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What positives can be taken from the 4-0 loss?

Jay Sadler 0:01

Pompey women were turned over by the club up the road, Dan Shaw grabbed Jay Sadler at the final whistle, and they took a bunch of positives out of a poor result.

Dan Collars 0:10

Jay, I think that's going to be one you look back on, probably tomorrow and the coming days, and actually 4-0 is going to seem like a really harsh result.

Jay Sadler 0:17

Yeah, it does. Trying to kind of put your finger on it, really. It's difficult. Losing the game 4-0. First and all, you've got to look at the four goals. I think they were poor goals to give away. In moments where I thought we were on top of the game, I thought we controlled the first kind of 15, 20 minutes. We were the team with the ascendancy, with the ball, trying to break down the block. And ultimately, we've conceded from a counter-attack and a set-piece, which is extremely disappointing.

How did the team perform in the first half against Southampton?

Jay Sadler 0:40

his second half thought we made some structural changes tried to get on the ball more pin them back in for large periods without creating too much that was probably the kind of disappointing thing that we weren't able to get him behind the back line and really test the keeper and ultimately when the third and fourth has gone in the game's over and it looks like a bad scoreline it is a bad scoreline it does hurt but also it's difficult when we've kind of shot ourselves in the foot on four occasions and I thought we had the lion's share of the ball and I thought we were in the game all the way but ultimately football is about scoring at one end and not conceding at the other and today we were in both boxes not good enough yeah wind it back because the first goal

Dan Collars 1:17

I've said in commentary, that's the first real moment in the game where Southampton showed some brilliance, some quality, where the game wasn't dead rubber, dead level. Of course, Southampton had a little bit more of the ball at times and in different areas looked better. But actually, on the whole, in the first half, it was pretty level until that moment. And then it's a poor, poor goal to concede for the corner in it. So it's just, again, I don't think there's a lot in terms of the quality there. There's just moments again for you, isn't it, that's cost you?

Jay Sadler 1:50

Yeah, and I agree. I think between both boxes, it was an even game. It was a contested game. There were momentum shifts. I thought we started well. I thought they'd come back into the game. And ultimately, big decisions need to go for and against you in the boxes. And unfortunately, they've hit us on a transition. We've all narrowed off recovery runs. We didn't scan and see the player at the back post and they've punished. And it was a well-worked goal. But ultimately, we can do better with defending a space and beyond. And then from corners, we've worked on all week how they're going to attack the front post zone and we've allowed the player to run off the shoulder, get the free header and ultimately find yourself 2-0 down in a game that I don't think was a 2-0 game.

Jay Sadler 2:24

However, they've created the two moments, as you said, they've taken the two moments and we find ourselves a bit of a mountain to climb. I thought we did some good work in the first half. We got into the final third. We created moments. There's three massive, massive calls for penalties that have not been given. We've looked back on them and I'm disappointed at least one of them wasn't given. Jess Simpson's come right through the back of Megan Hornby, not given. Amy Goddard's played a second one on Megan Hornby.

What were the critical moments that led to conceding goals?

Jay Sadler 2:47

And I don't know what Meg's got to do to get a penalty or what we've got to do to get a penalty. We had a massive shout against Newcastle, not given. So I'd love to know the explanation behind them. So they're difficult moments in a game like this when I felt that could have shifted the ascendancy. And then in the second half, again, everything had a lot more of the ball, created good moments up until the final third, and then we conceded two goals and lost the game 4-0. So it hurts, it's disappointing, there's a lot of emotion there, but I think once we give the dust a bit of time to settle on the game, we've really got to look and pick the bones out of it, because I don't think between both boxes I thought we were worthy, we competed well, but ultimately in the 18 boxes, both 18 boxes, we weren't good enough today.