The one criticism you could aim at pep is that his stats for recovering from a losing position are not that impressive. He clearly has one eye on the Champions League and also bearing in mind that the new season will follow very quickly after this one terminates, I guess he is protecting players as much as possible.
No excuses this evening though, even though there were six changes. We still had hundreds of millions of pounds of players on the pitch. Southampton rode their luck and came good, but also had other chances to score as well which is worrying. Fair play to ‘em and i wish we could defend like that! Instead, our defence is like a house of cards.