Saint Pete

Vest and Adams in?

Got to be happy with that!

If only Ings chance had gone in. ☹️

Right, Jannik up top and play more direct now. Short passing tricky on this surface even versus 9.

Really tricky to pass it but we are getting chances.

Jesus wept! So close.

Tough conditions out there, need to play it simple.

Absolute class! And a red card.

Yep. Those calling for Ralph's head are off their rocker, he is the best thing going for us right now irrespective of recent form. How he produced the results he did out of this bunch in 2020 was miraculous and we were never going to keep that up given lack of support off the pitch.

Great to have a few players back, especially Romeu, and excited to see what Minamino can do. Let's put a few wrongs right today. Come on you Saints!

The only positive is that it happened before and we came out the other side pretty well. So we know we can do it again. And I guess that Mike Dean doesn't ref all of our games.

Not sure you gain much from that having lost by 9 to be honest. Just make yourself look even more silly. I would like him to day we will appeal the second red and leave it at that for now.

This just seems utterly bizarre given that KWP is injured, we also have injuries in midfield limiting our options to play the likes of JWP there and we have failed to bring in our targets in full back positions. And we let Vokins go out as well!

Armstrong is the one I could see being rested in normal circumstances and he did look knackered towards the end on Saturday. But if none of Redmond, Djenepo, Tella or Romeu are still fit enough to start options to do that don't look appealing!

I really hope he does go with Vokins rather than shifting players around and weakening other positions to be honest.

Poor touch from Dan there, should have been in.

Armstrong looks knackered to me. Suspect he would come off if we had better bench options.

We aren't breaking in numbers like we were earlier resulting in us being pushed back more. Not sure if that's tiredness or us defending our lead (never a great idea for us).

JWP opportunity!

We look dangerous, just need a bit more precision around the box.

Ings should definitely better there, free header.

So unnerving watching Forster trying to play out from the back! Unnerving watching Forster full stop really.

Great stuff there Che, unlucky good save.

At this rate, they will struggle to make top 4 never mind keeping their title 😀

Yes, at his stage of career, doing a Van Dijk and having a sulk for 6 months or a season is not really an option if he wants a move to a top 4 team. And I honestly don't think he's the type either. He may kick up a bit in the summer if he knows a big team is interested but if made to stay he would knuckle down in my opinion because it's in his interest to do so. So if it's true his agent is asking for a release clause as low as £20m there is absolutely no reason for us to agree to that, definitely better to hold the line until the summer and see how much is offered for him. If the offer's big enough for a champs league quality striker he goes, if not he stays for the final year or signs the deal we are offering.