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

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Che has always been awful at 1v1s and any chance where he has loads of time to think. Unfortunately his confidence seems rock bottom at the moment and the parts of his game that almost made up for that are not there at the moment.
 
Seems very stupid and unprofessional of Murphy - somewhere down the line, he`ll find out that what goes around comes around. Hopefully when playing us.

He'll find out soon that once Newcastle get a proper window, he'll be gone. Like Stephen Ireland or Michael Johnson and other players that Man City cleared out as soon as they got their wallet properly out. His punishment will be to join one of the career retirement homes that are Everton, West Ham, or Aston Villa (would have once been Newcastle too).
 
Yeah I'd like to see them play together too as on paper they should component each other well.

Think Che could do with a break from the team for a couple of games too though.
Just a reminder that you’re in the chair for the Blackpool thread mate.
 
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The Emirates FA Cup fourth round / Saturday 28th January 2023 = Southampton v Blackpool = 3 pm KO

Referee - Craig Pawson
Assistant Referees - Daniel Robathan & Mark Stevens
Fourth Official - Andre Marriner
VAR - Thomas Bramall
AVAR - Marc Perry
 
It pains me to say it, but whenever Adams is one on one with the keeper - any keeper - I'd bet my mortgage on the keeper.
Just watch the pre match warm up sessions. They tell us all that we know already. Haven't seen him score yet in those. A grafter but not a goal scorer it seems. Pity, strikes me as a decent genuine guy.
 
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Touching on the goal Newcastle had disallowed, did anyone else notice that they had 4 players running in on the loose ball, after Bazunu’s parry, whilst we just had Salisu?
Tracking runners has to be something else for Jones to improve.
 
Last night was excellent.

Learned new moves in both the tango and the rumba.

Didn't watch the footy (saw some highlights) but the comments on here make me think it went OKish.

The comments about Alcatraz are the most hopeful I've heard for a while. Was it him who threaded that perfect pass through to Che to put him clear in on goal?

Vin
 
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Last night was excellent.

Learned new moves in both the tango and the rumba.

Didn't watch the footy (saw some highlights) but the comments on here make me think it went OKish.

The comments about Alcatraz are the most hopeful I've heard for a while. Was it him who threaded that perfect pass through to Che to put him clear in on goal?

Vin
It was.
 
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Last night was excellent.

Learned new moves in both the tango and the rumba.

Didn't watch the footy (saw some highlights) but the comments on here make me think it went OKish.

The comments about Alcatraz are the most hopeful I've heard for a while. Was it him who threaded that perfect pass through to Che to put him clear in on goal?

Vin

It was! He was very good. Exactly the sort of dynamic player we’ve needed for ages.
 
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Why? Red card = banned for next domestic game. Makes sense to me.

I just think he was banned in the semi so should be banned in the second leg. If a Newcastle player was sent off, he would have missed the next leg as they have no game in between. Insane maybe a strong word lol. I suppose it is unique in the League Cup Semis as they are over 2 legs.
 
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Massively impressed by Alcarez (who knew that you can use recruitment to improve a team...).

Diallo's first half was possibly his best 45 minutes in a Saints shirt. He was my man of the half. But it started to go all wrong for him in the second half, when he found himself doing a lot more passing. Ending up coming nowhere near Alcarez for my man of the match.
 
Just had a work call with some “neutrals”, they all thought we were very poor and will certainly go down if we play like that regularly.

Interesting to hear their views as I’ve definitely seen us play a lot worse and didn’t think last night was all that bad, maybe I’m just numb to how **** we really are
Strange, sat with a Palace fan and he said if we play like that we’re staying up.

But also there’s a mix on here that think we were **** last night, whilst I thought we played relatively well.