Saints 0-3 Man Utd - Match Thread

[BotleySaint]

The two teams operate on a different budget. We've spent a reasonable amount, but Utd sign one player for £40m+. We quite rightly should be nowhere near them.

[Polaroid Saint]

Coach	Available since	Points per match	Punkte pro Spiel letzter Verein	Last club	Rumours
Frank Lampard 46 years	Jun 30, 2023	1.47	1.60		-
Graham Potter 49 years	Apr 2, 2023	1.53	1.42		-
Joachim Löw 64 years	Jul 31, 2021	1.87	2.09		-
Telat Üzüm 61 years	Jun 30, 2023				-
Thomas Tuchel 51 years	Jun 30, 2024	1.93	1.95		-
Xavi 44 years	Jun 30, 2024	2.12	2.07		-
Rudi Garcia 60 years	Nov 14, 2023	1.73	1.75		-
Walter Mazzarri 62 years	Feb 19, 2024	1.45	1.69		-
Stefano Pioli 58 years	May 26, 2024	1.55	1.88		-
Massimiliano Allegri 57 years	May 17, 2024	1.85	2.11		-
Edin Terzic 41 years	Jun 13, 2024	1.95	1.95		-
David Moyes 61 years	Jun 30, 2024	1.52	1.49		-
Albert Celades 48 years	Jun 29, 2020	1.85	1.44		-
Kasper Hjulmand 52 years	Jul 19, 2024	1.46	1.93		-
Roger Schmidt 57 years	Aug 31, 2024	1.93	2.26		-
Luís Figueiredo 38 years	Jun 30, 2024	1.41			-
Sam Allardyce 69 years	Jun 30, 2023	1.40	0.25		-
Gregg Berhalter 51 years	Jul 10, 2024	1.57	1.96		-
Dunga 60 years	Jun 14, 2016	2.14	2.29		-
José Peseiro 64 years	Mar 1, 2024	1.70	1.68		-
Marijo Tot 52 years	Jun 30, 2024	0.99			-
Javi Gracia 54 years	May 2, 2023	1.45	0.92		-
Sérgio Conceição 49 years	Jun 30, 2024	2.02	2.29		-
Bruno Cheyrou 46 years	Jan 19, 2023				-
Niko Kovac 52 years	Mar 17, 2024	1.74	1.30		-

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I know, I know. I'm being a d!ck, but need to find something to do, this game is gone... ..surely?

[washsaint]

1 minute ago, RedArmy said:

Say it every week and I’ll say it again. 
 

Stephens

Bednarek

BBD 

Archer 

 

Do not belong in the premier league. 

Unfortunately, could not agree more.  When an 18 year old kid is our best player by a country mile we have real issues (no matter how good Dibling is).  We look bereft of ideas up front (DIbling aside) and ARcher is like a little boy lost (yet another panic signing: clearly not good enough).  

BBD has been hopeless and KWP is showing why no decent side was in for him.

Game over - no way Saints score 1 let alone 2.

[Viking Saint]

1 minute ago, Mr X said:

But literally every commentator knew Russ ball wouldn't work at this level they all said it

And pretty much every fan on here too. SR must think they know something that nobody else does.

[hypochondriac]

Just now, washsaint said:

Unfortunately, could not agree more.  When an 18 year old kid is our best player by a country mile we have real issues (no matter how good Dibling is).  We look bereft of ideas up front (DIbling aside) and ARcher is like a little boy lost (yet another panic signing: clearly not good enough).  

BBD has been hopeless and KWP is showing why no decent side was in for him.

Game over - no way Saints score 1 let alone 2.

That's a ridiculous argument. Tyler Dibling being good isn't a negative indicator for the rest of the team. 

[trousers]

At the game. Decent approach play from us but too open at the back. Ramsdale frustratingly gesticulating at the manager every time we fail to close them down on the edge of the box. Would be another 2 or 3 down if it wasn't for a few superb saves from Ramsdale. (Although thought he could've come out to punch the ball for their first...? but was probably relying on our defenders to do their job though?)

Wouldn't surprise me if we reverted to 3 at the back second half

Dibling superb.

Edited 14 September, 2024 by trousers

[HKsaint]

We fear to shoot 

[sandwichsaint]

Ramsdale v good, would be 6 by now with Baz. Dont know what JS was doing with that corner. Archer poor, BBD no end product.

Downes, Les, Fernades, Dibling all good enough for this league. One magic moment from KWP but again we look completely open down the left when they break. 

Neither CB good enough, might as well play THB and Ronnie Pickering next week.

[OttawaSaint]

5 minutes ago, Challenger said:

Looks like we're going to be " unlucky " in yet another game.

Yep. People can say unlucky but it ain't. 

Piss poor penalty.

Piss poor defending.

 

[obelisk]

Saints slightly more direct in attack but still over-passing and missing runs off the back of Utd's defence. Doesn't help if missing with a free shot from 12 yards out though.

[Lighthouse]

3 minutes ago, washsaint said:

Unfortunately, could not agree more.  When an 18 year old kid is our best player by a country mile we have real issues (no matter how good Dibling is).  We look bereft of ideas up front (DIbling aside) and ARcher is like a little boy lost (yet another panic signing: clearly not good enough).  

BBD has been hopeless and KWP is showing why no decent side was in for him.

Game over - no way Saints score 1 let alone 2.

What a silly, drama Queen statements. We very obviously can score at least one goal; it won’t be easy but we’ve played well enough generally to still have a chance of getting something, however unlikely.

[OttawaSaint]

Despite all our possession 4 shots on target and 2 of those were the weak pen and subsequent weak header follow up.

[Bewildered]

May as well get Stewart on, even if he had to hobble around on crutches, he couldn't have worse movement than Archer.

