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Unusually, the view from behind the goal was the best angle to see it - haaland clearly offside, clearly interfering. It's exactly this sort of goal that VAR is best for and they got to the right decision eventually.

Thank f for that. Always said he was shite, never liked the guy. (Think he will be good at stoke though)

Actually, his stats also show that he has the most difficult GK job in the league, saints are inthe 98th percentile for PSxG / SoT. That basically means post shot expected goals Vs shots on target. Basically the quality of shots on the keeper. Its a measure of the kinds of chances we give away to our opponents.

Bazunu gets ripped for being slow to get down, but at least he does get down. Maybe he'd get an easier time if he just watched it go in like peretz yesterday. Seemed a bit flappy in general, even his two "good" saves at the end were put back into danger areas. Think he'll struggle at championship level, which will probably reinforce that the issue is the chances we give away, not the guy trying to save them

This is as depressing as our previous games in many ways, we still look awful and pedestrian, very lucky to be playing such awful opponents today. It seems that unless scienza is on the pitch, we just seem so ponderous.

He is? He just scored.

We've had a ton of bigger embarrassments in the last year alone, the whole club has been an embarrassment, losing to Doncaster in a cup noone cares about anymore would be a tiny footnote in the continued utter shit mess we've become.

he is easily best of the 3 keepers we have in the squad, so there's 2 worse straight away. He's not niemi class but he is as good as most of our former keepers, probably about as good as beasant was, or pj. The flak he gets is unbelievable - every single goal is put down as his fault even though our style of play creates easy chances for our opponents. I can't remember the last goal that was his fault, even the fumble the other week was caused by an offside player.

Don't know who Jordy is (star trek visor guy?) but the stats are undeniable, no other goalkeeper in the division has had to face more clear chances than baz has - we give players clear shots from in and around the 6 yard box that other teams don't.

Players gave up for some reason, goals 2, 3 and 4 all caused by slow reacting defenders. Players waiting for the ball to come to them rather than actively looking for it. Baz not to blame for any of the goals, very poor defending discipline.

Another point saved by baz, well in double figures now. Astonishing for someone who gets so much flak, two man of the match performances in a row, 2 world class saves in as many games, well deserved clean sheet today and still has people moaning, what more can a player do to win over his own teams supporters?

Another 'Save of the season' award coming baz's way?

Decent enough, We've had good chances, commentators pretty spot on, Brum had short spells at start and end of the half, but saints dominating the bulk of the game. Leo to come on and cause havoc.

What the actual fucking fuck. THIS IS THE WORST DECISION EVER, THE MANAGER IS A POSER THE GK SHOULD BE DROPPED STEPHENS SHOULD BE DROPPED, WHERE IS LEO, OMG, ROBINSON IS A CHILD, WOOD IS AWFUL AZAZ CANT CONTROL THE BALL, WERE GOING TO LOSE ThE WORLD IS ENDING TONDA IS SUCh A DICK OMG. (That's you that is, that's what you all sound like)

There will never be a u-ier U-turn than the previous govt u-ey u-turn in COVID, when they insisted on kids going back to school in January, only to change their minds after ONE day, this ensuring not only a damaging lockdown, but also that it went on longer because everyone had a day to sneeze and snot on each others kids before sending them home to their parents. Lethal consequences for some too. So it's going to take something more than adjusting a limit on some tax before they get close to u-iest.

He'd be in the same position, watching from the bench and getting 15mins every other game. He doesn't have the work ethic to stake a claim for the rwb role.

We have two international goalkeepers on the books, capped by england and Ireland. Who was our last first team GK who didn't have caps to his name?

Just now - bazunu just got penalised for fouling the Coventry keeper.

This. We'd be losing this game with McCarthy, baz coming into the team has really made the difference in turning our season round.

I don't know if I like the idea of a pork and apple cocktail. Meat in any cocktail is a red flag to be honest.

Just not true. Its in portswood Sainsbury's right now.

Lol you idiots pontificating about diets and mental health - science is done with, it's been established that it is all caused by pregnant people taking paracetamol. Do you not follow the news at all?

Still too high. By 12 you are in secondary school and would have surpassed trumps reading age already. My 7 yr old nephew might say something like he did when he is having an episode, so I'd say he writes like a 7yr old having a tantrum. Correction: I've looked it up. Trumps reading age is 9-10yrs old, so maybe the answer is between the two of us. https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/s/WjZJ9NGFZq

That is clearly tactical, and part of our 3cb strategy. We want to restrict opponents to crossing it in, and we rely on 3 tall CBS to clear it, baz clearly has instructions to stay back.

Fire the graphics guy, showing a red bar at about 10 percent full for a stat of 60 percent is criminal. Also why no distribution stats for Johansson? Suspicious data presentation all round. And why are we comparing with Johansson? Is he the benchmark for a 8th placed championship team, and who decides that? In our promotion season he had very comparable stats to ederson at man city, why not do that comparison? You have to look at quality of chances too - if we give oppo strikers 5 seconds to set themselves, have a fag and a poo before firing their shot, they have a better chance of scoring than a team that gives up fewer clear chances by actually defending their box effectively.