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Gis

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Now that was a brilliant read Page 18 and onwards really struck a chord

 

"Southampton just dont give a f*9). They have just conceded but they're still attacking in numbers. A lot more entertaining than watching 11 men behind the ball. "

 

"Madness. Are we watching Southampton or Real Madrid? "

 

"This is quality from Southampton. They've completely worn City down and are playing pretty bloody brilliant today. "

 

"Hearing the fans sing warms my heart. Satchmo himself would be in tears.(ref OWTS)"

 

"Southhampton have been absolutely fantastic"

 

"Jos Hooiveld. Magnificent today, Dzeko couldn't get his head on anything thanks to him"

 

" Originally Posted by Man-United View Post

Southampton, game raising ****s. Get in.

They've been playing well all season, as soon as they tightened up their defence they did fine. They almost beat us and City in their first two games remember.

 

Hope they stay up "

 

"Southampton are playing the beautiful game. Fully deserving WINNERS! today."

 

"i thought Southampton were going to get robbed by the ref today when they were denied TWO stone wall penalties by Silva and Toure, glad it wasn't the case at the end."

 

"I've just checked. Satchmo is in tears. (ref. OWTS)"

 

"Typical Pochettino football tonight"

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Golac's Cunning Stunts

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Too many glowing comments on there to quote them all but liked this one in particular...

 

"Madness. Are we watching Southampton or Real Madrid?"

 

Madness. Are we watching Southampton or Real Madrid?

 

 

Impressed by Southamptons workrate

They've been like that for the last few months. Excellent against us in that respect as well.

 

 

Another team that just plays the right way, Southampton. Them and Swansea have been a breadth of fresh air for the league.

Even moreso than Swansea imo. They play open, attacking football against literally anyone. I've seen Swansea going cautious, defensively oriented against top clubs, not that it blemishes them.

 

 

Southampton are tearing City a new one

 

 

Southampton showboating now.

 

 

TBF, Southampton have been absolutely brilliant under Pochettino and lucky with some of the results. They deserve this lead.

 

 

Liquid football

 

 

Must be especially hard to be a Pompey supporter, watching your rivals tear up the Premier League champions while they prepare to fall to League 2.

 

 

Southampton look like they can rip City open at will.

 

 

Puncheon deserves respect, he looks like a rapper

 

 

That's some lovely play from Southampton.

They're playing some sexy football

They have been attacking in numbers and pressing since day one.

Their work off the ball has improved considerably since Pochettino was appointed.

 

 

Looks like a decent little player that Schneiderlin.

 

 

this lallana guy is not half bad

 

 

Rodriguez as looked good.

 

 

They are now just taking **** now.

 

 

Saints passing it around like bosses.

 

 

This is quality from Southampton. They've completely worn City down and are playing pretty bloody brilliant today.

 

Soton are playing wonderfully.

 

 

seriously, southampton is playing very well

 

 

No matter what happens now, this has been an amazing performance from Southampton.

 

 

The new Southampton manager isn't so bad is he...

 

 

So very class football is being played right now.

 

 

This is wonderful football from Saints

 

 

Southampton, who have been brilliant both defensively (bar the City goal) and fantastic when they've had the ball and attacked. Class from start to finish from them today

 

 

Great performance from Southampton, this wasn't a fluke they went out fought for the win the today.

 

 

There, there goes City's excuse of teams parking their team bus against them.

 

 

Well ****ing done by Saints. Watched the last twenty minutes and they were the better side by a mile.

 

 

Watching a match not involving United has rarely made me this happy this season

 

 

Jos Hooiveld. Magnificent today, Dzeko couldn't get his head on anything thanks to him. MOTM by far.

 

 

****ing beauty, Southampton fully deserved that brilliant performance.

 

 

So'ton. Nice to see they aren't gameraising ****s just against us.

 

 

The way Saints play now is great, but I'm not sure you can ask players to play like that every week. Physically, you cannot sustain that level of pressing every match.

