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Huff and puffed a lot but our boring sideways passing style of play is **** easy to defend against. No one wants to take chances in the final 3rd when it comes to passing the ball, I lost count the amount of times Bertrand was ignored for an overlap by Redmond. Boufal done a few give and go's, only to be ignored. You have to take chances to be a good side, we take very little chance and often hand teams goals - two more today - which is exactly why we will be in another relegation battle this season.

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Chance missed there. A mark against Ralph surely, not taking one of the CBs off at HT.

 

We looked more creative and composed before that change IMO. And we wonder why RH doesn't seem to like Bertrand. That's why. Looked like he couldn't be arsed most of the time.

 

Boufal was our best player IMO.

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Chance missed there. A mark against Ralph surely, not taking one of the CBs off at HT.

 

The man's becoming a liability costing us 6 points with the Bournemouth game

 

Not changing the formation until the 78 minute surely there is no excuse for such poor management.

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Was it a dodgy defensive line up? It looked to me like exactly the line up people were asking for in build up.

 

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Apologies, didn't realise Cedric got injured pre match. Why the hell did he not just bring Valery in.

 

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Ralph trying to be too smart.

 

Two defensive mistakes. Countless attacking mistakes.

 

A decent team would have made spurs pay. We’re just not a very good team.

 

Yep we are just average like rest of the division outside the top six.

Today when they were down to 10 we need to play with much more tempo but rarely did..

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Redmond was utterly infuriating today. Ings was making some great runs in behind and this guy just wanted to shilly shally with the ball all match long. This isn’t Portsmouth, you’ve got to be quick and decisive. We had them on the ****ing ropes, we’re looking to go ahead, Redmond hung on to the ball, attack broke down, they broke at pace (wow, novel idea) and scored.

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Embarrassing display given they had 10 men.

Ralph happy that saints had possession even though barring 2 set pieces we were doing little other than going sideways.

Why did he wait so long to try and make changes. Why were certain players exempt from being subbed.

Why did no one in the team try and take responsibility.

 

Thought yoshida played well, as did Romeu, as did ings(on atrocious service). Boufal was the best of the rest.

All the optimism draining out of the season. We’ve scrambled 2 fluke twins and beaten an atrocious league one side.

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Shocking at the back again. Gunn has to be dropped - him and our defence lost us that game - scratch that - gave tottenham that game... all in the first half. Manager has to start taking serious blame for this continuously happening.

 

Ref an utter bender second half. Shocking bias on display. Someone very clearly had a word with him at halftime.

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Chance missed there. A mark against Ralph surely, not taking one of the CBs off at HT.

 

What does Ralph see in Vestergaard? Should have been Valery for Cedric at the start and certainly at half-time. Then Ward-Prowse would have been released to play in midfield.Tactically, the same type of defensive mistake as in the Bournemouth game. At least he got it right for the Pompey game.

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At least Brighton, Norwich, Villa, Newcastle and Watford are all worse than us. Hopefully three of those teams keep us up, rather than us being actually any good for the third season running.

 

Not sure they are worse tbh

 

 

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Shocking at the back again. Gunn has to be dropped - him and our defence lost us that game - scratch that - gave tottenham that game... all in the first half. Manager has to start taking serious blame for this continuously happening.

 

Ref an utter bender second half. Shocking bias on display. Someone very clearly had a word with him at halftime.

 

Yep he blew up for the injury to Winks but not for a foul but ignored the foul for the studs on Obafemi inside the D which happened before he stopped it for Winks.... ??????????????

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What does Ralph see in Vestergaard? Should have been Valery for Cedric at the start and certainly at half-time. Then Ward-Prowse would have been released to play in midfield.Tactically, the same type of defensive mistake as in the Bournemouth game. At least he got it right for the Pompey game.

 

And away at Sheff Utd. Changed it at half time and luckily somehow we got away with it there

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Great opportunity missed as a good time to play spurs. Started 2nd half decent but pathetic last 20.

 

Should have started valery once Cedric went down.

 

A fair result. A Top half team would have beat spurs today and we are lower mid table at best.

 

points wise we have about what I expected but performances have been worse.

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Think we lack belief. Feels like you are just waiting for the mistake and goal to come.

 

Why oh why we stayed with 5 at the back after they went to 10 men I just don’t know.

 

We move the ball to slowly again.

 

Think we are going to see some highs but we are also going to see more like this. Not sure how we are going to change this type of performance without a major team shakeup.

 

Anyone know why he didn’t put Valery in when Cedric got injured?

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