The Score: Our verdict on every Premier League team after Gameweek 12

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Pep Guardiola is in a legitimate mini-crisis for the first time since his first season in charge of Manchester City, as they got thumped 4-0 by a Tottenham team missing their two first-choice central defenders and a starting central midfielder.

Arsenal took the chance to come back into the chasing pack with an uber-comfortable home win over Nottingham Forest, but it’s Brighton who will have a chance on Friday to go second in the league – they won 2-1 at Bournemouth. Liverpool dodged several Southampton punches but won again because Mohamed Salah is unstoppable.

Elsewhere, Ruben Amorim’s first game as Manchester United boss arrived with astonishing hyperbole but his team were fortunate to leave Portman Road with a point amid evidence that there is plenty of work for him to do (as if he didn’t already know).

At the bottom, Wolves relieved the pressure with a wonderful 4-1 victory at Fulham, while Crystal Palace led twice but will still take a point from a trip to Villa Park. But the big news there was Leicester City sacking Steve Cooper after only five months and with them not even in the bottom three.

Read our verdict on every club below (listed in table order)…

This weekend’s results

Saturday

Leicester 1-2 Chelsea

Fulham 1-4 Wolves

Everton 0-0 Brentford

Arsenal 3-0 Nottm Forest

Bournemouth 1-2 Brighton

Aston Villa 2-2 Crystal Palace

Man City 0-4 Tottenham

Sunday

Southampton 2-3 Liverpool

Ipswich 1-1 Man Utd

Monday

Newcastle vs West Ham (8pm)

Liverpool

It might not be heavy metal football that Arne Slot is bringing to Merseyside but under his management, Liverpool are rock steady.

This hard-fought win at bottom of the table Southampton extends their unbeaten run in all competitions to 14 games and their lead at the top of the Premier League to eight points. Not a bad position to be in heading into home fixtures against Real Madrid and Manchester City.

As has been the case often in his short tenure at Anfield, Slot’s team did not blow their opponents away but they were efficient and professional in getting over the line at St Mary’s and showed no panic after falling behind. Ryan Gravenberch once again shone in midfield, always on hand to link midfield and attack and play the pragmatic pass when needed.

And Mo Salah showed all the hallmarks of a world-class player, making the game’s most-decisive interventions despite being short of his very best form.

Salah’s equaliser was perhaps as much to do with Gravenberch’s cultured pass and Alex McCarthy’s disastrous positioning as it was with his own deft, first-time finish but it came when all the momentum was with Southampton and sucked the life out St Mary’s.

“We always know we can trust on him if things are difficult for us,” said Slot of his talisman. “The timing of the run and the way Mo finished it was special.”

Slot was clever in the way he used his squad at the start of such a pivotal week for the club, resting Alexis Mac Allister and Luis Diaz after long international trips with Cody Gakpo and Dominik Szoboszlai deputising effectively. It is clear that the Dutchman had one eye on the visit of Real Madrid on Wednesday.

He said: “This league asks a lot from every player every weekend and if you then play in Europe that’s not always easy. Only a few teams in England have shown that they can do this and Liverpool have shown it in the past for many seasons, the last two years that it has been more difficult.

“But yeah, that’s also why teams in England have such a big squad. Because we, top clubs, have quite a lot of money we can also make a bigger squad than maybe some other teams in other countries.” By Tom Prentki

Man City

None of City’s four previous losses looked though it might be fatal. One was in the Champions League group stage and another was in the League Cup, a competition Guardiola wanted rid of anyway.

But the the fifth success defeat – a 4-0 rout at the hands of Tottenham on Saturday – might be season-defining, with leaders Liverpool hosting City next weekend.

Should City give the ball away as casually as they did against Tottenham and defend as naively, the defence of their title may be over on the first day of December.

When the story of the season comes to be written, it will probably conclude that the loss of Rodri was crucial and the moment his anterior cruciate snapped against Arsenal was the moment of reckoning.

There are comparisons with Roy Keane’s absence with a similar injury at a similar time – their cruciates both went in September – that climaxed with Manchester United losing the title to Arsenal in 1998.

The difference is that City’s collapse came almost immediately after Rodri’s injury whereas United fell apart between February and April, months in which Alex Ferguson’s sides generally excelled.