 

 

They've been playing well all season, as soon as they tightened up their defence they did fine. They almost beat us and City in their first two games remember.Hope they stay up

 

 

Made an already excellent day that much better. Cracking play from the Saints. I hope they stay up because they are an excellent team to watch.

 

 

Yoshida and Hooiveld deserve some credit. They bossed City's strikers.

 

 

Southampton are playing the beautiful game. Fully deserving WINNERS! today.

 

 

I'm glad we already played them home and away and got all 6 points. Many teams will struggle against them from here till end of season.

 

 

Very impressed with Pochettino so far. They were fantastic 40 odd minutes at Old Trafford.

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KelvinsRightGlove

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so happy to be proven wrong...I am happy to take the shyt...

 

what a performance...if that is the future, lets have it..

 

everyone 10/10

 

well, cork gets a 10.5 for me

 

 

:toppa: well at least you admit it.

 

I'm going to enjoy being right, and smug for just a moment.

 

I think it was clear to see from previous performances this was coming.

 

I loved Adkins, I really really did, but it does look as though (granted it is still very early days) MP is the real deal.

 

This must irk the Cortese bashers, is this appointment another stroke of genius? Like him or loathe him, he has done great things for Southampton Football Club.

 

Another really, really good performance, that finally reaped the result it deserved. So much fun being able to give Man City fans crap in the pub.

 

Watching that asa stand alone game, you would never have thought we were fighting relegation and city trying to defend the title. Just brilliant.

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Charlie Wayman

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One of the most enjoyable games we've seen at SMS and quite possibly the best Saints performance in their history taking into account the status of the opposition. A privilege to be there and a privilege to see such skill and commitment from the players. Well done everyone at SMS. What a rabbit, what a hat!

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The9

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My view would be that under NA we pressed but about 20 yards lower on the pitch and when we won the ball we more took it back and started play from the back four. Now when we win the ball we are higher up on the pitch and turns it forward much quicker.

 

The thing with the pressure now is that I think the instructions is to keep a bit calm when the oppositions defenders have the ball but when they play the first pass up to their midfield, and their midfielder has his back against us we instantly put the pressure on which cause a pass back to the defender and then we are aggressive and keep pressuring so the defender cant control the ball with ease....

 

The high press was the missing element to our Prem game - with Lambert now working harder than he ever has before so he's not the weak link in the pressing game it works against any side which plays from the back. You might remember (you won't) that early in the season I pointed out that Lambert was useless in the Prem when left isolated (eg Arsenal away) but when we won the ball high up the pitch with him already in attacking positions we were able to support him, he gets the ball near the goal and doesn't have to run with it, and we scored a lot more goals. This tactic maximises the effectiveness of the players we have and clearly works against passing teams.

 

It will be interesting to see what happens when we play a team set up to play long ball from defence (like Newcastle). Readily accept that our pressing is now happening further up the pitch, I was sober for this one :)

 

I can see football coming full circle to the long ball game within 4 years, as the only way to counter high pitch pressing will be to set up to bypass it. Watching us last night with our wide fullbacks pushing up and one of the CMs sitting deeper than them, and the others swarming up from, we've already re-invented W formation. :D

 

One warning note though, this is the first time we've played for all 90 minutes in the 4 games under Pochettino. Playing well for a half like we did in the last 3 games is why we haven't won them.

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"Manchester City's title defence suffered a huge blow on the south coast as they gifted Southampton victory with a series of glaring defensive errors."

 

******s. Utter ******s.

 

Saints matches are nearly always seen and reported from the other teams point of view. It makes my blood boil at times. Perhaps this will change over time. They played badly because they were up against a team firing on all cylinders, not because they were having an "off" day. The match was not "gifted" it was won fair and square by the best team on the day.

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St Chalet

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Yeah, but that's just a short jetlag-free hop to Kobe and back, compared to poor Yaya Toure, who had to travel all the way from Jo'burg, one way.

 

One assumes Yoshida played Wednesday, Toure last game on Sunday.

 

And you are right about that Joburg flight, I felt slightly tired after doing that overnight and then a full days work the next day!

