Southampton (A) | PL | Post-Match Thread

[SebastianBlue]

Just wanted to say I don’t think Nathan Ake will get appropriate recognition for the brilliant work he did today, especially in the first half when we weren’t really clicking yet.

I posted this in his performance thread but I think it is worth reposting here:

Ake had a few he sniffed out but that 1v1 situation resulting from the poor back pass and fluff from Kev was one that stood out to me.

Soton score there and the game is very different. Perhaps we still win—as poking the beast hasn’t exactly worked with us most of the time this season—but he made sure we didn’t have to come from behind by keeping his head and playing what looked a very tentative attacker in to making a mistake that Eddie could pounce on.

He didn’t go to ground rashly, he didn’t give up running; he coolly slowed and shepherded the Soton forward and made him think about his next move. He saw the entire chess board in an instant and the opposition could only see the pawns closing in.

As someone may or may not have said once, battle is won or lost in the six inches between your ears, and right now I wouldn’t trade the bits between his for any other defender’s in the league.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Just wanted to say I don’t think Nathan Ake will get appropriate recognition for the brilliant work he did today, especially in the first half when we weren’t really clicking yet.

I posted this in his performance thread but I think it is worth reposting here:

Ake had a few he sniffed out but that 1v1 situation resulting from the poor back pass and fluff from Kev was one that stood out to me.

Soton score there and the game is very different. Perhaps we still win—as poking the beast hasn’t exactly worked with us most of the time this season—but he made sure we didn’t have to come from behind by keeping his head and playing what looked a very tentative attacker in to making a mistake that Eddie could pounce on.

He didn’t go to ground rashly, he didn’t give up running; he coolly slowed and shepherded the Soton forward and made him think about his next move. He saw the entire chess board in an instant and the opposition could only see the pawns closing in.

As someone may or may not have said once, battle is won or lost in the six inches between your ears, and right now I wouldn’t trade the bits between his for any other defender’s in the league.

He’s fucking excellent.

Easily in the running for our POTS.

 

[Bowyers Sausages]

The first goal was checked by VAR as you described but there was nothing to see.

The second goal was checked by VAR for offside despite it being unnecessary because it was obvious from the cut/shade of grass that it was not offside.

Stupid, corrupt attempts to forensically analyse goals to disallow them. Brighton in particular are victims today.

Wasn’t surprised to learn it was Stuart Attwell.

 

[KS55]

Because this goal deserves more than one gif. ;-)

It‘s a tap in!

 

[Vic]

I have to give it to every person that was at Southampton today. Watching from TV, the singing was immense and got more and more intense.There were about 10 minutes when it is was the focal point over the commentary.

It should have been on the commentary especially during the last few minutes seeing out the game, when it was more interesting than watching the exhibition football. I thought the "you're doing down" was a bit unnecessary!

 

[Blue Budgie]

Cast your mind back two years to the Brighton v City game when we lost 3-2 but was irrelevant because we had already won the league.

The common denominator is Twatwell. He makes Walton look competent.

 

[eversince 76]

Great win despite a mediocre 1st half that could’ve shown a different scoreline. and where we played far too many passes backwards and sideways in a standstill tempo. The few times we did up the tempo we immediately created chances.
The 1-0 couldn’t have come at a better moment.

2nd half and we were ruthless. No complaints. Just great to watch. With Haaland’ bicycle kick the WOW moment.
We can play some great football. It was a pity it lasted 45 minutes.

 

[bluetonium]

Excellent result, to see the way we responded and changed to the way the game flowed was an education.

One slight gripe would be not challenging harder for their goal, but I'm ok with that overall. Can't have them thinking they were flawless...

Was in the pub watching this, some United fans lingering in there from their game earlier (no, of course they'd not been to the game!) chanting 'when the saints go marching in' and 'tap in merchant, he's just a tap in merchant', fell very silent when Erling decided to stretch his legs, got laughed at by the entire pub, and in true Trafford rat style, ran away.

