HarvSFC

Given our options in the centre of the park, or rather lack of then Reeds should definitely be a part of this team for when Romeu and Hojbjerg inevitably pick up their suspensions.

Forster Clyne - Alderweireld - Van Dijk - Bertrand Wanyama - Schneiderlin Tadic - Lallana - Mane Lambert (I think Lambert's 15 league goals in 12-13 is still our highest by a single player since our PL return and his only other season 13-14 saw him score 13 league goals, which is again higher than Pelle and Mane got in a single season. We'd kill for a Lambert these days, the man was a king.)

"The Saints boss is particularly disappointed with his subs who he said made his team "weaker" in the final 20 minutes of the game." Should've brought at least one on 20 minutes earlier, not when they have little time to make any impact.

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.

Why’s the ref given them possession back from the drop ball? Ffs

Where are the subs?

Tottenham are fragile, they have been all year. They're also down to 10 men, this is still winnable. Make some early changes and take the game to them, like the Sims sub earlier in the year. Does Valery's close ties to Lemina link to the playing situation?

Get in there! 4-0, easy as you like. Wasn't worried at all after the first 20 minutes. Better still, we didn't have some of our better attackers on the field with Boufal not needed, Djenepo injured and Redmond getting a 20 minute cameo (and goal). Yoshida our best defender, Ings our best forward. Odds on both getting dropped at the weekend? But, who cares? Lets celebrate this result at that dump until we meet again. It's funny how much their fans still believed they were better a better team than us because we get beat on the regular in the Premier League. There are still levels, and they are a lot closer to League Two than the Championship.

Can we play you every week? I'm guilty of forgetting how good Ings is. (He does spend a lot of time on the treatment table to be fair) But, he's our best striker in all departments.

Come on you Saints! Feeling it now.

As much as your post is a bit ****... This is currently what separates Southampton and Bournemouth. Although, of course your owner won't be around forever and after that you'll go tumbling down like Huddersfield have.

Les Reed picks the team.

20th in League One after another loss today. Our League One side was so much better than theirs and we lost 4-1 to their Premier League side. Anything but a convincing win would be unforgivable. (Although, I'd take a 1-0.)

It took Jay Rodriguez eight league games to score his first for the club and another eight for his second after making the step up to the Premier League from the Championship. He wasn't so bad before the injury ruined him. Although, I guess he had more pace and was better at carrying the ball than Adams, but he was also playing in a better Southampton team. Unfortunately, there aren't many Lambert's or Pukki's who just make the step up with ease, many others need time.

Remember when people were genuinely putting forward Wanyama's name for us in the summer...

I know it's easy to turn the blame to the referee following a loss, but he was weak tonight. Did nothing to stop their time wasting from the first goal other than a few arm signals and seemingly forgot to book the two Bournemouth players who took their dives in the second half. But, yeah, we were absolutely ****ing awful in the first half. Said last week after Vestergaard's shocker that it would be Yoshida dropped again for this one, and low and behold. It's almost as if Vestergaard was too expensive/on too much wages to be dropped. Hojbjerg and JWP too, I'm not really sure what they bring to the team this season. The latter improved massively in the second half of the season under Ralph, but this season he's reverted to type and isn't a threat on the right. His set pieces have gone back to myth status too. Look at how dangerous Bournemouth were from every corner and then look at ours struggling to beat the first man. (Watch Boufal get dropped when Djenepo returns, rather than JWP) And, yeah, with the departure of Lemina we don't have anyone to replace Hojbjerg in the middle who probably deserves some time out. Can't believe there were talks of some top European clubs looking at him last season. He should be one we're looking to upgrade on.

Has to be Bertrand. Swap out Vestergaard for Danso at LCB and then we have what could be a fairly solid back three.

Djenepo's our next £70m+ player.

Vestergaard hasn't done one thing right today. Yoshida will be dropped next week though.

Fortunately all of their chances are falling to McGoldrick. How has he found himself starting at this level?

Vestergaard's looking very dodgy today, which is a shame after his United performance.

Djenepo could be fit for this one? That's good. They play with overlapping centre-backs, so if we could hit them on the wings that could nullify them. Shame Redmond isn't ready.

It must be depressing to have your rivals hosting an England match. Fortunately, we'll never have to experience it.

Perhaps St. Mary's just has a curse on defences?

Yep. Europe needs to agree on a date before all the top European leagues start to end the transfer window. Tottenham had to start the season without Eriksen and Vertonghen amidst speculation over their future and as much as Spurs are a nasty club, that isn't right and at least the early closure has stopped that from happening on a domestic front as it was a lot more frequent beforehand (See Wanyama and Van Dijk for us.) To be fair nothing actually happened in the early stages of the last transfer window, so it will also kill a lot of the dead time.