Saints 1-4 Man City - Match Thread

[Saint86]

No shame in this, the team have given it everything, a bit of luck and no mistakes and we'd be in it or winning. But how often do you really manage that? 

Saints fans in the ground though have been a real dissapointment based on the BBC coverage. Maybe the mics are in a bad spot, but it's sounded like a city homegame most of the match. 

Chants of "your support is f'ing shit" and fans leaving with 15min to go. Players deserve better backing than this. Ditto people raging at the players here when they run their socks off vs one of the best teams in the world. 

Edited 20 March, 2022 by Saint86

[BotleySaint]

  On 20/03/2022 at 16:36, Wade Garrett said:

So brave of Stephens to contort himself out of the way of Foden’s strike.

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I read it as opposite. He was trying to get in the way.

[danjosaint]

That's the way To turn your back Jack gutless prick 

[Viking Saint]

Getting embarassing now

[AlexLaw76]

Game over 

[Sheaf Saint]

I really don't like Phil Foden.

He looks like a complete bellend. 

Oh FFS 4-1!

[CB Fry]

Mike Dean running around with his shirt over his head right now.

[verlaine1979]

Finishing makes the difference, as always. Adams and Armstrong just both strike the ball poorly and that's never going to change.

[Jimmy_D]

  On 20/03/2022 at 16:36, Dman said:

What’s your argument? It was a stone wall pen, that was given and checked on VaR amd still given. 
 

Other than some made up scenario in your head where that wouldn’t have been given the other end, I don’t really know what you’re trying to prove. 

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It was a soft penalty at best. Calling it stonewall is ridiculous.

[Saints foreva]

You need to be bankrolled to win stuff in football these days. Absolute shite. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Bah!

[DT]

Just awful awful defending. Championship at best

[OttawaSaint]

Not a 4-1 game but when you gift them 2 goals and miss easy chances you get what you deserve.

[Dman]

  On 20/03/2022 at 16:38, Jimmy_D said:

It was a soft penalty at best. Calling it stonewall is ridiculous.

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I’m which case, they’d be right in looking at it up the other end then? 
 

It wasn’t soft, it was fucking obvious. 

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[cloggy saint]

  On 20/03/2022 at 16:37, Viking Saint said:

Getting embarassing now

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No it's not.

[AlexLaw76]

  On 20/03/2022 at 16:36, Dman said:

What’s your argument? It was a stone wall pen, that was given and checked on VaR amd still given. 
 

Other than some made up scenario in your head where that wouldn’t have been given the other end, I don’t really know what you’re trying to prove. 

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You saying it was soft, doesn't mean it was.

None of our players made a fuss. They knew it was a penalty all day.

[BotleySaint]

  On 20/03/2022 at 16:36, Chez said:

sadly championship quality forward play has fucked us.

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And the defending surely? Noone even reacted to that last goal.

[Victor]

  On 20/03/2022 at 16:36, BotleySaint said:

 

Unfortunately we lack game changers. Whereas they have a whole team of them.

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But Broja and Adams do appear to have changed the game!

[Holmes_and_Watson]

  On 20/03/2022 at 16:37, CB Fry said:

Mike Dean running around with his shirt over his head right now.

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Hope he doesn't take it off for that 4th. He'll have to book himself.

[OttawaSaint]

City fans giving it large. I wonder how many were Arsenal fans when City were in div 2.

[obelisk]

To beat City Saints needed to limit defensive mistakes and to take their chances when they came along. That's the difference.

[Saint Billy]

As expected really. 

[verlaine1979]

Cancelo passes better with his wrong foot than any of our players do with their dominant one.

[Viking Saint]

  On 20/03/2022 at 16:38, cloggy saint said:

No it's not.

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We're 1-4 down at home, in a game where we could've been three up if we'd taken our chances.

[HarvSFC]

Both their subs score, their strength in depth is too much and why they want five subs in the league. Equally, if there wasn’t five subs we possibly don’t start both Broja and Adams on the bench, as using 2/3 to bring them on poses a bit more of a risk than 2/5. Shit rule. Doesn’t deserve a 4-1 score line. But, we all know the defence needs bolstering.

[Norm]

Good effort from Saints against the best side in Premier and perhaps Europe.

[OttawaSaint]

  On 20/03/2022 at 16:40, obelisk said:

To beat City Saints needed to limit defensive mistakes and to take their chances when they came along. That's the difference.

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Yeah. Solid no nonsense defence, take our chances, ride our luck. We got lucky with the equalizer but that's about it.

[skintsaint]

Ah well, normal Saints game, shit goals to concede and miss chances top flight players shouldn't. Night all.

[CanadaSaint]

Some of you aren’t going to like this but Forster has now reverted to type. Despite being 6’7” he flaps at a cross he should have caught or punched and it goes out for a throw (goal 3) and gets beaten low, near-post (goal 4).