The blip is becoming a landslide and if Guardiola cannot halt it against Liverpool, they will be buried beneath it. By Tim Rich

Chelsea

A Champions League return is on the cards, but as Chelsea sit in third, it is difficult to shake the feeling they will remain the best of the rest in this league unless they address their most obvious flaw.

Robert Sanchez is simply not a calming presence in goal. Against Leicester his brief lapses in concentration did not come back to haunt them, but against sterner opposition they might have, and it feels as though the Blues are therefore getting their transfer priorities all wrong.

A club blessed with attacking talent – there are eight forwards pushing for four starting roles – are targeting another striker, with i reporting on Friday of their interest in Ipswich Town’s Liam Delap.

Having started all but one of Ipswich’s league matches so far, Delap is undoubtedly crucial to their survival chances, and while it is likely he is flattered by Chelsea’s interest, he would perhaps be wise to stave off any advances until the summer.

Jackson’s form is one reason, the striker second only to Erling Haaland (18) for league goals since the beginning of May (11). Another is Christopher Nkunku’s reported discontent, the Frenchman having failed to secure a spot in Enzo Maresca’s starting XI.

Delap would be heading into a crowded pond at a time when he is benefiting from being the big fish, and though his age also fits the Chelsea profile of having one eye on the future, in the here and now he is better off where he is.

It would take some effort for Delap to break into this XI, but that would not be the case for goalkeepers largely warming benches elsewhere.

Liverpool back-up Caoimhin Kelleher has been linked with Chelsea this week, and the Republic of Ireland international could see value in a move where he is more likely to claim the No 1 jersey than he is with Alisson for company at Anfield.

Chelsea also have Filip Jorgensen on the bench, the 22-year-old who arrived from Villarreal in the summer and has been getting game-time in the Conference League and Carabao Cup.

Both are viable options, and if this puzzle really is one or two pieces away from title contention, then surely goalkeeper is the most pressing concern.

Nabbing Kelleher from a rival would take some effort, but could Jorgensen now be knocking on the door for a Premier League start? Only Maresca will know, but a shake-up may not be the worst thing after Sanchez orchestrated the Chelsea jitters during a win that should have been far more routine. By Michael Hincks

Arsenal

By the end of Saturday’s win over Forest, Martin Odegaard had created six of Arsenal’s 17 shooting opportunities. They simply do not possess another established player of his ilk, as his spell out of the side proved, but they do have Ethan Nwaneri.

Eight minutes from time with Arsenal 2-0 up and comfortable, Arteta took the chance to give Odegaard a breather, introducing the 17-year-old in his place. It was a popular change, talismanic club captain making way for the talented academy prospect.

In a 13-minute cameo, Nwaneri demonstrated why Arteta has such faith in his ability and why Arsenal supporters are so excited about his potential. Not since Jack Wilshere has there been such a buzz about a Hale End prospect.

Nwaneri almost scored within a few minutes of coming on with a strike that bent just the wrong side of the post, before finding the net a minute later anyway with a clinical first-time finish. He became Arsenal’s second-youngest Premier League scorer, only behind Cesc Fabregas.

Nwaneri’s growth can only be a positive for Arteta and Arsenal. Not only is he immensely talented, but his emergence can help reduce their reliance on Odegaard.

The Norwegian has been Arsenal’s marathon man since signing from Real Madrid permanently in 2021: in three 38-game Premier League seasons, he has played 36, 37 and 35 times. He has already missed more games this season than he did in the previous three combined. By Oliver Young-Myles

Brighton

For those who thought that this Brighton project might have peaked in those early months of Roberto De Zerbi, hear this: Brighton can go second in the Premier League on Friday evening by beating Southampton at home. While high-profile top-four hopefuls started badly or have fallen on their faces since, Brighton keep on trucking. They have an identical record to Arsenal and Chelsea.

What’s most enjoyable about Fabian Hurzeler’s early months in charge – other than him seemingly requiring no time at all to settle in – is how much variation there is in this Brighton midfield and attack under him.

Firstly, Hurzeler has used three different shapes: a 4-4-2, a 4-3-3 and a definite 4-2-3-1 that he seems to have settled upon more recently. Secondly, more Brighton players have scored Premier League goals this season than any other team (11) and 10 different players have provided assists.

