for the future. I think they'll be playing for the second string for some time but we'll see.

Great window overall. Striker would have been the icing on the cake but I guess we'll see how it goes and then maybe if necessary do some business in the next window which is not far off. Seems there is money to spend for the right player and I understand us not rushing things after the Gakpo deal went south.

To be fair nobody knows what deals may have been done late and not announced yet. Unlikely but it could still happen.

Wonder if it's dependent on Chelsea getting PEA.

Yeah, they'll be along shaking buckets for loose change at St Marys soon.

If by any chance we are going to unveil a late signing I imagine it will be kept as water tight as possible to avoid any last minute hitches. Probably not going to happen but I'm clinging on to any slight hope.

Doesn't that mean he feels that even if we sign nobody else this is the best window since 2014? He's not actually said we'll not be making any further signings. That's how I read it anyway.

It was obviously a tongue in cheek question not to be taken seriously.

Any genuine ITK with something juicy to reveal? Any Lear jets arriving at Southampton or black limos spotted pulling into Staplewood? Has the Potters Heron been booked? Have the lights been turned off at St Marys yet? We're all waiting for the big one. 🙂

The major deals are yet to come is my view. Not specific to Saints but in general. Reckon there is an awful lot of money waiting to be spent in the next 7 hours. Then we'll see the dominoes start to fall and SSN will go into overdrive. The calm before the storm if you like.

No thanks.