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

[SebastianBlue]

Positive: Laporte looked decent.

 

[SWPISHOME]

Cancelo is just awful and has been for a while.

I can never understand playing Cancelo right back, It's like asking Oscar Pistorius to wax his legs.

Cancelo is fabulous out on the left, He's obviously more comfortable on that side. Hopefully he goes left back in the second half, Take Gomez off and put Akanji on.

 

[The slaughtered lamb]

Is he trolling us again?…

 

[roach3]

The gulf between Rodri and Phillips is immense
Cancelo giving the ball away 4 times in 1st 5 mins told me how this game plays out
Gomez Phillips nowhere near city quality
Did Alvarez actually touch the ball in that half?
Saints game raising with nothing to lose

Utd licking their lips here

 

[OrigamiNinja]

Feel sorry for Alvarez as they aren't actually creating anything for him.

Yeah he somewhat gets a pass. We have had next to no sustained possession in the final 3rd. Nobody up top on their own in that 1st half shit-show is doing anything.

 

[IcriedwhenTueartleft]

Woeful performance from the very first few minutes right up until the end of that half. Several fringe players making an arse of themselves.
Phillips has been awful, Gomez has turned in a joke of a performance, "The Wizard of Joao" Cancelo looks like he couldn't give a toss.
GK - ridiculous 2nd goal to give away
Palmer - one footed, slow, can't finish..did you see him ambling back a few times?
Can't do any worse in the 2nd half, surely?

 

[chaddblue]

I think you’re right. He will give it 20
Minutes and then just go for it with 4-5 big guns. Not worth the risk of anything else. The plus of saving 3 fixtures is a big one should we go out.

With that 11 after another 20 minutes we’ll be 3 or 4-0 down

 

[Revo66]

Well I’ve just time traveled back to the 80/90’s ffs.

 

[clarion]

Foden on the right is facing our goal. Jack on the left too. How can we score?

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

I was just thinking that. Still unacceptable from the players, all of them. The worst half of Pep's reign, by some margin. And every time the teams are scoring against us, it is the goal of the month/season. I just don't get Pep, what was idea behind this formation.

This made me laugh,it's like teams save their best goals for us. I don't get it.