[johnnyboy]

2 minutes ago, sandwichsaint said:

Ramsdale v good, would be 6 by now with Baz. Dont know what JS was doing with that corner. Archer poor, BBD no end product.

Downes, Les, Fernades, Dibling all good enough for this league. One magic moment from KWP but again we look completely open down the left when they break. 

Neither CB good enough, might as well play THB and Ronnie Pickering next week.

Do you know who I am

[HKsaint]

Get Stewart on

[stknowle]

16 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

If we play like we did in the first 30 minutes all season we'll be fine.

/Sarcasm

Thing is we could/should be but won’t (even if we do, which we won’t) because we have no goalscorers. All a bit depressing really, but tbh we all knew that in all likelihood we were going to struggle badly and so it’s turning out.

[Lee On Solent Saint]

I don't give a shit what ABK has done in the past, he's our best centre half and needs to start. 

[Zorba]

3 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

 

We looked decent for about 30 mins, wasted a penalty....

 

We’ll look good for the first 30 minutes of every game while the opposition sit back and wait for us to shoot ourselves in the foot.

As soon as we threatened, MU upped their game and took control of the game with ease.

 

 

 

 

[Baz Fl]

5 minutes ago, HKsaint said:

We fear to shoot 

Not our own fool unfortunately 

[badgerx16]

Stephens has over 120 PL appearances, Bednsrek over 150.

 

How ?

[OttawaSaint]

I gave Bednarek a pass because he did well in the champ but for him to still be in there, after all that Yanny stuff when he came back from Villa, the comical own goal vs Wolves and then all his comedy defending that saw us relegated. Madness.

[BotleySaint]

Wide open down the flank. Starting this half like we've already lost. Need defensive changes. 

[FarehamSaintJames]

The fact that Tyler Dibling is out brightest spark says a lot about the ability of the rest of the attacking players.

TNT absolutely creaming at the fact £300K p/w Marcus Rashford scored a whole goal. The United love in is cringeworthy.

[LGTL]

Fuck me playing Stephens at this level is just suicide. Forget it, relegate us now if he’s first choice. Pointless discussing anything else at this point really. 

[RedArmy]

3 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

Stephens has over 120 PL appearances, Bednsrek over 150.

 

How ?

Because any time we got a good CB we sold them to a big club. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Just back for the second half... oh...

 

[HKsaint]

Stephens another attack 

[OttawaSaint]

1 minute ago, badgerx16 said:

Stephens has over 120 PL appearances, Bednsrek over 150.

 

How ?

We've either not brought in good enough replacements (Hoedt, Caleta Car, etc.) or the better ones were made of glass or had other problems (Salisu, ABK)

[Saint_clark]

Who was talking earlier about commentators mentioning United records to be broken? 

Just said they've never lost after being up by 2 or more goals away from home. 5-2 win incoming!

[Sheaf Saint]

Another giveaway from Stephens leads to a Utd chance.

[RedArmy]

Ramsdale is probably wishing he stayed on Arsenals bench. 

[BotleySaint]

Zero threat from us.

[OttawaSaint]

We're not at the races in this 2nd half.

RM is sticking on 2-0.

[LGTL]

Would be 5 without Ramsdale. Poor bloke wondering what the fuck he’s done 

[Mr X]

1 minute ago, RedArmy said:

Ramsdale is probably wishing he stayed on Arsenals bench. 

He obviously knew we were relegation material, probably a contract clause when the inevitable happens 

[Lighthouse]

1 minute ago, RedArmy said:

Ramsdale is probably wishing he stayed on Arsenals bench. 

Why? Even if we go down, he’ll have plenty of opportunities to go to other PL clubs and play regular football.

[SteveGc]

Just logged in here Gold Coast Aus, same as usual ? have we given goals away again.

[Ed Rooney]

BBD is pretty shit isn’t he 

[Saint NL]

Andy Townsend keeps saying we're "lightweight".

It's not wrong, technically we're very good, but defensively we're wide open and we offer no threat at goal.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

Creating chances a problem there, with BBD playing into noone. Other than that, holding onto the ball a problem, against a team already 2-0 up.

[SNSUN]

Just now, Lighthouse said:

Why? Even if we go down, he’ll have plenty of opportunities to go to other PL clubs and play regular football.

We'll get our money back and more assuming he's going to be facing dozens of shots every game. 

[OttawaSaint]

Dibling best player by a mile (honorable mention to Ramsdale).

I don't like BBD at all. He's beyond terrible. 

[Sheaf Saint]

Just now, Mr X said:

He obviously knew we were relegation material, probably a contract clause when the inevitable happens 

Wasn't he quoted as saying he sometimes loses focus in games?

Maybe he came to us because he knew he would be far too busy to ever zone out.

[BotleySaint]

1 minute ago, Ed Rooney said:

BBD is pretty shit isn’t he 

No better than AA.

[Saint NL]

I like KWP, he's probably out best player. But he's been ripped to shreds today

[SNSUN]

Ladbrokes have us at 45 to 1 to win. Cheeky thousand stuck on. #blindoptimism

[AlexLaw76]

BBD offers nothing what so ever...to attack or defence

[Saint_clark]

If I looked at the bench now and saw Alcaraz, Onuachu and Sulemana i'd see players there that offer something different to change it. As it is all I see is more of the same with less individual ability.

[so22saint]

33 minutes ago, OttawaSaint said:

Commentator: Rashford not scored for 12 games. Check.

Onana has never saved an EPL penalty. Check.

Anyone else in need of breaking a duck? Roll up roll up!

Utd have never lost a game being 2-0 up at half time - be nice to see that broken (not much chance the way we're playing tho)

 

[Farmer Saint]

Considering this team, player for player, is markedly better than last year, I think Martin did an outstanding job getting us promoted last year.