Southampton (H) - Premier League - 1/2/2020 - 15:00

[Pidge]

Just now, skaro said:

 

That's the good thing about halves in football.

 

They can be different.

 

 

and it gives people a chance to go to the loo so they don't have to completely shit themselves if the opposition have a good five minutes.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Wouldn't mind seeing another forward player come on, or maybe Keita to get the short passing game going Inbetween the lines.

 

Good game so far. Fair play Southampton.

[TheHowieLama]

Their finishing has been woeful.

 

We could have had a pelanty and the Van Dijk backheel was the best chance of the game.

[Butch]

Ox off he's been useless,he's a liability. Get Jones on. 

[s(k)aturation]

 

And Everton already back from two goals down - been one of those half-days so far.

[Grinch]

3 minutes ago, J-V said:

Enough with this Ox on the left bollocks.  Get him off for Keita or Divock.

 

Fuck knows why he's there in the first place.   At least Origi puts the odd great game in out wide. 

[Pidge]

Just now, Carvalho Diablo said:

Wouldn't mind seeing another forward player come on, or maybe Keita to get the short passing game going Inbetween the lines.

 

Good game so far. Fair play Southampton.

Yeah, Keita would make sense, we've been too direct which has just churned possession back to them.  Which in turn means their attackers haven't had to drop off between attacks, leading to more pressure on our defenders.  Give Gini a bit more support there.

[3 Stacks]

We've been absurdly lucky recently with how poor teams finish against us. We're giving up really quality chances but teams are finding ways to miss more comically than the last. 

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

I'd even be tempted to play Keita in mid and Gini wide left

[Anubis]

2 minutes ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

Wouldn't mind seeing another forward player come on, or maybe Keita to get the short passing game going Inbetween the lines.

 

Good game so far. Fair play Southampton.

 

1 minute ago, TheHowieLama said:

Their finishing has been woeful.

 

We could have had a pelanty and the Van Dijk backheel was the best chance of the game.

Careful gentlemen, you’ll risk an outbreak of reasonableness and proportionality.

[Bob]

2 minutes ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

Wouldn't mind seeing another forward player come on, or maybe Keita to get the short passing game going Inbetween the lines.

 

Good game so far. Fair play Southampton.

Agree with that. The changing between gini and ox over on the left side isn’t working at all.

 

neither are doing what they can normally do in the middle, and neither look comfortable out wide, so it’s just not working.

[Strontium]

Just me who thinks we haven't been that bad?  Southampton have been playing well, and Gomez looks like he's having a siesta, but we've missed a few chances too.

[Pidge]

1 minute ago, 3 Stacks said:

We've been absurdly lucky recently with how poor teams finish against us. We're giving up really quality chances but teams are finding ways to miss more comically than the last. 

Long and Redmond always finish like this.  Ings should have scored one, don't think there have been many sitters.

[niallers]

We've tried 41 long balls. I know they're pressing us high but we need to transition the ball through the middle 3rd far better than what we've done. 

They're 2 up top is causing us all types of problems with the ball from both full back inside in between our centre backs. Long has done well getting in between trent and Gomez. We've not helped by the lax lax lax play the last 15 there. 

We were glad of half time. We need keita and origi on in my opinion. We also need to pull the finger out. We look tired mentally. 

We'll need a huge improvement

[Johnlj]

3 minutes ago, Butch said:

Ox off he's been useless,he's a liability. Get Jones on. 

Unfortunately Jones have been dumped from the bench for Matip. Weird decision.

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

Just me who thinks we haven't been that bad?  Southampton have been playing well, and Gomez looks like he's having a siesta, but we've missed a few chances too.

Send me your link please 

[Red Phoenix]

What have I been saying for weeks now in several match threads?

 

It's got 0-0 draw written all over it.

 

Have been asleep for most of the first half, back to "livescore watching anxiety" it is for the second.

[J-V]

1 minute ago, Bjornebye said:

Send me your link please 

hahaha

[Leyton388]

We're not up to much in this game and if we're not careful they'll nick one here.

[KMD7]

1 minute ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

Just me who thinks we haven't been that bad?  Southampton have been playing well, and Gomez looks like he's having a siesta, but we've missed a few chances too.

Going by some of the posting on here today, it would look like that.

We've been poor last 10 mins but overall we've been ok. 

[Bjornebye]

Just now, Red Phoenix said:

What have I been saying for weeks now in several match threads?

 

It's got 0-0 draw written all over it.

That the moon is a hologram and David Bowie is a pyramid? 

[liverpoolsno9]

28 minutes ago, Anubis said:

I suspect they didn’t give it because, even without the foul, Bobby wasn’t getting to it.

The fact you think he’s not reaching it doesn’t make it any less of a foul. It’s a foul or it’s not. 

[Red Phoenix]

Just now, Bjornebye said:

That the moon is a hologram and David Bowie is a pyramid? 

 

Nope, you've got that one the wrong way around.

[TheHowieLama]

Zero chance this stays scoreless.

[Anubis]

2 minutes ago, liverpoolsno9 said:

The fact you think he’s not reaching it doesn’t make it any less of a foul. It’s a foul or it’s not. 

I’m not saying it wasn’t a penalty. I’m trying to fathom the reason they didn’t give it.