Post Match Reaction & MotM: SAINTS 1-1 Sunderland

[Lighthouse]

Raimirez really needs to go huh?

 

No, he is clearly getting rather 'excited' by Fonte's lovely hair-do. I can't say I blame him, Jose has excellent hair.

[Rasiak-9-]

And yet they came away with a point and came very close to getting all three. They were very poor but clearly had a game plan to frustrate us and it nearly worked.

 

Myself and my friends were saying words to this effect.

 

Teams like Sunderland don't beat us at playing football, but they 'do a job on us'.

 

That may sound like just linguistic bulls*it, but you know what I mean right? They did the exact same thing to us in the same fixture last season and ultimately we've only scored once against them in 3 hours of football at home. Despite the 'brilliant front line' Di Canio praised us for.

[Faz]

Myself and my friends were saying words to this effect.

 

Teams like Sunderland don't beat us at playing football, but they 'do a job on us'.

 

That may sound like just linguistic bulls*it, but you know what I mean right? They did the exact same thing to us in the same fixture last season and ultimately we've only scored once against them in 3 hours of football at home. Despite the 'brilliant front line' Di Canio praised us for.

 

I don't think they "did a job on us" given the opportunities we created. Frankly we dominated, and if the marginal offside call had gone our way would have battered them. Thereafter, both SRL and J-Rod had sufficient opportunities.

 

Cardiff, on the other hand, definitely did a job on Man City!

[batterseasaint]

If you haven't seen it already, below is a review of the game by Saints blogger 'The Spirit of Bobby Stokes'.

 

http://thespiritofbobbystokes.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/all-change-or-plus-ca-change-at-st-marys/

[NickG]

we utterly dominated.

thought we were OK in the 1st half, slow getting the ball forward

 

2nd half, it would have been a travesty had we not scored

deffo 2 points dropped

 

thought the CB's looked very solid

Wanyama is a rock

Lallana good in 2nd half

 

gaston looked very lively when coming on

 

have to be honest

lambert and rodriguez were rubbish. missed many chances

 

ref was terrrible

 

my MoM

JWP. he is excellent

 

Was pelle as bad as JayRod and Lambert were in first home game of last season?

[davefoggy]

Yes

[Georgie]

Problem is we hardly created anything on Saturday and didn't look like we would either. That Sunderland game we created a lot more. Really think Ramirez would have been ideal Saturday - shame he's broken a finger nail again.

[doddisalegend]

Problem is we hardly created anything on Saturday and didn't look like we would either. That Sunderland game we created a lot more. Really think Ramirez would have been ideal Saturday - shame he's broken a finger nail again.

 

Yes we are finally playing a system that would suit Gaston (far better than JWP) and yet he never seems fit:( if we could get him fit and playing in behind Pelle he could finally come good.