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Really interesting read this.

Can’t really argue with those stats. We’ve also gone 2-0 up in all but 1 of his 6 games. Arma and Azaz getting 8 goal contributions each, both looked very ineffective under Still. He’s got all the attacking players firing, scoring and working their arses off. Impressive. Let’s hope it’s sustainable and we can enjoy this season.

Remember this one very well. It was my 30th birthday and we won 3-0. Being a June birthday, Saints are never playing under normal circumstances. Considering we were in lockdown, it was a nice present!

THB should be keeping that goal out, slicing the clearance into his own net in the last 30 seconds of the game is absolutely gutting. We were poor and 2nd best for large parts but felt Millwall just didn’t show enough quality in the final third to get the win. We very nearly got away with the bad performance. Their wonder goal was another first goal for your club coming against Saints, we love to do that. As I posted before Charlton I do worry about being down to bare bones at CDM. Jander looked very tired and having Downes suspended and Charles injured really lumped the pressure onto him. We had to chuck on Romeu when he’s clearly not ready and the outcome wasn’t favourable. Similarly having no fit RB or RWB makes shutting up shop more of a challenge. We had a large number of players missing today: Charles, Downes, Downs, Scienza, Archer, Stewart, Roerslev, Jelert, Edozie Notable attacking options to change how we got up the pitch were just not there. Scienza is our best player, we missed him greatly today. This illness bug has been very annoying.

In the absence of a proper target man, we have been relying on Scienza, Armstrong, Azaz and Fellows all receiving the ball at pace and taking the right first touch. Today the middle is congested with opponents and those first touches aren’t quite happening under more pressure. You can see more hesitancy from the CBs to play those low direct balls. Given our bench there isn’t much we can do to change the shape, perhaps Romeu will help win the midfield battle and find us some extra space but Millwall have set up very well to counter our recent strengths. It’s set up for a frustrating afternoon unless we can be very clinical in the second half and keep a clean sheet, I do think Millwall will score if we keep giving them crossing opportunities.

Definitely missing Scienza beating his man in tight spaces and direct running making our attacks more composed at speed. Millwall frustrating us well and growing in confidence.

Archer was on the bench for the last game but missing for this one? No Scienza is a blow.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRf0t2WDDH1/?igsh=MXBnd3lkNGxqNDl4OQ== Good banter this!

Melt.

Do do do, let’s all do the Tonda!