Saint-Armstrong Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 GOALS: Mané - 12', 13', 16' / Long - 26', 38' / Pellè - 81' Not a bad way to sign off at St. Mary's in a season we were meant to be doomed in. Over to you, folks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lighthouse Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 W00T!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plastic Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Great performance, incredible first half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrian lord Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 4 minute hat-trick ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 60 points. Lovely jubbly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DG Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Magic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohio Saint Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 6 goals and not one high press between the players. No team spirit IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 4 minute hat-trick ! 2 minutes 56" actually. Great game from Saints, Villa were junk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkeith Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Brilliant first half, should have been more really. Mane was just brilliant, cue the Newspapers now linking him with all the big 6 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redder freak Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Dave will be disappointed, unless he really supports West Ham now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Unable to go to he game due to ill-health. Enjoyed watching on line but a shame it was so close..... Apparently Robbie Fowler couldn't understand why people were contacting him on Twitter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norm Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Rubbish! I'm sat on a train Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stknowle Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Absolutely superb way to sign off at home, back to the devastating form we were in when it all kicked off. Villa aided and abetted througout the first half but the 3rd and 6th goals were amongst the best of the season. Brilliant. Sadio has to get the MOM for the prem record hattrick but I thought Long was absolutely brilliant throughout the first half, scoring 2 and setting up 2 as well. Also I called Gazza a hopeless clown last week but today, for the first time, there looked like there may be a decent keeper in there somewhere. COYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Morgan who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalkboy Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 What a beautiful day :):)Great to get one over Sherwood and in such a decisive manner too. Even nicer for some of my Birmingham City supporting family Well done lads. Now for a celebration beer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohio Saint Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 2 minutes 56" actually. Great game from Saints, Villa were junk. Or 68 seconds of actual playing time, apparently! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintLiam Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Down to the high press folks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View From The Top Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 (edited) Yet wan_kers will still bang on about how after spending £70m it's a sh_it end of the season and it's managers fault or witter on about how we are on the beach. Clueless pr_icks. Edited 16 May, 2015 by View From The Top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igsey Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Excellent game, good performance, Gazza did well! Nice to see us shooting clinically again. MOTM for me - trousers and Maggie May. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baird of the land Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Mane, Long and Pelle were excellent today, combining perfectly. Mane sneaking Man of the match. The defence was reasonably solid. Gazzaniga made a nice save at the end too from agbonlahor. If there was an area to be slightly critical on an amazing day it was the midfield. We won today by bypassing it but we've got work to do in terms of replacing Morgan/Cork ballplaying. None of Davis, JWP or Wanyama were terrible but neither did i think they stood out as excellent. Great that the team has got to 60 points. Now we need Swansea & Spurs to drop points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minsk Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Excellent performance. Great way to sign off at SMS. Very happy for all who were there to see it. As for the front three, outstanding. Mane will get all the plaudits, and why not. Fowler's record had stood for 21 years; it will be a long time before Mane loses his. However, Shane Long and Pelle also played blinders. Villa's defence were poor be cause of how our front three played. Oh, and it should have been 7!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Excellent game, good performance, Gazza did well! Nice to see us shooting clinically again. MOTM for me - trousers and Maggie May. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redder freak Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Mane must be doing something right. There have been some good strikers in the Premier League since Robbie Fowler and he's scored his hat-trick quicker than all of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Mane, Long and Pelle were excellent today, combining perfectly. Mane sneaking Man of the match. The defence was reasonably solid. Gazzaniga made a nice save at the end too from agbonlahor. If there was an area to be slightly critical on an amazing day it was the midfield. We won today by bypassing it but we've got work to do in terms of replacing Morgan/Cork ballplaying. None of Davis, JWP or Wanyama were terrible but neither did i think they stood out as excellent. Great that the team has got to 60 points. Now we need Swansea & Spurs to drop points. I thought JWP had a pretty good game actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Or 68 seconds of actual playing time, apparently! Even more astonishing. Bloody brilliant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintadjg Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Mane & Long were top drawer unplayable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperMikey Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Mane, Long and Pelle were all outstanding - doesn't get any better than this! Is it bad that even after we thumped them 6-1 i'm still annoyed about Pelle's first goal being disallowed? Haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintoaks Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 6th goal was fantastic, when we are good we are really good ! Well done saints Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohio Saint Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 2 minutes 56" actually. Great game from Saints, Villa were junk. Or 68 seconds of actual playing time, apparently! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheaf Saint Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Outstanding way to finish off the season at home. I was a little busy so I missed the first 17 minutes, and couldn't believe it when I ran the stream and saw it was already 3-0. Although I didn't watch the whole 90 minutes, I thought Gazza was actually quite good today. Nothing he could do about Benteke's header but he made a few good saves and looked a lot more confident coming for crosses. Could it be that he is slowly reaching the potential that the club saw in him to begin with? