Bournemouth 2-0 Saints - Post Match Meltdown

Awful performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=QaWHj_9SQs0&app=desktop

Sums up my feelings.

Poor fair....

Cannot be as bad Saturday

Awful performance

That is very kind as it was probably worse

One ray of hope, we cannot be this bad saturday

I blame the goalkeeper.

And I have to say that the refereeing was extremely biased. Lots of imaginary fouls on Bournemouth.

Didn't help that every time we challenged the ball they threw themselves to the ground and the ref brought it.

At least lallana missed a penalty

Still in 7th but Chelsea just 1 point behind us now

Poor fair....

 

Cannot be as bad Saturday

Well, we have a good chance to put things right.

Hope Charlie Austin is not badly injured. Don't think Pelle is up to it right now and we look short on strikers with Jayrod still not ready.

If the four teams below us all win we drop to 10th!!

Still in 7th but Chelsea just 1 point behind us now

Stoke, Everton, Pool, Watford, Liverpool down to 12th have games in hand on us and are all within 2 pts. Can't see our top half stay being long lived.

Well credit to Bournemouth, they played well.

Our players showed no desire or passion unfortunately. Austin missing a sitter in the early minutes probably didn't help.

Hopefully we bounce back with a good performance and big win on Saturday.

Reminded me of Crystal Palace away. Bertrand cannot be played in a more forward position. It doesn't work. Targett was a big miss tonight along with Clasie. Tactical f**k up once again.

Forster back to his worst

 

One ray of hope, we cannot be this bad saturday

What is your past history on successful predictions ?

Well credit to Bournemouth, they played well.

 

Our players showed no desire or passion unfortunately. Austin missing a sitter in the early minutes probably didn't help.

 

Hopefully we bounce back with a good performance and big win on Saturday.

Spot on....

Stoke, Everton, Pool, Watford, Liverpool down to 12th have games in hand on us and are all within 2 pts. Can't see our top half stay being long lived.

Agreed, but I would say we are a lower mid table team.

Austin's hammy gone too. Hopefully Shlong's knock isn't too bad or we down to Pelle and his flicks for Sunderland.

And to think just two games ago we were discussing Champions League again

What is your past history on succesful predictions ?

Can`t remember, but hope i`m right this time

Agreed, but I would say we are a lower mid table team.

You always do.

Spot on....

Never thought I'd see the day.

See the bedwetters are back in force!

Not a game to be dwelled on in isolation but it was a game that seemed to expose all of our issues as a squad at the moment:

1. We are a momentum team. When things are going well we have the confidence and when they are not we look clueless. It is the biggest indicator in football of a mid-table team. We have a good period and then the slightest set-up results in a hangover for several games. It's not unique to us but it is a trait of average teams.

2. We missed Wanyama's presence. We had no grip on the midfield at any time.

3. The 3-5-2 is nice at times but ultimately it is a formation set-up to ensure we don't lose a game. The football is horrible to watch as well - but that is forgiven when we defend properly and draw or sneak a win.

4. We don't have a clue how to chase a game. Seems our tactics, shape and understanding goes to pot when we have to chase a game. Players get too anxious as well. It's a mentality thing and it is quite a fragile line for us it seems.

5. Many of the weaknesses of some players were exposed in the game however these are well documented now.

I am not too fussed as I had us down for around a 10th place finish this season but if we are to push on the above needs to be addressed in the summer. On and off the pitch.

Chin up. It's only Wickham and Defoe to come on Saturday....

Pathetic performance. luckily it doesn't hurt losing to them. Its like losing snap to your favourite auntie

Forster is about 7ft tall and cant come and take a catch. As brilliant as he can be he needs working on taking high balls.

Now got to listen to Redknapp taking the plaudits how he made them great.

Poor attitude from our team considering it was a Derby

Totally depressing. Long and Austin crocked too.

Never thought I'd see the day.

Well one good thing has come out of tonight, but i doubt it will last;)

Embarrassing performance tonight, thrown away our season in the last 2 games, It will be a nervous game at home to Sunderland on Saturday as we need to win it for sure now with Chelsea breathing down our necks to have any hope of getting 7th place

If the four teams below us all win we drop to 10th!!

Which will be a deserved finishing position.

It happens sometimes ....must be worst for Leicester right now...just another game, move on to the next.

Koeman predictably messing around with formation and tactics again . Just can't help himself .

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Agreed, but I would say we are a lower mid table team.

Nothing new, there.

Shye from Koeman

Shyte from the Ref (awful)

Shyte from Forster, Fonte, Cedric, Romeu, JwP, Mane, Long, Austin

Shyte fitness. I really think we are not as fit as we could be

Shyte from BT

I never thought we would get 6 points this week or carry on the great form of the unbeaten run...got called all sorts for it.

but hey ho.

