03 Mar 2015 20:33:43
Half time vs Palace. 0-0, of course.
One shot on target.
Dire. Where to from here?
03 Mar 2015 21:42:16
MANNNEEEEE!! How can a player with so little composure 99% of the time be such a cool finisher in the box? Weird.
God, that was like a relegation scrap - the way Saints were desperately hanging on at the end you'd think they were playing Barcelona with 10 men, not an Alan Pardew pub team.
At least it breaks the drought and gets things moving forward again, but I can't see them taking any confidence out of that performance. It was grim.
Phew.
03 Mar 2015 21:47:44
Well I think a lot of us were ready to vent our frustrations about another scoreless game by us however we finally had that slice of luck with the spill from Speroni to gift Mane the goal. Nevertheless there were quite a few poor points, to start with for all of Ward-Prowse's involvement in the goal he could have so easily ruined it with his slack passing late on. Likewise Fonte was very lackadaisical clearing the ball which led to Zaha hitting the post. Forster spilling the ball in the first half was another unsavoury moment. And still there was too much misplaced passes, poor shots way off target. We can consider ourselves very lucky to have got all 3 points, hopefully the training in Switzerland will have some sort of result as we have on paper an unwinnable game against Chelsea next.
04 Mar 2015 04:14:36
"where to from here"? - Switzerland until Saturday. I just hope they don't come back as relaxed and with the same lack of urgency they have been showing. Having said that tempers have been fraying a little between players, which they simply should not be. Absolutely incredible season and the lads should be feeling no pressure to finish top 4 and should just go out there and enjoy it. The whole will they won't they finish top 4 has done just that and created pressure that simply shouldn't be here. Go back to enjoying attacking football and not worrying about results. Do we know our best 11 with Elia and Djuricic now?
04 Mar 2015 05:27:41
subs made huge difference when they came on. We were obviously trying to pass the ball around a lot faster, but we our passing lacked quality