But it’s the fluidity within the formations that is so impressive. Some examples: Georginio Rutter has started league games as a right midfielder, right-sided forward, a No 10 and as a striker; Joao Pedro can play as a striker or a roaming No 10; Yasin Ayari can play on the left or centrally; Kaoru Mitoma pops up everywhere on the left flank; Yankuba Minteh and Simon Adingra are both capable of playing on either wing; Ferdi Kadioglu has started at right-back and also further forward on the same side, but he’s also started twice at left-back.

The point is this: I just don’t know how managers can set up with any great confidence of how Brighton will position themselves to attack. And that has to be an advantage.

Tottenham

If you asked any Tottenham fan to name their finest hour at the Etihad Stadium, most would have picked the Champions League quarter-final in which Mauricio Pochettino’s progressed through in the final desperate seconds.

That game was actually lost, 4-3 – the tie was won on away goals. The consequences of Saturday night in east Manchester will be rather less but the 4-0 result was considerably more comprehensive.

Not since February 2003 and a 5-1 defeat by Arsenal had Manchester City lost by this kind of score at home. Then, things had been so bad that, during the first half, City’s centre-half, Richard Dunne, ran to the dug-out and pleaded with his manager, Kevin Keegan, to substitute him. There were quite a few in City’s defence who could have made the same request to Pep Guardiola.

Manchester City might have become unsteady on their feet. They may have lost Rodri and Kevin De Bruyne might be in the sunset of his career. They may have become exhausted by the demand of having to win and win again but they still had to be toppled and Ange Postecoglou’s tactics floored them within 20 minutes.

The Tottenham manager knew City would defend “almost man on man” and he knew his advantage lay on the flanks with Dejan Kulusevski and Son Hueng-min. The two pulled Manchester City apart in a way not seen since the 2021 Champions League final against Chelsea when Guardiola inexplicably dropped Rodri and paid an enormous price for his tactical hunch.

“That is the theory, the practice isn’t that easy,” Postecoglou reflected on his game plan. “We persisted and persisted in trying to hit those areas. Every time we succeeded, we looked threatening.”

The obvious men of the match were James Maddison for his two goals and Guglielmo Vicario for some astonishingly reactive goalkeeping but the way Kulusevski brushed Josko Gvardiol off the ball in the move for Tottenham’s second was the defining image of the night.

The champions still possess an attack capable of a sting and they were pressing against a Spurs back-four shorn of the menace and authority of Cristian Romero and the speed of Micky van de Ven, arguably the best bad cop, good cop central defensive partnership in the Premier League. Ben Davies, in his first league start of the season, performed heroics.

In his manager’s view, Tottenham are a better side this season than last with “some real flat spots” mixed in with the highs. That, of course, is the essence of Tottenham Hotspur. The have won at Old Trafford, thrashed Aston Villa and become the first league team in two years to win at the Etihad Stadium. All they have to do is stop losing to the likes of Crystal Palace and Ipswich. By Tim Rich

Nottingham Forest

Nottingham Forest’s last two performances and results shouldn’t lead to any panic over their trajectory as a team but may prompt a reassessment of where the bar for their ambition might be set.

Back-to-back defeats to Newcastle and Arsenal have punctured their momentum after a brilliant start and the fixture list is tricky. After hosting Ipswich at the City Ground next weekend, Forest face Manchester City (admittedly not quite so daunting at the moment), Manchester United, Aston Villa, Brentford and Spurs. Perhaps after that schedule it will become clearer where they may realistically finish in May.

At the Emirates, Forest were simply beaten by a better team with better players, as they were by Newcastle before the international break. Besides the scalp at Anfield, a win that looks more impressive with each passing week, Forest have otherwise beaten teams struggling towards the bottom of the table: Southampton (20th), Crystal Palace (18th), Leicester (16th) and West Ham (14th). Routinely squashing the little guys and occasionally bloodying the noses of the bigger ones are positive signs of their evolution.

Nuno Espirito Santo’s side already have 19 points on the board with over two-thirds of the campaign remaining. That’s half as many as they managed in 2022-23 and only 13 fewer (17 if you discount the four deducted points) in 2023-24. Securing a top seven spot may be a bridge too far, but the top 10 is a resonable target. Unless a dramatic decline sets in they will comfortably avoid a third successive campaign battling to avoid relegation. Life is less glamorous now they have slipped out of the top four, but it is still good. By Oliver Young-Myles

Aston Villa

I don’t know if there is anything seriously wrong with Aston Villa, but it is becoming obvious that the structure of the midfield isn’t quite right this season because the central defenders are being badly exposed in open play and that is usually one of the telltale signs of imbalance.

