Pata

No need to be that angry about things that could’ve happened.

What was wrong with the run? Should have been a freekick but we still maintained possession.

I don't know why he shouldn't be part of this list, £160k a week isn't that much in 2024. Bruno is still underpaid even after his new contract when Rashford, Havertz, Mount and Martial are in the 300k to 250k range somehow. Partey and Thiago (both who I forgot still exist) make 200k.

Soft from Longstaff but Schär would’ve had two opportunities to stop that if he just fucking ran properly.

Schär wasn’t arsed to defend.

GTFI!!!

It's just fundamentally flawed system in its current form. Ref can be more lenient and IMO they have been but VAR can't say anything if there's even a chance of the slightest of contacts to have happened. Once again a situation where the on-field ref should go to the screen to determine whether Neto went down too easily which he obviously did.

Really can't see how you don't give a pen for that after giving the Jota one in the first half. It's exactly the same and even if VAR thinks it's soft they should be consistent.

Loans are never easy either when we are not a perennial relegation candidate anymore. You need a player who's good enough for us and a team who are willing to loan that player to us.

Nobody takes Fraser even if we were willing to give him away. He still has 18 months left on his big contract. He wouldn't be playing for Southampton if we weren't paying part of his wages.

I think it's possible we'll still finish above Villa. Catching Spurs looks tough though, they don't have Europe and Maddison is back now. Think we'll finish 5-6th, maybe lower if Man Utd or Chelsea go on a big run. Think it's a lock we'll end up above West Ham and Brighton considering their (hopefully long) European adventures. All this if we don't get any massive new injuries obviously, if we lose even more key players it'll only be top half.

That was years ago?

Nah, we dominated those too. Really happy with that performance, we were really good apart from that 10 minute spell when Bailey was subbed on before Tino nullified him. Happy I can finally go read the Howe thread too. I honestly think we can still finish above these, would be confident if we had a full squad. Emery will take them to the final in Europe and they'll be playing two games a week a lot and that was a shocking performance by both the team and the crowd.

That sounded amazing and absolutely embarrassing home crowd at Villa Park.

Yeah, the ball probably ends up cleared by the defender even without the contact but it was such a blatant foul by Mendy that it has to be given.

How is that not a penalty?

Was ridiculously good in that second half.

Colo

Burn has been colossal for the last 10 minutes.

Any need for this?

That has always been the formation out of possession when we are not pressing.

Thought Burn was absolutely fine, surprised to see all the comments slagging him off.

Amazing save, thought that was going in.