Tommy Mulgrew

1:0 to Saints, with Shane getting his 50th PL goal before getting shipped out on loan again. (Pretty sure I read somewhere that he was on 49; he deserves the kudos of a half century for effort alone and for being by all accounts a decent bloke.)

Samuel Umtiti - not wanted by Koeman at Barca, 27, French international and keen to play with our other French players. OK I made the last one up. And, like Toby, unlikely to want to come to a relegation scrap here.

As others have said, a comfortable victory but we were worryingly ineffective in two ways: (i) gifting two or three free kicks near our penalty area and being exposed by WBA runners behind the defensive line into the space in front of Macca - we could easily have shipped two goals - and (ii) so often preferring to pass backward, both in open play and from free kicks, thus giving WBA ample time to reform their shape. We should really have scored more than two against one of the weakest teams in the EPL. But a win is a win. Romeu and KWP were outstanding. And Macca's distribution was much improved. JWP's comment about Rom's goal was a gem. Pleasingly, nobody had a really bad game. Bring on Chelsea and Everton.

this time: great strike by Armstrong; assist by Ings!

great strike by Ings; assist for Armstrong

Harrison Reed v Everton; he controlled the midfield but got few more chances to shine.

Interesting that Maya is here and not with Japan; hopefully that means he, not Stephens, will play against Brighton.

And JWP for goal of the month

Cuco Martina to Feyenoord on loan from Everton. I wondered why he was no longer playing for Stoke!

Hardly any game time for Barnsley and now on loan to Pompey!

I usually watch games I cannot get to online on CricfreeTV but that seems to have stopped streaming recently. Any ideas for good free streams online tonight?

Italian international Rossi available now on a free. Training at Old Trafford to maintain fitness. What's to lose?

I believe we can safely say that he (JV) is not Maradonna with the big boobies.

If we buy any CB from Barca it should be Mina, not Marlon. He certainly knows how to keep Sterling in his pocket! A beast of a defender, tall, positionally astute, a good reader of the game and header of the ball in both penalty areas and takes no prisoners. Oh, and can shrug off a groin injury. What's not to like?

The BBC article has these stats: Southampton 2016-17 Liverpool 2017-18 Minutes Played 1854 360 Distance per 90 mins (km) 8.3 9.2 Sprints per 90 mins 30.2 34 I copied and pasted that and cannot space it our properly but it pretty clearly shows that, albeit after only a few games for 'pool, he has covered vastly more ground than in 2016 and 2017 for us. The difference is surely highly significant. Replicate that difference throughout the team and no wonder we are struggling.

Pathetic negative tactics after we scored; we should have gone all out to score a second and a third while we had Palarse on the rack. Only when we were behind did MP think we should attack. And then he took off our midfield dynamo (PH, not JWP!) and put on Davis, who is lightweight at this level when full-on attack is a priority. We got what we deserved: nothing and only goal difference separates us from the relegation spots. We are dropping like a stone and look like we are in real trouble. Totally inept.

Harry Wilson soon to be available from 'pool? Young, Welsh, winger/midfielder, fast, creates chances and even scores a few!

Cuco carried off after falling heavily because of a foul by an oppo player backing into him. Nasty injury apparently: didn't move for six minutes apparently. Wish him good luck and a speedy recovery.

BSS and Jose are right: no stream.

see my post 1297. i;m just about to select the vipbox.tv feed.

vipbox.tv (not vipbpx.me or vipbox.nu, which are both a bit dodgy, the latter more than a bit!) worked for me well last year and so far this year. It has a section for soccer and all you need do is select the right match, pick stream 2 or stream 3 and get rid of the overlays and unwanted bits that inevitably pop-up . No buffering at all on Saturday and lasted for the whole match in good quality sound and vision. I intend using it for the rest of the season when necessary. No payment necessary.

Jemima looks to have a lot of promise; does anyone know why Juve sold him to us instead of keeping him to develop in Italy?

"me"!: fastest goal at the Dell, slowest midfield dynamo of the 60s and hardly ever scored again over several seasons but always seemed to play. Runners-up: Hurlock, McGrath, Walker, Dennis, Kirby, Campbell Forsyth and too many others to mention More recently: Ostlund, Cuco, the holy goalie and Guly. Of the present team, it's got to be Yoshida

Beat MU in the EFL Cup Final and Rashford will want to join such a successful club that plays plenty of young players! (Press reports that he wants more game-time than Utd are giving him.)

If he keeps up his goal-scoring progression, Barry will score three in his third game for us. MU will have to score four to win. Sadly, that could easily happen. But with our extra desire to win something, anything, versus United's comparative lack of real interest in the EFL Cup Final, it definitely WILL NOT. COYR