He sure would have if he scored a no look , back heel goal like he did agaist Athletico in spain today , left people with their jaws on the floor apparently .
And with equal respect you were playing against a team who had it's heart ripped out very recently, who had 6 new players on the pitch, visiting a relatively settled side in their own stadium and sitting in 2nd place in the table. And we still held you. Last seasons team would have beaten you. Like this seasons team.
Ww lost 8 first team players and had one injured. We had 5 new players on the pitch and it could have been 6 were it not for the award winning acting of some of your players.
If my memory serves me correctly some of theses Saints can get on their high horse a bit, never mind, I'm sure we'll get the better of them in the away game!........
Whilst the 10 players did their best second half to hold on for a point, we desperately needed a specialist defensive midfielder on the pitch.
Different Hernandez That was Chicharito. Saints fans can't have it both ways. They can't on the one hand accept praise for doing so brilliantly having had a lot of their 'stars' taken from them and now moan about having the heat ripped out of the team. They were poor yesterday and most of them acknowledge that. Definitely their worst performance this season.
Sorry Southampton fans if your'e reading. The harsh truth is your team came to bully,foul.play act,and cheat their way to win this game. The ref helped you by ignoring your under hand tactics. You had a plan to get our players booked/sent off to gain the advantage,it was clear to see as your players rolled over and over and over in agony on the floor at the slightest contact. Unfortunately one of our players lost it and responded in kind and was sent off by the blinkered referee.You are more like the old Stoke than the great footballing team that we saw last season,obviously down to your new manager.
Too harsh imo Keith. Bony has nobody to blame but himself. The ref was poor but only in the sense that he was inconsistent and Font should definitely have gone for a second yellow. But Southampton were outplayed first half, their crossing was woeful, they offered nothing up front and looked very very ordinary to me. Not sour grapes, honestly - just observation. However, I don't see them as the old Stoke, not even close.
Agree with most of that but I think Koeman is better than that. My question remains, Why is Yoshida not being pilloried in the same fashion as Chico?
I don't want to see Bony anywhere near starting a game until he has had enough time to recover from the amount of games he has had to endure since last season, He is a big lad and is taking longer to regain his league form from last season. If he was 100% he would have got the ball he was after than come up short and nearly ended an opponents career. Monk is forced for one game at least to rest bony but i hope he rests him longer as he needs it....we were playing great but once any team loses a player then it's always going to be difficult playing against a team with an extra player. Monks plan for subs were for 11 players so when we went down to 10 then his planned subs go right out the window and he had to decide how we are going to defend and have enough strike force on the pitch. He did that well by not putting gomis on and putting emms on. I wanted to put gomis on at half time as we were still in the game but i can now understand why monk did what he did and as usual the fan is wrong and the professional is right. the main thing now is to get bony back up to 100% fitness and not 90% we are seeing now.
Maybe the big money move he was expecting and not materialising is playing far more in his mind than any lack of fitness perceived or real .
explain to us all the logic of leaving a sub unused when we were 0-0 and had knackered players in midfield while Soton had already sub'd on two pairs of fresh legs, and then 0-1 down and Gomis still sitting on the bench.
