LittleStan said:
themadinventor said:
First game rusty and with a new player in the team, I'd rather start like that and get better as the season goes on than start on fire and fade away, 3 points , happy.
I agree, didn't we struggle against Swansea as well on the first game last year? I know we won well but a lot of people were saying we should have done better.
Just because Southampton are newly promoted does not mean they are shit and winning when not playing well is a sign of champions.
Against Swansea we were happy for them to have the majority of possession because it was at the half way line. Conceding two goals against a team on the back of a successive promotion is frankly unforgivable.
There is a stark difference between this side and some title winning sides of the past. Some teams would come out of games against the really good sides and know they didn't have a chance to win at any point. We give teams way, way too many chances to get something from games. We did it a downright stupid amount last season. It's good for entertainment but it's useless for our blood pressure.
We need to get our heads in the game and tighten it the hell up. Hopefully this is just the blip where anyone thinking this would be easy has been well and truly knocked out of them. Mancini will be rightly furious after that debacle.