Saints 2-1 West Brom - Match Thread

[bpsaint]

18 minutes ago, trousers said:

Nice to have a positive goal difference at last!!

[Saint NL]

Bazunu has balls of steel with these risky passes just beyond an onrushing striker 🤣

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Lose it in the middle... boom.. Downes gets it back a second later. Often a gap in breaking up play/ getting possession and stopping attacks. Downes dowing well today, continuing his form.

[The Juice]

Downs, THB, KWP, Stewie all outstanding at this level - real luxury players to have 

[Disco Stu]

Leeds 2-0 up. Wish we could kill games off in 45 minutes.

[Saint NL]

A loch Ness Drogba sighting 👀

[Bad Wolf]

Them down the road winning. They're gonna do a season unbeaten aren't they....

[Patches O Houlihan]

 Holgate, KWP, Downes, Alcaraz all on fire right now

 

[OttawaSaint]

1 minute ago, Bad Wolf said:

Them down the road winning. They're gonna do a season unbeaten aren't they....

Are they? Didn't they lose in the Cup the other day?

[Danbert]

We look excellent today, I think. I love Bazunu's distribution. Harwood Bellis putting some beautiful passes in, Downes so assured, even Holgate looking decent.

[obelisk]

If I have one criticism of Saints it's the lack of invention and composure in attack.

[AlexLaw76]

This is a good tactical game.

both teams playing and defending well.

WBA are clearly a good side 

[Saint NL]

Fuck, making a few risky passes that could have caused a lot of problems.

[adrian lord]

He was looking for a pen

[coalman]

Bree is an actual defender. I'm a convert

[Patches O Houlihan]

Breed compared to Manning - caught the wrong side, still made it work

[OttawaSaint]

Just now, adrian lord said:

He was looking for a pen

Giving autographs mid game was he...?

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Well now. That was two Baz passes on the riskier side. And Downes didn't get that second one and we nearly conceded. Baz hasn;t been shy in thumping it recently. When it doesn;t quite work out, we can expect pressure, and we were switched on enbough to stop that one (although had the WBA stayed on his feet, he might have had a shot away)

[adrian lord]

Under the cosh a bit

[Sheaf Saint]

2 minutes ago, coalman said:

Bree is an actual defender. I'm a convert

Yeah he did really well there. Can't imagine Manning getting back and clearing up like that.

[coalman]

I know it's tempting fate but it looks like we can defend crosses again. Earlier this season every cross was a free header.

[WokingSaint]

1 minute ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Well now. That was two Baz passes on the riskier side. And Downes didn't get that second one and we nearly conceded. Baz hasn;t been shy in thumping it recently. When it doesn;t quite work out, we can expect pressure, and we were switched on enbough to stop that one (although had the WBA stayed on his feet, he might have had a shot away)

He shouldn't do that! It is ridiculous to take unnecessary risks.

[OttawaSaint]

Suleman over egging it again. Keep it simple lad!

[Saint NL]

Holgate no nonsense tackle for the booking 🤣

[adrian lord]

Nice nutmeg Alcaraz 

[Saint NL]

Taking far too many risks at the back, it's going to bite us on the arse eventually

[obelisk]

Saints getting complacent.

[Saint Fan CaM]

Shit…that was a close shave

[Saint NL]

Just wide, corner for WBA.

They are really putting us under pressure now 

Edited 11 November, 2023 by Saint NL

[adrian lord]

Phew….

[Holmes_and_Watson]

A few nearly things.

Alcaraz does well, but just doesn;t pick out AA's run behind the defence.

For his part, AA then doesn;t know that Sule would make a run and pass it into space for him to run onto.

Smallbone, doing every job as usual, doesn;t quite have the power to get a ball into AA.

When there's a chance to get it into the middle, we have to pause, as we've had to run from deep.

Little things, that don;t quite click. Not that they all have to. Any one of these would give us every chance to go one up.

Meanwhile, that was a decent chance for WBA.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

And another shot, outside the box and comfortable in the end.

WBA having a better spell. RM will hopefully give a team talk to get us that bit higher tempo and aticipate for the second half.

[Saint NL]

Half time.

Mostly good, just a bit complacent at the end. Really need that second goal to kill them off.

Holgate, Downes and Alcarez have impressed. Bree is a big improvement on Manning.

 

Just need the big fella to come on and put this game to bed.

[coalman]

It's got Loch Ness Drogba written all over it.

[Sheaf Saint]

2 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Little things, that don;t quite click. Not that they all have to. Any one of these would give us every chance to go one up.

We already are one up 🫤

[thornhill_saints]

58 minutes ago, Behind Enemy Lines said:

Thank you. Just downloaded this, fingers crossed it works well. If not, back to the streams, but thanks for the heads up. 

 

Not bad streaming app 🙂

[Patches O Houlihan]

I think we're seeing the benefit of both a settled side and competition for places:

Holgate - know's Stephens is nearly fit and he'll be back to 4th choice so he needs to play out of his skin today.

Bree - knows if he lets his standards slip Manning will come back in

Adam Armstrong - despite being captain and one of the leagues top scorers will be feeling the pressure of Ross Stewart nearing fitness. 

Also I'm loving the mini breakthrough that Alcatraz has had today, and last week. Just need him to start pumping in the goals from the edge of the area again.

[Bad Wolf]

17 minutes ago, OttawaSaint said:

Are they? Didn't they lose in the Cup the other day?

In the league. They'll probably see that cup upset as a blessing.

[tdmickey3]

Pretty controlled all round and without any real scares but as always we need to score more. 

Stewart 🤔

[Saint Fan CaM]

Would much prefer another goal before expecting Stewart to come on and score. If we’re drawing or losing it will be too much pressure on him and risks an injury setback.

[Behind Enemy Lines]

5 minutes ago, thornhill_saints said:

Not bad streaming app 🙂

Good picture but no sound on mine sadly. Sometimes that’s a blessing though! 😂 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

COYR!

[Ex Lion Tamer]

7 minutes ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

Would much prefer another goal before expecting Stewart to come on and score. If we’re drawing or losing it will be too much pressure on him and risks an injury setback.

I'd honestly just give him a few minutes at the end, get back into things

[bpsaint]

Please saints let’s not do our usual go to sleep routine post HT break. Soak it up for 10 minutes and get a second 🙏

[Bad Wolf]

1 minute ago, bpsaint said:

Please saints let’s not do our usual go to sleep routine post HT break. Soak it up for 10 minutes and get a second 🙏

When did we last concede within 10 minutes of half time?

[Saint NL]

Long stoppage, looking like 96 mins again this week 👀

[Saint Fan CaM]

Get to 55-60 minutes at 1-0 and RM has a dilemma in subs - keep hold of the lead or keep pressing for another goal.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Uh oh. An injury for Smallbone?

[Saint Fan CaM]

Uh oh - Smallbone down. Looks bad.

[Disco Stu]

Nice stud mark on Smallbones upper leg.