When a manager’s first idea about an outcome is a complaint of an arbitration decision, it’s usually an indication that they’re under immense pressure, anything is wrong internally or both.
Therefore, it is not an intelligent signal for Southampton that Chief Ivan Jurić made the decision to first hit the referee the 2-1 defeat of the Saints against Crystal Palace.
The Croatian coach became convinced that his goalkeeper, Aaron Ramsdale, had been fouled by Eagles forward Jean-Philippe Mateta while trying to hit a corner headed into the net by Trevoh Chalobah.
However, the referee did not agree and his video assistant supported him to give the goal.
“I thought that the goalkeeper was hard for his homework if someone was pushing him, and for me it is obviously a fault,” Jurić complained later.
Overall, the director focused on the positives.
“I think we started very well. I think the first half was difficult. I think in the second half we played much better, we dominated in the middle. I think the team is competing. We’ve been bad in the last two games and that’s the biggest problem.
“I think in the first half they played a long ball to Mateta, then they tried to win the second ball and they did it better than us in the first half, and at that moment we got into that situation because the game was about who would win. ” . The moment ball of the game. If you lose too many balls at the moment, they attack, they have 3 brilliant players in attack and it was difficult.
The Legal Challenge is that his Southampton team is plagued by the same challenges that tormented former headline Russell Martin two games after the beginning of his mandate. They play well but also lose.
“It’s my suggestion that we’re competing, that we’re a serious team, that we’re doing a lot of things right,” the new boss’s assessment.
“Now we have a few days to work to be better. What I want to change, it’s really that it’s missing a little bit to get results.
“Unlike West Ham, like today, we want that in the moments, like the urgency to win, we have more urgency to win in the most important moments of the game.
“It was not easy to prepare for this game in practice one day because one day off, one day you prepare. Now we will have a few more days to prepare better. “
In this question, he is right. He has not just arrived in England, but the festive calendar so complete leaves him for a short time in the educational box to paint with the players.
Given more time, he may improve things on the South Coast.
But the brutal thing is that today, Southampton is on the way to being the worst team in the history of the Premier League.
Southampton’s fate is worse than Derby’s in the 2007-08 season, when the Rams managed 11 points, the lowest recorded in the competition.
Winning a solitary game, the East Midlanders had a goal difference of -69.
The concern indicator for Southampton is that at the same level of this campaign notoriously bad, Derby had seven problems on the board, one more than the Saints today.
The performances put in across the county were much worse than the Hampshire team, they sent in many more goals.
But all signs point to the descent as a quasi-certainness.
When examining the records stretching back 122 years, only five teams have had six points or fewer at this stage in an English top-flight season and went on to be relegated.
If you prefer a more modern assessment of the bleakness of Southampton’s plight, the stats company Opta’s supercomputer gives just a 0.7% chance of survival.
However, Southampton’s nightmare season isn’t just bad news for soccer fans on the English south coast.
Their inability to compete comes after a year in the championship in which the club is one of the exceptional teams.
This raises a challenge for the most expansive game in England, since it is an isolated example.
The groups that exploit the decreased leagues compete on the upper flight.
As I pointed out, when the Saints were promoted, their immediate return to the Premier League was another example of the continued erosion of competition in the Championship.
The monetary disparity between the Premier League and the lower division has made it almost necessary to promote teams that have not played on the top flight in the last three years and are therefore eligible for the one-off parachute bills that relegated teams receive.
Southampton returned to the top division along with Leicester City, who also came from behind at the first attempt, and beat Leeds United, also appealed for an early return, in the final of the knockout rounds to get there.
This year, Leeds are among the most sensible groups in the division, followed strongly by Burnley and Sheffield United, who, you guessed it, are aiming for quick returns.
The excellence of these two teams is a cause for concern for the festival because, like Southampton, the pair looked extraordinarily below average in the last first campaigns of the League.
If this sickness is not remedied, competition in the world’s oldest and most well-supported soccer pyramid is in danger of dying out completely. That would be terrible news for everyone involved in the English game.
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