Southampton post match 1-2 Win

[st albans fox]

Lucky we have hundreds of centre backs seeing as harry has two yellow cards in two games - neither resulting from a challenge! 

[Finnegan]

4 minutes ago, Voll Blau said:

Can't believe people on here would rather moan than celebrate a last-minute shithouse.

 

ENJOY YOUR SATURDAY YOU BORING CVNTS.

 

Truly spoken like someone that cares more about the song sheet than the team sheet. 

[lifted*fox]

6 minutes ago, HitchinFox said:

Just out of interest. If we play like we did today for the next three and a bit months, but are sixth in the table at Christmas, do we think that people would still moan? 

This is FoxesTalk mate. People would still moan if Puel personally knocked on their door with the PL trophy and a unicorn shitting out £50 notes.

Edited 25 August 2018 by lifted*fox

[Chester Dontlie]

I do hope Puel is still in the process of creating his dream puelball team which will fight for that 7th place spot or even higher and play some good football right from the starting whistle and what we're watching is not a finished product yet... 

[lifted*fox]

2 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said:

This gif is going to get a lot of mileage this season I feel!

 

I should have watermarked it ffs. 

[TMELcfc]

15 hours ago, Chester Dontlie said:

I do hope Puel is still in the process of creating his dream puelball team which will fight for that 7th place spot or even higher and play some good football right from the starting whistle and what we're watching is not a finished product yet... 

A lot of people on here seem to think we are already... just because we won today. I can't just look at the result, the performance in large parts was poor

Edited 26 August 2018 by lcfceaves

[vanity]

3 minutes ago, AlloverthefloorYesNdidi said:

And he also mentioned the nerves went after they conceded, suggesting its not Puel that makes them tactically start slow

There is absolutely no way our slow starts are on Puel. The tactics are good. The personnel are deep and talented. We need to be self-motivated, the leaders on this squad need to step up and make sure everyone goes hard from the jump. People blaming Puel for the slow starts, come off it, he can't crap for them and wipe their bums, they have to take some responsibility and play hard the entirety of the game. 

A lot of talk about a lack of confidence, and granted, it is a young side. Hopefully these wins help us get going in terms of confidence. Def think Maddison needs a confidence injection, he has really struggled since Man U, he needs to adjust to the physical schemes other teams are going to throw at him this season.

[Hammo]

8 minutes ago, Will1981 said:

everybody has a go at Morgan and Amartey for being poor on the ball but for me Ndidi is by far the worst his inability to pass the ball 10 yards cost us the 1st goal and very nearly a 2nd when Hojberg decided to dive.

Very true. It's abysmal. As is his shooting. He has his uses but I worry every time he tries a pass in his own half. 

[foxes_rule1978]

Maguire said it himself, why the hell we don’t play with the same intensity from the start, why wait to go one down 

[foxfanazer]

3 points on the road. Lovely 

 

some of you actually seem disappointed  

[vanity]

1 minute ago, lcfceaves said:

A lot off people on here seem to think we are already... just because we won today. I can't just look at the result, the performance in large parts was poor

Agree. I mean, it drives you crazy to see us suddenly turn it on when we go down. We did this repeatedly last season as well, it is bizarre how soft we are until a goal is scored on either side. Same against Wolves until they gifted us a goal, suddenly we could play. Today the opposition scores and suddenly we can play. Just weird. But obv we are all delighted with 3 points.

[st albans fox]

Wolves and soton pressed us high and hard ...... eventually that catches up with you

[murphy]

7 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said:

There will be many on here that will be very negative after that performance and they would have every reason to be concerned. Just like last season, for a long part of the match we were poor, couldn't string passes together and created nothing. Amartey was getting rinsed down our right hand side and their goal inevitably came from Redmond who had a great game for them.

But our goal completely changed the game and we woke up...

The same as last week.  As soon as we got the fluke OG we started playing.  JV's red changed the game but we were much better after scoring.

Annoying that we have to either concede or score before we start to play.  Might be nerves or pressure.

[dnewty]

1 minute ago, foxfanazer said:

3 points on the road. Lovely 

 

some of you actually seem disappointed  

Totally agree mate.

[Merging Cultures]

6 minutes ago, Chester Dontlie said:

I do hope Puel is still in the process of creating his dream puelball team which will fight for that 7th place spot or even higher and play some good football right from the starting whistle and what we're watching is not a finished product yet... 

Well he's doing alright seeing that at the mo we are 7th

[smr]

3 points away, brilliant

[StriderHiryu]

1 minute ago, foxes_rule1978 said:

Maguire said it himself, why the hell we don’t play with the same intensity from the start, why wait to go one down 

This right here is problem numero uno. We did it all last season too! I was hoping we would improve in that department, because once we get into the game we control it quite well and make chances. Summary of today's game - dogshite for 60 minutes, undeserved goal, controlled the game, shithoused the win after undeserved goal number two. But 3 points is 3 points!

[vanity]

2 minutes ago, Hammo said:

Very true. It's abysmal. As is his shooting. He has his uses but I worry every time he tries a pass in his own half. 

This is the strategic weakness of Mendy paired with Ndidi I think. If we have Silva in there, he is a moving target for Ndidi plus he is taking some of the responsibility for passing the ball out of the back. Though Mendy looks good defensively, so I understand why Puel plays him, Puel is at his core a defense-first manager. 

[bfox]

I honestly feel if we really go for it and start fast and aggressive we could put games to bed. Then play this trademark Puelball bollocks for the last 20mins instead of at the start

[murphy]

Puel has never lost this fixture home or away.

Won and drawn for Southampton.

Won two, drawn one for Leicester.

(BBC website)

[SpacedX]

8 minutes ago, lifted*fox said:

This is FoxesTalk mate. People would still moan if Puel personally knocked on their door with the PL trophy and a unicorn shitting out £50 notes.

That's a bit rich given your post on the match thread. 

 

Saying that I do agree with you entirely, if only you'd made that point in your original post - which you didn't. 

[FoxyPalace.com]

 

[Hammo]

Criticising the dullness of our performance is understandable, but let's face it Southampton were pretty hopeless. A draw would have been a fair result but it's all about seizing the opportunity, which Maguire did brilliantly.

[foxfanazer]

Our wins so far this season

[Daz93]

Good win, both sides were poor. Even though we snatched it we deserved it for Hojbjerg's horrific dive to put them down to ten men.
 

Even with 11 though they didn't look like scoring much in the second half. We didn't have much other than Chilwell driving forward. Missed Vardy's runs.