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It's the manager reverting to the players he knows presumably.

Martin on Armel Bella-Kotchap not featuring tonight: “I'm paid to do the best job I can for Southampton Football Club. And if it doesn't go very well I will lose my job. So I then pick a team that I think is best to win.”

Who would you play in place of bednarek?

Interesting that Martin mentioned the possibility of losing his job tonight. I reckon he's aware of some of the pressure.

It's a good point but you could maybe bring him on at half time maybe.

They're our best three attacking players for me. We still don't have a proper striker up top but it would give us a much better chance of success. Replace lallana with Fraser after 45 minutes and Dibling with Cornet after 60.

I wonder if it would be too adventurous to play Fernandes, Lallana and Dibling together. Ramsdale Sugawara Bednarek THB kwp Downes lesley Dibling Fernandes Lallana Archer/bbd/Stewart

I know we know this but Dibling is just brilliant. I really want him and Lallana on the pitch together in a league game

At least it was a positive run from him. Good to see.

You were saying...

If we do go down I wonder if he will be a starter next year.

Well we've got Stephens out for a while. Maybe he's trying to get the other weak link out for Saturday.

Is it just me who thinks Bree is quite a solid player? Nothing spectacular but he can do a job in the squad. Looks less out of his depth than many of the others.

Yes for a team that plays in the complete opposite way to us. He's not a strong passer as far as I can see and doesn't suit our style at all. I can't see why we have signed him he looks out of place.

Nothing I have ever seen from Diaz has convinced me that he is anything other than a complete carthorse in the prem.

That's fine as long as he doesn't play a key player here and then not stary him on Saturday with the reason being that he needs a rest from midweek which is what he did during the last round.

You'd be better off caring less about a league Cup game and just treating it as a good chance to see some promising glimpses from some players and taking the positives regardless of the result. It's a lot more enjoyable that way.

I certainly wouldn't be bringing on Dibling if he was tired with cramp on Saturday. We need him at the weekend.

Because this game doesn't really matter and we need to play him to hope he maybe gets a goal and it increases his confidence?

Fraser looks good today. I'm glad we have him this year, I think we need his fighting spirit.

Atmosphere mostly crap here. Birmingham Wrexham last night sounded incredible by comparison.

Indeed but there's more than two choices! I'm not sure why Martin believes this is the correct way to play football. It's crap.

And he's proud of it too! Even when it works it's a shocking watch.

I felt a level of concern during that preseason game where he was shocking.

A pretty frustrating half that is similar to a lot of our games this year. Loads and loads of possession and very little to show for it.