AM CS JS WH RB JWP PEH ML DT GC MG It won't happen whilst MP is I charge, of that I'm sure. But I think it's the way I go now. As you allude to, I'm open to Romeu spending some time on the bench. And as much as I want to see Boufal playing every week, I can't trust him right now.
Some usual suspects are absent on this latter part of this thread. Hope Tom and FLT are not too despondent, but I can empathise.
If a new guy (Kelvin Davis/Craig Shakespeare) is appointed in the near future, you watch Gabbi being restored to the starting line up and scoring the goals.
I’m worried now. Swansea and Newcastle getting massive wins, teams jumping over us. I think we will be relegated unless something drastic happens.
In fairness to MP2 he picked his strongest side - he now seems to know what it is! The bench was so strong it was difficult to get any substitution wrong. But he explained himself well in the post-match interview. Lemina was sick and Long was supposed to put more pressure on their left back. It was, he said, something 'we' had agreed on beforehand so it was planned but he admitted it didn't work. If he could have, he would have put JWP back on but Davis was the nearest like for like (to JWP) available. As others have said a decent first half but disappointing that they scored twice from their only two attempts on goal. Awful mistake from Hooedt who then strangely had a great performance from there on in. What frustrates me when teams like Spurs and Liverpool come down is the high tempo and high pressing. We used to be like that and people feared us. Even MP2 moans about the tempo - so why do they insist on slowing everything down when they get possession? Anyone walking in halfway through the second half would have thought WE were the team 2-0 up and running down the clock. In all honesty, if I was a Liverpool fan tonight I would be really pissed at how (we) only won 2-0. That could and should have been a massacre in the second half.
I had Aguero in my team, but due to not scoring or For the first time this season, in the 2nd half I thought Saints don't have the fight to stay up. There was one moment went where Pierre lost the ball and just jogged back to try and get the ball back pathetic. I didn't expect anything from this game, and I wasn't disappointed. We are so toothless in attack, and to be honest I know Carrillo did try but I don't see a season saving performance coming from him any time soon. He certainly didn't look like good value at almost £20m, not even £10m.
After Lemina went off, it was like all the fight went with him as well. To be fair the crowd were very quiet as well
It's a really weird season, 1 win can change the whole situation of so many teams. Fair point though, easy for me to say
A lot of outsiders say we'll be fine and we may well (should?) be but it's different when you've watched us all season. No one thought we'd go down in '05 either...
Same; you could call it a 4-2-3-1 with Gabbiadini playing as an overlapping support striker, but it's really degrees of difference there. Playing three defensive mids and lobbing high crosses at a single striker, no matter how good in the air they are purported to be, is some seriously lower-division stuff, though. We can't defend it, granted, but most teams can.
Just back after a few beers with old mates who were trying - and failing - to lift me. Journey home was painful. The Reds around me tried to sound positive - you can't go down with x in the team - but in reality I knew they'd seen the frailties of which I have spoken all season. The conundrum for many of them is simple. VVD apart, and with some decent signings, we are much the same team that outplayed Liverpool twice in the cup last year, and didn't concede in four matches. Yet the gulf in class was evident today. They have made some good signings. Salah is class, but they've lost their most creative force and still made us look like Wrexham playing Man City. Depressing. Duvet over head until May, methinks
