Stoke 0-1 Saints - Match Thread

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Decent cross in from them. I was worried for a moment there. header down taking all the power out of it. whew.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Arma trying those narrow angles again.

[trousers]

Just now, saintant said:

Charlie needs to be getting further forward.

Yep, he'd have been on the end of that Armstrong cross just now if he hadn't checked his run into the 6 yard area

[Sheaf Saint]

Just now, Saint NL said:

Close from AArmstrong.

Keeper got a touch. Should have been a corner.

[whelk]

Can’t see me buying the dvd of this one

[Master Bates]

Anyone with a tv and replays can tell you that should have been a corner, the ref is like so last year, duuuurrrr and all that

[Saint NL]

Manning again, he loses possession so easily

[stknowle]

1 minute ago, adrian lord said:

Manning need to look lively

Fucks up far too often. 

[saintant]

Stoke are awful - we should be doing so much better.

[OttawaSaint]

Just now, Master Bates said:

Anyone with a tv and replays can tell you that should have been a corner, the ref is like so last year, duuuurrrr and all that

Ref has been shite.

[JohnS]

Manning has been shocking! 

[SNSUN]

Come on Saints. Need to get our nose in front here.

[Sheaf Saint]

How's that not a foul on Stu? Ref was right there in front of it FFS.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Nice block from Smallbone there. We had to close down that space sharpish.

[LGTL]

You won’t see a more Championship player then Manning. Which makes sense I guess. 

[saintant]

Stu hopeless.

[OttawaSaint]

Stu seems to think we have our red and white on...

[Saint NL]

Stu Armstrong battling Manning for the "lost possession most times" award

[stknowle]

Smallbone is weak as piss. Fuck's sake.

[Saint_clark]

Is Armstrong pissed?

[trousers]

Just now, OttawaSaint said:

Stu seems to think we have our red and white on...

His pass completion rate must be in single percentage figures at the moment 

[Fan The Flames]

Stupid northern twats booing Smallbone.

[Sheaf Saint]

Just now, saintant said:

Stu hopeless.

Nothing working for him tonight is it. 

[RedArmy]

Wish there was an option to turn off these commentators. Fucking dreadful 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

We're not quite connecting enough here. We're doing it in some moves, but not consistently.

We are switchign it up though, That was a nice direct run from Alcaraz  who brough Sulemana's pace into it. Obviosuly we give away from the throw in and are back defending. But still... 🙂

[SNSUN]

Nobody getting into the box when Sulemana has the ball. Should be busting a gut there.

[Saint Matty 76]

Think we need some sort of Che focal point here, not really sure what our plan is outside of Sulemana skinning 8 players to score…

[Saint Fan CaM]

Manning loses the ball but when he has the chance to close down…he doesn’t. It’s getting to a point where they’ll figure out how to get behind us.

[SambaMaverick]

Striker on the pitch please, even though some have decided Adams is the problem

[OttawaSaint]

Just now, Saint Matty 76 said:

Think we need some sort of Che focal point here, not really sure what our plan is outside of Sulemana skinning 8 players to score…

Suleman skins 8 players but the rest just watch and don't get into the box and attack his cross.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Manning and Stu's passing not accurate and sometimes by rote rather than deliberation. Alcaraz looks lively if we can get it too him centrally. He may be able to create for Sulemana and Arma.

[ButtikonSaint]

Why don't we play Stu on the right, Kameldeen on the left, AA up front and Charly just behind?
Would seem a more natural fit to me than a false nine 

 

[TheAlehouseBrawlers]

18 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

The only other working one I can find has Spanish commentary...

Stoke City vs Southampton (buddylive.xyz)

Anything I've found ain't lasted too long - not a lot of luck on any of these on here tonight 

https://m.soccerstreams100.io/event/eng-2/southampton-vs-stoke-live-soccer-stats/673571

[SNSUN]

Stoke aren't great. We should be punishing them. Need some consistency.

[Saint_clark]

How do we intend to score when nobody is getting in the fucking box???

[Saint NL]

We're looking a bit more steady now, not a great performance so far but slowly getting on top

[Osvaldorama]

We look like a team that’s been in the championship for a decade

[Saint Matty 76]

Our corners are truly fucking spectacular.

[RedArmy]

Just now, Saint_clark said:

How do we intend to score when nobody is getting in the fucking box???

We’ve gone from the entire team camping in the final third to having nobody forward when we need it. 

[saintant]

Two awful sides so far.

[Saint86]

Gone back to the same shit as before. Also, some of our passing back to the defence is exactly what was punished by teams like Ipswich and Leicester, too slow and predictable and easy to close down in the final 3rd - thankfully stoke have so far shown no real inclination or ability to press us when we're doing our "candy from a baby" football at the back.

[SNSUN]

Again susceptible on the counter. Come on Saints ffs

[Holmes_and_Watson]

With Alcaraz going so deep, we had absolutely noone able to be on the end of anything Sulemana was supposed to be crossing in there. Fortunately, Sule saw that too, and we faffed around on that side for a minute. No real out ball available from that.

[LGTL]

Playing without a striker, just like second half v Leeds. 

[OttawaSaint]

Jesus christ, made mess of possession there. Keep it simple.

[LGTL]

Just now, Osvaldorama said:

We look like a team that’s been in the championship for a decade

We will be unfortunately. And imagine how bad it’ll actually be in 10 years

[SNSUN]

Stu is well off his game tonight.

[adrian lord]

Well, we are very lucky that Stoke’s forwards are absolutely hopeless

[Saint NL]

Just now, adrian lord said:

Well, we are very lucky that Stoke’s forwards are absolutely hopeless

Kiss of death there 😳

[trousers]

FFS Stu... Pass to one of your colleagues once in a while!