Southampton (H) | Pre-Match Thread

[ray21]

well thats a relief. Decent player. I guess he will be replaced with Long.

Still Southampton are a good team, started the season well. Pace, energy, counter attack.

Think Long is on loan at Bournemouth.

 

[northendenton]

Need to win this and Fulham to put pressure on the rags.

Tonights game, need to keep an eye on Ings in particular, Minamino and Djenepo trickery.

Seems ings is injured?

 

[PistonBlue]

Must win this now, shut the door on even a sniff of putting pressure on ourselves.

 

[bluealf]

Must win this now, shut the door on even a sniff of putting pressure on ourselves.

Yup, that works lol

 

[bluealf]

because poor conditions negate skills. the purer game suffers as it becomes a game for cloggers and defenders. a lot easier to play in great conditions on a great pitch. Just watch a few FA Cup upsets over the years when good teams play minnows on shit pitches. tonight the ball will be lightning fast off that pitch, wind will play havoc with any balls in the air

Again that should really favour us then, no?

As for the FA cup shocks on bad pitches, you should never see the mud baths of the 70's in the prem league, we should never go full Klopp and blame the weather for any of our shortcomings

 

[bluealf]

Dreamt last night i watched us have 26 shots on target with 80% possession and drew 0-0!

Woke up angry and put a fiver on it at 18\1

What do you do when you have those sexy night time dreams?

Run down to Joe Coral and get a tenner on you doing all of little mix up the wrong un?

:)

 

[Gray]

Take our chances and we win, simple fact.

Fritter them away and we end up struggling.

 

[Blu1]

Huge game this.

play well & win all is well & fully back on track whilst kicking Utd in the balls.

Lose or draw then big pressure on the team for the next few fixtures which will also push the rags on

cmon city

 

[Claytop]

Need 2-0 to make them come out to play, then we can exploit the space. At 1-0, teams still stay compact and wait until
70-75 mins to throw on a few strikers and try to knick one. We are sometimes obliging.

3-0 at HT and game is done and dusted. 1-0 at HT and their dressing room is the happier.

0-0 or worse, and the word “crisis” or “choke” will be heard from some quarters, because they just can’t help themselves.

Let’s keep those mouths SHUT for the rest of the season. We need 5 wins out of 10 (others won’t go unbeaten) to walk it, and so far we have lost 3 out of 28. I’d just as soon not give anyone hope with draws, either!

0-0 at HT tonight and Match Thread on here will be fun....

 

[LongsightM13]

A test of mentality for hopefully bigger challenges to come