“We are making mistakes and teams are scoring so we are not getting the points we deserve,” Emery said after a 2-2 draw with Palace, which at least ended a run of four games without a win. “There is still work to do. We are really convinced this is the way to play but we are not getting three points.”

All power to Emery for sticking with his plan (and you can’t blame him one bit), but that doesn’t change the point that Villa are quite easy to get at with one or two passes. See Palace’s first goal on Saturday: a simple pass into central midfield that Jean-Philippe Mateta was able to control and then a pass to Ismaila Sarr that gave him 50 yards to run onto.

Ismaïla Sarr #CPFC // #AVLCRY pic.twitter.com/8nE9uLZkVy

— Crystal Palace F.C. (@CPFC) November 24, 2024

The obvious retort on Saturday is that Villa scored twice and had a penalty at 1-1 that would have given them a clear chance to win the game had it been scored. But four times this season in the league, Villa have allowed an xG of 1.8 or higher; that wasn’t happening last year.

I wonder – and it’s topical given all the talk of Rodri’s absence killing Manchester City’s buzz – if we overlooked just how much this Villa team is missing Douglas Luiz. In his place Emery is typically picking Amadou Onana, who has been impressive, but Onana does slightly lack the mobility that defined Luiz’s physical workload last season.

There is a statistic labelled “loose balls recovered”, that counts the number of times a player is the first to a ball that is deemed to be out of possession by both teams. As you can imagine, it adequately measures those midfielders who seem to be in the right place at the right time: Rodri and Bruno Guimaraes led the way in the Premier League last season. At Villa, Douglas comfortably led the way.

So far this season, no regular starter is coming close to matching the Brazilian’s numbers. This may be a case of a new midfield shape learning how to cope with the change and sharing the workload, but it is hurting Villa. Watch back the pass that Mateta latched onto in the build-up to Palace’s first goal. It is exactly the type of ball that Douglas would have got first to last season.

Newcastle

Face West Ham on Monday night.

Fulham

This 4-1 defeat could have been so different if Raul Jimenez had scored from three yards out against his former team. That chance, and others, came from an overlapping run and fabulous cross from Antonee Robinson. So what’s new?

We have discussed Robinson a fair amount on these pages over the years, but he seems to have kicked on again this season. There is simply no other full-back in the Premier League who competes with him for combined attacking and defensive work.

Robinson ranks third in the Premier League for tackles plus interceptions, a rough measure of defensive industry (the two players above him are, unsurprisingly, central midfielders). He also ranks 27th of all Premier League players for touches in the final third and only two full-backs have had more touches in total (Josko Gvardiol and Pedro Porro). They both play for teams who comfortably average more than 60 per cent possession; Fulham average 54 per cent.

You can see why Robinson is attracting interest from higher up the Premier League, even at 27. He is Fulham’s left-hand side and he is managing it all by himself without ever really seeing his consistency drop.

Brentford

Thomas Frank will be relieved to have taken a point from Goodison having played for 53 minutes – plus two sets of stoppage time – with 10 men, but it doesn’t solve what is becoming a serious issue. Brentford’s home form is magnificent – nobody has taken as many home points as them in the division. Their away form is appalling. Only pointless Southampton have fared worse.

For a while, the fixture list offered some consolation. Brentford lost at Liverpool and Manchester City in their first two away games – both perfectly reasonable. They then lost at Tottenham, Manchester United and Fulham, decent opponents but sides who have hardly been perfect at home. After this gritty draw at Everton, it is Villa, Chelsea and Brighton for Brentford. Brentford could easily reach 2025 with a single away point.

And it’s hardly anything new. Go back a year and Brentford have taken just 11 points from their last 20 away games. For a team that you would think has the ability to soak up pressure and then use Bryan Mbeumo, Yoann Wissa and one of Kevin Schade or Keane Lewis-Potter on the break, it’s a head-scratcher.

Man Utd

Even though he will have done his homework on a vibrant Ipswich side, one which has reignited the fire put out in a stuttering start to life back in the top flight, the way United retreated into their vulnerable shell, as they often did under Erik ten Hag, will quash any unrealistic expectations.

This is a monumental rebuilding job of which the world of football has rarely seen.

