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

[ninjamonkey]

Problem has been our defence have been incapable of building up play over the halfway line, laporte is trying but he's got Phillips who isn't totally sure what to do yet infront of him, gomez who can't seem to find a blue shirt to his left and walker who keeps smashing 10 yard balls to everyone to his right.

No point bringing on Haaland when Julian alvarez has had 2 touches through no fault of his own. Get Gomez and Grealish off at halftime bring on akanji and kdb and play players in their actual fucking position. get right back Kyle walker at right back and cancelo left. Akanji partnering laporte then get foden on the left and kdb central can still turn it around.

 

[domalino]

Very odd game. Got Cancelo playing the Rodri role and Philips playing the Cancelo role from the last Chelsea game. Should be the other way around!

Cancelo not driving forward as a result and not disrupting the oppo mid as Rodri does.

Too many short passes and silly unneeded flicks going on. Over confidence without putting the work in.

No control of the mid leaves no service to Alvarez, so no chances!

Needs shuffling and someone to control the mid for us.

Cancelo is just awful and has been for a while.

Does nothing defensively, hides from the ball, contributes nothing in the build up, doesn't help out his teammates under pressure.

He might as well not be on the pitch.

 

[SWPISHOME]

Grealish and Palmer - neither anywhere near Mahrez's level. Foden non existent. Alvarez invisible.

Grealish looks our only threat to be fair. Yet he has the shit show Gomez on his side too. It's hard to single out just one player tonight, As a team collectively we've been shit.

 

[jaiguruKun]

It set alarm bells ringing in my head when Pep said a few weeks ago there was a possibility of him leaving his contract early if he wasn't getting through to the players.

We've been here before with a poor run of performances but this particular run coupled with the comments made could be different. Sorry to be a bedwetting doom merchant, really hope he proves everyone wrong again.

 

[DMA's]

I think there's a decent player in there somewhere in Phillips, I can put this down to first season syndrome.

Gomez however is nowhere near our level. Struggling to see what we saw in him.

Think Gomez was a panic buy after we realised we couldnt get cucurella.

seriously the recent recruitment has been so poor

 

[nellyonthewing]

Grealish is the new Jesus Navas . Cannot get the ball past the first man.

 

[Jam Tomorrow]

Can’t we just call it 2-0 and let the blues fuck off home now?

 

[FantasyIreland]

There’s only Walker playing out of position, isn’t there? Not sure it’s really square pegs. Just a set of absolutely dogshit performances. I haven’t seen us underhit, overhit or misplace as many passes for years.

We have 1 centre half,and 2 pretend fullbacks.It throws the shape of the team completely.

You build a team from the back,on solid foundations.....im fucking sick of this false fullback shite,and why when we have 4 world class centre haves available is only 1 on the pitch ?

 

[Akiva]

Pep has brought more success to City than we could ever have dreamed, but he can't win with some of you lot.

Playing this side to prioritise the derby was the right decision and the people suggesting we bring on Haaland and KDB early are out of their fucking minds.

Nobody wants to go out in this game, but the Rags game is vastly, vastly more important and Pep was right to rest our best for it.

 

[Victorinodennistua]

bit over optimistic…….

Your right sir I am