trousers

One would venture there's a different level of fitness required in the premier league compared to the championship, especially when we could get away with strolling around for most of the game in the latter due our relatively superior quality of players in that division....

I'm struggling to come up with an alternative explanation

It's as blatant as you can get FFS

Referee you utter ****

Sulemana taking players on...what is this sourcery....?

Should be 2!!!

The championship quality player scores!!!

Agreeing with the obvious doesn't win any contrarian points though....

Probably best to keep your "told you so" card in your handbag for a while longer though....

Yep... seems obvious that changes are required...?

Depends how many goals they would've scored had we stuck to faffing around at the back.... Which we'll never know, of course, so impossible to say either way...

Simple..... Because the players aren't "premier league fit"... (Amongst other things, obviously)

What were they doing yesterday, up to the end of the press conference, which finished at 3:30pm?

I think they trained yesterday, but only after the 3pm press conference, which is getting on for 48 hours since the Spurs game nonetheless.

Looks like a hybrid approach to me... Less faffing around but still too soon to shake off the Russball 'automatisms'

Commentator: "Southampton will be disappointed as they'll have been working on this more compact shape in training the last couple of days" 😂😂😂

We did a long goal kick! (Lost possession though...) And promptly conceded.... Now THAT's why we should play out from the back!

Except for the 2 goals we scored against the same team a couple of weeks ago...?

Yep... Two borderline offside decisions so far, both going to the scousers...

FFS

The Liverpool player ran into Dibling there, didn't he?

A rubbish pass backwards would've been worse... #progress