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

[Stoned Rose]

Possibly the worst 45 mins in about 15 years that.

Looks like 11 strangers who’ve never played together.

Absolutely diabolical.

 

[BlueMonkey79]

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

One of the rare occasions where the game is actually shitter than the comments coming out of the match day thread.

 

[argyle]

Disappointed in Grealish, Foden and Gundogan. Senior players who have done nothing.

 

[super_city_si]

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

He's given the squad players their chance, i think he'll call them out at half time and tell them to fix it

 

[The Black Shed]

This squad is crying out for some serious pace and athleticism.

Hell yeah

 

[dublin-blue]

I don't care that we are going out, I do care that we handed the rags a free run at a trophy

 

[applejuice]

Learnt a lot this half. Cancelo has forgotten what a football is. Walker isn’t a centre back and Sergio isn’t good enough. Palmer needs to curb his off field activities, Kalvin is a long way from being a starter. Horrendous half not helped by Southampton’s willingness to press, ref allowing them to kick us without fear of a card, the pitch looking like a rugby match was played on it this afternoon and the players not looking arsed.

off field activities... how do you see it in the 1st half...

 

[The perfect fumble]

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

Remember alot of us used to watch worse than that!

I've blown the dust off....

 

[kippaxchris]

So....

Couple of issues Pep has missed.

Cancelo has always been poor at right back but fantastic at left back until recently where he's been poor at left back so Pep puts him right back, Walker hasn't played much recently & he's at centre back. We have an apparently overweight player who hasn't played all season playing alongside Gundogan who unfortunately can't run, tackle, pass, shoot or control the ball. Then to top it off we have an attacking midfielder slash right winger playing left back.

 

[Blu3m00n91]

Akanji > Gomez, Haaland > Palmer, Bernardo > Phillips. At least get some control back in the game