Match Thread | Southampton vs Man City (11/01/23)

[supercity88]

Fucking hell. I don't know where to start. Can we make 11 changes? Absolutely pathetic. Weak. No fight. No quality. They're taking the piss. Armstrong dribbled round about 6 of our players. Joke this. Pep will be fuming with that.

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

Pep said he had a ridiculous game plan for the rags. Maybe he's decided to implement his ridiculous idea ahead of time, trying to throw them off before bringing out the big guns on Saturday.

 

[The perfect fumble]

Rare for the match day thread to struggle to do justice to just how shit that was.

 

[Stockport mackem]

Difficult to take the positives from the first half....

 

[Bald fraud]

You could tell with the look on Laportes face after about ten minutes what was coming

 

[ftg89]

Skybet doing Man City to have 0 shots on target in the second half 40/1 by the way

 

[SCEtoAUX]

Kev, Viking, Mahrez. 4-2 City. Keep the faith.

 

[kippaxwarrior]

Well the good news is at least 9 of these players won't start on Saturday

 

[Blu1]

If he doesn’t make 3 subs at HT, he clearly isn’t bothered about this.

I hope he isn’t bothered

 

[Josh_D]

Not watching so just looked at positional line up on LiveScore showing Palmer there, tbf though Foden has barely ever played there either
Just to many changes and positional tweaks by the looks/sounds of it

He was fine there (Phil) a few days ago alongside Bernardo.

It’s not been great but I keep the faith till the final whistle. Not much I can do. Only Pep/players can rectify this.

 

[bert38]

And Grealish

It’s no coincidence most of his crosses/shots get blocked. He gets into space so often on the left but always needs to square his body up to use his right boot. The pass to Mahrez the other night was an occasion when he trusted his left.

 

[JWCH-99]

Grealish has been our best player by some distance

First of all I like the username. Secondly, he’s definitely been most involved but his end product is woeful. He needs 10 crosses to find a man and his shot forever hits the man in front of him as he doesn’t shift the ball enough to make space for it

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Saturday is far more important

It is but some of the 11 on the pitch could show a bit of urgency

 

[Dirty Harry]

I’m actually not sure what I’ve just watched there, it’s been fuckin awful and too many players hiding.

 

[argyle]

Some should feel nostalgic as that was the worst we've seen in years.

Remember alot of us used to watch worse than that!

 

[SidJames]

Why do we never play out players in their best positions these days.

This fucking about literally every game, whacking square Pegs in to round Holes is killing us.

And really what is the actual need for it ?

Other than for Pep to say " Look how smart i am with my superior footballing Brain ".

It is fucking stupid and costing us big time.

 

[TueartsCossackSpray]

I’m normally a glass half full but still I'm struggling with this. Can anyone enlighten me when we were last this poor in a game? I can’t really take a positive out of it.

 

[wattle]

is Phillips always this slow or just unfit?

Being over run by peps shit tactics and line up. No need to go this weak when you’ve got 5 subs available. Went due Haaland need a week off. He’s just had two months. Livid at this effort - or lack of it. What’s the point of going strong v Liverpool and Chelsea to get through then practically hand a very shit Southampton the tie on a plate

 

[lancs blue]

The good news, it won't go to extra time.

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

Save the big guns. Throw the fucking tie. We have bigger fish to fry this year. Not worth risking Saturday for.

Kind of concur pal but beating the dippers and chavs kind of dictates we should go for it; that old adage of winning a trophy early still resonates for me