Harsh ratings for Fox! He defended well under a lot of pressure. Richardson went missing a few times, so Fox deserves a better rating than him. No arguments with 10 for Davis though! Davis: 10 Fox: 7 Hooiveld: 8 Fonte: 7 Richardson: 6 Puncheon: 4 Schneiderlin: 6 Cork: 6 Chaplow: 7 Lee: 6 Lambert: 6 Subs: Guly: 7 Hammond: 7 Harding: 6
Lee had just returned from an international and Adkins wanted the experience of Guly. Doesn't seem to want to play Sharp...reckon he will only get on at 3.0.
Playing left midfielders on the right, or right midfielders on the left, doesn't seem to be a regularly used tactic, but I always think it's a good idea and I'm never surprised when it works well - as it did today with White. You come inside on your favoured foot, and the full back who is marking you is suddenly on their wrong foot. Robben always seems to be doing it. Fox isn't particularly right-footed, so it really did work a treat today.
Spider actually took a corner kick and it was one of the best deliveries all season and nearly led to a goal, got to give him a 6 at least.
Tough to criticise Corky, this is not his sort of game, Hammond is better suited to blood and thunder, Cork will come into his own in an open free flowing game, that is why we have a squad of players, some are better suited to the conditions than others, NA has to make the choices and I don't envy him, but I do trust him to get it right most times.
Match Ratings: Davis-10 Richardson-5.5 Fonte-6.5 Hooiveld-7 Fox-5.5 Cork-6 Schneiderlin-6 Chaplow-5 Puncheon-3.5 Lambert-7 Lee-6 Subs: Hammond-7 Guly-7 Harding-7
Davis- 9/10 Richarson-7 Hooiveld-8 Fonte-7 Fox-6 Chaplow-7 Cork-6 Schneiderlin- 8 Puncheon-6 Lee-7 Lambert-8 Hammond- 7 Guly-6 Harding-6 Overall, a fantastic result but a poor performance. But I don't care, still in Leeds, on a night out with some uni mates with my Saints shirt on!! Kelvin was class, Hooiveld blocked everything. Morgan tackled well and when on the ball looked incredible. Well done Chung, just come back from Japan and put a great shift in, what a knock back for Lambert!
I thought Morgan did well tonight in a game where we were outplayed he still showed some class. Over the last 6 weeks he has really started to produce some excellent stuff and looking more and more like the first choice CM
An attempt at a wind-up merchant? No, it's the truth. The Southampton support yesterday was shocking. Even when everyone was stood up after the goal, they voluntarily sat down before the stewards even got there. Dreadful.
At your prices only our wealthy elite could afford to be there, rattling their jewelry, actually unless Radio Solent were overdubbing a soundtrack, it sounded pretty good to me, especially OWTS and the "we are top of the League" chant, selective deafness maybe?
They were the only two chants I heard all game yesterday, and the fans were all seated while singing them, which looked incredibly stupid. It's not often you get outsung by the Elland Road home crowd.
If they were the only two chants that you heard, then the Leeds fans couldn't have made any at all. Have you no Ground Rules about standing during the match? Having paid an arm and a leg, the last thing our lads would have wanted was to be ejected, and miss half of the game and the 3 Points that you kindly gave us.
