Southampton (A) Post-Match Thread

[Kinkys Left Foot]

Too many mistakes Zinchenko gets pelters because they scored. Garcia makes a howler and gets away with it.
How the fick can we concede so few chances in a game we ansolutely dominate and lose, time and time again.
Piss poor finishing thats how.

 

[wahablue]

Did the team get told it’s a two year ban after all,that was abysmal.

 

[daztrueblue91]

Abysmal
9 defeats with that squad we have is totally bewildering and unforgivable.
I can foresee another 2 or 3 by the end to leave it as double digits. We've lost more games than the Rags and Arsenal who have been atrocious.
Said it in the match thread we wouldn't score if we played until Christmas and was proved right.
Personally I think were flat track bullies this season, we cant hack teams who put in a shift against us and work hard.
We wont win anything else this season.

The we have lost more games than United and Arsenal speaks volumes about our attack as well as defence.

We don’t draw many games. It shows that when the defence does indeed fuck up, which it has done on far too many occasions, the attack is also toothless.

The fact we are the top scorers in the league just hides the problem for me. We’ve lost that mentality to score important goals and whilst we will put 5/6 past some of the lesser sides in the division, we struggle to come back from being a goal down.

 

[Paul1970]

My biggest concern

I think he’s had his head turned .

 

[BLUEMATT23]

Beaten by the team in 13th place with virtually nothing to play for. No, really, that's pretty disgusting. I think back to the Centurions season and all the matches where we just had the drive to snatch it, even in injury time. That has scarcely happened this season.
We have the skill to smash the champions elect, but not the cussedness and determination when our backs are up against it.

We've become flat track bullies
Can beat liverpool but we didnt seem arsed today.

 

[Phil1]

In isolation yes but rinse & repeat 9 times this season.

This season (league) is gone - I’m not going to rant and rave over it.

 

[BigOscar]

Thought we were alright tbh, just one of those games where we were ridiculously unlucky and a bit wasteful and it gave them something to cling onto. We created more than enough to score about 5, but the ball just wouldn't go in, on any other day that's a comfortable win.

Zinchenko needs fucking off though, he's utterly pointless at leftback. The goal is obviously poor, but it's more that he just offers absolutely nothing to make up for the fact he can't run and is a defensive liability. Sideways passes or aimless loopy crosses into the box, that's all he's got. Cancelo on the other side was excellent, probably our best player, but ZInchenko put in a solid 0/10 performance. Bernardo looked far too indecisive as well, his confidence looks shot at the minute.

 

[Blu3m00n91]

Pep's subs actually made us worse.

This.. takes off two of our wide goal scorers for two central players. Agaisnt a team with 11 men behind the ball

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

A lot to ponder on, don’t think it’s knee jerk to suggest we need a CB LB LW & Striker....Koulibaly, Alaba, Son & Aubameyang for Stones please mister chairman thank you sir!

 

[Kokonut1307]

So your including Sterling,Aguero,Mahrez,Walker,Merlin on your ice rink ? Amazing what a difference a couple of days make ,

Apart from Kev and Phil the rest have been inconsistent and poor this season. Even Aguero has been dire at times. Does that mean they should be shipped away? Of course not. However, we need to look at improving some of those areas and not just our defence.