One thing that bugged me and got kind of lost in the four goals, the handball. It hit his hand definitively, and any argument for it being too close is nullified by the fact he clearly moves his hand towards the ball, and changed the flight of the ball, so what the hell VAR? Not mentioned at half time or in match of the day?

 

[Ashleymcduff]

Best away day ever been to the support was unreal and it was going off at half time

 

[Heisenberg's Blue Sky]

Bloody hell. From groin injury to this...well done medical team. Hurts my knackers just looking at the photo. Skol!

 

[JTFactsPlz]

More like evidence they're all incompetent as there is no way Spurs are organized enough to have the brown envelopes turn up for the right people.

Betting not bribery?

 

[Gone for a Burton]

I didn't even cheer, i just said fuck!
Then got bollocked off the wife cause the young un was in the room, worth it though.

Kevin’s ‘no look’ over the shoulder pass to Jack in the first half was a thing of beauty that should be on a show reel.

Technique,vision, timing, accuracy....all executed whilst on the run.

 

[MadchesterCity]

God, Kevin's looking extra ginger in his interview

So dam sexy, he’s got his carrot top on for Easter

 

[AsaMac]

On the way home, great away day! We were singing non stop! Great atmosphere, one of the best!
Saints fans to us when Haaland missed a header in the first half… ‘he’s just a shit ricky Lambert…’

When he scored his second, city fans… ‘he’s just a shit ricky Lambert’
Quality.

Concourse was bouncing at half time! On to Tuesday!

Yesterday was how it feels to be City. Anxiety when we don't get out of the starting blocks, then jaw-dropping amazement when we finally wake up. Turning around the Ricky Lambert chant was so typical City. The saints fans who sang the original chant must have felt so stupid.....if they hadn't already left the stadium.

 

[MadchesterCity]

"He'll be injured for half the season" "He won't get the space to run into that he has in the Bundesliga" "He'll be off as soon as Real activate his release clause". Shut up and suck it up you bitter pricks.

Sign him up for life

 

[Alexia_Ko]

Have to agree. Southampton had some decent chances before we scored. Bayern will be a bigger test but cannot wait for it!

I think at the Etihad the players get up for big matches. We've beaten all the big 6 teams at the Etihad this season. We have also won all of our UCL matches at the Etihad this season. The players will surely be up for it, the performance will be way better, Bayern couldn't have come at a better time.

 

[Vic]

...One thing that bugged me and got kind of lost in the four goals, the handball. It hit his hand definitively, and any argument for it being too close is nullified by the fact he clearly moves his hand towards the ball, and changed the flight of the ball, so what the hell VAR? Not mentioned at half time or in match of the day?

It's referees using the criteria for accidentally having your hand in an unnatural position to ignore the unchanged primary offence of deliberate handball.

• deliberately touches the ball with their hand/arm, for example moving the hand/arm towards the ball
• touches the ball with their hand/arm when it has made their body unnaturally bigger.

I don't like it when they give handball when the ball hits a hand that the player is trying to pull out of the way. Yesterday I thought he had his arm close to the body but still flicked out his hand deliberately.

 

[Nellies left peg]

Betting not bribery?

Cheese from their famous trophy, sorry cheese room instead of brown envelopes stuffed with cash. If I were Brighton I would be fuming after those decisions, it’s possibly fucked their season

 

[MadchesterCity]

Here are the official all-time big chances created stats in the Premier League since Opta began tracking the metric.

Big Chances Created is a much better measure of creative players for the reason we say today: assists are heavily dependent on the receiving player finishing the chance, whilst Big Chances Created measures the creation of the clear chance itself, regardless of whether it lead to a goal.

Kev is arguably the best creative midfielder in Premier League history, and arguably up there with the best in the world.

No Giggs, when did they start the metric?

 

[Gone for a Burton]

The upcoming arsenal match is starting to feel like the home matches against Utd 11/12 and Pool 18/19

We have course and distance.

Brighton a & Villa h were also huge tests of mental strength.

One
Game
At
A
Time.....is the philosophy and we’ll probably have to win them all.

We’ve done it before !!