Jayson

Played Tiote there

They're getting back in numbers

Santon man

Krul hoof: Us 0 CP 1

Going to count how many times we win the ball from a Krul long ball

Like the side

Yeah Raylor next to Gerrard

Be a sad state of affairs to see liverpool go top, even momentarily. Come on Cardiff.

Basically this. Cant really give scholes plaudits when he didnt have the same options open to him.

Smug ass look on his face. Thats brilliant, like an arch villain

From the owners pov, they have spent a lot for what they got. Andreas Cornelius, £7-8m club record fee on a striker Mackay has now said needs to work on his awareness to make the first team?

As mentioned, its probably a relatively normal way of not expending excess energy. If the ball goes out wide the defenders have to push back anyway & our players get in line, there was no issue bar Santon trying to do something needlessly audacious.

Suprisingly they've not conceded in their last 3 home games, including playing Everton. So we'll need Remy to do that whole goals thing again.

Pardew loves a good 1 goal winning margin to show how well we stuck it out

You'd think at some point during the 10 seperate through on goals liverpool have created in the last half hour, AVB would decide its not quite working.

So poor

Even with 10 men, this is very poor.

Deary me spurs

Great goal that

It all dropped off. In the first half we got men forwards when the ball went forwards, in the second we didnt. So they build an attack, we clear it, we dont challenge for the knock down & they keep coming back at us because we let them. Some people have just reinterpreted that as "southampton just came out and were mint". Pardew does it because he prefers to have men behind the ball once in the lead & to break on the counter. How this isnt a known historical fact at this point ive no idea. We've been talking about it for the last 2 seasons.

We only looked more likely to grab a second once they'd equalised. First fifteen minutes of the second half were awful and that's what cost us. We sat extremely deep and gave them the initiative when we really didn't need to. I thought Southampton were rotten in the first half. They scored when we were pressing man. They caught us on the break. The goal wasn't a result of pressure that had been building the entire half, it was Santon trying a chip from 30 yards out when nee f***er was behind him to clear up his mess. Purely because it was a set piece, we werent pressing them whatsoever 2nd half until they scored. We were taking pressure. Were we taking pressure because Pardew's s*** or Southampton are actually a pretty good side who excel at retaining and recycling possession, particularly when they need a goal? Do some of our supporters genuinely expect us to sit on the front foot for 90 minutes? Yes, we often perform poorly after HT but this isn't Norwich. Pardew really can't take much if any flack for today. As for the negative stuff, we were actively looking for a second when we conceded the equaliser. Actually if we were a bit more negative and kept more men back we'd probably not have drew today. Understand you trying to give them credit. There was clearly a change though, our formation changed to Shola up top & we rarely broke forwards to support for knock downs from long balls as we had first half. Gouffran for example hogged the right wing rather than joining & we sat back more behind the half way line. It was a polar shift from the side playing quick one touch football breaking through southampton with ease before half time. Pardew does it because hes making us very hard to score against & relying on counter attacks to finish the game, it is a tactic he uses which works against the bigger sides really. The issue is how needlessly vulnerable it leaves you to incidents like today when you were clearly on top of the game.

We only looked more likely to grab a second once they'd equalised. First fifteen minutes of the second half were awful and that's what cost us. We sat extremely deep and gave them the initiative when we really didn't need to. I thought Southampton were rotten in the first half. They scored when we were pressing man. They caught us on the break. The goal wasn't a result of pressure that had been building the entire half, it was Santon trying a chip from 30 yards out when nee f***er was behind him to clear up his mess. Purely because it was a set piece, we werent pressing them whatsoever 2nd half until they scored. We were taking pressure.

It was purely because Santon went off on a wander, none of that happens if he keeps it simple & doesnt try to do to much. He left us exposed, we had the players back in space before he did that.

He'll be fine, will get enough chances. Expect a goal against Palace hopefully, though they're improving.

Lallana had a real impact, quality player.