The injuries to Charlie Austin and Richard Dunne overshadowed anything else in this gutting defeat - apart from the Southampton winner, of course.
But fans were happy enough with skipper Joey Barton for his shift-and-a-half that eventually proved fruitless. Not far behind the midfielder came keeper Rob Green, then Dunne, despite the injury that saw him forced off.
On his return, Adel Taarabt got a nod towards acceptability, but fellow French speaker Armand Traore was forced to see the game largely pass him by, according to the vote.
