Match Thread | Southampton vs. Man City (10/05/25)

[YaYa's Left Peg]

Haaland has been so static

 

[stan bowles]

You can only conclude that in training Haaland gets a stream of pinpoint crosses played to him not forcing him to move an inch because come the game, he's nowhere near any crosses that come in.

 

[City Raider]

They had our number defensively at home. Just need to take the big chance that will come

 

[waspish]

Looks like we have speeded it up a bit

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Dare I say, we're missing Gundo pulling the strings in the middle.

 

[BolinCell]

Limping into the CL places literally.

 

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

Premiersports commentary is possibly the worst I've ever heard. So I'll informed getting player's names wrong

The co commentator doesn't like us that's for sure

 

[B\connellblue]

Would you make a few changes Pep. This is complete shite.

 

[SiMCFC]

We seem to be less creative with Haaland on the pitch. We can’t even get into their box at the minute.

Because he makes literally zero effort to move for some reason. It's painful.

 

[jollylescott]

I know it's heresy to say this but sometimes we look more functional without Haaland than with him.

 

[citymad]

So frustrating to face 10 players in the box every game.No other team faces this. Pep needs a new style.

 

[Blu1]

We can’t afford to drop points here

Cmon city

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

Erl mate maybe run in front of a defender instead of behind him just once and you might actually get the fucking ball

I was hoping he would get a hattrick in this game and close the gap on Salah, would have made for a great headline but it seems like he isn't interested in carrying on with this season

 

[Rodri’s ACL]

We need creators desperately. Doku and Savinho aren’t wide playmakers like we had in 2023 with Jack and Bernie out wide, which doesn’t suit Erling, who we have to center our team around IMO. We also need creators in midfield. MGW a start, but we need a 10 who’ll punish defences and feed the beast, which we just don’t have anymore.

 

[super_city_si]

What does Lewis add here. Same for haaland.

 

[Mr Grumpy]

It's like a 20yd box version of long ball football

 

[balotellishaircut]

Oh let’s sleep walk in the first half and shit our pants in the 2nd, embarrassing from our manager

 

[Blue Elvis]

We had a week to prepare for this game.

Pep had a week to prepare for this game and this is the team he picked !
There are 5 subs he can use to change this shit performance.How much does he want a win ?

Or maybe it's a cunning plan to lull Crystal Palace into thinking we are really shit this season.

 

[Blueknows]

Even Leicester beat these 2-0 last week.
Sadly we play boring outdated football that isnt going to change with Pep and have bought so badly that if the season started again tomorrow, top 8 would be a challenge as most of our squad is not challenging material

Why spend that money and not play them ? Would like to see.more of Kush , Reiss ,Gonzalez and Echevveri , and start doku and moosh more can't do.any worse than mctee ,kev , gundo , bernie and lewis

 

[tommybooth]

Gordon fucking Bennett