Fair enough. We all have players that we're not fond of. There's at least three or four I prefer not seeing on the team sheet. But, at the same time I judge each performance separately, rather than criticise unfairly based on previous form. Walcott's a good example. Played well today. Bednarek too. Armstrong was okay. No better or worse than Sulemana, Mara, Stuie etc
You're overstating the case here by a fair bit. By xG, the match was relatively even: 1.67 for Leicester, 1.34 for us. They fluffed a lot of chances...we fluffed slightly fewer chances. A not uncommon occurrence in a match between two not very good sides.
It’s easy to say we should’ve lost by 2/3, but that doesn’t count for a missed pen and Theo & Armstrongs big chances. Anyway, who cares. We scored 1, they scored none. Not exactly buzzing after a pretty big win, but we aren’t done yet.
It’s a nice change getting a result that didn’t need a JWP masterclass performance. He must be so sick of having to do a one man rescue every game. Leicester shouldn’t have had 65% possession, it just looks like the game was a version of the Alamo. Maybe it looks different for those at the game. Listening to Solent just makes it sound like a tidal wave of attacks on Saints goal.
Agree to disagree. He is utterly ****. Him and Armstrong are NOWHERE near PL level. It’s like playing with 9 men. We are fortunate that Leicester basically gave us the win today. I hope it’s something we can build on, but there aren’t many positives. It’s pointless to blindly support utter ****e. Otherwise you get more of the same ****e.
Aren't many positives? Here's a few: 1. Won the game. 2. Won a home league game for the first time since August 3. Kept a clean sheet 4. We scored from open play 5. Fortune was on our side for once 6. We're off the bottom There you go, there's 6 off the top of my head.
Come on mate, cheer up ffs. We all know we aren't exactly great at the moment, but today the players put in the passion and commitment that we all wanted to see, and hey ho, we won. Clean sheet to boot. Not a shot on target for Leicester. And we missed a pen.
My prediction of a win(ok it was not 2-0) and results going our way is going well so far! Don't care if we were still a bit ****e, a win is a win and getting the rub of the green for once is great. We are hitting some form while others are not, the Great Escape is on!
We were always going to win scrappy, if we were to win. We're a team with next to zero confidence right now, so we had to nail a game where we battled to three points. That's important in that it gives us a little bit of a lift (particularly before what will be an incredibly tough match at Old Trafford), but what was perhaps more important was that it showed Ruben that playing Alcaraz at 10, and having a strong bull like Che up top could just work. We've really missed that midfielder that can burst forwards (and for all his effort etc, that is 100% not Lucy - as I said previously, he's half a second too slow for PL level in everything that he does), and we've missed that bit of nous up top. As long as Charly hasn't done any real damage to his knee, there's a solution beginning to present itself in terms of what the best team might look like, finally. My main criticism of today was bringing on three subs up top, without anyone able to hold up the ball when we're under pressure. That was a very iffy decision. I'd actually rather Moussa came on than Adarma, and I thought Paul should have been on for that reason ahead of Sekou.
100% agree with all of this, basically, the glaringly obvious things that everyone has been able to see for months (except the 3 managers) have proven to be.. obvious. Hopefully selles will finally notice the other glaringly obvious things soon, like Ely/AdamA/Bednarek/Bazunu are nowhere near PL quality.
Thought Beddy did okay today (though I don't like him being first choice), and I think Bazunu has the potential to be PL quality. Agreed on Ely and Adam though - never going to be good enough. ABK is looking back towards his best though. That's a major plus.
