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Saints vs Everton - Match Thread


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JWP needs to learn how to play on the turn. He'll hit it backwards to a player he can see even if there's open space for him to turn into. It's a profound weakness for a central midfielder to lack awareness of the space around him.

Whereas Romeu consistently looks to play forward.

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Not sure that McCarthy playing the ball short to Vestergaard is doing us favours - Vest likes to play with the ball at his feet, which is fine at the halfway line, but he seems to dally for a second too long when 6 yards outside our area.

 

Doesn't look comfortable when he has to play the ball with his left foot imo.

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Played pretty well in that first half, especially in the first 20 minutes. I fear we'll be made to pay for not scoring when we were on top - we definitely faded as the half wore on.

 

Targett going off has killed our width. Valery is the only outlet, and I've not seen him deliver a cross yet in his fledgling career that wasn't utterly useless.

 

I'd probably take a point from here - there's no way we don't have a catastrophically sloppy defensive foul up in our near future.

 

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By far the better side so far. Thought Hoj, Redmond and Vester were excellent.

JWP needs to get the ball forwards rather than look for a safe pass all the time. Even Bednerak has been more effective attacking wise than him so far.

 

If we were "by far" the better side, we'd be winning.

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Are you implying teams who play the best always win? We have hit the post twice and made saves out of their keeper. They haven't really had a shot have they?

 

Yes. The object of the game isn't to hit the post or cause the keeper to make saves. It's to score goals. If team a scores one goal from one shot and wins 1-0, while team b have 20 shots, hit the post 6 times and force a dozen saves, team a are the better team.

 

Saying you deserve to win a football match because you've hit the post the most times is like claiming you deserve to win at Monopoly because you've rolled the most doubles.

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Yes. The object of the game isn't to hit the post or cause the keeper to make saves. It's to score goals. If team a scores one goal from one shot and wins 1-0, while team b have 20 shots, hit the post 6 times and force a dozen saves, team a are the better team.

 

Saying you deserve to win a football match because you've hit the post the most times is like claiming you deserve to win at Monopoly because you've rolled the most doubles.

 

No it means the team that had 1 shot won by luck. It doesn't mean they were the better team.

But your point revolves around the fact that team that hits the post loads and makes the keeper keep making saves won't score. Which as we have now scored shows we are the better side playing the better football and are deservedly winning.

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