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MotM vs Cardiff City (Away 2013/14)  

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  1. 1. MotM vs Cardiff City (Away 2013/14)

    • Gazzaniga
      11
    • Shaw
      4
    • Chambers
      0
    • Fonte
      6
    • Yoshida
      6
    • Cork
      3
    • Schneiderlin
      17
    • Davis, S
      34
    • Lallana
      88
    • Rodriguez
      126
    • Lambert
      7
    • Ward-Prowse
      1
    • Ramirez
      1
    • Gallagher
      1

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Lighthouse

Lighthouse

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Just what the doctor ordered.

 

Thought Shaw, Lallana, Morgan and JRod were superb. No real poor performances, fair play to Gazza and Yoshi on a decent game too.

 

Saints in no-mans land in the Premier League, in the middle of a 12 points space between 8th and 10th.

alpine_saint

alpine_saint

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Clean slate, J-Rod on form, another game out of the way with a sub-standard defence. Cant ask for much more.

 

Would have been nice to crack on and get another couple in the second half, but cant have it all.

Dalek2003

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A tonic when we needed it. Don't want to get drawn into the dogfight down at the bottom. As Alpine said, we need to get defence up to strength and get the goalkeeper sorted.

Having said that, pleased for Gazzaniga, will do hos confidence good.

DuncanRG

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Great away performance and other results have all gone our way. Only downside is losing Morgan for Everton, but Tim Howard's suspension helps compensate.

 

We're guaranteed to be at least ninth after the Chelsea game unless Stoke win two on the bounce and make up 17 goal difference.

norwaysaint

norwaysaint

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Once again very impressed with Chambers. He has made the step up with no problem at all. Imagine if we had back up of that quality in every position. I would say Cardiff were poor though and I can't imagine getting three goals like that against a decent team.

 

Still, you can only beat who you play and we controlled that match throughout. It was like they didn't even have a midfield.

Sheaf Saint

Sheaf Saint

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All good except for the joke booking that Morgan got, never a booking, puts him out of Sunday's game.

 

When you consider that Fonte didn't get booked for that very late tackle near the end, it's baffling how Mariner decided that was worthy of a yellow. Softest booking I've ever seen.

mitch01

mitch01

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Good performance all round. Back four were great, like seeing Yoshida back in - not sure how he was ever rated below Jos after how well he played last season.

Viking Warrior

Viking Warrior

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Excellent result . And a clean sheet . That would have given Gazza a double doze of self confidence.First MP continues with him in goal and secondly a clean sheet . Let's hope he goes on to reach his full potential

 

Also another few days to get our injured mended and back into the team

S-Clarke

S-Clarke

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That was a win we desperately needed, and one which was never in any doubt to be honest.

 

We did alright, but Cardiff were the worst side I've seen us play all year. Utterly horrendous, and it made it a pretty easy afternoon for us all being told.

 

Next game will be the bigger test...

JackFrost

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Gazzaniga did ok overall I thought but he's very shaky on crosses. It's thought he injured himself slightly in the first half as well but overall he did pretty well. Rodriguez and Lallana were brilliant and Fonte was solid as a rock.

 

Also whilst Yoshida did have a few questionable moments with ball-watching/passing, his performance overall did reinforce the question why on earth did we persist with Hooiveld? With match practice Yoshida is capable of being a solid backup at PL level.

 

Lambert looked better today also

Window Cleaner

Window Cleaner

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Great away performance and other results have all gone our way. Only downside is losing Morgan for Everton, but Tim Howard's suspension helps compensate.

 

We're guaranteed to be at least ninth after the Chelsea game unless Stoke win two on the bounce and make up 17 goal difference.

 

And Barry I think.

Under Weststand

Under Weststand

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Well I feared the worse when I heard Lovren was out today, but we seem made of sterner stuff these days. Sounds like an excellent team performance. Pleased for Gazzaniga today as well hopefully give him a lot more confidence. JRod really seems to be kicking on now as well lovely to see.

doggface

doggface

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Great Result and performance. Outstanding 1st half and professional the 2nd. Hopefully end of our blip. Big shut out for the back 5. Very impressed by Yoshida.

 

My Ratings

 

Gazzaniga 7

Chambers 7

Shaw 7

Schneiderlin 7.5

Fonte 8

Yoshida 8

Rodriguez 8

Cork 8

Lambert 7

Davis 7

Lallana 8.5

Tractor_Saint

Tractor_Saint

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Watched it - great game. After that first half I knew that was how the 2nd half was going to play out. Top performance from the whole team - Well done the fans for getting behind Gazza - really helped him and he grew in confidence with every save he did.

 

Lallana & Spiderman bossed it, hope to see Lallana's little 'dink' on SoccerAM tekkers next week, what a great move.

 

I'll credit Yoshida with a great shot saving tackle in the 1st half but he needs to seriously work on his passing to midfield - may have just about scrapped a 50% pass rate today.

 

All in all, we're back for the New Year and an important game to move us away from 10th place. COYR

shurlock

shurlock

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Them playing 4-4-2 certainly helped us break with numbers.

 

Overall very satisfied - hopefully a combination of JWP, Cork and Davis can do the biz in Morgan's abence and Lovren is back to take on Lukaku.

eurosaint

eurosaint

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Solid team performance, controlled midfield for most of the match and always looked dangerous in attack !

The difference between Shaw and Fox is similar to comparing Pele and Ali Dia !

JRod, Adam and Yoshida also due a special mention IMHO !

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