Southampton (A) | Pre-Match Thread

Result Prediction

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Marvin said:
It's not complacency.

Look this is really obvious. There is a long established trend this season. We dominate possession as we always have but can't create chances.

Look at the key creative players and there you will find your answer
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We played West Brom at home. There was something missing last night and it wasn't creating or scoring, it was more the intangibles. The desire, the workrate, the tempo, the skill, the belief, the understanding. We've tried endless amounts of player combinations and formations etc. We've used every excuse in the book for our form for a good few months now.

I personally believe something was broken v Lyon. We are getting to a breaking point where we're gonna find out how much the players still want to play for him and how much he can get out of them. This is a huge, huge game for the future of the club.
 
Can’t see us winning this one I’m afraid, feels like the only way is down at the moment. We are stuck in a real rut and it doesn’t look to me as if we have a plan to get out of it.
Pep has earned the right to be given time but I really see only one ending to this.
I’ll go with:

Ederson
Walker
Stones
Diaz
Ake (for lack of any other option)
Gundog
De Bruyne
Bernardo
Torres
Jesus
Mahrez

No doubt Plodri will play and we will get done on the counter after a 300 pass side to side move from us.
0-1 to them.
 
Eventually a team that tries to play football - should be an easy win for City.
Hassenhutl is an adventurous manager so hopefully we'll see a proper game of football
 
I’m looking forward to this game. I Hope that the Saints feel that they can go toe to toe with us, which should play into our hands.
Too many teams are just setting up to stifle the game, thinking that taking a point from us is good a good result.
 
Mr Blue Moon said:
I’m looking forward to this game. I Hope that the Saints feel that they can go toe to toe with us, which should play into our hands.
Too many teams are just setting up to stifle the game, thinking that taking a point from us is good a good result.
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Yeah it would be nice to see a fairy open game for a change. The shocking thing is Leeds managed to basically match us whilst going toe to toe. Christ knows how many we'd have scored against a team like them doing that 2/3 years ago.
 
OccupiedPalestineBlues said:
My concern is that we’ll have 70%+ possession and draw or get beaten because we fail to take any of our 10 clear chances and Southampton have 1 shot on target and score.

I really don’t know why I have this irrational concern but it’s really nagging at me :-(
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Last 2 games we haven't really created any chances. You could argue the last 10 mins v WBA but this new focus on DM is taking away a lot of the progressive play we are known for.
I think we're underdogs going into the Southampton game and this may play into our hands so hopefully we'll get a point if we're lucky.
 
It won't make any difference what team we put out, it'll still be the same old, same old
 
I don’t think it matters what 11 players we stick out, they’ll be asked to do the exact same shite we’ve seen all season and Southampton will cope with it with ease. No confidence in us getting a result here and that’s quite damning.
 
The one and only time we got to the byline last night, we scored. Play Torres, tell him to be brave and take his full back on. Get players in the box, near post, far post and for a cut back. Be brave. We will all applaud that kind of energy. Come on lads.
 
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