Article: Southampton v West Ham United match thread | Southampton FC, Football

I'm also surprised to see Cork left out of the squad entirely. He's an important player and I hope he gets some time on the pitch soon.

Also I hope the inclement weather doesn't play into the hands of West Ham!

 

Come on Saints!!

 

Lovren takes the 'attacking centreback' thing rather seriously.

 

Sky seem to have made the scoreboard really small.

 

Scrappy start, West Ham set piece, I'm not scared I promise!

 

Could have sworn we were away for this match, this is a nice surprise, feel much more confident now

 

Poor positional discipline from Morgan there, let the man go.

 

That was really good by Diame to create that chance. Good thing he's not a natural finisher.

 

West Ham have had much the better of the first 10 minutes.

 

How did that not go in? Shocking.

 

That was much better. Hell of a save, that should've been 1-0.

 

It was a great save, but Osvaldo could have struck it better.

 

Osvaldo shouldn't have given him a chance to save it to be fair.

 

Commentator's being too complimentary to Jaaskelainen there. Any decent keeper would have got in the way of that shot.

 

Diame is dominating Shaw...

 

As things are set up we're going to lose this midfield battle, just need a good defensive effort and make the most of what we have in the final third, which is where we have the biggest quality advantage.

 

Save Jaaskelainen. Thought that was Osvaldo's first.

 

Better period from Saints.

 

Agreed. But he timed the leap well to cover as much of the net as possible.


I like the fact that Osvaldo is perching himself on the spot when those moves are initiated. There's lots of space to be found for those cutbacks.

 

Getting caught in possession far too often in our half.