goodymatt

It’s a shame we can’t take the momentum into a championship game this weekend, when you’re on a run you just want the games to keep coming. Although managing minutes of LND amongst others might be what the doctor ordered. Opta currently have us as favourites to sneak into 6th place with a 26.52% chance of making the playoffs. It’s there for us, hopefully we can avoid another slump and make it. We’d be sitting there comfortably without those two long runs with just the one win, made it so much harder than it needed to be.

He’s one of the 4 candidates for PL manager of the month and is a survival specialist. 4th manager of the season to follow. Starting to think they might drop.

Quite ridiculous, could be 2 very important dropped points in their relegation battle. Another start for Armstrong tonight I noticed, did he do anything noteworthy?

Forest had 35 shots!

You’re right, just a short term contract. Can’t see how to edit the title though, help me out please mods.

Short term contract until end of the season to cover 3rd keeper slot whilst McCarthy is out.

Interesting viewpoint and I think what we have been trying to ‘create’ at Saints under SR. Very unsuccessfully in our case.

McCarthy had had a scheduled surgery so will be missing for a couple of weeks apparently. Welington has a tight hamstring, you could see Larin asking him about it in the celebration video, hopefully he’s fine for the next league game. In general we do need to rest our players and focus on the playoff chase. Makes predicting the score in this one quite difficult.

Just before we scored to make it 3-2, the main guy on the left said, “imagine if Southampton were any good”, suggesting zero belief we could get back into the game. I’m sure a lot of us shared that belief at the time but hilarious watching those Foxes fans back knowing what was coming!

Absolutely incredible. I can see selection logic due to fitness of the two big CFs but Archer had a nightmare. Had to put us 1 up and lost his head after that. All the goals were due to misplaced passes and passive defending. 3 shots on target and all goals. Despite this we did have a second big chance from THB, so should have scored 2 despite the shocking team performance. I really like Jander and thought he was great vs Stoke and Watford but he just had one of those nights where you need to come off, very lucky to avoid red. Changes at HT were all logical and although as the game went on I found myself wishing it was Fellows in that pace down the right hand side to cross in to the CFs, Matsuki’s energy was good and when Charles came over to the right with him we looked like we could score on every attack. What a goal to win the game, no idea how my kids stayed asleep when that went in. I was there at the Tranmere game, so know how it feels. It is a great feeling to see us on the right side of it for a change. This result could be huge in our playoff chase and will do the players a world of good to improve what has been a weak mentality over recent months. Rare moment, we need to just enjoy it. Doing it to Leicester feels right. Up the Saints!