Saints v Spurs match thread

[MIsaints]

I agree st_brendy. I think this is the best team we have available at the moment:

Gazzaniga
Clyne Fonte Yoshida Fox
Davis Morgan JWP
Puncheon Lambert Lallana

I'd love to see Lee come on. I really think we have missed him this year.

 

[- Doing The Lambert Walk]

From SaintsWeb:

I was waiting on the first tee this morning, somebody I know well, that is well connected Saintswise, was in the group behind, he came up for a chat knowing I thought Adkins shouldn't be replaced but that's another story. What he did say, which I found astounding, as I think that Saints always spend the night before an away match in a local hotel near to the venue, was that Lambert was at home on Saturday morning. Can anyone throw any light on this?

Reply from another user:

yep...saint sinner posted as such two days ago on here...he 'claimed' that lambert was initally dropped from the whole squad for the west ham game.....so was in North Baddesley......but was recalled to the match day squad and the club sent a car for him..

saint sinner was adament about this but obviously would not say how he knew...he also said that there is a very real chance Lambert will go in january and/also, lambert is royally pished about being dropped/taken off all the time

 

[- Doing The Lambert Walk]

Anyway, do we not normally get a coach up on the morning of London games??

 

[Jose Fonte baby]

Got a bit of spare time...
Southampton goals scored when Lambert is on: 11
Southampton goals scored when Lambert is off: 2
Southampton goals let in when Lambert is on: 16
Southampton goals let in when Lambert is off: 8
Minutes on: 547 (according to transfermarket.co.uk)
Minutes off: 173 (approximately)
When Lambert is on the field, we score every 50 minutes and concede every 34 minutes.
When Lambert is off the field, we score every 87 minutes and concede every twenty one minutes.
I think he should be starting to be honest...

 

[Itchen North Matt]

Got a bit of spare time...
Southampton goals scored when Lambert is on: 11
Southampton goals scored when Lambert is off: 2
Southampton goals let in when Lambert is on: 16
Southampton goals let in when Lambert is off: 8
Minutes on: 547 (according to transfermarket.co.uk)
Minutes off: 173 (approximately)
When Lambert is on the field, we score every 50 minutes and concede every 34 minutes.
When Lambert is off the field, we score every 87 minutes and concede every twenty one minutes.
I think he should be starting to be honest...

Lambert has his limitations though and other options are worth looking at if the game calls for it. I think people are reading far too much into Adkins' decision to leave him on the bench for the West Ham game. Rodriguez is a good player too.

 

[RickieLambertsGoldenBoot]

Horraaaayyyy!

More rumours!

 

[RickieLambertsGoldenBoot]

Team should be:

Gazzaniga
Clyne, Fonte, Hooiveld, Fox
Davis, Schneiderlin, Ward-Prowse
Puncheon, Lallana
Lambert


Davis, Shaw, Yoshida, Chaplow, Mayuka, Rodriguez, Guly

Unsure as to wether Cork, Lee, De Ridder will be in or not...

 

[pass the football]

Got a bit of spare time...
Southampton goals scored when Lambert is on: 11
Southampton goals scored when Lambert is off: 2
Southampton goals let in when Lambert is on: 16
Southampton goals let in when Lambert is off: 8
Minutes on: 547 (according to transfermarket.co.uk)
Minutes off: 173 (approximately)
When Lambert is on the field, we score every 50 minutes and concede every 34 minutes.
When Lambert is off the field, we score every 87 minutes and concede every twenty one minutes.
I think he should be starting to be honest...

I would suggest that if he's not on the pitch we're playing more defensively and the stats (conceding less frequently) bear that out, I don't really think less than two games of 'off' time is enough to draw any conclusions though.

As for these rumours, I find them pretty doubtful.

 

[RickieGoalMachine]

got a bit of spare time...
Southampton goals scored when lambert is on: 11
southampton goals scored when lambert is off: 2
southampton goals let in when lambert is on: 16
southampton goals let in when lambert is off: 8
minutes on: 547 (according to transfermarket.co.uk)
minutes off: 173 (approximately)
when lambert is on the field, we score every 50 minutes and concede every 34 minutes.
When lambert is off the field, we score every 87 minutes and concede every twenty one minutes.
I think he should be starting to be honest...

[video=youtube;IUH3JQjcweM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUH3JQjcweM[/video]

 

[RickieGoalMachine]

--------Gazzaniga
Clyne Fonte Yoshida Fox
JWP Davis Morgan Puncheon
----------Lallana
----------Lambert

4411

Revised from the team I posted in my thread as Richardson is out.

 

[fran-MLs little camera]

Adebayor back today according to Sky, who also think Shaw may play. Sky aren't always right though.

 

[st_brendy]

Apparently there are rumours of Falque starting. That would be, um, interesting.

 

[Saints Fan4Life]

Apparently there are rumours of Falque starting. That would be, um, interesting.

It makes me laugh how a player not considered good enough for a Championship squad is suddenly a regular(ish) player for Tottenham

 

[RickieGoalMachine]

It makes me laugh how a player not considered good enough for a Championship squad is suddenly a regular(ish) player for Tottenham

Nigel's team selection has been a joke at times. Perhaps it will open his eyes if Falque starts today.

 

[Osvaldorama]

Nigel's team selection has been a joke at times. Perhaps it will open his eyes if Falque starts today.

I think that's very unfair. The championship is a very different style of football, we had a settled team.

 

[- Doing The Lambert Walk]

Yeah not picking Falque really let us down... whatever the reasons, it didn't work out. It didn't matter.

 

[- Doing The Lambert Walk]

Radhi Jaidi on Twitter:

Morning all. Woke up with some pressure this morning, it's like I'm going to play a game!!!

I have mixed feeling about the game. Positive for sure and some fear around. If we defend well as a team we get points today #stats #tactic

 

[Itchen North Matt]

It makes me laugh how a player not considered good enough for a Championship squad is suddenly a regular(ish) player for Tottenham

Think he was good enough TBF, just bad timing. He destroyed our U21s when we played them apparently.

 

[Dan]

It certainly was bad timing rather than a lack of ability. We had no need for a player like him - I may be mistaken, but did we not bring him in when Lallana was injured?

Either way, Yago has always beena technically talented player. Certainly not "not good enough", and I'd have liked to see him given more of a chance, it just happened we didn't need to give him one.

 

[pass the football]

Have to say I have a sense of impending doom today. Think we're going to have to really focus on defending in wide positions to get anything out of this game and that's something we've really struggled to do. I'd probably play something like this to shore up the flanks:

Boruc
Clyne, Fonte, Hooiveld, Yoshida
Davis, Schneiderlin, Ward-Prowse, Fox
Lallana
Lambert

It's a very defensive line-up and obviously there's still a good chance we'd lose playing like that (in which case everyone would be calling for the manager's head for playing so negatively of course) but I just feel it's the only chance we have of getting something out of a Spurs side which has looked very impressive going forward, particularly in wide areas.