Reasons Why Martin Chose to Leave Lallana on Bench for Southampton's Loss to Leicester: Ansser Sadiq's Analysis

During the warm-up, Lallana was seen preparing on the sidelines when Martin made a strategic decision to bring on Will Smallbone in the 68th minute, with his team leading 2-1.

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."