Match Day Thread Saints v Toon EFL Cup S/F first leg, Tuesday 24th Jan, ko 20.00

To be fair, they have Trippier and a team full of giants. That’s my only defence

 

Just rewatching the goal. DCC was turned far too easily by Isak

 

That must have been objective number two, stay in it, even if the odds are against us up there, strange things happen. 1976 and all that!!

 

Stop crying he's a good player and he was being fouled from min 1...

Thought your goal should've stood BTW but our 1st should too .

 

No. We need to be tough and aggressive, but not sh*thousery. I don't know why this has become popular among fans recently. It's absolutely unnecessary.

 

Yeah but we've done it every game lately.

 

Armstrong should’ve scored from the cross, completely scuffed a clear shot

 

Yeah Murphy definitely..

 

I loved Romeu, like so many did, but he wasn't the same player for a while before he left. Whilst I didn't want him to leave, it wasn't such a great loss as we'd like to romanticise.

Kinda related, Diallo has taken loads of stick recently, and sure he's been poor in matches before this, but I for one still remember when Romeu first joined Saints. He was allergic to the ball and a liability with it. Diallo can grow like Romeu did, and tonight was hopefully a leap towards that.

 

One thing I’d like to add. I really like Alcaraz

 

Still Sky are happy. Might turn the commentary off next week.

 

It's only 43 years since you won something

 

Rest Lavia Saturday, then start him next week with Alcaraz and JWP.
Tough on Diallo, who did well breaking play up, but his distribution was so poor again.

 

Definitely positives to take out of that. Our ****ness in the final third ultimately cost us getting a result but Diallo was very good and I really like the look of Alcaraz. Glad we kept it to 1-0 in the end though. Will be a very tough ask but it's only HT effectively.

 

Can't agree with that. It's quite clearly been a huge problem for us this season. If there's been any romanticising, it's been in regard to how good Lavia is, and how important to the team he is. As great as I'm sure he will be, he isn't close to Romeu at the moment.

 

Put Solent on, pause and wait for it to catch up

 

I’ll have you know that I won £2.40 on the Euro Millions just before Christmas.

 

Yeah, the greatest day of my life happened seven years before I was born

 

Me too mate let's celebrate and remember the good times

 

Is the Johnstone's paint trophy not a thing now?