Match Day Thread Saints v Liverpool Saturday 17th August 3:00pm

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I think for me is defence is more a every game some dumb **** happens. Even if Saints score, one of the cbs will end up playing well for 89mins then do something weird

Exactly. We can't expect the defence to be watertight every game. You have to approach a game of football expecting to lose a goal, and thus aim to score two.

Anyway, in basic terms; if a defensive error leads to a 1-0 loss, you lose one point. But if an attacking error leads to a 0-0 draw, then that's two points lost.
 
Haven't seen the match but sounds like we got a reaction and that's all I really wanted after last week.

Delighted we got off the mark goal wise too.
Played very well until Liverpool scored then got all nervous and mistakes crept in. But yeah didn't give up and deserved the goal.It's a shame our cbs seem to switch off their brains for 1 second every game and that causes a goal.
 
I am a bit torn on this. We played very well but shot ourselves in the foot in attack and defence again. If we don't fix these errors it could be a very long slog...
 
What sort of bullshit is this.


You're right. Not having a league win in 7 is absolutely fine. Defenders making the same mistakes again and again isn't a problem. Having a poor transfer window is tickety-boo. Nothing to worry about at all.
 
Was better today and we were playing the Champion League winners with a depth of talent. Now we need to do it against the like of Brighton, Villa, Norwich and give the likes of Leicester, Everton Wolves a test and maybe pinch a result here and there against the so called top 6 , but it has to be consistent and the chances will get taken, EVENTUALLY, and that is the big but. Not sure how to fix the defensive errors just mind boggling how we can just do it every game.
 
The Firmino miss was equally bad. Fair result let's be honest.

Djenepo is gonna be fun. He's a definite wild card. Even Mane was looking at him like, 'what the **** is up with this guy's diving?' <laugh>

Can he dive well? If so I like him already
 
Was better today and we were playing the Champion League winners with a depth of talent. Now we need to do it against the like of Brighton, Villa, Norwich and give the likes of Leicester, Everton Wolves a test and maybe pinch a result here and there against the so called top 6 , but it has to be consistent and the chances will get taken, EVENTUALLY, and that is the big but. Not sure how to fix the defensive errors just mind boggling how we can just do it every game.
Get all our cbs in a hypnosis therapy