Southampton (H): The post match thread

[Phil from the upper holte]

Positive we kept a clean sheet, negative it was boring and we didn't look like scoring. Lets just get the dreadful season out of the way I'm so bored with it

[curiousorange]

This is where I do not get the tactics at times.  He plays Albrighton on the wing - great.  Then he plays a small bloke up front.  It is the one game where I thought Holt should start for that reason alone.  He then brings Holt on and I cannot recall another Albrighton cross after that!

Lambert sat down with Shay and Gordon and said "shall I play Albrighton?" Yes boss said Sid. "OK shall I play Gabby?" Boss you have to play a Gabby - fans favourites said Shay. "OK what about Weemwaan?" Oh you have to play him boss as he is due a goal said Sid. "Very well and where do you think I should play Holt?" Bench Boss said Shay and Sid in unison. "Thank you boys you have been massive this week"

The concerning thing is that at some point, the three of them must have decided our most effective outlet was via Albrighton, and that they all believed Weimann and Agbonlahor were the most likely players to exploit it.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Kozak has been gone long enough I have applied my rose coloured filter to him. I reckon he would have thrived on todays kind of game.

Why Rose coloured? He got 4 goals in 14 appearances and most of those were as Sub. I reckon that without that injury we would have got 2 strikers with scoring in double figures this season.

Oh I agree with you. I really like him.

I just know I have this tendency to make a player better and better the longer he has not played, figured I would be up front about it

[rougegorge]

MOTD will struggle with highlights. They weren't great in the last third thankfully but we turned in a typically pedestrian performance with little skill or flair. No risk of falling of the edge of the seat. Also Guzan's efforts to slow things down further in the last 10 minutes verged on time wasting and says a lot about the team's aspirations.

[kippaxvilla2]

Incredibly we are not on last.

[rob_bridge]

Fupp me - that was a penalty

[PeterWithesShin]

Shearer reckons Shaw was the standout player. The same Luke Shaw that kept getting mugged by Albrighton.

[SoccerHQ]

How come this was your first home game of the season Kippax, seems a strange time of the season to end a boycott?

Where you one of those "I ain't going to that Culverhouse leaves" brigade?

[Somniloquism]

Shearer reckons Shaw was the standout player. The same Luke Shaw that kept getting mugged by Albrighton.

No no no, weren't you listening, he didn't have much to do defensively.

[Somniloquism]

Fupp me - that was a penalty

Depends whether you decide the rule is handball in the box is a definite penalty, or you go DELIBERATE handball in the box is a penalty like the laws state.

[PeterWithesShin]

I'd have wanted a penalty for that if it was against us. I think Bertrand was worried as well as he spent a while doing the whole 'i'm rubbing my face a lot because it hurts from where the ball smacked me in the face, honest' routine.

[Tom_Mc9?]

Lots of huff and puff. Good effort but not enough ability unfortunately. Good to see a small improvement.

[Somniloquism]

Talking about the officials, anyone else reckon the ref had forgotten his cards in the first half and didn't want to be embarrassed. I had the count as three yellows to us and one to them in the first half. Unfortunately because he had been letting them go, it meant their number 5 didn't get his marching orders 2nd half when he was on a yellow and took out Gabby in full flight.

[rob_bridge]

Fupp me - that was a penalty

Depends whether you decide the rule is handball in the box is a definite penalty, or you go DELIBERATE handball in the box is a penalty like the laws state.

Thanks - I know the laws and it looked a penalty to me. Hence the colloquial first person qualifier.

[Somniloquism]

I'd have wanted a penalty for that if it was against us. I think Bertrand was worried as well as he spent a while doing the whole 'i'm rubbing my face a lot because it hurts from where the ball smacked me in the face, honest' routine.

Hey, my particular ruling is if the arm is away from the body, then should be a penalty, but as the ball was blasted at him from about a yard and half and he didn't move it towards the ball, I can see why it wasn't given under the laws of the game.