Match Day Thread Southampton v Crystal Palace: FA Cup 3rd Round Saturday 9 Jan ko 3pm

  • Please bear with us on the new site integration and fixing any known bugs over the coming days. If you can not log in please try resetting your password and check your spam box. If you have tried these steps and are still struggling email [email protected] with your username/registered email address
  • Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!
Schad said:
Yeah, I'd play the kids, and I'd also make clear that we aren't doing it just to rest the starters...it's their chance to make the case for playing time at the expense of some of those core players.
Click to expand...
In other words - inject more competition for places?
 
Give youth a chance.. Please!!

Just see what they can do!? Even if we lose and it backfires, why not give them a chance!!

I would like to see:

Stek
Martina Fonte VVD Bertrand
Romeu Clasie
Mane Reed tadic
Seager

Gives the youngsters a chance in a first team. Gives the back 7 a chance to play together. (I would play Cedric if fit enough. Need our back 7 to gel)
 
Don't seem to be able to locate a site to find out the Official Allocations for the Palace match, nothing on the official sites.
 
I'm calling for Reed to start, and for the team to play in a 4-4-2 formation. We're too predictable playing with one up top. Most of our attacks follow the pattern of us passing the ball uselessly in our half or in the center of the field, and when the opponent presses us a bit, Fonte hoofs it to the striker and that's it. We can only create something down the left side where Tadić and Bertrand have a very good partnership. I think we can safely say that Bertrand, along with Van Dijk, is our most consistent player this season. On the right side Martina impressed in the last couple of matches and deserves to start. On the right wing it's either Davis of JWP. Both have their qualities, I'm content with either solution. As for the two in the central midfield, as I said, I want Reed to be given a chance to prove himself. So it can be Reed - Romeu, or Reed - Clasie, it doesn't matter. This season has showed we're incapable of creating anything through the middle, so we don't need creativity there. Therefore I call for directness, and not delicate interplay. Like Liecester play. Mane and Long up front, and give them balls to chase.
 
Got my ticket. I wouldn't use the phrase stoked, need another word. Not quite stoked but not apathetic, somewhere in between.
 
3pm, Saturday 9 January
Southampton v Crystal Palace
Referee:- Lee Mason
Assistant Referees:- Peter Kirkup & Derek Eaton
Fourth Official:- James Linington
 
Dell Boy said:
Find him and have a quiet word?
Click to expand...

His son plays against my son. When he isn't doing Premier league games, he usually is the parent linesman for the their games and has refereed a couple of friendlies we've played against them. You'll be please to know that in one friendly he got the length of the kids games wrong and we scored in the last minute and he had played 45 minutes instead of 40 :)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back