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Be interesting to see our front three against their back three, worked against Man City but they lacked width and really didn't want to knock it long whereas Moses in particular gives them the width and I think Costa will be more of a handful if they knock it long. They were very good last week, but at home I feel we can beat anyone. Whilst I'd take a draw I feel we need some wins to keep progressing up the table after our slow start.

Like people above said he has been at Barca and Chelsea and struggled for games, so I doubt he'll have his head turned as easily.

He's certainly an improvement on the ball, he is looking more and more like a playmaker in recent games and seems to have grown in confidence. Seems to be spreading the ball around at the back well and even bursting forward past players at times. But it's early days, he needs to keep this up for a whole season. Plus Wanyama is probably unmatched in the league for his physical presence, I don't think Romeu can bully opponents like Wanyama can. Let's not forget Wanyama has probably improved a Spurs team that last year was challenging for the title. If anything I'd say Romeu's recent performances are more reminiscent of Morgan, winning the ball on the front foot, good passing range and bursting forward.

Disagree, in 2009-10 season we were playing in League One (third tier football) with -10 points having nearly gone out of business. Whereas Inter in 2009-10 were winning the League, cup and Champions League treble under Jose Mourinho. Now, do you think anyone in football, in 2010, would have done anything other than laugh at you, if you had said in just 6 years that Southampton would be going to the San Siro for a competitive game against Inter and had a realistic chance of winning that game? it's huge whatever way you look at it.

One thing I notice is that all our academy players seem to have very good technical ability, they might not all the be the fastest, or biggest or able to dribble round 4 players but they can all very comfortably control, pass, cross and shoot to a decent level and do it at a high speed/tempo. Which means they will generally slot into a team well and do a job with little risk. Of course it's his defensive ability that needs to be tested but we play with advanced full backs so they will spend a lot of time attacking and he showed he was very good at that. He should have had two assists, I'd reckon a more match sharp jay rod would have stuck that cross away.

Very good win, shame we couldn't have put a few more away. Penalty to Burnley could have changed the game, though the pundits are saying Van Dijk got none of the ball but I clearly saw his thigh make contact with ball first. But Burnley turned up to not win and were time wasting in the first half so I kind of feel they got what they deserved. Bigger tests will come, be interesting to see what we do against Man City. Everton snuck a point, West Ham and Bournemouth got smashed there. Wonder whether we will try to play or set out to defend.

Be nice to see him on the bench, but don;t think we should be underestimating Burnley. Strongest team we have because as mentioned above we've already dropped home points against 'lesser' teams.

Do we need an attacking mid? Striker, DM and a CB I'd reckon.

Very much happy with the rotation, it's why we've tried to go for two decent players in every position and I'm pretty sure everyone would have taken 4 points from our first two games. Especially as Inter look poor and we know we can beat Beer at home and Sparta away. After seeing the opposition so far and Inters poor form, I fully expect us to win the group even with rotating players. Remember we've still got Boufal and Jay Rod to come back as well, further players that will need games not to mention youngsters need game time, what better than league cup games and europa league games against lesser opposition. Plus we are going to champions this Sunday, another win there and our season is really taking shape, though I'd be happy with a point. I think the rotation will come good later in the season and I'd expect full side in the knock out stages.

I think he's 'back home' as in they are going back home, hence the two flags with a plane between them.

Well the Telegraph are clearly holding stuff to eek this out slowly and sell more papers. Dunno about Black, I didn't particularly think what Fat Sam had done was that bad, stupid yes, but not hat bad. As far as I can tell with Black again been a bit silly and bit too forthcoming to total strangers but very debatable if he's actually done something wrong and a giant leap to corrupt. Need more information IMO to properly assess this and what QPR are doing is sensible.

Solid result IMO, long trip, a lot of the team not very experienced in Europe, rotated the squad and we got a clean sheet against a team that is clearly better than their league suggests and beat Inter Milan away. Plus we are top of the group, home wins against Inter and Beer Sheva and that is probably qualification.

After seeing the video it doesn't look too clear cut to me, he takes no money and no of it seems to be related to him.

Draw puts us top with Inter bottom. Can't complain about that.

He was IIRC working in a Beetroot factory at one point, he's since become a Saints Legend, scored plenty of Premier league goals, got capped and scored for England, scored in all 4 English leagues and appeared at World Cup. Not sure he's too worried about playing in the Championship at 34, especially as it's one of the most watched leagues in the world anyway even for a second tier. He's achieved more than he probably ever thought he would when he was released from Blackpool.

