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Dale Stephens is in #16. Good news.

 

yo gettin yo stephens muddled up! Dale is the stephens we borrowed in league 1 but was pony, Lawrence is the stephens that got stabbed up in london, Jack is the stephens that plays reserve football for sfc.

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The player in the last photo doesnt match the gear Jos or JR have on in earlier pics but it does look more like Jos.

 

Jay Rod is wearing red saints 'aap' top, shorts, 'skins' type leggings, gloves yellow boots. see pic #10

 

Hoooiveld is wearing same top, same shorts, sans leggings, gloes and yellow boots. see pic #11

 

Player in 31 in the background is not wearing the 'aap' red top, he's wearing the darker coloured zip up top with a collar.

 

So it's neither, unless one has changed tops.

 

Might be that it is Gaston but we don't want prying Uruguayan National team eyes to see him.

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Jay Rod is wearing red saints 'aap' top, shorts, 'skins' type leggings, gloves yellow boots. see pic #10

 

Hoooiveld is wearing same top, same shorts, sans leggings, gloes and yellow boots. see pic #11

 

Player in 31 in the background is not wearing the 'aap' red top, he's wearing the darker coloured zip up top with a collar.

 

So it's neither, unless one has changed tops.

 

Might be that it is Gaston but we don't want prying Uruguayan National team eyes to see him.

 

If only we could see the boots, think Gaston is the only one who uses those sort of eau de nil coloured ones or the pinky ones.

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Player in 31 in the background is not wearing the 'aap' red top, he's wearing the darker coloured zip up top with a collar.

 

So it's neither, unless one has changed tops.

 

Might be that it is Gaston but we don't want prying Uruguayan National team eyes to see him.

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---------------Boruc-----------------

--Clyne---Forren------Yoshida--Shaw-

---------Cork-------Morgan----------

-Davis--------Lallana---------JayRod-

-------------Lambert-----------------

 

for me.

 

I suppose if Gaston is fit you could replace Davis with him and swap flanks with JayRod.

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@Mattytargett: My head is all over the place

 

Add this to training with 1st team, he might be in team or squad for tomorrow.

 

If he's talking about the game tomorrow then my read-between-the-lines on that tweet is that he's in the starting 11. That would mess with my head too at his age and experience :)

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@Mattytargett: My head is all over the place

 

Add this to training with 1st team, he might be in team or squad for tomorrow.

 

Lallana in behind Lambert to replace Gaston, Shaw or Targett out wide in Lallana's spot to help with the extra pressing?

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Gaston will be missed, he does have the ability to create something from nothing but I think a break will benefit him.

 

GK: Boruc

RB: Clyne

LB: Shaw/Fox

CB: Yoshida

CB: Forren/Jos

CM: Cork

CM: Schneiderlin

RM: Jay Rod

LM: Lallana

AM: Davis

ST: Lambert

 

Jay Rod was quality against Wigan, in both positions out wide. Hopefully he can bully Clichy a bit if he plays on the right. Punch probably needs a rest.

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Gaston will be missed, he does have the ability to create something from nothing but I think a break will benefit him.

 

GK: Boruc

RB: Clyne

LB: Shaw/Fox

CB: Yoshida

CB: Forren/Jos

CM: Cork

CM: Schneiderlin

RM: Jay Rod

LM: Lallana

AM: Davis

ST: Lambert

 

Jay Rod was quality against Wigan, in both positions out wide. Hopefully he can bully Clichy a bit if he plays on the right. Punch probably needs a rest.

 

I'd be happy with that. The only thing that worries me is Fox...

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Here's a well informed article by Alan Smith writing in the Independent.

 

Manchester City face tough task as Mauricio Pochettino has Southampton players marching to his tune

You cannot say it has been a bad start for Southampton’s new manager, Mauricio Pochettino. Two draws, against Everton and Wigan Athletic, flank an impressive performance in narrowly losing at Manchester United. Sir Alex Ferguson, in fact, went so far as to say that in the second half the visitors were “the best team we’ve seen here this season”.

