Match Day Thread Southampton vs Portugal, 12pm Sunday, 14th February (Amazon Prime)

I know Ralph likes us to play out from the back, but **** me its heart in the mouth stuff. Really makes me nervous

 

The playing around at the back is giving us a space for Danny or Redders between their midfield and defence.

 

Shame that was offside.

 

Vesty pinging em about like Pirlo

 

I get it. I just grew up with smash it and hope English football, passing around our own box gives me kittens

 

Playing some nice stuff in spells, I feel if we moved the ball a bit quicker and played with a higher tempo there are some more goals in this for us

 

Good half.

 

HT

 

Me too, but I see why we do it. Sometimes think we over do it.

 

Good 1st half. Very very happy with that.
Need Romeu to keep calm 2nd half, maybe bring on Che in the last 15

 

Nathan had a period when he was scoring for fun without effort. Now he's trying so hard he couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo. Horrible to watch but I'm certain it'll end sometime soon.

Vin

 

It's ok, Redders hasn't got his phone on him.

 

I agree, but we have to mix it up. See above comment about the space it is creating further forward.

It’s always a balance.

 

He needs a goal like Ings’ last Thursday

 

About 15 minutes into the second half

 

Fancied this. So much more stable with this solid back four. Redmond getting there, but should be 2-0 of course!
Lets get a second.

 

Only bad point of that half... the wife misheard Ralph's surname as "Arse Noodle"

 

Absolutely first class half of football to raise the team’s confidence. There wasn’t a single area where we weren’t on top there. Even the one on one between Vesty and Traore was satisfying in that Jannik just stayed calm and let him make the error, rather than diving in.

And as for the goal, breathtakingly brilliant stuff from Armstrong and Danny, and a lovely bit of ****housery from Nathan.

 

See I'd have thought with the amount of coverage refs performance against us lately that for a little while refs would be over cautious.

It's like they all now gone a said **** them, we will screw em harder to make them know who is in charge.

 

Redmond’s had a really good half, IMO.