Glass half empty / glass half fulll tbh. I was pleasantly surprised with the amount of fight on show tonight. If we had played like this against Palace/Leeds/Forest/WHU etc etc we may be a lot higher up the table. Still don’t think we’ve seen our best XI on the pitch at the same time all season.
How must those poor Gooner fans be feeling tonight (not that I care) they didn't get the result they wanted or expected? At least we helped to keep the leadership race interesting!
Yeah of course they are complaining about our time-wasting, but if their keeper hadn't gifted us a first minute goal, then they would have won.
Absolutely mate- but we didn't play like this through those games. We've snatched a defeat (well a draw) from the jaws of victory, which is marginally better than being totally dog-**** I suppose. Just had a tit full of these pricks to be honest
I disagree with the confidence thing. To go to the Emirates and not lose, after being under siege for 50 mins is a confidence booster. The normal Saints would have lost that 7-3 or at minimum conceded in the 99th min. I actually take confidence from that.
Agreed… I think in isolation this is a good performance and result. But combined with the last two years it’s just another disappointing **** show. I hope we see the same level of effort and passion next game. It’s so frustrating because a midfield 3 of Lavia, Alcaraz, JWP should be nowhere near relegation. Shows how horrific the rest of the team is
Couldn't see the sense of bringing on Tall Paul late in the game. I'm all for going forward rather than defending, but we were so pinned back and the lead was so precious that surely another defender would have made more sense?
One of our better performances of the season, taken in isolation that was a great result Just one of those matches to applaud and wish we had played with that much effort over 20 odd other games
I chose to watch John Wick 4 at the cinema tonight, and said the same thing to my partner about the film!
Think we can all agree, whether we stay up or go down, we need to keep hold of Alcaraz at all costs, and build the team around him. I'll be sick if he has a relegation clause.
There has to be some ongoing issue with Lavia that the medical team are managing. He comes off midway through the second half in just about every game, plus in almost every game there is a point where he goes down from a challenge and the physios come out and look hard at his legs. Maybe they are trying to preserve his hamstrings. We may not like all of Selles' team selections, but he's not stupid (or any of the other unpleasant adjective used by some of the more excitable posters above). He can certainly see that Lavia is head and shoulders above any of our other players, so it seems to me that he must be protecting him from a longer-term absence. The player is only 20 years old after all and still has some physical development to come.
He’s pretty much the only thing I enjoy about watching our games nowadays. If we can somehow hold on to him it’ll be the biggest signing of the summer.
Yep. We've needed a player like him for the past four or five seasons. So hard to find someone who can unlock a defence like he can, and he is only going to get better. If I was Ankersen I'd be quadrupling his wages and offering him all sorts of bonuses and guarantees.
If you're worried about the title being handed to some other team, you are basically saying you slightly would prefer a Saints loss to preserve another team's quest. I couldn't care less who we hand the title to, but just want the best Saints result - gutting to lose from that position, but this is away against unarguably the best team in the country atm (not the best form team), and there is no one on this forum who wouldn't have taken a draw at the start of the game. Full stop. Unbeaten against Arsenal this season - you'd take it. It's a point in the battle - we're up against it still, no doubt, but we were al expecting nothing from this game, and we're now a point up on where we expected ourselves to be. Ridiculous substitutions, we can all agree on that. But we still live to fight another day. We can only take heart from that, regardless of how we lost our lead - lets face it, we know there is going to be a serious onslaught of the highest quality attacking football in the scenario we put ourselves in - and are not many teams who could hold off a final ten minutes of ET of that intensity. Let's use it as a positive.
Agree to an extent, but I think you can't chuck both substitutions into the same bollocking. Alcaraz sub arguably didn't effect the results, but Lavia sub did. One could have been hailed as a good move, whilst the second maybe not. Definitely think we should acknowledge the difference, even though I, like you, did not like either.
What a good point. In isolation. Really good team performance, actually had a pattern of play. Very encouraging. But about 10 weeks too late. We also have had this false dawn against Man U etc and failed to win. Which is the key statistic. I’d love to say that Saints are finally putting up the fight and playing selles play book to enable us to stay up. But in reality, it’s another decent performance against a big name that our players see as a shop window. Alcaraz- fair play. Should get a top 6 move on his few performances since Jan. As will some others, ketchup etc. the ones we will be left with are the same we wanted to improve on previously. Armstrong and onuachu for the championship is probably quite good, but is not inspiring for saints fans following this years debacle.I hope and wait for a clear direction from the club. Clean slate, everyone out, those worthy in. Easier said than done. Someone pleas do A squad in out list. Would be interesting. Realistic and yet optimistic. Cheers
Can never be apathetic about football, I took great delight in the lamenting of the arsenal tonight. Even if I hope they win the league. Different spectrums
We're never going to be a big team, so it's nice to once in a while throw a spanner in the works for one of them. Helps keep us relevant. Would have much preferred it to have been City, but I'll take it. We've taken enough thrashings from Arsenal over the years.