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Window Cleaner

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Yeah, but that's just a short jetlag-free hop to Kobe and back, compared to poor Yaya Toure, who had to travel all the way from Jo'burg, one way.

 

I know a coach who worked at Lens in their heyday; They had a lot of Africans (sold most of them to Pompey) at that time and he told me that the trouble with the ACON is that the players get into the African rhythm and come back fat,slow and lazy. Took them most of the rest of the season to re-adapt after 3 or 4 weeks down there. We saw this with Touré yesterday, no pace, no intensity in his game.

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Coming back to this next day, I must say a couple of things stand out to me in retrospect.

 

Beyond anything else, our sheer composure during the last 15 minutes (10 of normal, plus the 5 of extra) was amazing. The way we passed the ball around coolly and calmly for minutes at a time, not even letting City players get a touch! That's the sort of thing teams like ManU, Arsenal, Chelsea, or City themselves do to you when in the lead: when have we seen Saints do that? We never l ooked like giving up our lead late on, as we have too often this season: a real tribute to the work Pochettino is doing with the team.

 

The Barry own goal: not as incomprehensible as it looked at first. We had them under pressure, Lambert put across a nice teasing ball, and Barry had to have been aware that a Saints player (Davis?) was just a few yards behind him, running in to take that pass, so he had to deal with it, couldn't just let it go. Yes, he got it horribly wrong, neither putting it into touch nor passing back to Hart, but splitting the difference to score -- but the point is, he was under pressure, and putting players under pressure causes mistakes.

 

I'm a big fan of Adkins, I hope and expect that he'll be with another good club soon, and will get another chance to prove himself in the Prem. That said, it now seems clear that he just didn't get the team ready to play in the Premier League. Yes, he was getting things right when he was let go; but just to see the difference between the way the same players and team are doing now, to how we did against Wigan at home (to name one of our most disappointing early performances), illustrates that Adkins really had not got the team properly organized and ready for Prem League football.

 

The penalty shout at the end of 1st half: it was an absolute, stonewall penalty. Toure was beaten, and barged into Rodriguez from behind, knocking him over. How that wasn't given I just don't understand. Seen it half a dozen times now, and there is just no question about it.

 

Rodriguez, by the way, is coming along so well, growing game by game before our eyes. The future is bright!

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Beyond anything else, our sheer composure during the last 15 minutes (10 of normal, plus the 5 of extra) was amazing. The way we passed the ball around coolly and calmly for minutes at a time, not even letting City players get a touch! That's the sort of thing teams like ManU, Arsenal, Chelsea, or City themselves do to you when in the lead: when have we seen Saints do that? We never l ooked like giving up our lead late on, as we have too often this season: a real tribute to the work Pochettino is doing with the team.

 

We've been fantastic at this for the last 3 years. Team is more than capable of seeing out a win, although we have struggled a bit this season.

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Think you'll find he was - in the first game of the season at City, albeit his only other goal before yesterday

 

He scored that from the edge of the penalty area not in the six yard box, they are pressing higher and it hard to cope with and great to watch but they will need to be so fit to keep it up game after game.

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Clifford Nelson

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Best performance by a Saints team since I can't remember when, and that goes back to B.B. (Before Branfoot). I can't help thinking about those who kept telling us that we didn't have the players to play anything else but 4-4-2. Good players can play well in any formation.

 

May self critique is about thinking that the team wasn't good enough in the beginning of the season. They clearly are, and with prudent improvement over the next couple of years NC's ambitions don't seem so far fetched.

 

As for MP's influence: He has given the pretty passing a completely new purpose stemming from his convictions about how to play the game. A much needed change. Seldom have so many Saints fans been so enormously entertained.

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Does anyone have a link to a full game video in English? The only downside to yesterday (despite some idiots still criticising some of our players) was that there were no extended Sky highlights.

 

Found the game in Russian but would be good to watch with English commentary. If anyone's interested here the Russian version http://www.freefullmatchesonline.com/southampton-vs-manchester-city-hd-09-02-2013/

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Whitey Grandad

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The only downside to yesterday (despite some idiots still criticising some of our players) was that there were no extended Sky

 

Please, that was an unnecessary comment. Just because someone points out an error which, fortunately, turned out not to be significant does not make them 'idiots' in any sene of the word.

