What do we make of this…
“With the ball we haven’t been good enough today,” he said. “Not quick enough and not precise enough and against the ball we gave away chances in a very, very easy way. Overall, not a good enough performance.“It is not easy at the moment, you can see a lot of scenes where we had to stop and break our rhythm because somebody was lying on the ground and then it’s tough for our young team to stay patient and to stay focused and break somebody down who is defending quite well. “They did it quite well and that’s the reason why we lost. We haven’t played well enough today, haven’t had good decisions today and in the end not it’s not enough to break such a team down.”
In my opinion, todays game was absolute shitshow. Why we didn’t play two strikers up front is beyond me. Also, what the F**k do Southampton fc see in smallbone - the guy is a league one/championship player at best. When we’ve produced talent over the years, we know what they will be about and or what the club saw for them to make the first team - and these include player like bale, Walcott, shaw, JWP on their debuts . Smallbones has shown nothing so far over the two (or so) years he’s played for us.
I don’t think we’re completely out of the relegation scrap just yet, 10 games is a long way to go, considering we’ve just lost to three oppositions whom we should have at least gotten 5/6 points from. Our final 10 fixtures include Liverpool, arsenal, Chelsea and Leicester - I’m not very confident we’ll get any points from these games based on our current performances.
I also think, we need to spend spend spend this summer (I know that isn’t our philosophy) but we need another striker who is more consistent then Adams and Armstrong - I miss the days when we had Rickie lambert, pelle and ings (absolute beasts of strikers) - where we’d be confident that if a half chance fell to them they’d score. We could also probably do with two attacking wingers, I think our midfielders are too passive and slow (which explains why we have lots of possession but very little creativity and goals) a few years back we had mane and tadic and few years back from that we had Lallana - the attacking presence and effectiveness was beautiful. In defence we definitely need another centre back to partner Salisu - what I don’t understand is why doesn’t Ralph partner salisu with liveramento, with the back line being: kwp, livermento, salisu and perrued.
