Match Day Thread Burnley v Southampton Saturday 26th, 8pm Sky Sports

I'm fairly sure we won't be playing a high line tonight. I'll be horrified if we are.

 

We always sign crocks...

 

.....you heard it here first!

 

Oh and btw, 6 minutes 21 seconds.

 

I think he has gone with Vestergaard to match him up with Wood.

 

There's rarely going to be a better opportunity to beat Burnley. Tarkowski, Mee, Cork, Jay, Barnes and Gumundsson all injured. Lennon and Hendrick released in the summer, and not replaced. Their bench is as bare as anything.

 

He's not crocked, just not up to speed yet.

 

I remember thinking that last week

 

No

 

He’s not good enough

 

He's not up to speed because he was crocked.

 

Naturally I'm hardly pleased at seeing Vestergaard starting. But I'm certainly not surprised to see Stephens dropped. As I've said elsewhere on here today, this season so far is a very small sample size, but based on what we've seen so far, Stephens has returned back to his old, dreadful self. I really hope it's just a temporary bout of poor form, but there was always a risk that he was just going through a temporary good phase (like he did for five months under Puel, before becoming awful again for the following two years).

 

Their bench is as bare as ours...

 

Love how everyone pushes that cos of one season in the 3rd or 4th division where he played there. He's literally never played in midfield for us. Let it go.

 

And had to quarantine for two weeks, by all accounts.

 

Oh, yeah, our bench is really poor. I highlighted that last week. But even someone like Long is a upgrade on what they can offer.

 

4 minutes ...

 

I'm on the wine already, so my judgement is more impaired than Vesty's decision making

 

2 mins 22 seconds.

 

I'm on the Birra Moretti so let's hope for a VAR free match