Match Day Thread The Saints Beating Leicester on Saturday 25th August at 15:00 Match Thread

I read somewhere else it was competition specific yesterday?

 

It is? Never heard that always thought it was domestic/european. Unless there's been a change?

 

Ok no worries, hopefully fats comes up with the goods.

 

New rules laid out at the start of the season are all cards are competition specific.

 

MATCH DAY THREAD

I will do my first ever match thread and will have it up by later on this afternoon.

 

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/6912118/fa-changes-suspension-rule/

According to this suspensions for accumulated cards are specific but suspensions for a red card (or 2 yellows) are not, so he misses Brighton

 

ah fair enough. That makes a lot more sense so people don't deliberately pick up their 5th card to avoid missing league games.

 

I think we fixed the defensive issues of the previous games with PEH Mario protecting back 4 and pressing much higher. I think that made Leicester look more defensive.

Then when we scored they upped a gear, we dropped and the goal got into their heads. For me we shd have replaced Moi with Armstrong immediately and replaced Ings with anyone but Charlie

Cedrics failings from high balls has to be addressed. Is Stephens the answer because if he isn’t then we have to go 3 CBs again and I don’t think that is the answer

 

Although the sun say you can now deliberately pick up a 2nd yellow to miss a cup game and avoid getting a 5th yellow and a league ban as 2 yellows don’t count accumalitively as they become 1 red

Errr, clear?

 

Yeah it took me a while to find anything definitive too but it appears I was wrong... not overly clear tbh.

 

I know I am biased but I have had a few looks at the penalty incident and it appeared to me that Ndidi's knee caught Hojbjerg and knocked his right leg which clipped his left and caused him to lose his balance, and I am not convinced that Amarty didn't clip Hojbjergs back foot as well, but the theatrical dive is what convinced Moss, who was always looking for an excuse to shaft us in my opinion. A dive is a dive however and I don't want cheaters to prosper even if it is one of our own.

 

I used to hate it when twatbeard dived when he was with us.

 

I remember a very embarrassing one against the blue few... didn't like it when Tadic/Mane did it either.

 

Tadic always true claimed innocence as well but yea he liked a dive.

 

Mane v's Spurs is surely the worst in modern times. He dived so much, when they started really fooling him, we couldn't even expect the ref to oblige!
Cringe.

 

The worst diver at present for me in the prem is Ali.......embarrassing.

 

I think someone asked who are "diver in chief" would be after Dusan left?

 

It is just my opinion Tom, not a fact.

 

Referee's don't have agendas against teams.