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This was a truly shocking offering from Alderz.
Not sure all the insults for Dawson tbh...
Yeh he made a poor error, but he wasn't the only one today, Benrahama was wasteful and a few other below par performers IMO and Ogbonna was made to look pretty championship level v their Albanian sub IMO.
Thanks to Rice for saving us and again not sure the remarks about Antonio vaild, he's been brilliant for us...ref was as poor as they come, think both managers will comment on this.
Decent point, OK performance, can't win em all.
Bowen easy best player for us today IMO.
Dawson was erratic but he’s also very suspect on the ball. Zouma will be replacing him very soon.
Everybody was misplacing passes. Everybody was sluggish. Nobody really looked up for it.
Antonio had a nightmare.
Vlasic looked bright and Bowen tried to make things happen. Otherwise it was pretty miserable all round.
I think teams fear us now and try and defend more meaning we don't get to utilise the counter as much as we were doing. We start with a lot of energy but we fade as the game goes on, which I think allowed Palace back into the game and allowed Southampton a chance or two in the final twenty minutes.
We do however still look very good on the ball, moving it quickly and probing for an opening. our work rate is almost too good as it leaves us vulnerable in the last twenty.
Antonio should never have got that first yellow, pointless wrestling which leads nowhere but a yellow. This leaves his team short now, but it does come at a good time as he makes the choice about which game he starts. Dawson looks limited again as he did against Palace, he is still exceeding expectations however and all credit to him. I feel Zouma will get his chance and keep the shirt.
On the bright side, Vlasic looked very good in his cameo, but the lack of another attacking option (ie our lack of recruitment) was highlighted when we then had to being on Yarmalenko as we chased a winner.
Just feel he's the 1st one to be made scapegoat for an error, while others don't.
Just my opinion of course, and I'm not saying he's the best defender we have, just others have had average games/made mistakes and not really picked out, obvious player IMO Ogbonna.....He was also not covered in glory V Palace ( goal ) an 2nd half he was made to look poor IMO ( Ogbonna ).
Would quite like to see both Zouma and Diop start a game together, The French connection.
People thought that we threw two points away vs Palace but I thought Palace won their point fairly, I actually think today’s game was two points thrown away as Southampton were pretty poor and I think we just needed to be a bit sharper and the game would have been comfortably ours.
Antonio was only at 80% at best so I am not that upset that he will get a small rest.
And the Spurs result means that the day was not a complete washout :-)
I’m not 100% sure but if I had to guess, I’d say he’s paid the price ( will do ) for the two yellows and it won’t be part of accumulation…👍🏻