City have ruthlessly exploited our known weaknesses. Every gooal has come from a clear error.

 

[Jimmy_D]

  On 20/03/2022 at 16:39, AlexLaw76 said:

You saying it was soft, doesn't mean it was.

None of our players made a fuss. They knew it was a penalty all day.

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No, you’re right, it was the player going down too easy made it a soft penalty.

[Dman]

As I said earlier, the Pen killed the game for us. Prevented any real opportunity to hit them on the break. 

[cloggy saint]

  On 20/03/2022 at 16:41, Viking Saint said:

We're 1-4 down at home, in a game where we could've been three up if we'd taken our chances.

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Ok, doesn't make it 'embarrassing' though.

[CB Fry]

  On 20/03/2022 at 16:38, Jimmy_D said:

It was a soft penalty at best. Calling it stonewall is ridiculous.

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He pushed him over clear as day.

Calling it a soft penalty is absolutely laughable.

 

 

[Lighthouse]

  On 20/03/2022 at 16:41, Viking Saint said:

We're 1-4 down at home, in a game where we could've been three up if we'd taken our chances.

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But that’s what billions of Dirhams buys you, top quality players who finish their chances. As opposed to a £15m striker and whatever Shane Long is.

[Lee On Solent Saint]

We really need to upgrade in the keeper and centre half position. 

[AlexLaw76]

City are one of the best in the world. And that is without a recognised striker.

If we had better quality in attacks who knows!

[Chez]

  On 20/03/2022 at 16:37, verlaine1979 said:

Finishing makes the difference, as always. Adams and Armstrong just both strike the ball poorly and that's never going to change.

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No idea why Broja did not start this game.  Some of the breaks we had, he'd of been in his element. 

[Dman]

  On 20/03/2022 at 16:43, Lighthouse said:

But that’s what billions of Dirhams buys you, top quality players who finish their chances. As opposed to a £15m striker and whatever Shane Long is.

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I’m sorry but any premier league striker should be taking 2 or 3 of those chances (thinking Armstrong off the post and Adams). 
 

[SNSUN]

They are class.  They have gears beyond our dreams.

[Disco Stu]

  On 20/03/2022 at 16:37, Saint86 said:

No shame in this, the team have given it everything, a bit of luck and no mistakes and we'd be in it or winning. But how often do you really manage that? 

Saints fans in the ground though have been a real dissapointment based on the BBC coverage. Maybe the mics are in a bad spot, but it's sounded like a city homegame most of the match. 

Chants of "your support is f'ing shit" and fans leaving with 15min to go. Players deserve better backing than this. Ditto people raging at the players here when they run their socks off vs one of the best teams in the world. 

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That's what happens and will continue to happen in cup games when we disperse our kop end and give the seats to away fans.

[OttawaSaint]

Fucking idiotic challenge by Salisu turned the game on its head. We were looking the more likely to go ahead. 

Looking at it Moi couldn't decide what to do while breaking, they score straight after. The likes of Foden just act, quick as lightning.

[CB Fry]

Smallbone is coming on so that means whatever it is that he does does does.

[Lighthouse]

  On 20/03/2022 at 16:44, Dman said:

I’m sorry but any premier league striker should be taking 2 or 3 of those chances (thinking Armstrong off the post and Adams). 
 

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Neither are Premier League strikers, that’s pretty much my point.

[LiberalCommunist]

Applied ourselves well. Until Mike gave that soft as shit pen. Watching them time-waste was funny, there's a respect they don't show many teams!

Season officially over. Flipflop time!

 

[Dman]

  On 20/03/2022 at 16:46, Lighthouse said:

Neither are Premier League strikers, that’s pretty much my point.

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Oh I got you! Yep agreed. 
 

Adams is a bit more of a rounded and technically better Shane Long and Armstrong looks miles off being a premier league player on today’s display. Really average. 

Edited 20 March, 2022 by Dman

[Ade]

  On 20/03/2022 at 16:42, CanadaSaint said:

Some of you aren’t going to like this but Forster has now reverted to type. Despite being 6’7” he flaps at a cross he should have caught or punched and it goes out for a throw (goal 3) and gets beaten low, near-post (goal 4).

City have ruthlessly exploited our known weaknesses. Every gooal has come from a clear error.

 

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Dunno why you comment? You just spout crap. How on earth you can put any blame on Forster for two of their goals is beyond parody. What a melt.

[Chez]

should and easily could be 6

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Still time for a Smallbone hat trick. Just get him up there. 🙂

[BotleySaint]

Depressing to lose 4 in a row after such a positive run before that. Not how we expected it to go.. 

[Saints foreva]

Did the PA announcer really annpunce that KDB was the MOTM? Pathetic.