Match Day Thread Leicester City v Southampton Saturday 12th January 2019 3pm

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Saints_Alive said:
That's just it, Ralph can game manage us and get results that much is obvious to me...the man just knows what he is doing.
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And he's playing for the win. We went into our shell by necessity second half today, but the days of being happy with a point seem to be over, mercifully. Pellegrino and Hughes drew in over 40% of their combined matches, which is staggering. We will lose some matches that perhaps we should win, but the era of playing afraid home and away has concluded.
 
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thereisonlyoneno7 said:
I'm with you on that - but I won't say it out loud as I have so many cocky Bournemouth fans around me that they would love me to say my goal is to finish above them.

However, a few weeks ago I kept saying to them it is a marathon not a sprint.
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The most interesting thing about Bournemouth is that Eddie Howe is always being touted as the football of English football management. I think it will be interesting to see how he deals with reverses if they continue. He always seems to be linked to bigger clubs such as Arsenal or Spurs but I feel he would be a catastrophic appointment for that kind of club.

Regarding Puel, I had a conversation with someone at the WCFC match today about his style of football and there was a consensus that people no longer want to watch that kind of pragmatic style of football. I think he is a manager who will keep a team up in the top half of the table and will have erratic and unexpected results but the bulk of fans don't enjoy the kind of football his teams play. The same comments made by Leicester fans as well as many Saints fans and I have heard the same in Lyon whenever I have spoken to their fans on holiday. They would have expected three points today but it is almost salutary that his team had 72% possession (even greater in the second half) yet still could only find one goal.

I am not too worried about Ralph attracting a lot of attention as it is far too early yet. However, I am surprised that Nathan Redmond's name has not been linked with other clubs. He is a shoo -in for Player of the Season in my opinion and deserves another England call up.
 
Ian Thumwood said:
I was really concerned about the matches this afternoon as there was the potential for us to become cut off from the pack. Three points at Leicester was unexpected but I think this will not only go down as a nice surprise for most Saints fans, but probably the most significant result of the season.

The bottom two teams in the league are certainties for relegation and I cannot see them getting out of the mire. Who will join them remains the only question open to debate. My fear was that a lose today would have put Southampton under an awful lot of pressure. I still think Chelsea will beat Newcastle and, for me, the Geordies are the team I would fear most for. I feel Burnley will pull clear but we are still in the mix albeit I think we will do better than Cardiff. In a weekend which could have been catastrophic, I think the performance today has demonstrated more than any other that there is a coterie of players who have strongly bought in to Ralph's ethos. Come May, I believe that the result today will be seen as having been pivotal.
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Thank you for teaching me a new word :)!
 
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