Southampton (A) - Carabao Cup | Post Match Thread

[citytill1die84]

Which bit of they wanted to leave for regular football do you not understand ?

Unbelievable isn't it?

 

[citymad]

This was worse than West Ham in that quarter final at home when all we had was that blue carpet in the trophy room.

 

[Paulmcfc2703]

We've been a lot less "shite" than 18 others to be fair ;-), we might not be at our very best but we are still pretty good most of the time.

We started slowly on Sunday, but once we got going we played some very good football until the game was finished at 4-0 then passed it around, not letting them get a touch, good game management that, ahead of a difficult week.

Pep picked a poor team tonight, a team who then compounded it by having the worst first half we've had collectively in several years.

I disagree. I think we have been poor the vast majority of games this season.

If this was a 1 off then you can take it on the chin but despite tonight being particularly poor we have struggled numerous times this season.

 

[peter.evans]

We always seem to have one of these results in us, complete let down!

There's been a few lately !

 

[SWPISHOME]

One positive we can take from tonight is we have avoided two seriously tough games against Newcastle which would have been played the end of January and start of February which is already congested.

I wouldn't think the Gooners are too happy we have been knocked out tonight.

 

[East Level 2]

Very weird

the worst Chelsea since Roman took over ?

It's true Chelsea were awful, but you can only beat what's in front of you. The biggest margins of victory in the third round were City 4-0 and Brighton 5-1 at Boro. Plenty of PL teams played lower division teams and won by smaller margins. It's not the most statistically relevant metric but it's a good margin of victory. The more worrying bit is that we only had one or two decent chances on top of the four we scored.

 

[Scottyboi]

Fair play to Soton and Lavia, we were truly dreadful the standards have dropped all over the pitch. Martin Petrov is a better left back than Gomez. But it's not his fault Pep plays him at a level well above his.

The fullback situation has plagued us since Clichy and Kolarov ffs, Phillips needs a full season to adapt to this team he's a Lidl Fernandinho.

And when Grealish was in the box in the first half shooting did anyone believe he could score? I didn't even flinch.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

I disagree. I think we have been poor the vast majority of games this season.

If this was a 1 off then you can take it on the chin but despite tonight being particularly poor we have struggled numerous times this season.

And yet are 2 nd in the PL

 

[cleavers]

I disagree. I think we have been poor the vast majority of games this season.

If this was a 1 off then you can take it on the chin but despite tonight being particularly poor we have struggled numerous times this season.

OK.

We're 2nd.

Won our CL group with 2 games to spare.

Beat one of the favorites in the FA Cup, and 2 of the favorites in the CC.

We had a shite night today, because we have a number of big games up coming.

Enjoy your misery, I'm over it, despite that shite first half tonight, but I'm blaming the coach for picking a shite team, he was always going to rotate with a bigger game Saturday, he could have done it better for me, I'm sure the best coach in the world will know.

 

[Paulmcfc2703]

Well, you're using our past as a measuring stick, where we're not playing well by that metric.

However, we're not in the past, so we're playing well enough to be second at the moment.

The maths and position does not lie.

Not sure why that doesn't compute?

Over the last 15 league games we have got 2 less points than United.

Based on form and maths as they do not lie are United playing better than us?

Since United were battered by Brentford they have got more points than us.