Southampton (H) | PL | Post-Match Thread

[5 Hit Gibbon]

We got the 3 points and we keep moving. It wasn't a classic to watch though.

 

[Stiff Little Wingers]

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.

True, I get that but ideally you want to be taking maybe Erling and Bernardo off and bring on McAtee and Gundo but hard to do that at 1-0

 

[Mr Ed (The Stables)]

Yep 3 points and we move on. We need to start getting some bodies back from injury sooner rather than later. We move onto the next game.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

I nearly nodded off several times.

In the past we’d have annihilated cannon fodder like that 8-0.

3 points etc but we’re really not at it this season (yet).

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

I think its that Peter Sutcliffe lookalike in charge of them. He gets his teams to play good football and he demands they pass the ball. Sometimes though they need to scrap a point away at those at the end of the table and he wont budge on his principles

Am I missing something? They spent the entire game putting 11 men behind the ball playing dead today.

 

[s1ty m]

I hope Soton stay up. Played great football and sold out their end. No rubbish songs either. I was nervous all game due to their skill.

Not sure about that. Literally had every player inside their own box, multiple times. I hate that anti-football shite. They will finish bottom, 100%. City were really poor, as bad as I have seen them in two years, but they still only mustered two weak attempts on goal. Dire. No idea where the 'they play good football' comes from. They do not. Today, neither did we, for balance

As for their pathetic chanting, akin to the nursery rhyme shite like Huddersfield last season. Childish, and embarrasing. Football in a library, eh? The chant of the playground, not of followers of a proper club. Fucking bullshit.

 

[OB1]

I nearly nodded off several times.

In the past we’d have annihilated cannon fodder like that 8-0.

3 points etc but we’re really not at it this season (yet).

Not at it.

Honestly, people are spoilt.

This was another very dominant performance despite the amount of passes and possession Southampton had and City’s lack of goals.

Southampton’s possession was mostly in their own half.

Some excellent last ditch defending and goalkeeping kept the score down.

Undoubtedly City were a bit tired and several times their decision making went awry but overall they played well again.

We won’t get to annihilate many teams because they all have game plans very much designed to avoid that.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

The whole “Southampton play proper football” thing is the biggest load of horse shit since “Pochettino is a world class manager”.

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Bored of teams setting up to lose against us. Time wasting in the 75th minute with hope of the scored being 1-0 in the final few minutes to snatch a draw. Pathetic.

No other club in the country has to face a 11 man defence. I know we are better than everyone else, so I can see why they do it. It just makes watching our games tedious half the time.

 

[eyalluvitt]

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