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Please, that was an unnecessary comment. Just because someone points out an error which, fortunately, turned out not to be significant does not make them 'idiots' in any sene of the word.

 

What, a whole thread devoted to slagging Fox, who didn't play too shabbily, is someone pointing out an error? I have no problem with picking up on a few things that need improving, and I think we're all aware Fox need to improve or be improved upon, but a thread on the subject in the circumstances was uncalled for IMHO.

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The Barry own goal: not as incomprehensible as it looked at first. We had them under pressure, Lambert put across a nice teasing ball, and Barry had to have been aware that a Saints player (Davis?) was just a few yards behind him, running in to take that pass, so he had to deal with it, couldn't just let it go. Yes, he got it horribly wrong, neither putting it into touch nor passing back to Hart, but splitting the difference to score -- but the point is, he was under pressure, and putting players under pressure causes mistakes.

 

Quite right. Also if you look at the close-up footage from both angles it becomes a bit more obvious what he seemed to be trying to do and where it went wrong. He opens his foot up as if to guide it out for a corner, risky given his positioning, but the ball actually hits the side of his heel not his instep. Anyway who cares really? Pure comedy gold. I seem to remember one of the posters on Redcafé saying something like 'Who won't be be immediately cheered up next week just by thinking about that goal?'. It's still making me grin now.

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In the Man U second half highlights on Sky the commentator said that Pep Guardiola commented that "you don't go looking for Pochettino's teams: they come looking for you!!".

 

Last nights display illustrated that comment in bright red neon lights.

 

Superb!

 

Great quote.

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Window Cleaner

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fair play to the guy, was a top finish. rickie would have been proud of that one.

 

Barry comes from a fair way back, must have put in a bit of an effort to get there and may not really know where he is, still he can see the goal I guess and in theory should have put it wide. But if you look closely just until the instant where he plays the ball he has his head turned to the left and he's not looking towards the goal. He knows that if he doesn't do something JRod will just tap it in so leaving it alone isn't an option but not looking where he's going is a fatal error..

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Whitey Grandad

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What, a whole thread devoted to slagging Fox, who didn't play too shabbily, is someone pointing out an error? I have no problem with picking up on a few things that need improving, and I think we're all aware Fox need to improve or be improved upon, but a thread on the subject in the circumstances was uncalled for IMHO.
I agree, didn't need a thread to itself.
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RedAndWhite91

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Watched the highlights a few times this evening.

 

Lambert looked like he had been playing Premier League all his life on Saturday. The way he took the ball down on the right wing, held it up, played the one-two before cutting it in and having a decent shot on his weak foot was world class. Sublime. His hard work made that goal, good on Davis being where he was to take advantage of Hart's cock up though! Lambert held the ball up so well, he set up Puncheon when he blazed it over, and moments later held it up well again, and thanks to Gareth Barry (one of the worst performances I've ever seen) for slotting home his ball for the third.

 

I know everyone played out of their skin and gave 100% for 90 minutes, the midfield, especially Puncheon were fantastic, Rodriguez never stopped running, but it is Lambert who stands out for me. There was a thread on here as we faced our second season in League One, questioning his fitness and whether was going to be up to it for another season, some people were saying we should sell him... Then we got to the Championship, people questioned whether he could cut it. He did. Then we got to the Premier League, people questioned, me included, if he was going to be able to cut it. He has.

 

Anyway, enough of Lambert love-in.

 

The defence was superb it has to be said. Lessons have been learnt. I say it after every game but Boruc is class.

 

Everyone played magnificently. (Even Danny Fox played alright...!)

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Saint J 77

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/match-reports/southampton-v-manchester-city-match-1300621 read, read, read and keep reading - it gets better each time....

 

I think this summed it up nicely...Kevin Keegan, once a Saints hero and a former City manager, covered the game as an ESPN pundit. Keegan said: Southampton deserved it. You can talk all day about how inept City were but Southampton deserved their win.

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