I wouldn't be surprised if VVD goes next year but I'd imagine the club would do what they can to stop it. Depends really, if we actually play hard ball ( we didn't really with Mane sadly, I think we could have got closer to £50 million nearer the end of the window) then you are looking upwards of £40-50 million for him in today's market. My hope would be for him to go out of the league, but you are basically looking at Real Madrid, Barca, PSG or Bayern as they are the only ones that realistically compete transfer fees wise with the Prem clubs. Would prefer though if we stepped up from being Utds/Liverpools feeder club to being Barca/Madrids. Thing is we are going to need to replace Fonte pretty soon, he was a lot better on Sunday but has been a bit dodgy so far this season and we don't know how long he'll keep going at this level. So we won't want to be replacing two centre backs in the same summer.

I do like the moaning about the popcorn and the fighting with other people coming to watch as if you have to be a certain 'type' of fan. Confirmation IMO that a lot of football fans are complete morons. Feel better though about the whole shady deal that got them it though, seems like it's back firing and have zero sympathy for them.

If he got a run out against Malta he'd get some pretty good chances to get some goals as you'd expect England to be beating them comfortably. Plus I don't see a huge amount of options, Rooney is well out of form, Kane is injured, so it's maybe Rashford, Defoe and Walcott as the other strikers with probably Sterling and Lallana the other guys getting the goals. Knowing our luck though he'll get injured.

It say either for Tadic or for Redmond I'd reckon. Looks a clever enough player to play anywhere in the forward line to me. Interesting to see Sky and BBC both seem to keep changing their minds on our line up, sometimes they think it's a diamond sometimes they think it's 4-3-3, hopefully we are confusing the opposition as well.

I'm liking that Puel wasn't happy with the 1st half, striving for excellence like that should bring the best out of most of the players and we have serious competition for places aside maybe centre-back.

Redmond caused them problems all afternoon and run their defence ragged. The last thing a low on confidence defence like West Ham want to see is someone like Redmond popping up all over the pitch, beating them down the channels and closing them down. Especially on a big pitch like that, he's the perfect sort of foil Austin. Question is, who does Boufal come in for? Lot of West Ham fans thinking they are in for a relegation battle, funny how fortunes can turn in 4 games. Us 4 wins, 4 clean sheets, them 4 defeats, 14 goals conceded

Our front 3 all rotated and some of Charlies best play came from being out wide, including his assist. You'll note he keeps drifting out and bullying their fullbacks, beating the in the air and giving us an out ball. The only real issue is his fitness, needs to step in up as I doubt he was running anywhere near as much as Redmond, Hojberg and Davis who were still making lung busting runs in the 94th minute, whilst he looked fecked at about 60 minutes. A fitter Austin would have been following into the box when Redmond won that long ball and squared it, instead Austin was resting on the edge. Needs to play though, not sure why people questioned his all round play, he seems much more than just a finisher to me, he played some excellent passes in that game and played as a proper target man for the most of the game.

Thought the ref was solid as well, they whined and moaned for everything and was a good spot to see Zaza diving, plus that whiny claim for handball when Bertrand gets the ball booted at him from like 3 yards and has his hands by his body. Apparently we are a 'workman like side' according KNUB, hmmn I'd reckon aside from Payet we look better man for man in almost every position.

First half we looked like an average home team struggling to break down a stubborn away team, our passing was poor and too slow aside from the goal. Not surprised Puel was unhappy with it. But second half we were excellent and dominated aside a 10 minute spell where West Ham basically lumped it into the box and Payet had a moan any time someone went near him. Should have scored several more with some better decision making around the box (cedric first half) and was worried Tadic's shot being saved was going to cost us but we just kept cutting them apart. Also thought Romeu was excellent after his booking, was far too reckless to start off with then just played more intelligently the best example being Zaza getting booked for diving. Austin has to start regularly even if he can;t last 90 because that wasn't even a half chance really and he finished it excellently. Rest of the team were very good, Fonte recovering a lot of his authority. Cedric probably the worst of the bunch but that's being very picky.

Used to like them as a club, but they just annoy me now, annoying fans, annoying chairmen, annoying chairman's son, annoying players like Carroll and an utter joke about their stadium being gifted to them so would love to win there. Not to mention their haphazard throw money at everything transfer policy, it's like Harry Redknapp is their director of football out making transfer deals in car parks leaning out of his range rover. But they have a talented squad and they can't keep losing so a worry we'll come away with nothing probably with a piece of bad luck or bad referee decisions. Only thing I like about West Ham is Bilic, seems a good honest manager, doesn't make excuses most of the time, at the Euros he was one of the few pundits that actually seemed to know what he was talking about and talked with passion about the game.