Thought Pelle was decent when he came on.

I think 3 at the back has run its course now and we should return to our normal shape and get more better players on the pitch

Meh, another winnable game at the weekend.

part of a Meh season really

Totally depressing. Long and Austin crocked too.

Is Long crocked ? I know Austin is, someone mentioned 'hammy'.

Embarrassing performance tonight, thrown away our season in the last 2 games, It will be a nervous game at home to Sunderland on Saturday as we need to win it for sure now with Chelsea breathing down our necks to have any hope of getting 7th place

Grow up!

Koeman predictably messing around with formation and tactics again . Just can't help himself .

 

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Missed your skilled insights for most of the game, where were you, managing a team?

Well that was ****ing ****, not up for it from the first minute. The scene was set from then. Whatever happens this season, in the close season we need to add some bite and a leader who can drive us on when things aren't going according to plan.

Can see Tadic, Pelle and Mane all starting now on Saturday - hey even Martina too

Big overhaul of midfield required in summer. I wish we would recruit a winger just to change our play from relying on full backs.

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I said on Saturday that they'd finish above us. I didn't think they would get there so quickly.

Didn't take a genius to work that out..they are a team built on a billion pound of investment, who were champs last year and you could have named your own odds against us finishing above them at the start of the season.

Shye from Koeman

Shyte from the Ref (awful)

Shyte from Forster, Fonte, Cedric, Romeu, JwP, Mane, Long, Austin

Shyte fitness. I really think we are not as fit as we could be

Shyte from BT

 

I never thought we would get 6 points this week or carry on the great form of the unbeaten run...got called all sorts for it.

but hey ho.

 

Thought Pelle was decent when he came on.

I think 3 at the back has run its course now and we should return to our normal shape and get more better players on the pitch

 

Meh, another winnable game at the weekend.

part of a Meh season really

I am in deep shock....did you write that or has someone got at your pc:scared:

we were bloody awful and i only watched the second half! Absolutely clueless, we created nothing. How the hell can you play 90 minutes of football and never look like scoring???......well Saints obviously know the trick to it!

I thought you only watched the second half?

Let's all calm down, it was a poor performance but we've got a useful game to put it right. Let's just hope Long is okay.

And to think just two games ago we were discussing Champions League again

I know. All talk of CL should be dismissed and never mentioned. Same last season.

I'm ashamed of that performance tonight. Looked half asleep and didn't look like they knew each other. Complacency set in I wonder?

Worse performance all season .. Some apology to fans be nice fat chance .. Looked shell shocked from Chelsea still

Poor attitude from our team considering it was a Derby

There was me thinking the consensus was that it wasn't a Derby! At least it improves the chances of it becoming one in the future.

Terrible. As soon as we setup a chance for a really good finish we bottle it.

Midfield was awful tonight and everyone aside from Van Dijk was outrun and outfought which is the worst thing.

Perhaps 3 CBs has masked some generally ineffective play. Man Utd, Arsenal, West Ham, Swansea were battling rather than classy points won.

we were crap losing 8 ouf 9 Then we win 5 out of 6 not by playing good football but being good defensively but not creating much ........now we lose 2 on the spin in my opinion 2 mistakes by foster tonight and one against chelsea......but lets be honest we have been boring as fook to watch lately and most of the season and have created little in attack .......Is that the managers fault or just the players at our disposal?? Tonight though one fn shot in 94 mins and 2 corners ! Cherries wanted it more .......Where was JWP again ? Mane was pants ........Nails (Romeu) played ok though.

There was me thinking the consensus was that it wasn't a Derby! At least it improves the chances of it becoming one in the future.

There was me thinking the consensus was that it wasn't a Derby! At least it improves the chances of it becoming one in the future.

what consensus was that.?

the reason it was on telly as it was a bit of a derby

Charlie Austin out for several weeks with hamstring problem according to ron

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Beaten by the better team who showed more desire, won the tactical battle and who had more chances, which they took well.

Forster shouldn't be anywhere the England goal for at least another couple of years. He didn't manage to get the ball clear for their first and should have come to claim the ball when they scored the second. Our midfield looked a lot stronger in the second half when we changed it around, but it seems that had Wanyama been available, or had Clasie played, we might have been able to have had more control. Mane's value must be plummeting and what with Pelle out of sorts and Austin well contained, we never looked like scoring. Bournemouth did to us what we did to Arsenal, closed us down, ran their socks off, and didn't allow us to settle until late in the game, when they were still a threat.

Two losses in a row and the momentum is lost once more. We desperately need a win against Sunderland to get back on track.