jasonbenali

And not scoring them, there's that as well! I do know what you mean though, but our standards are so low we look good if we don't concede for 10 minutes. If Sugawara isn't pulled at half-time, I'm heading down there myself to do it, absolutely filthy performance.

Absolute karma win after Ipswich's late goals against us. Thought it was very even and for once Saints were clinical which ultimately was the difference. If we can tighten that gap in the middle of the defence that Ipswich could drive a tractor through, then we look OK and at times we harried them really well (at times not). Not sure what ABK has to do to get a game as his pace and strength would really help. MOTM was Fernandes - he was immense in the press and really took the pressure off at the end bring the ball out. Derby County we're coming for you!!

If I remember rightly we've battered Ipswich 3 games in a row and not won any of them (edit: the 1-1 felt like a loss at the time). Would love it if we have a shocker and they hit the bar 5 times and then they score a last minute own goal for a filthy 0-1 win to Saints #karma

So predictable. Score early goal. Concede soft goals shortly afterwards. Look good in patches. Concede soft goal. Start playing again in last 10 minutes but comes to nothing. Rinse and repeat until this miserable season is over.

We knew it already but that game really exposed the depth of our squad after a decent first hour when we should have been a couple ahead. I'd loan out Armstrong and Smallbone to the Championship to build up their confidence for next year as it's not doing them any favours playing in the Prem. And obviously ship out Cornet to free up a loan spot and try to get a decent loan player in to strengthen the front 3. Shame Haaland's just signed that new monster contract as HCDAJ for us... Fair play to Aribo who put in an excellent performance and I don't know why Juric took him off as he didn't seem to be tiring.

Leicester. thanks for the reminder...

Sense of deja vu from last season of actually enjoying watching Saints for the first time in a long time. With time and space Sully looks good at this level - I thought he started well in the Championship and then was poor when he came back from his injury. Prem is a whole other story as for many of them.

Too soon! Not sure I can cope with another game after Saturday...

I thought the Spurs game was bad, but this somehow felt even worse and an utter humiliation. The players simply gave up at the end. We had no shape, no ideas and no fight at all. I thought we had turned a corner of sorts with West Ham, but obviously not. Yes, the midfield was missing Fernandes and Downes, but along with the lack of organisation there was an unforgivable lack of effort which started from the first goal with not one by two powderpuff tackles. The spaces between the players were ridiculous - what do they work on all week? The one thing I will credit the players with though is that we've found a new way of giving away ridiculous goals without even passing it around our six yard box to the opposition. Just wow.

Is this the day our unbeaten 2025 run comes to an end?

If Rohl can bring back the Ralph Gengenpress, or even better the slightly more organised Slot version of it at Liverpool, then I'd be up for it. As Ralph showed, it can be effective against better teams whereas the possession at all costs just doesn't work when you have worse players. Whether we have the squad to implement it is another matter but we don't have the squad to play the way we do at the moment and it's a lot more entertaining to watch, so bring on the 4-5s.

That's the first time this season I've seen the players just down tools completely and bought back some of the PTSD from our last relegation season. I guess they were sending a message and got the desired result, but that first half was so embarrassing and not even the excuse of being down to 9/10. Strangely, I can't remember a calamitous back-pass in the game for probably the first time this season as well (not that Spurs needed one). So there's that... MOTM is a tough one.

The negatives are so obvious I'll have a go at the positives: - Chelsea's xG 5.29 expected goals is more than the 5 they scored which is the equivalent of a clean sheet (probably) - They scored less after Jack went off and we were down to 10 - Joe Aribo was excellent, really strong on the ball and scored a goal. Manning actually looked decent, with an amazing goal saving block. - MOTM the frame of the goal - We've solidified our place in the table - Erm.

Big game for both teams. If Brighton win they could go second and if we win we could go bottom.

Could have gone either way but maybe we were due a bit of luck after the deflected Ipswich equaliser. Not the greatest game or performance but we did at least move it forward quickly at times in that second half which created opportunities. Positives: enjoyed Fernandes's performance, looks a really decent signing for his age. 2 in 2 for Arma and an absolute worldy from Ramsdale.