Man City 4-0 Saints - Match Thread

[InvictaSaint]

Elmo…..🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[madge]

Perraud has more shots in 2 seconds than we’ve had all match… 

[Mr X]

There can be no denying after this latest confidence hit we are in a relegation battle... Make the change now, nothing to lose! 

[Chez]

Mara applies more pressure on a city defender than Che has done all game. earns a corner.

Great defending by Salisu and BK. They have kept the score down.

[Sheaf Saint]

Perraud just triples our shots tally in the space of 2 seconds.

That was a piss poor effort from Ely.

[Tanlee]

Complete non entity of a performance yet again 

[Miltonaggro]

If Ralph changes shirts with Pep at the final whistle he’s 100% off this evening. 

[Lee On Solent Saint]

1 minute ago, OldNick said:

His mind doesnt seem to be on playing

Reckon Southgate has already told him he's not going to the World Cup 

[saintant]

1 minute ago, OldNick said:

It is so sad that we cant really say who else in our squad who is fit should have played!!

Pretty concerning

It's not so much about who else is fit it is more a case of wondering why we are so bad under Ralph and he seems incapable of getting the team set up to do even the basics. That is the concern and one of the reasons he should go.

[Saint NL]

Whose kicking has been worse? Bazunu or Ederson? Both have been awful

[Chez]

1 minute ago, Sheaf Saint said:

 

That was a piss poor effort from Ely.

you are being generous. Pitiful.

[saintant]

2 minutes ago, OldNick said:

His mind doesnt seem to be on playing

Hasn't looked happy all season from what I've seen.

[DT]

4-0 would be a bad result. Still a thrashing, but not quite enough to get him the sack

[Sheaf Saint]

We wait until 85 mins to start stringing together any serious spell of pressure on the City goal. Seems to be since Mara and Larios came on.

[Roo1976]

wow jwp finally played a ball forward, and........found our player wow. Bet Ralph wont be happy with that. 86th min btw.

 

 

[trousers]

Broja scores for Chelsea

[Wade Garrett]

1 minute ago, Lee On Solent Saint said:

Reckon Southgate has already told him he's not going to the World Cup 

On current form he is well down the pecking order.

[aintforever]

Just now, saintant said:

Hasn't looked happy all season from what I've seen.

Probably fucked off with the club buying a load of kids.

[Mr X]

Just now, DT said:

4-0 would be a bad result. Still a thrashing, but not quite enough to get him the sack

That's the annoying thing they won't pull the trigger on this 

[Victor]

.................. and Broja scores.

[SNSUN]

No icing on the cake? A little consolation to give us hope?

[Convict Colony]

Just now, aintforever said:

Probably fucked off with the club buying a load of kids.

Does he prefer championship players?

[DT]

Fuck off Ralph

[LGTL]

Utterly pointless, as we all predicted. Annoyingly, not humiliating enough for him to get the boot at 5.30pm

[vectraman]

Broja scores for Chelsea…

[RedArmy]

Broja scoring but at least all that money we spent on deadline day started today. 🤦🏻‍♂️ 

[Chez]

2 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

We wait until 85 mins to start stringing together any serious spell of pressure on the City goal. Seems to be since Mara and Larios came on.

Djenepo has been busy too since coming on. He at least looks up for it. despite the predictament.

[Saint_clark]

Christ, we went from having a player in their box facing their goal with an opportunity to shoot to passing back to the CBs and giving it away.

[DT]

Liam Delap scores. Tella did too. And Broja. 

[davefizzy14]

Really dissapointing yet again. 

[Suhari]

Crikey. Went out and mowed the lawn and it's still not 9.

#pepout

 

[saintant]

Just now, Saint_clark said:

Christ, we went from having a player in their box facing their goal with an opportunity to shoot to passing back to the CBs and giving it away.

And that must be what they are being coached to do.

[Chez]

Again our CBs get us out of jail. They have done well today. The rest? Meh.

[Saint NL]

All over.

Rancid, boring and pathetic, but still better than expected.

Thanks Ralph, it's been fun at times but enough is enough. 

 

Let's hope the new manager can gel this lot into a team. He's got his work cut out.

[trousers]

In isolation, a 4-0 defeat away to Man City will be about par for most teams in the league this season, but doesn't mask the underlying issues.

[aintforever]

Not a terrible result, as expected really.

[Mr X]

It's bad when you say we got beat 4-0 and it was a get out of jail job as should have been double that! 

[OldNick]

Just now, DT said:

Liam Delap scores. Tella did too. And Broja. 

Delp cant score so no loss IMO. Tella is learning so good, Broja is too expensive. None would have scored for us today. You actually have to get the ball up the pitch to score

[Chez]

1 minute ago, DT said:

Liam Delap scores. Tella did too. And Broja. 

It's OK, we have Adams and his eight goals a season.

[obelisk]

Can't say that I'm enjoying my football at the moment. Are we supposed to be pleased with a 4-0 defeat?

[Miltonaggro]

Turgid moribund shite. 

[Victor]

Gary O'Neil for manager!

[Saint86]

Fair play to the saints fans that are up there.

Finished 4-0 because man city were in training mode for much of it. Clear we never had any belief in getting a result today, maybe the intent was only ever to limit the battering.

[Chez]

1 minute ago, trousers said:

In isolation, a 4-0 defeat away to Man City will be about par for most teams in the league this season, but doesn't mask the underlying issues.

Yep, this forward line is going to get us relegated. 

[RedArmy]

1 minute ago, OldNick said:

Delp cant score so no loss IMO. Tella is learning so good, Broja is too expensive. None would have scored for us today. You actually have to get the ball up the pitch to score

It’s not just about today is it, we’ve scored 8 fucking goals this season. 

[davefizzy14]

I didn't expect much today but I expected us to create a lot more than we did. Very dissapointing. Too open especially in the wide areas.

Edited 8 October, 2022 by davefizzy14

[Jimmy_D]

Blimey. Really felt like we went into this one with no confidence at all.

At least we're the first team in months to keep Haaland down to one goal, and we're having a better day than Putin?

Loss wasn't unexpected, to say the least, but there's a fair bit of pressure on the next couple of games now. Hopefully we can find some of the aggression we had between the Leeds and the Chelsea games.

[NewYorkSaint]

People say our problem is no striker. But I think it's the midfield. We REALLY miss Romeu.  And Romeo.  With Stu Armstrong and JWP just a tad below their best, our traditional strength of winning back the ball relentlessly and blocking most attacks has ebbed.   Still, it wasn't really a humiliation today, and I still think we'll end up fine for the season. We'll get a much better sense next Sunday......

 

[gammon cheeks]

Man City are just world class.....simple as that really .

[obelisk]

Looks like Tella will be just the striker we need next season.