Stoke 0-1 Saints - Match Thread

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Aribo doing well again. We could have done with getting it to him more since he's come on. Just lacking that link further back.

[Colinjb]

They are working so hard for each other...... 1m 30s to go.

[Saint NL]

Just now, Chez said:

Bloody great work (tracking back) from Aribo. Best thing he's done since the pre-season goal last year. Go on son.

He's stepped up to that defensive winger role left by Elyounoussi 

[SNSUN]

Stu MOTM from Sky. Great free kick but nah. Downes, THB or KWP for me.

[Saint_clark]

Armstrong man of the match is a very lazy choice. He was atrocious first half, goal aside.

[saintant]

That's a fucking corner.

[Disco Stu]

Clear corner 😱

[adrian lord]

All in all a good old fashioned hardfought digging-deep 0-1 away performance. Well done lads.

[OttawaSaint]

Lino is blind!

Edited 3 October, 2023 by OttawaSaint

[trousers]

Just now, SNSUN said:

Stu MOTM from Sky. Great free kick but nah. Downes, THB or KWP for me.

Yep, Hinchcliff's last throw of the talking bollocks dice this evening

[SNSUN]

Win ugly. Sign of Champions.

[Saint NL]

Just now, Saint_clark said:

Armstrong man of the match is a very lazy choice. He was atrocious first half, goal aside.

Only one of his kicks went were it was supposed to go in the first half 🤣

[Dr Who?]

Nice clean sheet! Big step. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

They were showing Stu on the bench there. But he had to peer over the seat, so I'm thinking MOM has gone to his hair. WHich does look fresh and ready to give another ninety minutes, so well worthy of it.

[Jimmy_D]

Turns out they CAN do it on a cold Tuesday night in Stoke!  

[OttawaSaint]

FT. 3 points. Not great. Will take it.

[saintant]

Just now, Saint_clark said:

Armstrong man of the match is a very lazy choice. He was atrocious first half, goal aside.

Downes was best player on the pitch.

[Saint Matty 76]

Ugly but a good win, definitely a lot of concerns from today though.

Strange offensive subs and absolutely inexcusable that we didn’t kill that game off in the second half. Felt like the ref was really on our side as well.

Regardless, two great wins in a row and a hopefully favourable home game next where we can see a better performance with the result.

Great to get a clean sheet too. Downes MOTM.

Edited 3 October, 2023 by Saint Matty 76

[CSA96]

FT: Stoke 0-1 Saints

[whelk]

Shut up about penalties you twats

[Saint NL]

All over.

Clean sheet, first in 22 games.

Great stuff.

[adrian lord]

Must say that is one of the best refereeing performance, I’ve seen in a long time that man’s gonna go far. 

[SNSUN]

Stoke pissed at the ref

 

Fisticuffs

[Chez]

fuck off linesman you cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunt

[The Cat]

Get in

[Whitey Grandad]

They’re still going on about those ridiculous penalty claims.

[Colinjb]

Oh thank f*ck. Never thought we would ever again keep a clean sheet.

[ButtikonSaint]

not pretty but points are the only things we need til next April

COYS

Edited 3 October, 2023 by ButtikonSaint

[saintant]

Handbags now!

[SNSUN]

Don't need any red cards. Charly could be in trouble there.

[Saint_clark]

First clean sheet, you could see what it meant to the defence. Bednarek went ape shit at full time.

[miserableoldgit]

Cue usual suspects "lucky win again"....

[NewYorkSaint]

4th equal. clean sheet.  I'll take it!

[GDog07]

Bazunu deserves his clean sheet after all the flak he’s taken!

Nice to see some passion from Charly at the end!

[macca155]

Excellent a fighting win. Downes MOTM, he worked so hard.

Games like that are never easy.

[Wsaint]

That last page of this thread was tragic 😂 grinded out a result there, clean sheet happy days.

[woodsaint1]

Whats that.....

A clean sheet 

[OttawaSaint]

Argy bargy at the final whistle.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Handbags... let's not be picking up any silly post match cards here. It's done and we won.

[Saint_clark]

Travers and that little pikey Pearson were angling for a fight at the end there without a doubt.

[Disco Stu]

Glad we scraped a draw there and that we got our first clean sheet but if it wasn't for a wonder free-kick, we'd be talking about a very frustrating evening. We needed to do better in front of goal today. Stoke are a very poor side and allowed us to create multiple clear cut chances.

Edited 3 October, 2023 by Disco Stu

[The Cat]

Made hard work of it because we missed some easy chances but defended well and limited them to barely a shot on target.

Lovely to get a clean sheet.

[Sheaf Saint]

Finally a clean sheet!

An ugly win but I'll take it. Played OK in parts, but quite a few players had a mare, and the subs killed any momentum and control we had and just invited more pressure on us.

[trousers]

A win's a win but that was a step back from the performance vs Leeds (that first half at least). Here's hoping we can get our mojo back vs Rotherham on Saturday.

[Ralph Fastenbüttl]

I watched much of the second half. Lots of folk whinging about our play but I thought we looked pretty good tbh. We certainly were quite clearly a class above Stoke when it came to skill on the ball. KWP looks like a world beater in this league.

[Turkish]

2 minutes ago, whelk said:

Shut up about penalties you twats

Second one was a stonewall to be fair, first one wasn’t a pen

[Saint NL]

Nice little rumble at the end to celebrate the three points.

The stoke mutants are not amused 

[AlexLaw76]

Not pretty, but a win and we should have got another with 2 great chances

Lets be straight, the ref was favourable to us....Stoke should have had a penalty.

Lets make it 3 in a row on Sat...

[Lighthouse]

Clean. F**king. Sheet!

It wasn’t pretty and Stoke were absolutely garbage and we should have put them to bed long ago, but you’ll take any three points.

Bednarek, THB, Downes, KWP, Sully and Bazunu all excellent.

[sfc4prem]

Good to see the team working fucking hard to defend. Didn't ever feel that worried about Stoke scoring, which was an odd feeling. 

A real slog, that game. Not enough incisive or decisive passing and end product, though we did have a couple of moments. Stoke played reasonably well in transition between midfield and attack, but we mostly dealt well with their crosses and our positioning and marking.

A classic Championship game. Chuffed with three points.