The pre-season thread - 2024/25

0-3 Smallbone

 

We’re not as direct or controlling since Dibling went off. He was finding acres of space in the middle. Who is number 19?
Smallbone 3-0

 

Jay Robinson I think.

 

HT: Eastleigh 0-3 Saints

 

Has SAA had a growth spurt?

 

Was thinking the same and wondering if it's just because the camera position is much lower and tighter, but I reckon you're right. Dibling looks to have put some bulk on too

 

Second half starters...

Saints: Lis; Sugawara, Harwood-Bellis, Wood, Manning; Dibling, Charles, Alcaraz; Amo-Ameyaw, Mara, Robinson

 

Sam Amo gets a pen

 

4-0
Mara (pen)

 

0-4 Mara (pen)

 

I can't help getting that feeling every time I see SAA that he is our most exciting prospect by some distance.

 

4-1

 

We still can’t defend set pieces

 

5-1
Manning from a Sugawara assist

 

1-5 Manning, set up by Suguwara

 

Everything good comes through either SAA or Dibling... or both.

 

Would that goal stand under VAR or would Robinson be pulled up for blocking the defender?
The shadow of VAR.

 

Dibling has the uncanny knack of finding space.

 

SAA is electrifying but Dibling is so intelligent off the ball, always popping up in the right space. Can imagine him being a Martin player, so to speak

 

6-1
Sugawara from 30 yards