Former Portsmouth star slams Southampton for allowing Arsenal comeback victory

Ex-Portsmouth goalkeeper Shaka Hislop has blasted southbound seashore rivals Southampton aft they allowed Arsenal to implicit a comeback victory.

The Saints went 1-0 up astatine the Emirates connected Saturday done Cameron Archer, but their pb lasted conscionable 3 minutes as Arsenal turned it astir to triumph 3-1.

Hislop, who played for Portsmouth from 2002 to 2006, was captious of Southampton aft the lucifer arsenic the shot pundit analysed the game.

Before the game, I heard Southampton described arsenic this season’s Burnley,’ Hislop told ESPN FC.

‘A squad trying to play football, playing retired from the back, adjacent erstwhile it gets them into occupation they instrumentality to those principles… I similar that analogy.

‘You spell distant to the Emirates, you instrumentality the lead, and you importune connected passing retired from the back?

‘Take immoderate vigor retired of the game! Take the emotion retired of it. Go agelong erstwhile oregon twice. Protect the pb for arsenic agelong arsenic you can. Then you privation to settee backmost into your earthy game.

‘But Southampton gave the shot distant cheaply – precise cheaply astatine the back. Take thing distant from [the finishes] but Southampton person this request to play retired from the backmost and springiness it distant cheaply successful transition.’

Southampton brag Russell Martin was much pleased with his side’s show and feels they improved from Monday’s 3-1 decision to AFC Bournemouth, though helium admits ‘there’s a batch to beryllium frustrated about’ owed to a deficiency of points.

‘I consciousness truthful overmuch much affirmative and arrogant of my squad than I did connected Monday night, and we played against 1 of the champion teams successful the country,’ Martin told the BBC. ‘If we play similar that successful the adjacent artifact of games I’d beryllium precise happy.

‘Our mentality astatine 1-1 was overmuch worse than erstwhile we scored. Emotions, it’s bully to people a goal, it’s a bully goal, but we person a occupation and we concede.

‘I deliberation we’re learning and increasing and we’re connected a journey. But we’re doing it nether immense scrutiny and the strength of the Premier League. I person to support the guys connected way and connected path.

‘There’s a batch to beryllium frustrated about, we don’t person capable points connected the committee and a triumph yet, but I loved each of our resilience today. I loved each of that and if we proceed to turn I’m going to beryllium happy.’

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