Saints 2-1 QPR - Match Thread

[Saint NL]

Manning again, he's not having a great game

[OttawaSaint]

Sloppy after a good buildup...

[Suhari]

Trying some neat through balls. Not quite getting it right.

[Saint NL]

Alcarez is wearing a woody from toy story t-shirt under his shirt 🤣🤣

[saintant]

One way traffic isn't it and not in the right direction.

[OttawaSaint]

Just now, saintant said:

One way traffic isn't it and not in the right direction.

Is it? We've been all over them but lack a cutting edge with the final pass often going astray.

[Bad Wolf]

3 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

Manning again, he's not having a great game

He's looked very good IMO. Not defensively but attacking wise, it's only he and Charley trying anything different.

[trousers]

Downes looking more like JWP than JWP so far... #sideways #backwards

[Suhari]

Did the QPR manager use to be a gigalo?

[AlexLaw76]

This is not particularly good. Neither was the 1st half last week.

Alcaraz not been good, SAA ineffective. Edozie poor but got a goal (that the keeper should have done better with).

2nd half last week we were far quicker with the ball going forward, which we kind of need to do here...

Meh

[FarehamSaintJames]

8 minutes ago, OttawaSaint said:

Stephens went off injured. It's S Charles back there now. 

Just seen, apologies!

Bednarek FFS! (Normal service resumed) 😂

Did he flail his arms in the air after we conceded?

[ecurnew02]

Not enough going in the final third

[Saint_clark]

Has any team gone an entire season without a single clean sheet?

[Cricketphilly]

Manning looks worse than average 

 

[OttawaSaint]

Football equivalent of edging. 

[Saint_clark]

7 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

Manning again, he's not having a great game

Signing defenders from a team with one of the worst defensive records, I'm shocked.

[obelisk]

Have to hope for another 2nd half improvement from Saints. QPR look like they could score at will on the break though.

[badgerx16]

3 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

This is not particularly good. Neither was the 1st half last week.

Alcaraz not been good, SAA ineffective. Edozie poor but got a goal (that the keeper should have done better with).

2nd half last week we were far quicker with the ball going forward, which we kind of need to do here...

Meh

Are you ever happy ?

[Baird of the land]

Qpr have looked more threatening imo despite our reams of possession

Alcaraz really poor. SAA, completely anonymous. Showing why he should be restricted to cameos for now.

Edozie is definitely winning his match up against their right back. Still think he shouldn't be a regular starter in a team aiming for promotion. He can dribble & It was nice piece of movement (but It was a bad shot) and his crossing is still diabolically bad.

[Ivan Katalinic's 'tache]

We've literally no physicality or presence up top. Take Amo-Ameyaw off, stick Adarma wide & we'll have to make do with Aribo up top. If that's not a wake up call to buy a forward, I don't know what is. The QPR forward would do. 

[Saint NL]

Feels like groundhog Day.

You could put the comments from pretty much any game this season and it'd be the same. Slow, ponderous football, finally score and then immediately switch off.

The main positive is that we normally score late on so there's that to look forward to.

 

Charles looks good in CB, Bazunu has been alright, Edozie has been lively and got his goal, not a huge amount of positives elsewhere.

[AlexLaw76]

1 minute ago, badgerx16 said:

Are you ever happy ?

What have I said that was incorrect?

[austsaint]

8 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

Manning again, he's not having a great game

This is the third game I've seen Manning play and apart from the occasional cross he is the most limited LB I've seen in a Saints shirt since Fox and Harding.      Give me Perraud or even Larios.       

[Saint_clark]

Just now, austsaint said:

This is the third game I've seen Manning play and apart from the occasional cross he is the most limited LB I've seen in a Saints shirt since Fox and Harding.      Give me Perraud or even Larios.       

Danny fox was quality at this level, it's worrying that Manning looks so poor.

[Sunglasses Ron]

5 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

Has any team gone an entire season without a single clean sheet?

Or winning at home!

[sandwichsaint]

is Peraud injured? not on the bench.

[Baird of the land]

Just now, Saint_clark said:

Danny fox was quality at this level, it's worrying that Manning looks so poor.

