Beddytare is spot on and those who say I and Joe are wrong aren't being realistic.
Yes we created loads of chances, however clear cut chances were few and far between. The Goal was a clear cut chance. The 2 Jos headers were pretty much sitters (for him) but the Lallana header wasn't like those Jos headers.
We create loads, we keep the ball well, we play through well however the nitty gritty of making clear cut chances we are very poor at.
Just look how many times we have scored 2,3,4 goals this season and then equate that to the shots on target and off target count. We are terrible at conversion when accounting for the shots count. The ratio is very poor. The reason is that although we may get 20 shots per game only 1 or 2 were clear cut and we normally score those.
As for the hoofball.....The comments above are spot on. There was no hoofball last night. Mainly because Fox was so invisible in the game and hence why Lallana got to see the ball more. Butterfield doesn't do the same as Fox, he hits the ball in from a fair way inside the opposition's half, Richardson does similar. Fox gets to the half way line, puts the brakes on and then hoofs it in from there!!!
As for Lallana ripping them apart, not really. He did what he could but not with much cutting edge, more because of the others than Lallana himself. Lallana kept creating space only for Chaplow to waste it.
That is the reason we are seen as a one man team...because the combination of Fox booting possession away into the box as well as Lallana being left to do all the work himself whilst others final ball being wasted means all our goals come from the big man!!!.
As for Reading not putting much up against us. Reading were away from home against their main rivals for the title. They set up to soak up pressure and counter. I would suggest they were more than happy with the actual amount of pressure we put them under especially when the final balls were so poor.
Yes they scored the first off a mistake however it wasn't a mistake on the edge of the box, where a split second later the ball was in the net. It was a poor ball when we still had more defenders than they had attackers yet they played it quick and NONE of our defence were able to deal with it. Pinpoint pass to the wing, Run and pinpoint cross to the centre, free header......goal. It was ball watching at it's bestest.
I woul be perfectly happy for Saints to play the same as last night in the remaining 3 games however Fox either overlaps and joins in the 'passing game' or Harding comes in. Maybe ADKins has told him to stop hoofing and that is why Fox was so invisible in the game!!!
Add to that Fonte needs to raise his awareness because his positioning has been very poor for a while. he is a defender not a midfielder and pace isn't really the problem. It is how he lets the free attacker get so far away from him when he is last man that means by the time that player receives the ball Fonte cannot make up the ground!!! It's something Hooiveld is very good at. He is either holding hands with the attacker or at least close enough to bruing him down if needed!!!
Maybe it is all complacency due to us being top 2 all season, if so then it needs stepping on to make sure the unthinkable doesn't happen (even though I don't think West Ham will catch up the 3 (6 at mo) point gap in the games remaining.
Not a downer on the side at all. I am still amazed we are there however we are there from our first 10-15 games form and ever since then have struggled to get that form back. I will still most definitely be shedding tears and consuming large amounts of Wadsworth 6X if/when we go up but it would've been so nice to have 'league champions' on our honours list. Something that has not happened since playing in the Southampton local league in 1875 <---Guess and not the runners up to Tottenham, Runners up to Liverpool, Runners up to Brighton....and now...runners up to Reading.
Celebration at going up but massive disappointment not to finally win a league
anyway i hope it is us 2 that go up together 
