Match Day Thread Saints vs Stoke City - Saturday, August 23 - 15:00 KO

And has a history of scoring against us (or rather our youth teams), for Man City and West Ham before that according to TSP

 

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The day of the match.

It’s the hope that kills.

 

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Matchday. Can't remember the last time we beat these at SMS.

Insurance bet placed.

 

October


…in the cup

 

Last season

 

The odds are too good not to really. Can get stoke draw or win for not far off evens which I find surprising.

Stoke look good - I think 2-2.

 

Oh yeah

That was a dire match tbf so not surprised I'd expunged it from my memory.

 

Yeah I think a draw is a good shout too.

Hopefully Stewart and Downs are back.

 

Stoke have only played Derby and Sheffield Wednesday so far. Not saying that today won't be tricky, it will but I'm holding fire on the "Stoke look good" line until they've played teams who won't be fighting at the wrong end of the table.

 

Think he got a hat trick in the u21 final against us in May, but Jack Stephens will be a sterner test

 

They can only play the teams in front of them and it's hard to argue that they haven't looked very good against both, with two comfortable wins.

For all we know Wrexham could be down there too so you can't just ignore 2 strong performances.

 

Im not ignoring them just saying that today will be a whole different level of opposition for them. Let's see how they deal with it.

 

We should be improving now too, and we have our two main strikers back and available*.





*warm-up dependent.

 

They have that thing in football though that is worth a bit of a head start - momentum.

 

Pretty sure I read that they weren’t up to much against Derby, should have been behind before turning it on for the last 10 minutes when they scored the goals that won them the game. I wouldn’t call 90+5 and 90+9 a comfortable win.

 

They scraped by with a 3-1 win then

Possibly similar to how we got two late goals against Wrexham. I think it will be a close game.

 

We have some of that too though.

 

Except we dominated Wrexham for most of the game so you could say the late goals winning us the game were a reflection of the game.
I’m saying that Stoke didn’t play well against Derby, except for the last 10 minutes when they scored the winning goals. You just said they looked very good in both games and had 2 comfortable wins. I’m disagreeing with that.

A wins a win, and they have some momentum and a decent attack so not saying today won’t be tough though.