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

I will accept Seager coming on at half-time banging in a hattrick and looking forward for the draw for the next round - its okay to dream isn't it?

 

I don't get the constant slagging of Clasie. We likely do have too many players for that position, but I don't believe buying him stopped us spending on an attacker, and for my money he could be the best of those six you name.

 

Damm the Clasie hate....

 

It isn't really hard to understand why we are struggling to score with this formation though is it. Mane can't do it all on his own FFS.

 

Tadic tends to have a spell most games where he creates a few chances. Statistically he's been more than twice as creative (chances created and accurate crosses) than anyone else in our squad this season.

 

Weird huh?

 

Well that is a positive substitution set, even if it is odd to take Davis off.

 

A DOUBLE HT CHANGE. WE'VE MADE A DOUBLE HT CHANGE.

First time for everything.

 

Not much creativity in our squad unfortunately.

 

If anyone is to blame it is Koeman or the board. They decided Juami was enough, which he clearly isn't. You can't blame Clasie for the club not wanting more attacking depth.

 

Yoshida and Davis off for Juanmi and Tadic

 

I presume they were gambling on Rodriguez. It's just players like Mane are clearly out of form.

 

Well well well a double change. The negative system he started with was a shocking decision. But at least he has swallowed his pride and reverted to a back four at the break. We have a chance now.

Davis is off too most likely because we need end product from the three men behind the striker. I'm assuming we're reverting to 4-2-3-1. Davis has very little of that (end product) for an advanced player. I've wanted to see this for a while (4-2-3-1 without Davis in the three behind the striker. Although would rather it was Ramirez rather than Juanmi), so interested to see what happens here.

 

Positive changes, good too see drastic action taken at ht in a game, real chance for Juanmi here.

 

If you don't play Bertrand-- which I can understand because he was struggling in the last game-- you might as well not play Tadic. Tadic hasn't looked all that great himself and could probably use a rest, and the best part of his game is his interplay with Bertrand.

So I can understand why Tadic is not playing. I can't argue though, that once you make that decision, you are definitely going negative. I suppose that is a fair criticism of RK today.

I think he has based his tactics around trying to accommodate Targett. But whether he needed to do so is up for fair debate.

 

For me it still wouldn't have been enough. We have lacked width for ages now.

 

Nothing like a dollup of confirmation bias on a Saturday afternoon eh!!?

 

Romeu!

 

Our Leicester/West Ham revenge? One down, one to go.

 

Thank **** for that