 

Instant impact: Mauricio Pochettino has impressed since taking over from Nigel Adkins at Southampton Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES

By Alan Smith11:00PM GMT 08 Feb 2013Comment

High praise indeed for a side battling against relegation, a side coming to terms with Pochettino’s methods following the harsh sacking of Nigel Adkins.

When things like that happen, people talk about players being upset and maybe going to the owner to protest at the decision. In reality, they tend to just get on with it. These things happen in football and, to put it bluntly, it is every man for himself, as it is in many walks of life.

The players have got to look after themselves. They have got to be single-minded by forgetting about Adkins and concentrating instead on the new man’s demands, otherwise their own prospects will take a hit.

As it happens, the Southampton lads seem to have taken to Pochettino pretty well. The Argentine might not speak much English but, judging by recent displays, he appears to have got his message across without any problem. As a result, confidence should be fairly high going into the home match against Manchester City on Saturday evening.

One obvious change is the new man’s preference for pressing opponents high up the pitch. He did it against United and again at Wigan in a match Southampton really should have won.

 

By pinning them back, Pochettino wants to stop the other team from passing the ball under no pressure, even though it is in areas regarded as harmless. But those areas are not harmless if you win back possession. You can quickly strike at the heart of a team having committed men forward in decent numbers.

It is certainly a brave policy and also a risky one should the opposition be good enough to bypass that press. You can easily end up with several players out of the game. Yet the tactic worked well against United, so may be used again when City come to town.

With Jay Rodriguez pushing on to Pablo Zabaleta, Jason Puncheon doing the same to Gaël Clichy and Gastón Ramírez helping Rickie Lambert to close down City’s centre-halves, Southampton will hope to stop the visitors building from the back.

Under these circumstances, Jack Cork and the ever-improving Morgan Schneiderlin become very important because, as the team’s central midfielders, they are responsible for holding the fort, for keeping an eye on the movement of Yaya Touré, David Silva and James Milner when City do work the ball past the initial press.

On top of that, Pochettino will be hoping that his side can defend corners much better than of late. Wigan scored both their goals from this avenue when Maya Yoshida and Jos Hooiveld got caught underneath the ball to lose the header.

In addition, there seems to be a bit of uncertainty as to whether someone guards a post. Goalkeeper Artur Boruc did not have either covered for Wigan’s first goal when Gary Caldwell found the gap at the front post. That is Boruc’s prerogative. It is the keeper’s decision.

In response, though, it looked like Boruc changed his mind afterwards, because for Wigan’s very late equaliser Luke Shaw stood on the near post. Unfortunately for Southampton, the youngster was slow to push out when everyone else did after the initial header, playing goalscorer Shaun Maloney onside.

Listening to Pochettino this week, it sounds as if they will have worked on their organisation at corners in readiness for the champions, a very threatening team in the air when Vincent Kompany and Yaya Touré are around.

On a more positive note, Saints do have several players in form. Boruc, for one, is pulling off some excellent saves to make the position his own after the previous chopping and changing, while Lambert continues to prove what an intelligent striker he is, not just through his goals but with his overall game.

It was Lambert, in fact, who came off the bench to equalise for Southampton in their opening day defeat at the Etihad. An awful lot has happened since then, including the appointment of a new manager. And if they keep playing like this, Pochettino’s first win cannot be far away.

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Here's a well informed article by Alan Smith writing in the Independent.

 

Manchester City face tough task as Mauricio Pochettino has Southampton players marching to his tune

You cannot say it has been a bad start for Southampton’s new manager, Mauricio Pochettino. Two draws, against Everton and Wigan Athletic, flank an impressive performance in narrowly losing at Manchester United. Sir Alex Ferguson, in fact, went so far as to say that in the second half the visitors were “the best team we’ve seen here this season”.

 

Instant impact: Mauricio Pochettino has impressed since taking over from Nigel Adkins at Southampton Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES

By Alan Smith11:00PM GMT 08 Feb 2013Comment

High praise indeed for a side battling against relegation, a side coming to terms with Pochettino’s methods following the harsh sacking of Nigel Adkins.

