OttawaSaint

Dunno what people are carping about. Other way around and I'd be fine with it. It was offside. So what's the deal? Determined to hate VAR no matter what? or trolls frothing at the mouth to see us lose and go on a wind up?

He started really well to be fair.

Utter utter gash that player. Hopefully last chance saloon for him tonight.

Probably tried to kick the ball, missed and kicked himself...

Stream iu'm watching he was clearly offside. Close but his foot was ahead.

That's how to ****ing finish though... talking to Ely, Long, Armstrong!

Looked offside.

If we had a decent striker we'd be 2up. Awful control by Long...

Johnson really showing Cedric up. WTF was that? a rugby up and under?

Long straight at keeper then Armstrong flubbed the rebound.

****! what a miss!

Cedders not improved his crossing then...

Yellow for Johnson. Dove in to a challenge.

Stephens being held there. Header over.

Johnson playing well so far!

This has the feel of so many Saints home replays against lower league opposition. Hope we don't blow this.

Going with a back 4!

Yeah, sorry, wasn't arguing with you. Just wanted to use your post to tag on my thoughts. It's like refs get it the wrong way around. Give leeway to an experienced player who should know better, but punish a young player who is still learning in the EPL.

The Ramirez effect (Referring to Lemina and Gabbi here). You can see the quality, you desperately want to see them use it to great effect and dominate games but it just never really materializes except for a few flashes here and there. Very frustrating.

In that circumstance the ref maybe should have recognized that he is a young lad and had a chat giving him a final warning. Look at the atrocious fouls that Kompany got away with vs Saints and Liverpool.

This. look at the challenge that got Salah a pen and look at this one. Laughable. Valery’s only mistske was to not be playing for a big club. That said, he’s got to learn not to get wound up by other players.

Classic Alps. Doesn’t post for months and then posts this epic downer-fest. Cheer up!

Should be his goal. Unless they pull some bull**** like they did on Ostenstadt in the 6-3 vs Utd. Never an own goal in a month of Sundays.

Enjoying a couple of pints and reflecting on a great game. First half we were superb. So nice to see us play with some real conviction. The boys looked like they’ve totally bought into the system and looking out for each other. You could see from some of the body language and gestures that even when someone made a mistake they were kinda helping each other understand what went wrong where they meant to pass or reinforcing where they were supposed to be. Although stressful at the time the most pleasing is how well the team adapted to being down to 10. They probably haven’t practiced for that and the players all dug in and supported each other. Romeu was superb and led by example. I wonder if he should stay as captain when Hoj returns. There is real belief now. There is a system rather than a band aid. So refreshing. Only downer is we will have to say goodbye to Ralph in a year or two. Hopefully we get another Ralph and not the Puel/MoPe/Hughes farce again. Gotta go, the fridge is calling...