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Oriol Romeu: This is why Southampton canât beat the Premier League big guns
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Tuesdayâs 4-2 defeat at Chelsea means Saints have failed to win against any of the top six this season.
Midfielder Romeu, who netted on his return to Stamford Bridge, said: âThat something we need to improve on. I donât know what happens â it was the same in the EFL Cup final against Manchester United.
âI talk with some players and theyâre telling me, âYouâre playing very good, donât worry you have a good teamâ.
âBut we want to win, we donât just want to be nice and have people talking good about us.
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DUSAN Tadic believes that Saintsâ shortcomings against the leading sides this season is down to lack of experience.
Claude Puelâs men have not won against any of the top six in nine attempts in the Premier League, which is a considerable change from last season when Saints beat all the big guns.
The Serbian playmaker puts it down to coming up against these teams with less experience in their ranks.
âWe have some good moments, but we miss experience in these kind of games,â he said after the 4-2 defeat at Premier League leaders Chelsea. âWe miss that in these kind games.â
âWe had more experience and we didnât do some small mistakes and this is the difference. Now we are a more young team and itâs normal.
âYou can see in our game we have very good moments and very bad moments.
Tadic doesnât necessarily view the lack of mature players as a negative thing.
âYou see potential and this is a good school for everyone,â he added.
Now, Tadic has urged Saints to get back on track after back-to-back defeats against Hull City on Saturday at St Maryâs.
Saints lost to the relegation battlers at the KCOM Stadium earlier this season and want to atone for that.
âItâs very important [to bounce back],â he said. âWe need to show that, but weâve had two tough games, Chelsea and City are very good opponents.
âWe are a young team and some players play for the first time against them [the big sides] and itâs not easy, but now itâs Hull and itâs very important that we react and be back on track.â
Saints are now in a position where they highest they are likely to climb is to 8th place.
With their ambitions restrict, Tadic insists Saints will stay motivated to prove to the fans that they want to construct a positive end to the campaign.
âWe are professional and we need to be motivated always,â he said. âYouâre playing for the club, the fans, for everyone and you need to be motivated to show them you want to win for them.â
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COMMENT: Has time now come to give Fraser Forster a rest?
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HAS the time come to drop Fraser Forster for the first time in his Saints career?
If not, then is the time right to introduce Martin Caceres into the centre of defence for the first time in order to give the goalkeeper more cover?
Those are two questions Claude Puel should be mulling over as he bids to ensure his first season at St Maryâs does not fizzle out into one of huge disappointment.
Not one single fan would have advocated relegating England international Forster to the bench in any of his first two seasons at Saints.
He was a rock under Ronald Koeman following his ÂŁ10m arrival from Glasgow Celtic in August 2014 - a fee which made him the most expensive British goalkeeper of all time.
He conceded only 21 goals in 30 league appearances in 2014/15, prior to a serious injury in March 2015.
His record of conceding a goal every 125 minutes was exceptional.
On his return from injury in January 2016, Forster promptly kept six successive clean sheets and established a new Saints record for consecutive Premier League minutes without conceding a goal.
Different story He ended with a record of a goal conceded every 95 minutes.
Itâs been a different story this term, with Chelseaâs four goals at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday taking Forsterâs conceded column to 44 in 32 outings.
He has certainly not had anywhere near as good a season as previously at St Maryâs.
Saints have already let in more goals this term than they did in the whole of 2014/15 (33) and 2015/16 (41) - and there are still six games left.
Forster has now conceded a goal every 64 minutes in league action this term - almost half the figure he recorded in his debut campaign at St Maryâs.
Could now be the time to hand Mouez Hassen his chance?
The Frenchman arrived as cover for Forster back in January, but has so far only appeared in under-23 matches.
He is not a total novice, having played almost 50 top flight French League games for Puel at Nice. Having said that, the last one was in December 2015.
Of course, there are mitigating circumstances Forster can point to.
Back in 2014/15 Forster had Jose Fonte and Toby Alderweireld as a central defensive pair in front of him.
Now starring for Tottenham, the latter is arguably one of the best two centre halves in the Premier League.
The other is Virgil Van Dijk, who for almost the whole of last season and the first half of this formed an impressive centre half pairing with Fonte.
Ask Saints fans last summer if they imagined that Maya Yoshida and Jack Stephens would ever become the first choice pairing, and they would have laughed.
But no-one is smiling now.
Not after Fonte was sold to West Ham in the January window and van Dijk suffered his season-ending injury a fortnight later.
Yoshida and Stephens have started all 10 of the clubâs league games since the fateful day van Dijk was crocked by Jamie Vardy at St Maryâs.
