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Both did ok in the first half in my opinion, certainly no worse than anyone else.
Julien needs to up his game, Smyth up top worked fine against Swansea but there is no need to repeat that every game now against different opposition. Julien also needs to be more proactive, making substitutions at half time not later when the game is drifting away.
Top team Southampton but 4-1 flatters them. They still needed a couple of deflections and some poor defending to win the game.
Another sluggish second half start. Our normally reliable defence were all over the place at times in the second half. I can't get the image of Adamson, barely jogging out to Manning, for the second out of my mind.
baz_qpr_ and my mate Colin are correct in saying that Kone lost his man for the third, barely in the same postcode by the time the ball hits the back of the net.
How lucky are we to have Andy Sinton on co comms? His reading of the game and fair assessment. As he says if you finish above Southampton then you are going up. Take some positives from our first half performance and move on to the two important home games next week.
Certainly a discussion to be had on Julien's substitutions, both the timing and personnel, but on days like this it's all feels like semantics.
Brilliant to see our players putting pressure on the referee to make the decision, he does look off when the corner was taken.
Southampton looking a very good side and probably should have taken advantage of some of the situations that they created. But we certainly had our moments as well and Southampton know that they are in a game.
Kemper a touch slow to react to the deflection but was likely more concerned about the Southampton player cutting inside to shoot. Great finish.
The problem with our set up is that we miss Smyth down the wing. Vale and Poku a little disappointing, Poku lacking some pace I think.
I would bring on Chair for Vale now and move Smyth out wide, hopefully Chair can give us that bit of quality needed to score a goal. Dembele for Poku later.
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