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A saved penalty and a bit of woodwork, but no goals.
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Line-ups: Manchester United and Southampton name teams for Premier League clash
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Jose Mourinho makes four changes to the side that lost to Tottenham on Sunday.
Sergio Romero comes in for David De Gea in goal, as Daley Blind, Michael Carrick and Jesse Lingard also make way.
Marouane Fellaini returns following suspension along with Matteo Darmian and Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
Southampton make eight changes as Claude Puel freshens things up.
Charlie Austin is only fit enough for a place on the bench though.
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Southampton missed a first-half penalty and struggled to relieve the pressure building on manager Claude Puel after an understrength Manchester United held them to a goalless Premier League home draw.
Eric Bailly produced the clumsiest of handballs on the edge of the box after five minutes and Manolo Gabbiadini stepped up to take the resulting spot-kick but it was far from convincing as he shot towards the bottom-left corner before Sergio Romero tipped the ball wide.
Puel’s future is to be discussed at the end of the season but with United boss Jose Mourinho again selecting a weakened starting XI - without Marcus Rashford, Michael Carrick, Paul Pogba, Ander Herrera and David De Gea - his team had the chance to impress.
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Everyone made the same joke after Sergio Romero saved a penalty for Man United
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Being a second-choice goalkeeper in the Premier League isn’t the hardest job in the world, but it is bound to be a bit of a boring one.
All that travelling, lots of sitting and intimate knowledge of top-flight substitutes’ benches doesn’t exactly make for the greatest of job specs, and so whenever the No. 2s get a chance to impress they have to take it.
Manchester United’s Argentinean stopper has been seen frequently in the Europa League this season, but on Wednesday night he got a rare chance in the Red Devils’ league campaign as he was handed a start at Southampton. And how he took it.
Just six minutes were on the clock when Romero saved Manolo Gabbiadini’s penalty for the Saints, plunging low to his right to keep out the Italian’s effort.
And with the former Sampdoria stopper in line for a start in next week’s Europa League final ahead of David De Gea - who is set to leave - there was only one topic for discussion on social media.
So will Romero get his chance next season?
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Southampton 0-0 Manchester United: Sergio Romero saves penalty in draw
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Sergio Romero saved an early penalty from Manolo Gabbiadini as Manchester United played out a goalless draw with Southampton at St Mary’s Stadium.
The United goalkeeper, who was starting in place of David de Gea, denied Gabbiadini after Eric Bailly was adjudged to have handled a high ball despite replays showing the incident occurred outside the penalty box.
There were chances for both sides to win it after that, with Romero keeping Southampton at bay and Anthony Martial striking the post for United, but a breakthrough never arrived.
Jose Mourinho rotated his side again with one eye on next week’s Europa League final, making four changes from Sunday’s 2-1 defeat to Tottenham and leaving the likes of Marcus Rashford, Ander Herrera and Michael Carrick on the bench.
Claude Puel also made wholesale alterations from his side’s 2-1 win at Middlesbrough, and the much-changed Saints should have had an early opener when Gabbiadini was denied from the spot after just six minutes.
It was a lucky escape for United, and Bailly almost made amends for his error when his low shot was saved by Fraser Forster a few minutes later.
Martial then dragged an effort wide after he was played in by Wayne Rooney, but the game reached half-time with little other goalmouth action.
Southampton stepped up the tempo after the break, with Romero parrying a powerful free kick from Dusan Tadic after Phil Jones had felled Cedric Soares on the edge of the box.
The United 'keeper was called into action again shortly afterwards, first denying Saints midfielder Oriol Romeu, then acrobatically tipping a curling strike from James Ward-Prowse around the post.
Mourinho threw on Carrick, Herrera and Rashford in the closing stages, but it was Martial who came closest to breaking the deadlock.
The Frenchman charged forward before bending his shot off the post with Fraser Forster beaten. The onrushing Mkhitaryan could only blast the rebound earlier.
Southampton did most of the attacking in the final stages, but there was no separating the two sides, with the draw keeping them sixth and eighth respectively.
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Southampton 0-0 Man United player ratings: Here’s who stood out in goalless draw
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Sergio Romero stood out for Manchester United on Wednesday night with a string of great saves - including one from a penalty - in their 0-0 draw with Southampton.
