AlexLaw76

Birmingham are a team who will press us pretty hard, and not allow the space/time on the ball for us to do what we want.

Exactly that. Pack midfield and that is that (largely). THB, or any o the 3 CBs, are not fucking prime Koeman who are silky on the. ball ffs

When it is that obvious from so early in the game, to do nothing remotely different is just weird. I mean, passing it around at the back and giving to (mostly) to THB where the attacks start, and expecting him to pick passes into a packed midfield, is silly. Will Still/Russell Martin kind of shit. I get we can't just lump to Arma, but Millwall (and I suspect other sides we face with limited resources) will simply dig into midfield and wait for us to expect our CBs to pick Pirlo-esque passes into marked players...

Alex Neil is no fool, and he schooled Tonda today.

I hope we allow him to learn his game back in the U21s. Today, he was clueless on how to manage a game that, from about 10 mins in, was not going for us.....nothing changed WRT approach/shape and style. We were very much 'more of the same'. Insanity and all that

Fucking woeful performance.

Not for me. Today he had absolutely no idea how to manage a game that, very early on, was clearly not going how he/we wanted it. Great when it works, but no chance are teams just going to leave the midfield wide open for us. Someone experienced please

Did not deserve to win at all. Their manager schooled Tonda today, and he just kept doing the same shit… pass it to THB to start an attack (mostly) it can’t be no Leo no party…. That was pretty shit all round to be fair

FinN AzAZ iS sHiT

This is where I am not sure about Tonda. We have done absolutely nothing to change the shape, style or means of attack during this game.

Saints Stream back on Just in time, lol 1-1

Millwall are starting to commit more men forward in their initial press. We should find the odd bit of space now

The Millwall prat "this suits Southampton, they will slow everything down and claim everything"

Yeah, vertical lines are fine when our players are not being man-marked very tightly. Millwall have defended with their shape very well. THB is not Pirlo, getting him to start many of the attacks is not working. Have to find a way to beat their midfield press

Lets not be ridiculous and expect every team to be wide open for us to run at them. They have held a very good shape and are very tight to all of our players in the middle of the park. We have to try something else other than give to THB to try and find a Pirlo like pass

Because they are packing the space in the middle of the park…. We can’t just lump it to Arma

The co-comms on the Millwall stream is an utter dinosaur

Because he dived

They are packing midfield

We have to do something different other than play about in defence, give to THB to try and play into a packed midfield

For sure, they are generally winning the midfield battle

That was a great save they are closing the space down (and our players) in midfield very well.

Probably because they are actually closing down the space in the middle of the park

I am sure I have read somewhere that Millwall have lots of players unavailable....end of a 3 game week...surely too much for a small/weaker squad.

No Downs 😑