Southampton boss Russell Martin admitted he did not introduce Adam Lallana in their latest game as they were down to ten men.
The Saints had been 2-0 up against Leicester City, but a defensive collapse saw them also lose a player to a red card.
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While Lallana was warming up at one stage, Martin chose to bring on Will Smallbone on 68 minutes with the score at 2-1 to his team.
His team then got a red card minutes later, which may have caused him to not bring on Lallana as well.Post-game, Martin told the Daily Echo: "We were down to ten men and we were not going to have a lot of the ball.
"That's not Adam's strength. Adam's strength is to really dominate the ball. If we still had 11 men he would have come on today 100% and helped us create or control the game but he didn't."