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Southampton 2-0 Newcastle United - 06/11/2020 - post match from pg18


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I'd take Hendrick off and put Hayden on - every time they're finding space between the defence and midfield with Walcott usually running at our CBs. Wilson is isolated up top, we need Longstaff, Maximin and Almiron to press in a more organised manner. Murphy is confident, but headless - literally no need to run into dead space.

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1-0 down, we've not had a shot, given away possession loads of times very cheaply, looked second best and should be down 3-0. Oh and Pardew is one of the presenters. Good evening :thup:

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Got a football lesson in that half. Southampton don't have great players, but they know what they are about, closing us down when we have possession, then pinging it around quickly and with bad intent when they have it.

 

This. There's no world beating talent on that team, their main goal threat isn't even playing FFF. They are a well drilled unit and a moment of luck or lapse on their end is the only way we'll score.

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We aren’t that shit , these are just very good tbf.

 

Nah

 

We had 10-15min of decent football post conceding, then promptly fell apart and are lucky to only be down by 1. Again, no shape, movement, other than hoofball, ASM carrying the ball up the pitch while getting hacked to shit with one easily saved header on goal in 45min. Whew.

 

 

Don't think we hoofed it that much tbh, in fact I reckon Bruce will be thinking that's why we are losing. We got caught trying to play the ball out of defence.

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1-0 down, we've not had a shot, given away possession loads of times very cheaply, looked second best and should be down 3-0. Oh and Pardew is one of the presenters. Good evening :thup:

 

1 header, suppose you're partially correct.

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We aren’t that shit , these are just very good tbf.

 

Nah

 

We had 10-15min of decent football post conceding, then promptly fell apart and are lucky to only be down by 1. Again, no shape, movement, other than hoofball, ASM carrying the ball up the pitch while getting hacked to shit with one easily saved header on goal in 45min. Whew.

 

Nothing good we do is ever sustainable, and is all just happenstance.

 

The team just makes it up as they go, and so the majority of the time it's all just rubbish.

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We aren’t that shit , these are just very good tbf.

 

Nah

 

We had 10-15min of decent football post conceding, then promptly fell apart and are lucky to only be down by 1. Again, no shape, movement, other than hoofball, ASM carrying the ball up the pitch while getting hacked to shit with one easily saved header on goal in 45min. Whew.

 

 

Don't think we hoofed it that much tbh, in fact I reckon Bruce will be thinking that's why we are losing. We got caught trying to play the ball out of defence.

 

Just when we lost composure after a decent spell of possession.

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Sides are well matched, but one has a real manager and therefore plays with intention and strategy.

 

Agreed.

 

Imagine where they’d be if Bruce was managing that squad.

They’d have been relegated last season.

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We aren’t that shit , these are just very good tbf.

 

Nah

 

We had 10-15min of decent football post conceding, then promptly fell apart and are lucky to only be down by 1. Again, no shape, movement, other than hoofball, ASM carrying the ball up the pitch while getting hacked to shit with one easily saved header on goal in 45min. Whew.

 

Nothing good we do is ever sustainable, and is all just happenstance.

 

The team just makes it up as they go, and so the majority of the time it's all just rubbish.

 

It's no coincidence we look our best against other teams who play a similar way to us, i.e. Sheffield or Burnley.

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I don't get the feeling there's any leadership on the pitch. Lascelles doesn't really look that confident, Hendrick has the experience in midfield but doesn't impose himself either.

 

If we get a goal, the game changes completely. We lack conviction at the moment.

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We aren’t that shit , these are just very good tbf.

 

Nah

 

We had 10-15min of decent football post conceding, then promptly fell apart and are lucky to only be down by 1. Again, no shape, movement, other than hoofball, ASM carrying the ball up the pitch while getting hacked to shit with one easily saved header on goal in 45min. Whew.

 

Nothing good we do is ever sustainable, and is all just happenstance.

 

The team just makes it up as they go, and so the majority of the time it's all just rubbish.

 

The most infuriating is good movement up the pitch into the opposing half that dies out with a whimper as not a single soul other than Wilson has bothered to move with or anticipate receiving the ball in space.

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We aren’t that shit , these are just very good tbf.

 

Nah

 

We had 10-15min of decent football post conceding, then promptly fell apart and are lucky to only be down by 1. Again, no shape, movement, other than hoofball, ASM carrying the ball up the pitch while getting hacked to shit with one easily saved header on goal in 45min. Whew.

 

 

Don't think we hoofed it that much tbh, in fact I reckon Bruce will be thinking that's why we are losing. We got caught trying to play the ball out of defence.

 

Just when we lost composure after a decent spell of possession.

 

If you think this was hoofing, wait until the next match. Bruce will be absolutely seething that Almiron's failure to give it the big boot cost us a goal.

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Problem is we are trying to play attractive football and positive passing. We simply have no experience in doing that so, you know, it's a work in progress.

 

It is alarming how confident the players are keeping the ball and dribbling out of trouble. Some of our attempted passing is so brainless.

 

Eh?

 

We are trying to spread the ball and play it forward or trying something fancy the majority of times we are giving up possession so cheaply. BUT, yeah to be fair, in reality it is probably just us playing shit football. Bit too optimistic.

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We aren’t that shit , these are just very good tbf.

 

Nah

 

We had 10-15min of decent football post conceding, then promptly fell apart and are lucky to only be down by 1. Again, no shape, movement, other than hoofball, ASM carrying the ball up the pitch while getting hacked to shit with one easily saved header on goal in 45min. Whew.

 

Nothing good we do is ever sustainable, and is all just happenstance.

 

The team just makes it up as they go, and so the majority of the time it's all just rubbish.

 

It's no coincidence we look our best against other teams who play a similar way to us, i.e. Sheffield or Burnley.

 

Direct, one dimensional football akin to the heyday's of PFM style. Whew!

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