Match Day Thread Stoke vs Southampton. Tue, 3 Oct. 20:00

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I’d like to see Edozie in this. I’m not enamoured w Ryan Fraser. To quote my son when he saw him getting subbed the other day ‘is that someone’s dad coming on??’

Ryan Fraser, Adam Armstrong, and Ryan Manning look like the 20 year reunion version of that 90's boy band you never even knew existed in the first place.
 
I’d like to see Edozie in this. I’m not enamoured w Ryan Fraser. To quote my son when he saw him getting subbed the other day ‘is that someone’s dad coming on??’

Tbf I was sceptical about that sub at the time as I thought removing our main attacking threat just after they scored was asking for trouble and made it clear we were going to sit back for the remaining 30 mins, but Fraser did well helping out the useless Manning.

Hopefully against teams not as talented as Leeds Manning won’t need additional help but he’s not shown anything defensively from what I’ve seen so far.
 
Hopefully we start with the same team as v Leeds and adopt the same ta tics. I’m still stunned at how we played first half If that’s Russball I’m all for it :1980_boogie_down:
 
Tbf I was sceptical about that sub at the time as I thought removing our main attacking threat just after they scored was asking for trouble and made it clear we were going to sit back for the remaining 30 mins, but Fraser did well helping out the useless Manning.

Hopefully against teams not as talented as Leeds Manning won’t need additional help but he’s not shown anything defensively from what I’ve seen so far.
^^^^ This 100%
 
Just had a look at the last 3 games between Stoke and Swansea, under Martin, and Stoke have 2 wins and a draw, scoring 3 goals twice.
I don’t know if that means anything and if it infers that Stoke know how to play against Martin, but my fingers will be crossed that Martin understands why he had those results and will set us up to prevent another poor result.