Saints 1 West Ham 0 - Post Match Reactions

[SFKA South Woodford]

Between the 80th minute and the 92nd things got a bit tense, but I still thought we would either hold on or we would get another goal to win it. However the last few minutes were pretty easy as we had weathered their storm and had the upper hand again and I could see us getting another goal as they were so high up the pitch we only needed to get De Ridder away with a half decent ball through.

 

I thought it was a good professional performance by the team and it was probably a good thing that the score was only one nil, I think this helps the players focus against hard working teams as they know they have to stay on their toes, whereas at two or three up, they might start to think it's game over and before you know it the oppo have a goal back and it's game on again.

 

With West Ham pushing their three strikers up onto the defence closing down the space at the back that we use for building our play, did we fully exploit the gap left in the midfield?

 

On a side note, I wonder if saints have reported Matt Taylor for criminal damage? I was sitting with a good view up the tunnel and could see him going mental and kicking everything in sight as he went up the tunnel including kicking out at something at the end of it several times, I got the impression that he was less than impressed to have been subbed, so was it really an injury?

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