I remember preferring harding as Fox was awful defensively

[Saint_clark]

Just now, Baird of the land said:

I remember preferring harding as Fox was awful defensively

Didn't matter as we were so much better than the majority of the league anyway. This season we're not.

[Bewildered]

Tedious to watch, QPR happy to sit back and counter and we are making it too easy for them to do it. 

We'll lose if we play that badly second half.

[disconnect]

Where is Perraud? Far better than Manning on the 3 or 4 games played

[Disco Stu]

33 minutes ago, Suhari said:

It's working for me.

iFollow, my Macafee VPN on and set to Australia.

Finally got it working. Thanks for the suggestion.

[obelisk]

Saints with more (ponderous) possession but with fewer shots.

[Saint NL]

Interesting stat at half time, QPR won 91% of their tackles, we only had 60%

Aerial duels won, saints had 16% to qprs 60-something % 👀

Edited 26 August, 2023 by Saint NL

[trousers]

6 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

What have I said that was incorrect?

It would be correct to say that the planet is hurtling through the universe at 300,000 mph on a path to certain oblivion, but someone with a naturally cheerful demeanor wouldn't point it out every five minutes...

Edited 26 August, 2023 by trousers

[Disco Stu]

This performance is what's to be expected when you sell the two players that were actually scoring for us. No physicality up front at all and very ponderous in midfield.

Edited 26 August, 2023 by Disco Stu

[saintant]

We need to somehow eke a win out of this game and then do some decent business in the final days of the transfer window because the current squad will not be troubling the top 2 and maybe not the top 6 either.

[badgerx16]

6 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

What have I said that was incorrect?

You posted opinion rather than fact, therefore whether it is 'correct' or not it open to interpretation. Which is fine, but the predominant opinions you seem to hold appear to be "glass half empty".

Edited 26 August, 2023 by badgerx16

[AlexLaw76]

Just now, badgerx16 said:

You posted opinion rather than fact, which is fine, but the predominant opinions you seem to hold appear to be "glass half empty".

What have I said that YOU believe to be incorrect, as my opinion?

Was Alcaraz, or even Saints, really good in the 1st half?

[Bad Wolf]

4 minutes ago, Disco Stu said:

Finally got it working. Thanks for the suggestion.

How do you do that?

[Dr Who?]

Saints need to realise that ‘you are at your most vulnerable just after scoring’ is a saying not a command! 

[The Cat]

At the very least this score means that no one will end up mentally scarred by having to witness me streak across the pitch at full time.

[Disco Stu]

Just now, Bad Wolf said:

How do you do that?

My VPN was getting detected so I've bought McAfee VPN, set it to Australia, then bought a video pass here https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/video/live-video-saints-qpr

[Saint NL]

Not sure how to change it up?

Frazer to come on for Sam A-A? Erm, real lack of options

[Saint Fan CaM]

76.4% possession and it’s 1-1 with QPR having one more shot in target than us. Consistently having THAT stat is going to kill any semblance of a decent season. Massive week of work needed from Wilcox.

[captainchris]

8 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

Danny fox was quality at this level, it's worrying that Manning looks so poor.

The words ‘quality’ and Danny Fox are total opposites… 

[badgerx16]

1 minute ago, AlexLaw76 said:

What have I said that YOU believe to be incorrect, as my opinion?

Was Alcaraz, or even Saints, really good in the 1st half?

You said Alcatraz was"not good", I certainly disagree with that. Overall our attacking was too slow and as the cliche goes, "not enough bodies in the box", but Ido not think it was poor, at least going forward. Our defending, on the other hand, might be described as "needs improvement".

[Toadhall Saint]

4 minutes ago, Disco Stu said:

My VPN was getting detected so I've bought McAfee VPN, set it to Australia, then bought a video pass here https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/video/live-video-saints-qpr

Works with IPVanish too

[saintant]

At the start of the week I suspect most of us thought this would be a fairly comfortable home win.

[Saint NL]

Good save Bazunu.

 

Sloppy again....

[Bad Wolf]

Should be 2-1 QPR. Good save Bazunu again.