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da bet nacional： This article is part of Football FanCast’s Off the Bench series, which places in-game managerial decisions and squad selections under FFC’s microscope.
Southampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl watched on from the sidelines as his side failed to overcome Tottenham on Saturday.
The result was even harder to take for the Saints seeing as Mauricio Pochettino’s men played from the 31st minute onwards with 10 men, after Serge Aurier picked up two yellow cards in four minutes.
The former RB Leipzig boss could, however, have given his side a better chance of finding an equaliser with his second-half substitutions.
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Having been gifted a way back into the game after Danny Ings robbed Hugo Lloris of the ball on the goal-line, Southampton failed to capitalise on the lifeline as the 10 men of Spurs limped to a 2-1 win.
Goals from Tanguy Ndombele and Harry Kane earned the north Londoners all three points, with Angus Gunn perhaps at fault for the former’s strike that had opened the scoring – Hasenhuttl certainly didn’t seem pleased with the former Manchester City man after the mistake, having said it was a “big” one.
However, the Austrian – as aforesaid – could have given his side a better chance by reversing the order of his second-half changes.
Long and Obafemi should have come on before Stuart Armstrong
Hasenhuttl decided to bring Scotland international Armstrong on as his first sub in the 79th minute, before bringing Michael Obafemi on in the 83rd minute and then Shane Long in the 88th minute.
Armstrong, having been subbed on first, would presumably have been expected to have the most impact by Hasenhuttl, but he was terrible – the Scot registered just seven passes.
Long and Obafemi also didn’t get too heavily involved with one and zero passes respectively, but as strikers, surely they would have had a better chance of nicking an equaliser if they had spent more time on the pitch.
Instead, Hasenhuttl opted to bring an attacking midfielder on first, and in doing so, didn’t give his side the best chance of finding an equaliser against ten men.