Excellent first half. I thought Clasie was outstanding. All we need is a natural goalscorer to come off the bench! If only we had one...
Excellent from Classie, and Long is putting another good shift in. What we need here is two Shane Longs!
Love this from the BBC website: 15:34 We didn't want to mention this... but it's the only thing of note to happen in the last 15 minutes! Wayne Rooney shoots. Wayne Rooney almost takes out the corner flag. Hee, hee. (My comment, not BBC)
Spuds, Stoke losing and Spammers playing Citeh later, if we could grab a win here we could close up on the clubs ahead.
Enjoying this. I think we look the better side. Great to see Clasie getting into the groove. Crowd not happy already, so lets keep it tight. we can win this, and how I would love it if Austin comes on and gets the winner!
Agreed Chilco- we just need to be better in the attacking third and we have a good chance of getting something from this game - watch the ref however, have a bad feeling there... (sorry Tom).
Jordy; what a game. Coming very good indeed. Mané; rapidly reducing interest in him from Man U. Man U crowd; playing as Saints' 12th man. Vin
Agree with those saying Clasie has been very good today. Honest question, because I really can't remember. When did Mane last have a really good game? Pretty dull match, although I'd probably take 0-0 as a result. Hopefully we've already got away with our defensive brain fade of the day (VVD's weak backpass) and can nick the win.
He's been off the boil a while. I'd be tempted to bring either JWP for him, or push Long back into Mane's position and bring Charlie on up top. Not sure how either of those would necessarily work, but not sure Sadio is worth his place today.
Mane was a few inches from being brilliant a number of times, but a few inches makes a big difference!
Mané has hardly done anything of merit first half, but Targett and Tadic are linking well down the left, and Clasie and Wanyama have been imperious. Long putting in another great shift, especially in the air. Not sure what Ron will do, it'll be interesting how long he leaves it.
