Match Thread | Southampton vs Man City (08/04/23)

[Deleted member 77198]

£50m-plus City paid for Haaland...

Said as if it's a lot of money.

Perhaps if you spend £35m more on Nunez!

These two make Haaland look like the steal of the century.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Positives:

• Ake again being the best defender in the league
• Haaland scoring from Kev’s 100th assist in the league
• We’re going in to the dressing room leading and Soton are going to talk about how they can open up to put us under more pressure

Negatives:

• Grealish miss early doors
• Quite a bit of sloppiness from almost everyone barring Dias, Ake, and Eddie
• Soton look threatening every time they get in our half
• Too much laboured passing once we get in their half
• Mahrez in particular had a very poor half, repeatedly losing the ball and putting us under immediate pressure

Obviously Pep will have seen all of this and much more, and will be working to tweak things to make sure we are more fluid and intentional in the second half.

Stones has done well again in his hybrid RB/CM role, but I do wonder if it is necessary in this game; it looked to be congesting the middle even more for us, so I am curious to see if Pep decides to change things a bit there.

All-in-all it was a frustrating first half but I can’t complain too much given the current score.

Let’s hope we come out with a rocket up our collective arse for the second half and Haaland gets another hat trick (and not just because I captained him on my FPL team), before we take off him, Kev, and Rodri ahead of our big midweek clash.

 

[Jam Tomorrow]

Come on City let’s get this done !

 

[MaskedAguero10]

BTW we must get lavia back at all costs this guy is the real deal

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Erling Haaland, because he’s worth it.

 

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

Won't watch sky, it's shit

 

[deano ou812]

"The 50m+ striker but he's worth it " just fuck off sky no other side gets the snide comments we do , or graphs showing fewest touches

They are hurting,desperate for us to go away..

 

[Hayley Croppers chopper]

"The 50m+ striker but he's worth it " just fuck off sky no other side gets the snide comments we do , or graphs showing fewest touches

It’s a compliment, he is worth over 200m in today’s game.

 

[come-on-barney]

He has been shit, barring a wonderful assist.

His stats were he passed to the opponent six times out of eight.

That's what you get with Kev. The pivotal moment.

That’s why he is unreal.

 

[malg]

Can you please just shove Augusta up your arse.