Jose Mourinho, who has one eye on the Europa League final, made four changes to the side that were beaten at Tottenham for his trip to St Mary’s.
Wayne Rooney retained his place in the first XI alongside Anthony Martial, but neither could break the deadlock in a stale contest.
The Saints had the best chance to score in just six minutes after Eric Bailly handled in the box and Mike Dean pointed to the spot. But Manolo Gabbiadini’s penalty was saved.
Here, our man John Cross rates the performances…
Good save from Bailly, did not have a particularly busy night otherwise.
Booked. Such a good overlapping right back, they’ll do well to keep him.
The crowd like him and he looks solid in central defence. Looks comfortable.
Has grown in stature in the absence of van Dijk. Solid again.
Filled in at left back for Bertrand who had a “knock.” Sigh of things to come?
Did not really affect the game from the right, he’s all about set pieces.
Booked. Southampton’s best player again, this guy really is an unsung hero.
Busy and tenacious, he gets through so much work and covers a lot of yards.
Drifted inside and played wide, such a good player. A threat for Saints.
Some good passes, good free kick. A quality player but needs to do more.
Had a penalty saved by Romero, lacking the form and goals from weeks ago.
MotM. Brilliant penalty save as he passed his Europa League audition with flying colours.
Crazy handball, albeit outside the box, nearly made amends with great run and shot.
Yet to get back to his best form as he still needs games. Some nervy moments.
Booked. Fairly solid but got yellow for scything down Soares.
Steady at left back but does not offer anything going forward.
Back from his ban, straight into the team, he’s Jose’s unlikely go-to man.
Mourinho got frustrated at times, wanted him to keep it very simple.
Some good flashes, went close but he is so frustrating when he drifts out of games.
Busy performance, buzzed around everywhere and looked inventive.
Played just off and behind Rooney, some lively moments and forward runs.
Played further forward, through the middle, was better and sharper than Sunday.
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Southampton 0-0 Manchester United: Sergio Romero saves Red Devils’ blushes
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United’s back-up goalkeeper showed why he will be in between the sticks for the Europa League final in Stockholm with an impressive display.
Romero produced an excellent stop to keep out Manolo Gabbiadini’s sixth minute penalty and then produced a string of second half stops to further frustrate Southampton.
The closest United came was an Anthony Martial shot in the second half that he curled against the post.
But they rarely broke sweat with their eyes on next Wednesday’s Europa League final.
Jose Mourinho’s goalkeeping decision for the Europa League final will be debated until even after the final whistle in Stockholm.
He has opted to stick with no2 Sergio Romero for the showpiece in Sweden and he will have seen nothing here to make him change his mind.
Romero was United’s best performer by some distance. His good night started with a sixth minute penalty save from Manolo Gabbiadini.
And he produced more heroics in the second half to repel Nathan Redmond, Dusan Tadic, Oriol Romeu and James Ward-Prowse.
Jose Mourinho wants a midfield enforcer to help him get the best out of world record signing Paul Pogba. Could Oriol Romeu be worth a look? On this evidence, perhaps.
Romeu was the best outfield player on the pitch at St Mary’s and combined silk and steel to stand out.
He read the game brilliantly to expertly shielded the home defence with a string of interceptions, had no issue getting stuck in to disrupt the visitors and was often the player who popped up in the right place at the right time whenever things needed mopping up in the Saints half.
He impressed on the ball too as you might expect from someone who started out in Barcelona’s famed academy.
And this was clearly no exception as a standout display from Romeu. He won both the fans and players player of the year honours at their end of season awards last week.
The penalty spot at the Northam End of St Mary’s seems cursed.
Manolo Gabbiadini became the third player to fluff his lines from the penalty spot at that end of the ground this season.
Tottenham’s Harry Kane and then Bournemouth’s Harry Arter ballooned spot kicks over the bar earlier this season.
Last night it was the Italian striker’s turn as Sergio Romero denied him from 12 yards.
Southampton will have to do something they have not done this season against Stoke on Sunday to avoid an unwanted record.
Goal-shy Southampton have scored just 17 goals at home this season, four short of their lowest ever Premier League tally on their own turf.
Four goals against Stoke will at least bring them level – except they have not managed to do that once this season.
The Southampton boss may be on shaky ground as he battles to save his job but showed impressive balance to stay on his feet in the second half.