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_Tony Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Great performance. Don't want to be negative but Villa could still destroy our season, not playing like that though. So much more urgency today though, Long proved his worth again despite so many writing him off. 5 decent additions and this side can cope with Europa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintTex Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Mane, Long and Pelle were all outstanding - doesn't get any better than this! Is it bad that even after we thumped them 6-1 i'm still annoyed about Pelle's first goal being disallowed? Hahamore annoyed at not getting the clean sheet. but hells ya.. a very fun afternoon! a win at City will make me forget about the last 2 months. Brilliant season, better than I could have ever expected. 60 points! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verlaine1979 Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Great result and some great finishing, but that's one of the all-time awful defensive displays from Villa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5string Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Checked score at about 6-7 mins, 0-0. Checked back 15 minutes later after planting a tree... blimming 4-0!! My head nearly hit the shed roof! Fantastic way to sign off at SMS for the season! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pastor Patrón Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Since when was Long actually good? My god. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarrettIvo Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Thoroughly enjoyable. Hull giving a solid account of themselves at WHL right now. Hope they keep it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSAINT Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Crikey, even Ian Holloway complimentary towards us on Radio Solent just now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Tender Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Just got back home. What an incredible way to end the home season matches. I'm told that Pelle's first goal should have stood and after it was disallowed, the thought arose that it might be one of those matches where it would end up costing us points. But Villa's game plan of a high defensive line backfired badly when either they weren't winning the midfield balls, or balls were played over the top for the pace of Long and Mane, which they just couldn't handle. Hard to pick any of our players who didn't put in a good shift today, they were all great. During the second half, they took their foot off the pedal and Villa looked a bit more threatening, but ultimately they lacked the quality to break us down. Two of the goals will stand out in particular; the shot from distance from Long was sublime. The other was the Pelle goal where a great one-two involving Mane and Djuracic resulted in a superb cross from Mane for Pelle to thump in an unstoppable shot. But this will become known as the Mane game, which is going into the annals of Premier League history for the speed of his devastating hat trick. One of my neighbours in the Family stand reported that one of his family at home had gone out for a loo break when the score was 0-0 and when he got back to the match it was 3-0! We just have to hope that Spurs drop points against Hull and that we get something from the Man City match. Today's result will give us a great confidence boost and maybe unnerve City a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Tender Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Since when was Long actually good? My god. His record against Villa is very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulrich van Gobbel Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Fantastic performance, great atmosphere...and I've got Mané and Benteke in my Fantasy Football Team! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Charlie Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Brilliant performance. Mane will be a superstar. Absolutely superb signing. Whole team bossed it and compared to end of last season what a great buzz around the club, especially if Clyne signs a new deal next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjii Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Well, Villa completely played into our hands with a high and slow back line. We took some risks committing men forwards and it meant Villa did get through our midfield at times but it always looked like we were going to score a hatfull. We were a bit half-arsed in the second half but that's not surprising. Ron Vlaar is out of contract this summer. No thanks! Gazza - 7 - solid. Has definitely got all the attributes and looked more confident to leave his line. If he can keep the howlers out if his game he can be a decent GKer. Clyne - 8 - looked much better today. Good offensively. Font - 7 - solid as ever. Toby - 7 - as above. Bertie - 7 - not as prominent as Clyne in attack but usual high standard. Big Vic - 6 - him and Davis both struggled a bit, just due to the way the match was set up tactically. Still made his fair share of interceptions and challenges. Davis - 6 - as above. JWP - 7 - embraced the attacking responsibility and helped us add numbers to attacks. Some good deliveries. Long - 10 - quality. Great play for Mane's third and what a second goal. Pelle - 9 - unlucky to only have one goal. Ran their centre backs hard all match. Mane - 10 - MotM - what a player he can be. Frankly, he took the **** at times. Worth double what we paid for him already and if he carries on next season we'll struggle to keep him. Class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Pelle was really impressive today, making an effort to run onto through balls and moving Villa's back four around - proper centre forward stuff to make room for Mane and Long. I don't think I need to speak for Long and Mane, absolutely out of this world from them both. They seemed to have a lot more freedom to move out of position, like against Chelsea, and were absolutely unplayable! Big shout out to Gazza, did some excellent shot stopping today, definitely has potential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 ****. Saints really slipped up today in the battle to avoid Europa next season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeShmoe Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Shows we can play without Morgan, i thought Wanyama and Davis were really good in the central midfield role. Big Vic just marshalled Grealish and didnt give him a kick and Davis did what MS usually does, quick passing, good pressing etc The front 3 were nearly unplayable - i remember watching Long play that way against Sunderland in that wide role - shame he cant do that consistently as on his day he's top drawer. Pelle seems to be finding his best form again after, lets face it, really dropping off since new year Mane - well he just added 10m to his price tag and i can see vultures circling around him in the summer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pass the Dutchie Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Ron Vlaar is out of contract this summer. No thanks! I believe he's a quality player. Obviously (and thankfully) not today though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fanimal Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Stunning day in the sun, could easily have been 7-1 at half time, but Villa committed suicide! Their fans were ****s of the highest order. Hope Arsenal stuff them. Made up big time for last weeks debacle! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicestersaint Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Yet wan_kers will still bang on about how after spending £70m it's a sh_it end of the season and it's managers fault or witter on about how we are on the beach. Clueless pr_icks. Grumpy old man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Ron fan Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Other than Sunderland, when did Saints last score 6 in a top division match? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintLiam Posted 16 May, 2015 Share Posted 16 May, 2015 Same XI next week, bar Superkelv for his 300th. Long and Mane with the pace and Pelle shouldn't have too much trouble with Mangala and Demichelis (or whoever the f*ck they play). Looking forward to this one now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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