Southampton (H) | Post-Match Thread

Great result. Performance good in parts. Mahrez our best and most important player at the moment. Good to see KDB getting back to his best - maybe not quite there yet but near enough. We know for sure who our first choice CB pairing is now and we didn’t see it today. Whatever bollocks anyone comes up with to justify not giving us a penalty for the Foden tackle can only be idiotic. There should be an apology for a blatant mistake. The pen that was given was soft and no one would have said a word if the incident was ignored.
 
pavelsrnicek said:
Better result than performance. Foden, Mahrez and KDB did well. Laporte and Fernandinho not great. Walker gave away possession so often.

Moss was incredibly incompetent, the penalty non decision on Foden shows how poor the premier league referees are. VAR isn’t working because you have an awful ref on the pitch backed by another awful ref in Stockley Park. Instead of using VAR to give the referee another pair of eyes it’s giving 2 fools an excuse to come to wrong decision.
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why was laporte not great( ie poor) ?, fucking bemuses me, stones is the golden balls at the moment ,so laporte cant do anything right
 
Stoned Rose said:
The first 20 minutes were fucking abysmal with no discernible shape / idea.

After that some individual excellence papered over the cracks.

The penalty / VAR decision was yet another clear example of outright cheating. There literally is no other possible explanation.

3 points and back on the horse.
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Fully agree, it's been a while since a 5-2 win felt less enjoyable, and no I feel no sense of entitlement. Gone was our midfield/defense solidity that brought the most recent of our 21 wins. It was like a bunch of superstars from different clubs, meeting at a strange ground and taking on a good local team. Back to huge empty spaces in central midfield and 1 or 2 opponents running at and terrorising 4 or 5 defenders, a bit like we were last season. We won because we had the better individual players but I would be hiding behind the sofa if we fielded that starting 11 in the CL, playing like that, or against Leicester or Chelsea. I will be pounded , no doubt, but we need to go to Bernie, Rodri, Gundogan midfield with Cancelo & Oleks wide + Foden, Kevin + 1 other as a front 3 IMHO. It has been awhile since I felt relief instead of joy after a 5-2 win, but it could have been 9-6. Bright side is, 14 points ahead and 4 trophies still to play for and Pep threatening to wield the axe. Souness says Var officials are making it up as they go along, very hard to dispute that, it needs a thorough review with referees mic'd up like in Rugby, or better again employ some top European refs to make the Var decisions. Refereeing is not easy but television has exposed too many howlers.
 
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