I disagree, would have been better for us if they had kept up their pathetic return this weekend. They would have been more on edge and anxious as the minutes without a goal and a point continued. I watched most of their game against Chelsea and they were very good, Zaha and Townsend were extremely dangerous, better than anything I've seen from Southampton today.
Not looking forward to this at all, Hodgson seems to be getting his message over and he's good with this size of club, we struggled last season against the weaker sides in the champ, feels like that kind of game to me when most people will expect us to win. Would take a draw right now, just keep ahead of where we need to be.
Ew, fuck that. I want wins against the shite at home.
I reckon we'll approach this similar to the Stoke game; let teams who aren't used to having the onus on them to break us down have possession; it's what happened to Stoke, they got 4 points in games against Arsenal and Man Utd by letting those 2 sides have the ball but when they came here and had the majority of possession they couldn't break us down.