Southampton’s hopes of remaining in the Premier League took a devastating blow this weekend as they lost 2-0 at home to Liverpool on Sunday afternoon, and the resident Saints in the Transfer Tavern are far from happy with their precarious league position.
Mauricio Pellegrino’s side limped to their 11th defeat of the season yesterday against a solid Liverpool side who never looked like throwing away their advantage on the south-coast. Liverpool took the lead early on courtesy of Roberto Firmino’s left-footed finish after the Brazilian had been found by Mo Salah inside the 18-yard box.
The aforementioned players combined once again in the 42nd minute to double Liverpool’s advantage, as Firmino sensationally dissected Southampton’s statuesque defence with a sumptuous back-heel to find Salah unmarked inside the box, and the Egyptian made no mistake in stroking the ball home past a helpless Alex McCarthy.
Southampton huffed and puffed for the remainder of the match, but they failed to produce much by way of genuine goal-scoring opportunities, and if anything, they were lucky not to concede more in the second-half.
On the evidence of The Saints performance, the omens don’t look good in terms of their survival hopes, and unsurprisingly the supporters are becoming extremely concerned by their recent run of results and glaring lack of attacking inspiration throughout the team.
Plenty of the supporters believe that their manager Mauricio Pellegrino is fully responsible for their abject season so far, and they have taken to Twitter to call for his dismissal after their most recent performance.
Here’s what the supporters have had to say about Pellegrino on Twitter since their defeat against Liverpool…
With the failure to sack Pellegrino and our terrible January transfer window relegation seems all but inevitable #saintsfc
— Richard Bennett (@RJBennett28) February 12, 2018
Anybody else putting on @SkySportsNews in hope that we see that big yellow 'Breaking News' sign come up at the bottom of the screen saying 'Southampton Sack Pellegrino' ?#saintsfc@Saint2882
— Dan Wight (@danswight) February 11, 2018
I want your honest opinion @mattletiss7, what do we do from here? Let Pellegrino see the season out with the risk of relegation, or sack him? I really dont think we will stay up with him I’m charge any longer #SaintsFC
— Rhys ‘championship tour’ ⚽ (@RhysTheSaint) February 11, 2018
It’s time for the Southampton board to grow a pair and sack Pellegrino, it’s three months too late but if we don’t we’re down! #saintsfc #reedout #goingdown
— graham badland (@grazza70) February 11, 2018
Stop dithering Les and sack Pellegrino now – he is simply dreadful #saintsfc #pellegrinoout
— Nick B (@NPBSFC74) February 11, 2018
@SouthamptonFC don’t you dare show any videos of ANY players saying we need to improve, we need to learn, the next game is a big one!!!!
SACK that muppet Pellegrino NOW & bring in someone who can motivate the players to give us a chance of saying up! #saintsfc pic.twitter.com/vJs9amHPk5— The Saint (@SteveSaint76) February 11, 2018
https://twitter.com/RonanGalloway/status/962758558310895616
Sack the now Pellegrino out NOW@SouthamptonFC
— Lee (@Leemoorman781) February 11, 2018
Dear @SouthamptonFC
Our next 5 Premier League games are absolutely massive…
It's imperative that you sack that clown Pellegrino NOW before it's too late!
There was absolutely no fight! no passion! NOTHING in that pathetic performance that would would keep us up!#saintsfc
— Dan Wight (@danswight) February 11, 2018
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