They are the only 10 league games Stephens has ever started for Saints.
During that time, the team have shipped 18 goals - seven of which come in the last two losses to Manchester City and Chelsea.
In fairness to the current centre halves, Saintsâ record in the previous 10 games when van Dijk had played was not much better - they conceded 14 goals in that period.
But is it now time to give Caceres a run?
The former Barcelona and Juventus man is highly experienced, and Saints are not paying him peanuts to sit on the bench - as he has done since arriving in February as a free agent.
On the downside, Caceres lacks top level fitness - he has only played a handful of under-23 games since his last Juve appearance in early February 2016.
But surely his experience, his knowledge, can be useful. If not, why sign him?
That is a worthwhile question to ask of Puel.
Florin Gardos - a ÂŁ6m signing in 2014, lest we forget - continues to gain fitness playing for the under-23s but is obviously behind Caceres in the pecking order.
Caceres was Puelâs only defensive option on the bench at Stamford Bridge in midweek - a sign of the lack of alternatives available to the manager.
Right back Jeremy Pied had sat on the bench in league games prior to that, and could well get a run-out before the curtain is brought down on a spectacularly inconsistent season.
But right back is not where the main concerns lie, though ex-Saints boss Graeme Souness was critical on Sky TV of Cedricâs positioning for Chelseaâs opener on Tuesday.
It would be a big shout from the boss to throw in Hassen or Caceres - it is unlikely he will do both at the same time - when neither have played a competitive game for over a year.
But Puel is paid to make big decisions, and he needs to do something to avoid his debut season aboard the emotional rollercoaster which is Southampton FC ending on a low rather than a high.
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Is Tadic right? Do Saints lack experience in the big games?
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DUSAN Tadic believes Saintsâ poor results against the Premier Leagueâs elite this season are due to a lack of experience.
âWe have some good moments, but we miss experience in these kind of games,â he said after the 4-2 loss at leaders Chelsea on Tuesday.
That defeat left Saints still waiting for their first win against a member of the elite six this season.
But do the statistics agree with the Serbianâs comments?
The average age of the Saints players that appeared at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday was 26 years and seven months.
James Ward-Prowse, at 22 years and five months, was the youngest - with Steven Davis (32 & 3 months) and Shane Long (30 & 3 months) the only thirty-somethings among the 14 players.
The 14 players had an average of 89 appearances for the club between them (Davis with 189 and Ward-Prowse with 166 boasting the most and Stephens (18) the fewest.
Last season, though, Saints enjoyed great results with teams virtually the same age as the one Claude Puel put his faith in at Chelsea.
For example, the average age of the team that beat Liverpool 3-2 at St Maryâs in March 2016 - after being 2-0 down - was just one month older than Puelâs team on Tuesday night.
That suggests Saints are suffering from a drop in quality, rather than a huge drop in experience as Tadic has suggested.
Either that or itâs a confidence issue, or itâs down to Puelâs tactics and team selections.
Seven players appeared in that win against Liverpool who didnât start at Chelsea - Jose Fonte, Cuco Martina, Virgil van Dijk, Graziano Pelle, Victor Wanyama, Shane Long and Sadio Mane.
Fonte, Pelle, Wanyama and Mane have since been sold, while van Dijk is out injured.
That is a huge amount of quality on offer to Ronald Koeman that was not available to Puel at Stamford Bridge.
Chelseaâs average age on Tuesday was 28 years and five months - almost two years extra per player. Keeper Thibaut Courtois was the youngest player in Antonio Conteâs team, and he turns 25 next month. Experience is key for Conte, therefore.
Across the capital, Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino regularly fields the team with the youngest average in the top flight.
In Spursâ last league game against Cherries, the average age was 25 years and 7 months - virtually three years per player younger than Chelsea.
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Puel: âIt was important to see other players such as Boufal starting against #CFC. Itâs good for the competition.â⊠https://twitter.com/i/web/status/857554927069143040
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Premier League officials meet Southamptonâs owners to discuss takeover deal
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Premier League officials will meet Southamptonâs proposed new owners on Thursday to discuss a takeover deal.
Sky Sports News HQ understands the Premier League expressed concerns about Lander Sports Developmentâs takeover two months ago.
The League is expected to receive an update on the companyâs plans and the suitability of their offer to buy the club.
Southampton and the Premier League have yet to comment.
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Puel: âWe have six games left. Itâs not a lot, but they are important, because we want to finish in the top half.â⊠https://twitter.com/i/web/status/857556056272228352
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Pre-Match Quiz: Saints vs Hull
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Southampton and Hull go head-to-head in the Premier League this weekend, but it wasnât all that long ago they were both competing against each other in the Championship.
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