When things like that happen, people talk about players being upset and maybe going to the owner to protest at the decision. In reality, they tend to just get on with it. These things happen in football and, to put it bluntly, it is every man for himself, as it is in many walks of life.

The players have got to look after themselves. They have got to be single-minded by forgetting about Adkins and concentrating instead on the new man’s demands, otherwise their own prospects will take a hit.

As it happens, the Southampton lads seem to have taken to Pochettino pretty well. The Argentine might not speak much English but, judging by recent displays, he appears to have got his message across without any problem. As a result, confidence should be fairly high going into the home match against Manchester City on Saturday evening.

One obvious change is the new man’s preference for pressing opponents high up the pitch. He did it against United and again at Wigan in a match Southampton really should have won.

 

By pinning them back, Pochettino wants to stop the other team from passing the ball under no pressure, even though it is in areas regarded as harmless. But those areas are not harmless if you win back possession. You can quickly strike at the heart of a team having committed men forward in decent numbers.

It is certainly a brave policy and also a risky one should the opposition be good enough to bypass that press. You can easily end up with several players out of the game. Yet the tactic worked well against United, so may be used again when City come to town.

With Jay Rodriguez pushing on to Pablo Zabaleta, Jason Puncheon doing the same to Gaël Clichy and Gastón Ramírez helping Rickie Lambert to close down City’s centre-halves, Southampton will hope to stop the visitors building from the back.

Under these circumstances, Jack Cork and the ever-improving Morgan Schneiderlin become very important because, as the team’s central midfielders, they are responsible for holding the fort, for keeping an eye on the movement of Yaya Touré, David Silva and James Milner when City do work the ball past the initial press.

On top of that, Pochettino will be hoping that his side can defend corners much better than of late. Wigan scored both their goals from this avenue when Maya Yoshida and Jos Hooiveld got caught underneath the ball to lose the header.

In addition, there seems to be a bit of uncertainty as to whether someone guards a post. Goalkeeper Artur Boruc did not have either covered for Wigan’s first goal when Gary Caldwell found the gap at the front post. That is Boruc’s prerogative. It is the keeper’s decision.

In response, though, it looked like Boruc changed his mind afterwards, because for Wigan’s very late equaliser Luke Shaw stood on the near post. Unfortunately for Southampton, the youngster was slow to push out when everyone else did after the initial header, playing goalscorer Shaun Maloney onside.

Listening to Pochettino this week, it sounds as if they will have worked on their organisation at corners in readiness for the champions, a very threatening team in the air when Vincent Kompany and Yaya Touré are around.

On a more positive note, Saints do have several players in form. Boruc, for one, is pulling off some excellent saves to make the position his own after the previous chopping and changing, while Lambert continues to prove what an intelligent striker he is, not just through his goals but with his overall game.

It was Lambert, in fact, who came off the bench to equalise for Southampton in their opening day defeat at the Etihad. An awful lot has happened since then, including the appointment of a new manager. And if they keep playing like this, Pochettino’s first win cannot be far away.

In addition to the corners there is also the threat from the long punt through the middle, by passing everyone. But the benefits of playing the way we do outway the risks of conceding the occasional goal in this way. Exciting times for saints I think. COYR.
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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4785906/Rickie-Lamberts-goal.html

 

Lambert added: “The new manager has been great and you can see since he has come to the club he wants to make things happen.

 

“The chairman is very ambitious and Southampton is going to be a very exciting place to be over the next few years.

 

“It is not unrealistic to try and challenge for the top four over the next three years. That is what we have to aim for.

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I was worried about our pressing game vs. Man Utd but the damage was done in a 30min period when we sat back against them. If we can get our mentality right and be the aggressive team in this game I think we can have a morale maintaining performance regardless of the result.

 

I've been to two of the last three games and it has been a pleasure to see us play in terms of our effort and aggression. I can easily excuses moments of lacking quality when we show this level of performance. I hope we carry forward our application to this game and give the champions a proper test. Then, as has been said before, we kick off a sequence of three more far more important games but lets not write this game off yet. I want another performance.

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