Unfortunately, however good Moses, Marin, Oscar and Torres might be, they're not going to get the ball if Lampard and Mikel are in the middle together. Southampton move the ball around quickly, and those two cant keep up. Need to get Ramires on.

Ramires has the vision of a blind man with a bag on his head

Stop blaming the manager for everything. We have a false number nine at front and they scored from a freekick
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We scored from a set-piece as well?
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and whats your point??

When Benitez puts out a team the creates many many chances and fails to convert them, I don't blame him.

But when he puts out a team like this, which have shown in the past that they are dire, and especially in a match where 3 points are extremely important, it is kind of hard not to hate him.

The first half was just a typical Benitez performance. Have had a few decent results under Rafa but overall our performances have been pretty poor. Normally had to rely on Mata and Hazard to bail us out.

Today shows how weak our team is without Mata and Hazard.

Don't get why u guys are slating Marin, he's hardly had the ball but when he has he's done something good with it. Just like hazard. The problem is lampard and mikel and the whole team playing slowly

this is why benitez aint worked for 2 years before us

he wants a cup, he dont care about the league looks better on his CV

if we dont qualify for the champions league its romans fault for surrounding himself with lackys such as emenalo, i knew we would lose this game with that team bertrand is farking terrible lampard and mikel are usless in the pivot southampton look like farking barcelona

this is such an important game and we look like we cant be bothered

ffs

rami for lampard and marin for hazard are the changes he needs to make NOW otherwise we can kiss 4th goodbye

Too many changes, really. If I were the manager, as soon as I realised that Mata was sick, Hazard would have been the first name on my team-sheet. Would also have done as much as I could to avoid the Mikel-Lampard axis.

we need some inspiration ...theres no way we will get anything from this game with this set up. it seems like it means more to them than us, so far....and i was looking forward to seeing us play again after the international break...

no changes, wp Rafa

Saints sub keeper??

Get at the rusty keeper! Need to test him early

banter, don't throw flans at Rafa.

He'll only eat them.

I don't think Cech has made one decent clearance yet!

Cech please learn how to kick a football

Bertrand needs to be shot, not just substituted. He's dreadful.

Is it just me or has Bertrand regressed from last season?

why aint Lampard taking corners?

Bertrand is not good enough to be honest. Going forward hes useless.

Luke Shaw is a much better player than Bertrand.

Maybe bridge as he hasnt really taken a decent set piece for a few years

Ramires has the vision of a blind man with a bag on his head
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Agreed. But at least he works hard. That's what we're missing in midfield right now

What has happened to Cechs kicking? He used to be ok - now he is terrible.............