Its a telling weekend for Claude Puels Southampton as the Saints head into Sundays clash with Middlesbrough at St. Marys Stadium in need of a positive reaction after the events that unfolded this week.Puels club, which it can be argued, is in the greatest period of prosperity in team history, was knocked back a peg Thursday when they were bounced from the Europa League following a 1-1 draw with Israels Hapoel Beer Sheva at home in their final group stage match. Maor Buzaglo opened the scoring with 11 minutes to play before Virgil Van Dijk found the late equaliser, but the damage had already been done as the draw dumped the Saints out of Europa.Van Dijk, for his part, didnt mince words when asked for his post-match thoughts.Im very disappointed -- I feel (bad) to be honest with you, said Van Dijk. We need to do much better, especially in the first half. We knew how they were going to play -- we needed to do much better especially with chances we had, and every time they broke on us it was a bit dangerous.We needed to get our organisation right instead of always attacking. Thats something we need to talk about. We just need to focus on the league the most now. The EFL Cup is special, but with the current group we can do something beautiful in the league. But we need to be clinical and not concede stupid goals like we did.The Saints (4-5-5) must now quickly focus their attention on Middlesbrough, as a win in front of the home fans will wipe away some of the disappointment from the European exit.Its important to look forward and come back with a good spirit and come back in the first half of the table and keep the good concentration for the next game in the Premier League, Puel said. Its an opportunity to play quickly. Its a good thing to have this game on Sunday and to have a good reaction.The clubs league form is a bit of an issue as well, coming off a 3-0 loss at the hands of Crystal Palace. But a win can take them as high as eighth place, depending on other results.Middlesbrough (3-6-5), for their part, enter the contest unbeaten in five of their last six league matches. Theyll aim for a second consecutive victory following last weeks 1-0 result over Hull City, thanks to a 60th-minute strike from Gaston Ramirez.(Mondays win) was massive for us, midfielder Adam Forshaw said. For us to get the win, and to play as well as we did at times was a real confidence-booster.The Teeside club will be a bit shorthanded for Sunday as Alvaro Negredo, Ramirez and Jordan Rhodes are all doubts, while George Friend will miss this fixture.Alvaro, Gaston and Jordan couldnt train with the team (Friday), manager Aitor Karanka said. I need to check (Saturday) with the doctors. 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"They are a very good defensive team," Penguins forward Brandon Sutter said.SAN ANTONIO -- The San Antonio Spurs announced multiple changes to their basketball operations staff Friday, most notably the addition of Monty Williams as the vice president of basketball operations and Brian Wright?as assistant general manager.Williams, a former assistant with the Oklahoma City Thunder and head coach of the New Orleans Pelicans (2010-15), returns to San Antonio for his second stint with the organization.He played nine years in the NBA, including a little more than two seasons with the Spurs before starting his front-office and coaching career with the team as a coaching intern during the 2004-05 season.Williams spent last season with the Thunder as an assistant coach. He took an indefinite leave from the team after his wifes death in a February car accident. After the season, it was announced that Williams would not return to the Thunder.Before going to Oklahoma City, Williams led New Orleans to the playoffs on two occasions. Prior to that, Williams worked five seasons as an assistant coach with the Portland Trail Blazers. Williams also served as an assistant coach from 2013-16 on the USA mens national team.Wright joins the Spurs after serving the past two seasons as general manager of the Detroit Pistons. He also spent eight seasons with the Orlando Magic, wwhere he worked as director of college scouting in his final season.ddddddddddddThe Spurs also announced the promotion of Will Hardy as an assistant coach. Hardy worked the past six seasons with the Spurs, including the last three as the clubs video coordinator, and has spent the last two summers as head coach for San Antonios summer league team in Utah.Other announcements included the addition of Phil Cullen as director of basketball strategy and Pat Sund as pro personnel scout and assistant general manager of the clubs NBA D-League team, the Austin Spurs. The club also added Nick Repole as director of basketball information systems and Landry Fields as a college scout, while promoting Andy Birdsong to director of pro player personnel and general manager of the Austin Spurs.San Antonio also promoted Brandon James to assistant general counsel and director of basketball administration and elevated Dave Telep to director of scouting. The Spurs named Xavi Schelling the teams director of sports science and athletic performance, while promoting Niraj Mulji to basketball operations manager and Dutch Gaitley as video coordinator, where hell replace Hardy. ' ' '