Southampton (A) | Post Match Thread

ninjamonkey said:
What? You think we were good?

By asking if that's the worst 4-1 ever I'm saying have we ever come out with such a convincing scoreline that doesn't match the performance.
We were better against palace midweek than we were today, we were better in the 1-1 draw against them in the league at Saint Mary's than we was today. One of our poorest performances of the season on the whole yet one of our better results. Some poor mistakes from them and some moments of pure class primarily from our subs put a shine on that. Not complaining, give me another 16 of those please, result was all that mattered but in my opinion Pep won't be pleased with that performance despite the inevitable interviews saying the usual about us being so so good.
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Firstly,I would say our victory against Blackburn is without doubt the most convincing score line

And I think we have been in similar games Napoli home and away and a couple of German teams pressed and put us under tremendous pressure. Again they went a goal up and we were in disarray.

this game I thought was slightly different

Southampton pressed perfectly but only created a few chances.
we had moments only to give the ball away. Dare I say cheaply. Because their pressing was fantastic all over the pitch.

all that hard work takes it’s toll. And like all the other games mentioned. We finally come out triumphant.

It’s hard enough defending against Foden and Mahrez with fresh legs. Tired legs and with instructions on where the space was is impossible

southampton kept trying from the first to the last and in that sense the score was harsh.
But it’s a ninety minute game. Good luck trying to keep a City team subdued for that length of time.
 
paulchapo said:
I don't like Southampton one bit. Weird fans and people. I sailed with a fair few from that region years ago and they were invariably cocky not nice people. Portsmouth fans call them scummers for this reason.

According to some Portsmouth fans, the term "scum" developed out of an fictitious acronym standing for Southampton City (or Corporation) Union Men, with the term allegedly originating from when Southampton dockyard workers supposedly crossed the picket lines in the 1930s when Portsmouth dockyard workers were on strike.

I don't like them for causing a huge fuss about the ticket allocation for our last ever game at Maine Road then beating us 1-0. After all the fuss they didn't even sell out their ticket allocation, which is normal for them. Then they sing "Your support is fucking shit" to us after we took almost 5,000 fans on a Sunday for a 400 mile round trip bring shown live on the TV. Fuck off Southampton and then fuck off some more.

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I found them ok outside the ground, met quite a few in Browns pub before and after and they were really friendly and nice to my kids. However inside the ground I thought they were rubbish, about 300 of them singing, and having the cheek to sing you’re support is fucking shit to us.
 
BringBackSwales said:
It can be the same at the match too pal. There were 2 blokes behind me, utter bell end cunts, shouting abuse at players at every mis hit pass, fucking knobs. I just about kept it together and didn’t say anything as I was there with my 2 lads but when we turned round to do the Poznań at 3 1 and the gobbiest of the two cunts was stood there facing forward with his arms folded I had to tell him what a **** he was. How people can travel that far and just shout continuous senseless abuse at our players is beyond me. These two made the matchday thread seem like an oasis of positivity
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Wasn't these two,was it?

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at 1-1 we didnt look good, we had odd good spell but odd shite spell, sloppy & bad passes, thought it was a good idea for all our players to wear orange bots then they could recognise each other.

once we finished our chances and passed better it got the better of the saints, did we tire them out ?

But up until 1-1 we didnt look like a title wining / champions league winner, if Southampton can do a job on us then how can we compete. We have had 2 or 3 games like this recently, need to re group.

Has to be said we could and should have been 6-1 with the sitters we missed.
 
DrBlueBob said:
I am not sure that I have ever seen a hat used for the draw, despite the common phrase. I would guess that it used to relate to a political vote of some sort but you have got me thinking. Funny how I have never considered it before.
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I’m sure they used to do the them in velvet caps at some point it probably imagined it!
 
trevorriley said:
at 1-1 we didnt look good, we had odd good spell but odd shite spell, sloppy & bad passes, thought it was a good idea for all our players to wear orange bots then they could recognise each other.

once we finished our chances and passed better it got the better of the saints, did we tire them out ?

But up until 1-1 we didnt look like a title wining / champions league winner, if Southampton can do a job on us then how can we compete. We have had 2 or 3 games like this recently, need to re group.

Has to be said we could and should have been 6-1 with the sitters we missed.
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You ask how we could compete vs better teams, and then you say it must have been 6:1. Well, how many teams could beat Southampton 6:1 at their ground? Or "just" 4:1.

We weren't brilliant between the 1st and the 2nd-goal, but (1) we were without several players (Ederson, Dias, Bernardo, Mahrez, Foden), and (2) the motivation against teams like Liverpool or Bayern will be through the roof. Southampton are good, but this City team has won so much, it struggles at times vs teams like Palace and Southampton for a reason. We have dropped 17 pts so far, 9 from them against Palace and Southampton.

Generally, we play better against the better teams.
 
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