BOSS Ralph Hasenhuttl insisted it had been “all about details” when asked about Saints’ defence leaking goals in recent weeks. Following Saturday’s 3-0 defeat to Arsenal, the St Mary’s side have shipped 12 goals in their past five games and picked up only two points in the process. Asked about his team’s recent defensive record,
Ralph Hasenhuttl replied: “I think you could see we were organised (at Arsenal), but in a moment we get punished immediately for the first mistake we make. This is the Premier League. On Saturday we had a few missed players with suspensions, two for such a game, plus the goalkeeper is not so easy for us to find the rhythm, find the automatism, especially against the ball. It is all about details. Finally you could see that this was not perfect what we did against the ball.”
Goals from Alexandre Lacazette, Martin Odegaard and Gabriel meant Mikel Arteta’s Gunners cruised to victory over Saints in north London. Quizzed on how preventable Odegaard’s goal was,
Ralph Hasenhuttl said: “Both were preventable, definitely. In the first goal we had a scene where Jan Bednarek was not defending out five minutes before. He had the same situation where he was defending out, had the ball win on this side. In this moment he didn’t and when you don’t do it immediately and think it is easier then to defend, no it isn’t, it is definitely getting worse and harder, because they find the players in the box we never do, but they do it. This is really frustrating because I feel until that moment we played a really good game.”
Saints have to pick themselves up quickly for Wednesday’s trip to Crystal Palace.
