Southampton (H) | PL | Post-Match Thread

[marco]

top of the lg,near to half a dozen players out and won and some folk moan

 

[paulchapo]

Heroic performance, lol. It's another win at the end of the day but another tough watch. We are top of the league!

Tough watch is the bloody word! How I miss the days of going 3-0 up and passing teams to death.

 

[Stiff Little Wingers]

Just home from the game. That was a tough watch. Southampton were surprisingly good in possession but were totally lacking in ambition. They locked into a rigid 5-4-1 from the start and refused to change it. If they had they might have got something out of the game (or they could have got spanked). I understand people’s frustration having to watch that but if the opponent refuses to engage in a football match there really isn’t much we can do about it. We could, and probably should, have scored two or three more goals but with our threadbare squad three points is all that counts at the moment.

But I think there is more we can do. At 1-0 so early it wax a great opportunity to get ghd second and the starting to look to rest players but instead we played in such a one paced and predictable way.
It's often frustrating when Akanji and Dias have it t in central muddied, They move at a snai's pace and then pass square. Why nipnof move forward quickly, try to tempt someone out and get us moving.
Good result today but poor display

 

[OntarioBlue]

top of the lg,near to half a dozen players out and won and some folk moan

Some people expect us to steamroll every team we play. It just doesn’t work that way.

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

Have you ever seen a team time wasting at 1-0 down?

I think that was mind games. Ex Arse too. They didn't want a straight forward 2 or 3 minutes injury time, they wanted more, then we retreat and they've got more chances of getting one. It was well rehearsed in my book.

 

[BELFAST_BLUE_BOY]

Everytime I watch CITY I learn something new about life itself.......

 

[blueste41]

How opposition fans can claim Haaland only scores tap in's is beyond me, he scores everything BUT tap in's!

 

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

The sight of Phil, on the break, 10 mins to go, slowing down to a jog and not attacking the acres of space in front of him, was a sad reflection of the way we're playing right now.

It will improve as we go through the season but fuck me, its a tough watch.

will it? I'm not hopeful. Seems to be the tempo we'll see all year.

 

[OntarioBlue]

But I think there is more we can do. At 1-0 so early it wax a great opportunity to get ghd second and the starting to look to rest players but instead we played in such a one paced and predictable way.
It's often frustrating when Akanji and Dias have it t in central muddied, They move at a snai's pace and then pass square. Why nipnof move forward quickly, try to tempt someone out and get us moving.
Good result today but poor display

But we couldn’t rest players. We had five outfielders on the bench, two of whom needed a rest (Gundo and Stones). Who would you have brought on. As long as we were leading Pep was going to keep the original eleven on the pitch.

 

[I'm Blue]

Firstly well played Southampton.
One of best performances playing out from the back we’ve played against.
Luckily lacking upfront.
Thought we were pretty poor all in all, though we had more than enough chances to make it a comfortable afternoon, but we didn’t.
I had a feeling it’d be a close game, more so when I was seeing comments like ‘Haaland will score 6’ and ‘it could be a cricket score’
3 points and we move on.
With the game tomorrow it was important we got the win above all else.