Nordic Saint

Le Tissier at Blackburn in 1994.

They recently conceded a goal set up by a long ball from the Norwich goalkeeper. I wouldn't be surprised if they've let in a few like that. "The Canaries took the lead in the first minute after some poor defending by Oxford. Norwich goalkeeper Dan Grimshaw sent a long ball over the top which Toure was able to sprint onto and slip past the onrushing Jamie Cumming before slotting into an empty net." They also concede a lot of penalties.

You're right, and as others have noted above, typically, they only have about 25% possession in the games they get results from. A very frustrating team to play against.

As I said earlier, I don't think we've ever had a manager like Eckert. He will do exactly what it takes to win games, no more, no less, always bearing in mind that he wants to win the next game and the ones after that as well. “We don’t get satisfied after winning one game, we have to win the next one, the next one, the next one." How much possession we have, how entertaining we are, even how many goals we win by, are irrelevant to him. His only objective is winning and still being ready to win again. He is ruthless and relentless.

We are 12 games unbeaten and have won away against 2 better teams, Fulham and Coventry, because we have got by far the best manager in the league. W16 D6 L5

I think it will be more a case of struggling to stop them. With the players Coventry have, you'd expect them to steamroller us.

I'd like to see Dibaga as one of the 1st team subs again. He was very impressive v Leicester.

When you see that, you realize how much stronger Coventry's squad is. They have better players than us in nearly every position. Rushworth, van Ewjck, Rudoni...Their attack is so full of goal scorers, it's ridiculous: Wright, Thomas-Assante, Mason-Clark, Simms.... We have 2 players who might get into their team: Harwood-Bellis and Scienza.

The only thing better for him would have been a Saints defeat. I bet he was gutted when Larin scored.

A big club will come in for him, but if we could keep him here for 2 more years, we have our best chance of winning another trophy. Losing him this summer would be terrible.

They won't play their first team against us anyway, after they've had a League Cup Final followed by 2 international games. Arteta will be working with the reserves who aren't away playing for their countries and World Cup selection. Brazil have 2 games in the USA. I don't know if Spain's game v Argentina scheduled for Qatar will be moved or postponed, but their players are going to be flying all over the place.

League Cup final v City then 2 international games all over the place for Arsenal players. They're all internationals and they really are going to be all over the place. Brazil are playing France and Croatia in the USA.

I don't think we've ever had a manager as ruthless and relentless as Eckert. He will do exactly what it takes to win games, no more, no less, always bearing in mind that he wants to win the next game and the ones after that as well. “We don’t get satisfied after winning one game, we have to win the next one, the next one, the next one." Southampton go ten games unbeaten after FA Cup win, and it’s all down to one man

The best win percentage of any Saints manager in 130 years. List of Southampton F.C. managers - Wikipedia

Our squad really isn't as strong as the results under Eckert have made it look. We still haven't solved the goalkeeper or centre forward problems. We only won 4 of the 50 games before he took over.

We'll end up getting Millwall at Wembley. Wrexham would be preferable.

A lot of the best ones have already been recommended, but I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Lisbon. It's a beautiful city with lots of interesting cultural sites as well as great food and drink. You can even take in a football game while you're there. Slightly more off the beaten track, there are also some beautiful places in Romania, like Sibiu and Brașov.

Their goalkeeper was better than ours and they also had a lot of luck.

A goal and an assist for him today in Leyton Orient's 2-1 win at Northampton.

Sport Republic seem to have finally found a model that works, more by luck than judgement. You have a coach who takes the young players through the U21s and then into the first team with him. You rarely get that sort of continuity. Who knew? "Tonda Eckert has the luxury of working with the academy players and knows what each of them is capable of. As far as Sillah Dibaga is concerned, Eckert had been working on the winger's defensive skills, playing him as a wing-back in the Under-21s." Sillah-Dibaga makes an honest pledge after making surprising Southampton debut

Like most fans, I wasn't happy with the team selection when it was announced, but we won again, and that's 6 matches without defeat now. Eckert is an ice-cold, ruthless manager. He makes unpopular decisions, but he does what it takes to win games, like no manager we've ever had before. We haven't had a manager with a win rate this good in our entire Football League history, and he's already managed more games than most of our recent managers: List of Southampton F.C. managers - Wikipedia

I always think this is a pretty good gauge of a club's size: All time Football League Rankings average attendances

About the same standard as our other goalkeepers then.

The match stats are ridiculously one-sided in Saints favour. It should have been a comfortable victory but our goalkeeper didn't make a single save and we missed chances. When was the last time a team had only 3 shots on target against us and scored 3 goals? Shots: Leicester 6 Saints 16 Shots on target: Leicester 3 Saints 7 Corners: Leicester 3 Saints 9 Touches inside the opposition box: Leicester 14 Saints 32 Total crosses: Leicester 7 Saints 25

High level of punditry there. He should do Match of the Day.