Puel was almost knocked over when a towering clearing header from Eric Bailly by the touchline flew straight into him.
The Frenchman stumbled backwards and if he was a player he would have gone over.
But the Saints boss just about managed to stay upright before accepting Bailly’s apologies.
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The message must have been lost in translation. While Jose Mourinho was doing his best to cast the Premier League as the straw his back could do without, his second-string goalkeeper was evidently hearing that defeats are punishable by public lashings.
Sergio Romero jumped left and right, up and down, each time as if this game actually mattered. A Manolo Gabbiadini penalty after five minutes? Saved. A close-range rocket from Oriol Romeu? Nudged wide. A drive from James Ward-Prowse to the top corner? Dealt with.
It was a stunning performance, wonderfully off-message, and good enough to soothe the more immediate concerns about the post-David de Gea landscape. Not exactly a like-for-like replacement, as De Gea is arguably the world’s best in the position and his likely departure to Real Madrid will sting. Of course it will.
But this was also a display that went some way to validating Mourinho’s view that Romero is a safe pair of hands for the biggest game of United’s season, when they contest the Europa League final against Ajax next Wednesday. With 11 clean sheets in 17 starts, to sit with his 87 Argentina caps, it is increasingly hard to see the 30-year-old as any kind of weak link.
Of course, clean sheets only represent a mild glory for a club like United — they used to measure themselves in wins against all comers, not scrappy draws at Southampton. But this moment in their history is a curiosity as much as anything else, where Europe’s second competition has been accorded a significance it has never previously known, and where a triumph in the EFL Cup has contributed to ‘tremendous progress’ in the view of executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward.
That despite their immovable rooting to sixth place and a draw here that has ensured United will now post fewer wins in a season than at any other point in the Premier League era. That includes the days of David Moyes and Louis van Gaal, which are generally best forgotten.
The hope they hold is that the Europa League final will sufficiently compensate, and it might well do — Champions League football and a second trophy after the EFL Cup would indisputably represent tangible steps forward, to go with the improved performances under Mourinho.
But ‘tremendous’? That still feels like a wobbly over-reach on the PR highwire.
But on they trudge, through the 62nd of 64 games this season. When it was done, Mourinho signed off with familiar grumbles about the workload, and a gripe about the lack of sympathetic ears from the powers that be. There was also a concern for Marouane Fellaini who limped off with a hamstring problem.
Not ideal, but better than Southampton, whose own battles with the notion of progress could bring sharp consequences. Their manager, Claude Puel, has long seemed a doomed man and that was always unlikely to change, irrespective of what played out in this game.
Southampton are ambitious, a methodical club, and it is glaring to those who make the critical decisions that this season has marked the first time in seven years that the club have not improved their final league position.
That’s no great crime in a league of such berserk spending, but it’s not a great look and is supplemented by a feeling that the players are no longer responding to their manager. His seat is hotter than most right now, even if the focus on this match was more about his opposite number.
To that end, Mourinho made four changes to the side beaten 2-1 at Tottenham, with De Gea, Daley Blind, Jesse Lingard and Michael Carrick — who has agreed a new one-year contract extension — moved out for Romero, Matteo Darmian, Marouane Fellaini and Henrikh Mkhitaryan. Hardly his strongest available line-up, with only Romero and Mkhitaryan and one of Phil Jones or Chris Smalling likely to play from the start against Ajax next week.
But it also wasn’t the collection of ground staff, local school children and raffle winners that Mourinho would have you believe is necessary to fulfil their fixtures these days. It was, with the sole exception of Axel Tuanzebe, a team of experienced internationals, where the greenest among the other 10 — Anthony Martial — had 15 full caps.
So not bad, certainly for a second string. And certainly strong for a fixture that, for United’s purposes at least, had no pulse, beyond the auditioning of Jones against Smalling and the exercising of Romero before the final.
On that front, Smalling edged Jones and Romero was exceptional, starting with his brilliant intervention from the penalty five minutes in. It was awarded for a handball against Eric Bailly that occurred two yards outside his area, so there was a degree of justice in the save.
From there he made saves to stop Dusan Tadic, Romeu and Ward-Prowse on the hour. The last was the best of the lot, given he was at full stretch from boots to fingertips.
Wayne Rooney dipped a shot over the bar in retaliation at the other end and showed occasional flashes of the gifts that came so easily to him for so long but now feel like flashbacks.
