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Everton fans going into a run of fixtures where they’ll be more hopeful of other teams doing them a favour than helping themselves.

It’s happened in 14/24 games. We’re not manufacturing stoppages to make this happen, we’re just taking advantage of genuine stoppages that happen in that time. It’s a good time to take on fuel and fluids as they’ll kick in for the last few minutes of the game. It’s ridiculous that this is even a story.

He tried making the same point on Twitter, seems to be getting absolutely rinsed from all corners in the replies.

To be fair, Long's not in the side for his goals any more. He's bought on to disrupt the opposition and help hold on to leads usually now, and he's still got that in him for a few minutes at the end of games.

Southampton dominate in comfortable win! | Southampton 2-0 Everton | Premier League Highlights - YouTube

Really was a fantastic team performance today!

MotM for me was Stuart Armstrong. Terrorised them with his forward runs and it was a great finish for his goal.

What a game that was! At the other end of the table... I can't see it happening but imagine a bottom three at the end of the season of Leeds, Everton, and Newcastle?

Southampton 2 - 0 Everton (February 19 2022) | EPL | 2021/2022 | xG | Understat.com

Everton pressed really high and really intense for the first 10-15 minutes, but they were completely spent after that. Clearly not ready for those tactics just yet, after that we dominated the game and restricted Everton to very few chances on the break. Barring those first few minutes, Everton in the discussion for worst team seen at St Mary's this season. Only slightly disappointing aspect was not finishing more of our chances, but that's far outweighed by a fantastic performance, Shane Long scoring, a clean sheet, and three points

Everyone knows it's unlikely we win the cup, but claiming it's 100% impossible is classic gambler's fallacy.

So what odds you offering on that? Only I can only get 25-1 on Saints winning it by the end of this year, and if you're absolutely certain it won't happen...

Well, handing Klopp his only ever Semi-Final defeat was a particularly sweet one, especially over two legs. We don’t need it to happen every time we get a chance, only once. Smaller teams than Saints have won the FA Cup since 76, claiming it could never happen for Saints is demonstrably ridiculous.

Everton have been utter toilet for most of the season, including most of their win against us. Anything less than three points would be disappointing, especially with the form we’re in and Everton’s record at St Mary’s.

In the league cup final we fell short because it was the season before VAR came in. Always lose? Yeah, it completely impossible for a team like Saints to get results against teams like Man Utd or Man City or Spurs or Liverpool… completely unheard of It’s even worse sometimes because those teams don’t even use their usual players in cup games and then we have no idea how to play against them…

It’s not like we’ll be pushing players out the door to bigger clubs. I’m sure we’ll still be trying to keep our best players as long as possible. With a bit of luck and progression, hopefully we’ll get better players wanting to stay here longer and see where they and Saints can take each other.

I’m pretty certain that we actually do have relatively major funds to compete with bigger fish than we did before, both for new and already present players. I’m also pretty certain that no-one thinks that means we’re not a selling club any more.

I was surprised VAR didn’t turn it over myself.

I wonder if Verstergaard has directly cost Leicester more than 9 goals yet…

I don’t have the words. Condolences to the friends and family, Minsk will be missed. RIP to a true Saint.

Great game of football! Could have gone either way but it’s probably the shorter recovery time that’s made the difference to stop us winning.

Hadn't realised how good a streak we'd just broken. Spurs had quietly turned THS into a fortress, and Conte had an even better record. Even more impressive that we looked so dominant against them.

Only just been able to catch up with this, what a win! Ohhhhh When The Saints...

Nope. Must have been too far down the order. Goes down as a huge error in my book.

Non-league Boreham Wood through to the last 16 without conceding a goal. Expect Everton will be a step too far but that's a phenomenal run.