{"id":92757,"date":"2025-09-29T14:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/92757\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T14:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:37:11","slug":"im-not-pointing-a-finger-southampton-boss-reveals-reason-he-dropped-ireland-goalkeeper-gavin-bazunu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/92757\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m not pointing a finger\u2019 \u2013 Southampton boss reveals reason he dropped Ireland goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Southampton goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4180f04f-8fb7-4f69-a5c7-2943e94b0192.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Southampton goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu. Photo: Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Southampton boss Will Still said his decision to drop Ireland goalkeeper from the starting line-up was based on statistics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Bazunu had started the first six league games of the season for the Saints in a slow start to the new term, while he was rested for their League Cup ties where veteran Alex McCarthy got the nod. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southampton goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu. Photo: Sportsfile Southampton boss Will Still said his decision to drop Ireland goalkeeper from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2722,9,10,18,13,14,60179,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,22051,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-92757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-gavin-bazunu","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-southampton-fc","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}