Juan Mata somehow contrived to sky one when Fraser Forster was grounded and the goal largely open.
Martial later rolled a third chance against the post before Romero rounded the match off with yet another save.
As he left the pitch he even drew a smile from Mourinho. A miracle worker, indeed.
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Sergio Romero showed why Jose Mourinho is willing to put Manchester United’s bid for Europa League glory in his hands with an inspired goalkeeping display as the Premier League draw specialists toiled to a 15th stalemate of the season on Wednesday night.
Romero’s first half penalty save to deny Southampton striker Manolo Gabbiadini was one of a series of excellent stops from the Argentine as Mourinho’s team once again failed to find their scoring touch.
Southampton had failed to score at St Mary’s in almost five hours of football but were gifted the chance to end that baron run with only five minutes played when Eric Bailly was penalised for handball.
Referee Mike Dean had no hesitation in pointing for a penalty, even though television replays showed the indiscretion took place outside the 18-yard area.
Manolo Gabbiadini, who scored twice against and tormented Jose Mourinho’s side in Southampton’s cruel EFL Cup final defeat at Wembley in February, confidently stepped up, but justice was done when Sergio Romero flung himself low to his right to push the ball behind for a corner.
It was the third spot kick goal-shy Southampton have missed this season, more than any other Premier League club, and second in three homes matches.
Bailly almost made himself an unlikely goal hero for United moments later when he seized on indecision between Saints pair Matt Targett and Nathan Redmond before surging into the box and shooting straight at Fraser Forster.
Mourinho sprung a surprise by starting Wayne Rooney in a central striker’s role and the veteran rolled back the years with a delicate touch to pluck a long ball from the sky before producing a lovely through ball to set Anthony Martial through on goal.
Rooney’s good work went unrewarded as Martial rolled his shot harmlessly wide. Not for the first time this season the former England captain cut a frustrated figure.
United started the match with much more energy and zest than in the recent drab defeats away at Arsenal and Tottenham and Henrikh Mkhitaryan was the latest to go close with a low 20th minute strike from the edge of the box, which Forster stretched to tip wide.
Despite publicly claiming this match would have no bearing on United’s season, Mourinho needed a victory to avoid the unwanted record of ending his maiden Old Trafford campaign with fewer points than both David Moyes and Louis van Gaal accumulated in their combined three years.
With that in mind Mourinho will have been agitated to see United go in level at half-time, even withstanding their early penalty escape.
Southampton’s lack of home goals is one of the major factors that have left manager Claude Puel battling to avoid the sack less than 12 months into a three-year contract.
Only relegated north east pair Middlesbrough and Sunderland have scored fewer goals in front of their own supporters and the penalty miss aside, Romero was rarely tested in the opening 45 minutes.
It was a different story at the start of the second half as the Argentine was called upon to beat away Dusan Tadic’s goal-bound free-kick after Phil Jones had clumsily hauled down Cedric Soares.
Romero came to United’s rescue once more soon afterwards, showing strong wrists to push out a powerful shot from Oriol Romeu after Chris Smalling had not properly dealt with a Southampton free-kick.
United’s stand-in goalkeeper was at his brilliant best once again in the 59th minute, throwing himself at full stretch to somehow claw away a superb James Ward-Prowse shot, which was heading for the top corner.
The danger was not done there as United and England defender Phil Jones had to head the ball behind from virtually underneath his own crossbar from Redmond’s teasing cross.
The traveling United supporters made up for the lack of entertainment from their team by going through their songbook and paying homage to former heroes such as Roy Keane and Jaap Stam. How Mourinho could do with those two in Sweden next week.
When it comes to their team spurning scoring chances, Mourinho and opposite number Puel could have swapped notes on the touchline and Juan Mata produced the latest contender for United’s in-house miss of the season competition 24 minutes from time.
Chris Smalling carried the ball half the length of the St Mary’s pitch before playing the ball into the feet of Rooney who tempted Forster to stray from his line, leaving Mata with a virtually unguarded net but the Spaniard got underneath his shot and blazed into the stands.
If ever a moment summed up a match – or a season in United’s case – it was that one and Mourinho will be praying his side can find their shooting boots against Ajax or their last chance of Champions League qualification will slip from their grasp.
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