Olallana

Boruc anyone?

People and commentators really need to learn the difference between long balls and hoof balls...

Two teams who like to press, forcing each other to more long balls than either team like or want...

Since noone else have started one today....

you didn´t see another thread on this??

Liverpool with 4 CB's at the back...

Is that the club badge on Rickies tie?? Would be veru funny if it is with all the complaints on here that MP doesn´t wear a club tie during games when it might be just that.....

Why are (some) people surprised that some transfers can´t be made whenever the buying club wants to do it?

Well that´s good. I expect us to be better than those teams. Would be muchworse if we take no points from the ones sitting 19th and 20th imo.

Maybe try the 2-1-7 formation?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrBnTlesjHk

Perhaps but unlikely and 4 games dont show a pattern. And it´s not all about the shots, but to win games you have to score goals, to score goals you have to create chances. The conversion ratio on chances dont differ too much over a longer period of time so if you create more you stand a better chance to score more and if you score more you.....

I´ve never said that quality doesn´t matter. I´ve said that the overall performance (again, not result) were and is usually better by the team creating the most chances, as MOTD2 also said last night when they thought we were the better team. Again, performances and results are two different thing and I´ve been talking about performances from day one of the original thread, it´s all there to read if you need to catch up.

Not really, it´s still very very early and we have a new striker that needs time to gel with the team and the team needs to learn how to utilize him in the best way possible. The evidence of that are all over the league. City, Spurs (looked better in their last game but before that no goals from open play, Everton, Swansea and even Chelsea has all been struggling in different ways during the start of the season. I´ll always give a season 10-12 games before you can really make any judgements on the team but my comment was also about people making judgements on signings after four games.

4 times and still no answer as I predicted, not as it was the hardest thing to do though so I really dont deserve any credit for that one.

I heard this on a football show he other night but couldn´t find any recent link on the subject. Maybe it has already been debated on here but there has been a lot of discussion lately about Even though I´m not English it´s not good for the future of english football (as I love though). The ratio between licensed coaches to number of players in different countries are like this.... Spain 1:17 Italy 1:48 France 1:96 Germany 1:150 Greece 1:135 England 1:812 http://www.soccerbythenumbers.com/2011/02/why-england-loses-not-enough-qualified.html

Is it just me that want to go into (almost) every thread and write. Four games people, four games.

I dont keep trotting anything. You keep referring to it in whatever thread I write in about other things, a bit obsessed are you? And btw, those stats were from 280 games of football, and you know how many of those were about Southampton FC?? 5%. So if you really want to make those stats look wrong you have to look at ALL games, not just the Saints one. But I still haven´t got any answer to a question I asked 3-4 times (dont think I´ll get one now either). Do you think the team with the fewer shots in games have a better chance winning games than the team with more shots in the long run??

So how would you explain that kind of logic of yours to the loss against Norwich then? And the stats are for long term but hey, do as you always does.... Mr "if we disregard the wins then MP´s stats aren´t that good"..

Not that hard to find that it´s our two home games, but since you needed to ask twice you might have had problems finding the info?

You wanted an answer to this "question" apparently.... I thought that one was retorical, but maybe you dont follow the games as I thought. My mistake.

Last year we scored five from first four games. This year it´s two. How many points did those 5 goals give us last year?

Cute little MLG-ing there.

Great summary Giordano, people that think it´s just getting players in and make it work from the off might wanna take a look on a lot of other teams in the league, can find those even in the big five. Patience is a must.

Cant really press up high against these opponents we´ve faced so far imo. Did it first half at West Brom and looked very strong, they changed their style in 2nd half and din´t give us that opportunity then. The letdown was Norwich but they also didn´t play that much on the ground from the back. Sunderland and West Ham came, parked the bus and went hoof for most of 90 minutes, not much to put press on in games like that.

So go another game forward then, didn´t you expect us to win against Wigan and Aston Villa at home last year? We only won one of those giving us 3 points after 5 games, we now are at 5 points with a game in hand....