Amorim tried something different, and there were signs of life, but ultimately, the new boss got a stark reminder of what he is up against – perhaps just what was needed, as it is very easy to get lost in the Manchester United he would have been sold in the brochure.

After a week of being told how grand United is, Amorim soon found himself screaming into the Suffolk air as he attempted to get his team to press.

At one point in the second half he was incredulous as Rasmus Hojlund failed to close down the goalkeeper. The Dane jogged around rather aimlessly, as would have been fine a few months ago. Amorim, though, was not having it.

On several occasions, he burst from the Portman Road technical area to wave his team forward, often to no avail, looking back his bench as if to question quite how a team of this magnitude can take so long to close players down. This is what you signed up for, Ruben. By Pete Hall

Bournemouth

Nobody is going to panic too much about losing to Brighton at home, particularly not after a defeat of such small margins. Bournemouth hit the post in added time. Brighton’s goal was just onside. Bournemouth had a goal ruled out for being just offside. These are the breaks.

But there are two things to say:

1) Bournemouth really missed Ryan Christie (it was just a suspension issue) because there is nobody else who is quite able to replace his high-pressing energy further up the pitch. The combination of Christie and Lewis Cook, the more defensive of the pair, creates a pressing system that covers most of the space in the middle third of the pitch.

Tyler Adams, Christie’s replacement, is more of a Cook-type and Bournemouth were a little too passive as a result. Adams made tackles (and played pretty well), but most of his work was done closer to his own goal than Christie’s would have been. It was also only Adams’ third league start since March 2023 – you could hardly expect him to mimic Christie’s energy.

2) Bournemouth are on a very weird run indeed, in that they have gone from never beating the biggest teams to almost exclusively beating them. Andoni Iraola’s side have managed one league clean sheet since April (against Arsenal) and haven’t won consecutive league matches since the same month. They have taken 15 points from their last 15 games and six of those were from wins against Arsenal and Manchester City. Weird.

West Ham

Face Newcastle on Monday night.

Everton

I don’t know whether this was Sean Dyche’s last audition to prove that he can take Everton forward post-takeover, but he is quickly running out of chances and excuses. Ask any Everton supporter outside Goodison on Saturday teatime and they would give you the same answer: this was a necessary marriage for a long while but there is little appetite for staying together now.

They had just watched the perfect Dyche storm, a manager who knows that Everton are fighting and who has thus turned them into scrappers but struggles to change gears when the situation requires it. Everton had an hour against 10 men and an opponent who had failed to take a single point away from home all season. Not only were they restricted to a series of low-quality chances, but they allowed Brentford to create the most dangerous chances on the counter.

This was Dyche being asked: what more have you got? He always said that he played a certain way at Burnley because of what he had and that better players would lead to different football. Everton are playing exactly like Burnley and Dyche’s response was to say “Most managers can change it by chequebook. We can’t do that, so the development continues.”

I’m sorry, but that’s not on now. You’ve been in charge here for almost two years. Yes, the budgets have been particularly tight over that time – and that’s not on you. But Everton do have decent players and there was plenty enough in that front four to create chances and win home games. It’s not only that Everton have six points from six games at Goodison this season (Brighton, Crystal Palace, Bournemouth, Fulham, Newcastle, Brentford) and have scored five goals during them. It’s that you watch them and can’t really see what the plan is to create high-value chances.

That might just do for Dyche, at which point plenty of pundits will say that he has been badly mistreated and deserves to spend on this squad to shape it in his own vision. That is a highly generous assessment. This team is limping during its final season in a grand old ground because the team has been hardwired to assume that you can’t expect more than this. And I just don’t believe that that is true.

Leicester

And so the Steve Cooper era ends in a way that makes nobody quite sure why it happened at all. On the surface, Cooper did not do a bad job. This squad is not deep and the defence is not much better than the one relegated in 2022-23. If Leicester stay out the bottom three this season it would be a success and Cooper had them there.

But that’s only part of it. The supporters never took to him at all – some were calling for his head in pre-season – because he came from Forest and because he replaced an emphatically progressive manager who had taken them up. Enzo Maresca got some grief at times during last season; it never felt like Cooper had much of a chance.

He made mistakes, sure: slow substitutions on occasions and a tendency not to pick Abdul Fatawu stuck out and made him unpopular. But the sheer wave of noise that met every social media post by the club, calling for the sacking whatever the weather, became untenable and was shared by plenty in the ground. If you don’t have the fans from the start, everything falls away too quickly.

