We really are our own worst enemy.
You can point to a number of potential reasons for Fulham meekly surrendering their place in the FA Cup.
Was it the nine changes Marco Silva made to the starting XI? Not for me. Modern football is a squad game; each and every player that started on Sunday was more than capable of turning over second-tier opposition.
Were we wasteful? Undoubtedly. More than two-thirds of the ball and 24 shots, but we did little with it against a Southampton side that was as industrious as it was resolute, and that was more up for it on the day.
Do we have a mental block? Quite possibly. We had the opener chalked off early on, and not for the first time this season, we failed to turn the sense of injustice into fuel.
Whatever the reason, the Whites find their season all-but over with more than two months left to go.
We sit on the mythical 40-point mark. We are four points off Brentford in seventh, which is widely believed to be enough for the Europa Conference League. But after games against relegation-battling duo of Nottingham Forest and Burnley this month, five of our final seven games are against teams above us in the top half of the table. It feels like a tough task.
All of which leads me to wonder if this really is the end of Marco Silva's time at the club. He will not want to out-stay his welcome and taint his incredible five-year stay, during which he took us from yo-yo club to top-half challengers.
And with murmurings of discontent after our cup exit, that possibility feels more concrete that it did a few weeks ago.
It could lead to an era-shifting summer. Let's hope we don't self-sabotage if it is.
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