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THE stewards of St Maryâs took to the pitch at the stadium after Saintsâ defeat to Stoke for a quick kick around on the turf.
During the brief video clip we captured there were many more thrills and spills than anything produced during Saintsâ 1-0 loss to the Potters earlier in the day.
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Claude Puel remained defiant over his Saints future despite ending the season getting jeered by his own fans.
The Saints boss will learn his fate in the coming days as the club instigate their end of season review, but they could well be swayed by the stick he got from supporters in the final day 1-0 home defeat to Stoke.
Fans booed his substitutions again and chanted âyou donât know what youâre doingâ at the Frenchman as his side made it five consecutive home games without a goal â a total of 455 minutes.
However, Puel was certainly bowed by the criticism, and pointed to Saintsâ eighth placed Premier League finish and EFL Cup final appearance as justification of a decent season.
He said: âJust after the game it was a disappointment of course because we did a game with a good spirit, a good attitude with many opportunities.
âIt is a little the same picture as all the season I think.
âAfter I think I want to stay with all the positives and to finish eighth on the table and improve different players, because they can make fantastic work all the season with the good attitude and spirit and good attention.
âThey try but all the time at this moment the opponentâs goalkeeper is fantastic.
âSometimes we are unlucky, sometimes we make situations, but I think itâs a good thing.
âI am positive we finish eighth on the table because in this championship all the great teams finish in the first positions in the table. To finish eighth for me I think is a good achievement.
âAll the time it was a difficult competition with all these games since the beginning of the season, with all these injuries eighth on the table with the final is a good thing.
âOf course we come back next season with the same intention but also I hope with progress in the final third to find the solution and to score more.
âIt was not enough for the team with all this good work and without the good reward and they deserve this eighth place and the cup final. Itâs a good thing.â
Puel said he understood the frustrations of the clubâs fans and took the booing in his stride.
âThe fans wanted to win, they wanted goals and all the good things to finish the season,â he admitted.
âI know this and itâs normal and after itâs important for me to keep the good journey, the good work, because the attitude and spirit was interesting until the end of the season.
âAfter sometimes without good reward and the fans sometimes are not satisfied but for us it is the same.
âWith the final and to finish eighth on the table is interesting with all these difficulties all this season with all these games and all these competitions and injuries also itâs a good answer at the final I think.
âNot scoring the last game at home of course the fans are unhappy.â
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Claude Puel has praised the âfantasticâ attitude and spirit of his Southampton players this season and is happy to have finished eighth.
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Stoke boss Mark Hughes admitted he was âpuzzledâ as to why Claude Puel was getting booed by Saints fans.
The former Saints striker managed his side to a 1-0 final day victory at St Maryâs to end the season in 13th, five places behind Puelâs men.
Hughes believes Puel has done a good job and thinks that expectations may have risen a little too high on the south coast if eighth is deemed not good enough.
He said: âIt is a little bit puzzling. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think they are eighth. Goodness me.
âMaybe it is the expectation. When you raise the expectation â and Southampton have been excellent for a number of years now â expectation levels rise and people think they are disappointed but if you look at it in the whole, maybe they havenât done as bad as people are making out. Sometimes you canât understand it really.â
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Claude Puel is satisfied with Southamptonâs eighth-placed finish despite being met with jeers in their final-day loss to Stoke.
Puel, who signed a three-year deal last summer, will meet with executive director Les Reed next week for a review on his performance this campaign after the club finished with their lowest points tally in four years.
Southampton did manage to reach the EFL Cup final, where they lost to Manchester United at Wembley, but were knocked out in the group stages of the Europa League.
Puel refuted talk of a St Maryâs exit after boos from the crowd following the 1-0 defeat to Stoke on Sunday and hailed the clubâs top-flight standing, despite admitting the defeat was a reflection of their season overall.
Asked about his future at Southampton, Puel told Sky Sports: "No speculation about this. Iâm satisfied for this season because it was difficult.
"It was the first time we played all these European games, every three days, but these players gave their best all season.
âIt [the Stoke defeat] was a little picture of the season, with many possibilities, many opportunities, without scoring. It was difficult. All my players tried to give their best today.â
Charlie Austin made his first start since December for Southampton after coming back from injury but struggled to make an impact as Saints missed a host of opportunities to score against Stoke.
Virgil van Dijk, who has been linked with a summer move away from the club, was watching on from the stands as Southampton were beaten by Peter Crouchâs headed winner, and Puel believes the absence of his key players has had a big impact this season.
âI want to say about all the positives this season,â Puel added. "The journey in the EFL Cup, the journey in the championship, because it was difficult to play every three days sometimes, and other times with games postponed playing only every two weeks. It was difficult with the injuries of Van Dijk, Austin, all these players.
âIt was the same all season, with good intentions like it has been all season, fantastic spirit and fantastic attitude from the players. To finish eighth with all the good teams in the first place of the table, it is a good thing.â
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Kevin De Bruyne was the Premier Leagueâs top creative force in 2016/17, with 18 assists.
The Manchester City maestro signed off the season by teeing up two of Cityâs goals in their 5-0 win at Watford and finished the campaign three assists clear of second-placed Christian Eriksen of Tottenham.