Leicester now have two choices. They could aim for the perceived safer option, with David Moyes an obvious out-of-work name. But if the problem with Cooper was one of style, that suggests an ambition to play their way to safety. That might suggest Ruud van Nistelrooy is a preferred candidate after he departed Coventry City’s own search for a manager. The timing of the sacking – immediately after an international break – appears strange if they are not sure who the successor is.

The oddity is that the immediate priority for whoever takes over should be to keep Leicester roughly exactly where they are. There are comparatively favourable fixtures to come; Leicester must make hay as they did in them earlier this season. And then everybody will try and forget this weird fling, including Cooper himself.

Wolves

To put into context just how good Matheus Cunha’s goals were against Fulham on Saturday, I can’t decide whether the timing of the runs, touches and finishes reminded me more of Thierry Henry (ghosting past players without being noticed, absolute composure and pace on the ball without over-hitting it) or Dennis Bergkamp (total nonchalance when doing something extraordinary as if it were nothing). There were shades of the goals from Bergkamp’s famous hat-trick against Leicester, but done at a more frantic speed.

How lucky Wolves are to have him, given his output this season in deeply trying circumstances. How lucky Gary O’Neil is to have him too, because he might just have saved his job if Wolves can beat the manager’s former club Bournemouth next weekend. Cunha is almost entirely responsible for Wolves outperforming their expected goals figure by a monstrous figure, way beyond every other team in the league.

And Cunha helped Wolves do three things that they hadn’t done since February: win two league games in a row, win away from home in the Premier League and win a game after trailing. He is a skillful, prodigious antidote to the general malaise and every supporter will pray that he isn’t sold in January. It would be deeply foolish for the Wolves owners to consider it for a second.

Crystal Palace

Is Dean Henderson the best penalty saver in the Premier League? The stop to thwart Youri Tielemans on Saturday was sensational, not least because it seemed like he had to adjust the positioning of his left arm while the ball was in flight to get a strong touch on it. The dive itself was huge, giving the impression that Henderson was off his line; he wasn’t.

Henderson has now faced eight penalties in the Premier League and has saved half of them. He earned a glowing reputation at Nottingham Forest for doing so during games against Tottenham and West Ham and has also registered saves in the League One play-offs and for England at the Under-21 European Championship. Thomas Tuchel might pick him just for this.

Ipswich

Liam Delap is about to have a decision to make. All those afternoons in the garden with his Dad chucking long throws at him is paying off, and some.

If it was not for Andre Onana, he certainly would have made Ruben Amorim’s start to life in England a miserable one. His movement and energy pulled Manchester United’s new-look backline all over the place at Portman Road. All that was missing was the finishing touch.

Delap has everything a striker needs. The physicality, clever flicks and willingness to take the attack to any opponent. Seven goals from 11 matches, in a newly-promoted team, is quite the return.

The question is, does he want to stay where he will lead Kieran McKenna’s Suffolk uprising, or does he take his opportunity while he is flavour of the month and move to a big club, with the suitors gathering in number.

If Sunday’s evidence is anything to go by, the goals will continue to flow, with his team-mates slowly finding their feet in the top flight, having lost what got them here in the first place in a stuttered season start.

Double figures by January could even start a bidding war. A nice dilemma to have, for the player and his club.

Southampton

No team has ever stayed in the Premier League after losing 10 of their first 12 games of the season but that is the task now facing Southampton. As has been the case in so many of their matches, Martin’s side were impressive for long periods but were undone by three calamitous errors.

For the first time this season, Martin started Nigerian forward Paul Onuachu and he gave the Saints far more presence in the attacking third than they have had all season. Despite his 6ft7in height, it was with his feet that Onuachu impressed, holding onto the ball well and using it intelligently to allow others to join him in attack.

Whilst Onuachu occupied Liverpool’s central defenders, 18 year-old Tyler Dibling was busy giving their full-backs the runaround.

It was Dibling who lured Andy Robertson into a clumsy challenge to concede a penalty for Southampton’s equaliser and he also provided a brilliant assist for their second.

In the short term, he offers some hope, but historical precedent suggests that he won’t be at St Mary’s for long if he continues his current rate of development. Southampton are at risk of being cut adrift and next up is a daunting trip to Brighton. By Tom Prentki

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