Southampton (H) | Post Match Thread

[Kippax77]

This, wish he would stop bigging up the opposition before games and giving the players an excuse, tiredness before the game. If i was Southampton manager i would be telling my players ohh boo hoo those expensive players are tired, poor little sods and getting my team up for it.

Sterling is like playing with 10, poor form does not last almost 2 seasons. Offers nothing to us anymore but its our woeful finishing and poor transfer windows to blame. Not addressed the lack of pace and energy in the team, esp through the middle. Its like the game as evolved and those teams with pace and energy run rings past our slow and sluggish yet technical players

I thought you weren't supposed to feel tired when you're winning games (heard this many times in the past).
And i get the distinct feeling Pep left Sterling on for the full 90 mins cos he scored an injury time winner vs the Saints almost 4 fucking years ago!

 

[argyle]

Txiki Begiristain should start focusing on fixing the issues in the squad rather than spending money on position we did not really need to sign anyone.

It isn't all on just him, there are a number of people involved in transfers.

However your point remains that glaring weaknesses in the squad at Striker, DM and LB have been neglected again.

 

[madloaf]

Ake is a 4th choice CB and that's kind

Bitching about Ake today is like saying that the only thing wrong with the Titanic was the entertainment.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

What a disappointing 3 days.
Got a bad feeling about this season.

 

[MeatHunterrr]

We don't do squad planning, we react a season later.

or four. Benjamin Mendy still on the books.

 

[Keeper!]

Whatever went wrong today started way further up the pitch than Ake.

CM we did not have one, love Bernardo, but to me he needed to sit a bit more in the CM

 

[mosssideblue]

Awful game, end of

 

[Zenmanc]

It's going to be a tough season pass. Might have to pull a Klopp and quit every other competition and focus on CL.

 

[urban genie]

Lazy, useless, lethargic, dissapointing shower of twats.

Bar Grealish and Bernardo

 

[alexmcity]

I blame Rodri, too slow...

Very poor in midfield today, couldn't string 5 passes. Build-up play was far below our standards. Very, very poor. Guess Pep kind of expected a poor performance. Was it because of tiredness or the confronation between Pep and some fans influenced the team mentally? Or both? Don't know why, but we created very, very little all game, probably because we couldn't keep the ball and play our game. We started to resemble a decent team only in added time.