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Southampton made a cup final on the way to another top-half finish.
Read our review of the clubâs 2016/17 Premier League season with expert analysis.
After finishing in the top seven for two seasons in a row under Ronald Koeman, replacement Claude Puel had a tough act to follow but while the Premier League form dipped he came close to delivering a first major trophy in more than 40 years - the EFL Cup - in February.
Saints had the worst of the decisions as they were beaten 3-2 by Manchester United at Wembley after coming from two down. As with their Europa League campaign, where they were well placed after beating Inter at St Maryâs, it was a case of what might have been.
League form was mixed - although they did put four past Sunderland and Watford in back-to-back away games - and Puel had his critics. But the youngsters continue to emerge and a fourth consecutive top-10 finish for the first time in the clubâs history tells its own tale.
If I was giving Claude Puel marks out of 10 then Iâd probably go with six-and-a-half, maybe seven after getting us to the EFL Cup final. The disappointments of the Europa League and the lack of goals stops it from being any higher.
Iâd have to give it to Oriol Romeu. It probably wouldâve been Virgil van Dijk had he not been out since January. Honourable mentions need to go to Ryan Bertrand and Cedric Soares, who have both been consistent, Maya Yoshida, who has had his best season to date. James Ward-Prowse has also enjoyed his best season yet.
I think there needs to be an improvement in selection consistency and also the alarmingly poor finishing. The top eight is probably where our ambitions should be. Given weâve had a pretty average season and still got that, thereâs no reason why we canât do that again if the goalscoring issue is addressed.
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Claude Puel claimed finishing eighth in the Premier League and reaching the EFL Cup final was a âgood achievementâ for Southampton.
Now the Frenchman must see whether the clubâs board agree.
Former Saint Peter Crouch became the first player to score 50 headed goals in the Premier League when he nodded home the winner after an hour.
But with Stoke keeper Jack Butland in brilliant form, Southampton finished the campaign with a fifth successive home game without finding the net â a spring dry spell now lasting a painful seven hours and 35 minutes.
Puelâs mixed reception of boos and applause in an awkward post-match lap of appreciation summed up their 53-game season.
After Saints sold Sadio Mane and Graziano Pelle last summer, then lost Virgil van Dijk to injury in January, the south-coast club still reached a major final, beat Inter Milan, and finished in the top half of the table. Puelâs eighth-place finish is the same as Mauricio Pochettino in his first full season in English football in 2013/14.
On the flip side, they failed to get through their Europa League group, scored only 17 home goals (only Sunderland were worse) and finished with 17 fewer points than under Ronald Koemanâs sixth-placed side last season.
And, like Walter Mazzarri at Watford, Puel is not an enigmatic front man for a club in ongoing negotiations to sell to a Chinese consortium. In fact, he is as uninspiring as his team.
The former Lyon coach signed a three-year contract last summer but will discover at a debriefing this week if he will stay.
âItâs not a question for me,â he said. âI do my job, my players give their best and it was fantastic to see my players this season, and often without a good reward.
âAfter the EFL Cup final, it was very hard for the fans, and the squad and staff, because we deserved to win it.
âTo come back in the Premier League and finish eighth in the table, is a good thing, a positive achievement.
âOf course, we come back next season with the same intention but also I hope with progress to find good solutions to score more.â
Stoke finished 13th in the table after gaining a first away win since January â their lowest finish in the Mark Hughes era. But even though they came in five places behind Southampton, there are few doubts the Welshman will be here next season.
Asked about Puelâs position, he said: âIt is a little bit puzzling. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think they are eighth. Sometimes you canât understand it really.â
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The season that was: the Premier League 2016-17 reviewed
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This was the season when the team who finished 10th last year won the Premier League, and the champions of 12 months ago finished 12th this time round. The Leicester uprising was crushed as Arsenal fell short of Champions League football for the first time in 20 years.
This time last year we were eulogising Leicesterâs impossible triumph. In May 2016 they reached 38 games with 81 points. This time they have 44.
Chelsea limped home with 50 but now have 93, along with a âgolden gloveâ for goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois and all three individual player awards for NâGolo KantĂ©, who was Leicesterâs pivot before he moved to Stamford Bridge for ÂŁ11 million less than âsuper agentâ Mino Raiolo took for shifting Paul Pogba to Manchester United.
The final day of the 2016-17 campaign had all the tension of a country show, except in the âbattle for fourth,â which was won by Liverpool with a 3-0 win over Middlesbrough, who scored 27 times all season, and were therefore unlikely to be much help to Arsenal, who beat Everton with 10 men but still tumbled into the Europa League, where every night is Thursday night, and the planes tend not to touch down in Madrid, Munich and Barcelona.
An odd final Sunday saw the ball deliberately kicked out so John Terry could be taken off after 26 minutes, and a youth team fielded by Manchester United, whose Angel Gomes, 16, became the first 21st-century footballer to see Premier League action. Meanwhile, Walter Mazzarri took charge of Watford, despite having being sacked already, and Southamptonâs Claude Puel was jeered by his own supporters, despite finishing eighth â one place above Bournemouth, arguably the seasonâs biggest over-achievers.
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