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2 games and excellent performances from Peltier, Bennett and Ralls.
Zohore is returning and today scored the vital goal.
Bamba putting away the ones that Morrison was missing.
Two good performances from Niasse.
And the defence as a unit seems to be in better shape ( not having a go at Morrison).
Bacuna won ever challenge when he came on, thought he had an awesome 20 minutes
Bamba put himself in a shit position, if he had made contact with the cross then god knows where it would have ended up, he played percentages and thought **** it, i'll leave that one. Doesn't matter though, Bennett should've been switched on, he had no idea where the player was. He's been done like that a few times this season.
I thought Bennett didn't have a particularly good game, not just based on the Southampton goal that they scored but in general. He gets the wrong side of his man too many times and plays balls tight to the touchline that the receiver has little hope of doing anything with.
While everyone is criticising Bamba and Bennett, the fact that Charlie Austin was allowed to glance on a near post header seems to have been ignored - it was one of many poor goals we've conceded from set pieces this season, but without that slight touch from Austin, I don't think Southampton score, so solely blaming two defenders beyond the near post area for it seems wrong to me.
Watching from abroad thought it was a truly gutsy performance - and again brilliant support. I was among the 8,000 odd who watched the last time we won two in a row in top flight(!). Like others I am surprised (and pleased) that Peltier is actually doing so well. Even apart from his two blocks he looks comfortable. Ralls has his confidence back, Patersen - well what can I add? Zahore now must surely also have his confidence back, and what a debut from Bacuna - he looks a real asset. Add Bamba and Mango in the heart of things and I am definitely optimistic.
If we had the players who rarely make mistakes, the midfielders who control games, the forwards who take the chances we would be at the other end of the table.
We are who we are and we are doing ok
The defensive mixup for their goal aside it was a near perfect away performance