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Discussion.

Don't want to sound bitter but am going to have to point a few things out to perhaps dampen your mood?

Having seen the second half on a stream. I have to say by God our Passing patterns are so laborious. The fact that Southampton were able to wall us with a packed box probably makes their defensive effort look much better but our play patterns are so predictable.

Constant horizontal and backwards passing till we draw them out to the halfway line, and beat them over a long ball counter. This tactic will work perhaps 4-5 times a game, and our clinical finishing in front of goal needs to be worked on. Against better defenses we surely will struggle. It's already happened against City and Chelsea, who without their regular proactive play have stiffled the attack to keep us down to 4-5 chances a game.

I'm not asking for Ole to recreate Prime Barcelona but seriously, how are our players so clueless in laying off dummies, flicks, simple possesion tricks to beat your man. There were several instances where the attacking quartet of Bruno, Donny, Greenwood and Martial were in small pockets of space to exploit them. Our passes are made so slow in the horizontal switching with no net ground gained. Scott and Maguire playing as your Auxillary CDMs couldn't thread a single pass through the lines. It's annoying it really is.

That being said, I perhaps am over critiquing things with a preference to possesion based football.

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