Mauricio Pochettino's Post-Match Reaction - Swansea

[Saint-Armstrong]

• That's the thing in football, you need to know how to play each game
  
• We knew our opponent would try to get back
  
• We were able to withstand that
  
• We learned today, how to execute another type of football
  
• When you are winning, we knew that Swansea would take different risks to us
  
• They were opening themselves up
  
• We have to understand games and how to play them
  
• We are establishing how we want to play
  
• Today we didn't play as well as we wanted, but we got the result we wanted
  
• I'm very happy for everyone at the club (for the best start to a season)
  
• This is just the start of something
  
• Lallana is a great player and a great guy
  
• Adam has a lot of passion for this club
  
• His performance was fantastic today
  
• The whole team gave an amazing performance
  
• Adam works so hard to try and score and today it happened
  
• The only one that may not travel for international duty is Luke Shaw
  
• We'd rather he stayed with us for now, he's not well
  
• Gaston is fine, he was just left out of today's selection
  

[sambosa75]

Interesting. Really. Hope Gaston pulls his finger out and applies himself.

[Glasgow_Saint]

I was promised that GR just need a year to settle?

[BARCELONASAINT]

I am for the first time starting to believe there is no place at Saints for GR. He is without gifted, but for the manager not to include him in a home match squad when the manager has said there is nothing wrong with him suggests something very wrong!

I am not a GR basher, quite the opposite i believe he is extremely talented but for reasons i can not quite figure he just does not seem to fit the English premier league.....I still hope he comes good but i can see him gone come January and replaced with more quality and someone hopefully better suited to the more physical nature of English football

[adrian lord]

Pochettino is clearly a cultured, intelligent manager.

 

As for Gashton, I fear will never make it here.

[Fitzhugh Fella]

With Do Prado being preferred to Ramirez on the bench that says a lot about what MP thinks of Ramirez and that is a worry.

[stevy777_x]

I think he just doesn't have the required physical attributes. He is not somebody who is going to run all over the place to recover a ball or to take the ball off the opposition. Plus he seems to lose the ball too much when put under pressure

Guly I agree doesn't quite do that either but I ve already seen him do that a few times in the championship.

Think Gaston is suited for a slower type of football like in Italy when he has much more time on the ball to express his talent.

[Glasgow_Saint]

With Do Prado being preferred to Ramirez on the bench that says a lot about what MP thinks of Ramirez and that is a worry.

 

Or more about what he thinks of Guly which is a bigger worry

[trousers]

Would Banega be a better fit in the 'creative midfielder' role?

Edited 7 October, 2013 by trousers

[S-Clarke]

With Do Prado being preferred to Ramirez on the bench that says a lot about what MP thinks of Ramirez and that is a worry.

 

Not sure why it's a worry, we're not exactly missing anything.

[Window Cleaner]

With Do Prado being preferred to Ramirez on the bench that says a lot about what MP thinks of Ramirez and that is a worry.

 

Gaston obviously has his thoughts turned towards Uruguay's qualifiers next week and as he wouldn't be starting anyway there was probably no point in retaining him for a 10 minute run out. Uruguay play in Quito on Friday I think so perhaps they made a request to clubs to assemble their squad earlier because going from sea level to play at 10000 ft without acclimatisation takes some doing.

[Leslie Charteris]

With Do Prado being preferred to Ramirez on the bench that says a lot about what MP thinks of Ramirez and that is a worry.

 

Perhaps we should be worried about this, too: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/southamptons--dani-osvaldo-considering-2343956

 

But then again, it's old news, much like the Gaston comments.

Edited 7 October, 2013 by Leslie Charteris

[Fitzhugh Fella]

Not sure why it's a worry, we're not exactly missing anything.

 

we've been lucky with injuries so far and there will come a time when Do Prado let's us down

[Olallana]

That last note was not said in the interview I watched though. (Saints player)

 

The question was if all players on international duty were ready to travel and there was no problem for Gaston in that regard.

It´s not impossible though that he had a slight knock that kept him out of the 18 man squad yesterday but that it´s nothing that keeps him from playing a few days later.

 

Just a thought.