Saints gave themselves 'mountain to climb'
Will Still: 'They've not had to do much to win'
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Southampton manager Will Still said his side gave themselves a "mountain to climb" in their 3-1 defeat by Bristol City.
Saints were 1-0 up but conceded two Scott Twine goals in seven second-half minutes to eventually lose - their third in the league this campaign.
"We've been totally dominant and in control for the first half again, scored a great goal and created three if not four really big opportunities to kill the game off and win it," Still told BBC Radio Solent.
"[We] come back out after the break, played really well for 10, 15 minutes, hit the crossbar, somehow missed from a couple of yards out.
"And to make things as worse as they can get a shot that's going about six yards away from goal and gets deflected and hits the post, somehow falls into their feet and we concede.
"The last one you're chasing the game again, trying to look forwards, pass it sideways and they've not had to do very much to win the game of football and we give ourselves a mountain to climb every single time.
"It's just not going our way. You can talk about tactics, intensity, whatever, if you watch the first half as a whole, if we don't make a mistake they've literally almost not come over the halfway line."
