Watford 1-3 Saints - Reaction

[Lighthouse]

It’s official. Most away wins for Saints in top flight history. 😲

 

[Saint_clark]

Superb. 

How long is Ings contract? Need to get him on another 5 year one asap. 

[BILLYDO]

Thought Vestie had a great game

 

[Hawkswood]

Well I didnt see that win coming. Brilliant performance. I know everyone will give Ings MoM, and he was excellent, but, and I cant believe Im going to say this, but Id give it to Vestergaard. Was rock solid. I also really like Che Adams. I think hes a great all rounder.  I just hope he comes good.

 

[OttawaSaint]

Great win. Great goals, we even had to show Watford how to score past McCarthy.

All the lads that came in did well. 

Too bad Adams couldn’t find the right side of the post at the end there.

[Viking Saint]

Great shift from everyone today fully deserved three points. Why can't we play like that at home?! 

[jamesfp1]

'Operation: Get Che a goal' is now in effect.

[Manuel]

Excellent standard from Romeu, Vest considering how little they've played.  

Looks like Romeu's nose might be busted.  Good looks ruined.    

[Saint Pete]

Excellent performance today. 40 points, safety assured now (if it wasn’t already)!

Amazing job from Ralph to achieve this given where we were earlier in the season. Massive well done to him 👍👍👍

[trousers]

Best performance of the 3 restart games by far.

Smallbone looking decent.

Also a good cameo from Adams. 

Is it too soon to dig out the December forum posts from the "happy to be wrong" brigade, just for a bit of a chortle?

 

[ButtikonSaint]

1 minute ago, Hawkswood said:

Well I didnt see that win coming. Brilliant performance. I know everyone will give Ings MoM, and he was excellent, but, and I cant believe Im going to say this, but Id give it to Vestergaard. Was rock solid. I also really like Che Adams. I think hes a great all rounder.  I just hope he comes good.

 

Agree Vesty was the right CB against this opposition. Suited him perfectly. 

Great show by the boys... Great win...COYS

[Nolan]

Equalled the number of wins that Puel had in his season now. (12).

Now to beat his season points total of 46.

Get in.

 

[OttawaSaint]

1 minute ago, Viking Saint said:

Great shift from everyone today fully deserved three points. Why can't we play like that at home?! 

Seems like a mental block. Doubt it’s the fans.

 

We seem to be too tentative with the ball opting to go back due to worrying about losing the ball and getting caught on the break. That seems to have us sitting deeper with a big no-man’s land in midfield where we chase shadows. 

Smallbone was superb today, always looking to move the ball forward quickly.

[OttawaSaint]

2 minutes ago, trousers said:

Best performance of the 3 restart games by far.

Smallbone looking decent.

Also a good cameo from Adams. 

Is it too soon to dig out the December forum posts from the "happy to be wrong" brigade, just for a bit of a chortle?

 

Those lot don’t post here anymore...

[hypochondriac]

Give Che a couple of starts now please. I really think he's not a bad player and I'd like to give him a chance. 

 

Really great performance today saints. 

[Saint Fan CaM]

Couldn’t pick a poor performance from any player to be fair. Think that’s our best line up. Bednarek unlucky...that type of position has happened to better CB’s, but I wonder whether McCarthy was talking to him. Ings and JWP had great stand out games. JWP looked twice the player Valery is and needs to be our no.1 RB. Smallbone is starting to look the real deal too.

Why the hell can we not do that at home?

[Saint_Tony]

That'll do nicely. Certainly didn't miss Hojbjerg. Don't know how to copy in my prediction from the build up thread but

 

[Baird of the land]

I was happy to see no gray or Welbeck in the starting lineup. Bednarek and Vestergaard felt well suited to dealing with Deeney.

Ings again suberb again. Just hope the club don't sell him this summer because he's bound to generate interest.

Real shame adams didn't get his goal. The turn though, a sign it might be worth persevering with him.

Our turn to have a keeper throw in an off day. What was with foster's wall for that free kick, making it easy for Ward-prowse, coupled with miscued throw.

Our jeckyll and hyde form is bizarre.

[badgerx16]

So for the remaining home games lets decorate St Marys in the colours of the visiting team.

[Backrow91]

Didn’t expect that but fully deserved.......Vestegaard played well as did Ingsy but I really enjoyed KWP. Effectively on trial and his stock would have risen today.  Adams had a great little cameo and unlucky with his strike. Let’s all enjoy the victory. 

[striker]

1 minute ago, badgerx16 said:

So for the remaining home games lets decorate St Marys in the colours of the visiting team.

LOL - we can even borrow those headshots of their fans for the front rows

[Mr Saints]

Very impressive win. Thought the back 4 were excellent.

[wadesmith]

The Vestergaard era begins now.

[Cartman]

Predictions for our remaining fixtures:

05-07-2020        Southampton    vs    Manchester City    L
09-07-2020        Everton    vs    Southampton    W
13-07-2020        Manchester United    vs     Southampton    W
15-07-2020        Southampton    vs    Brighton    L
18-07-2020        Bournemouth    vs    Southampton    W
26-07-2020        Southampton    vs    Sheffield United    L

[Shroppie]

"I'll tempt fate by saying my recent record starting these isn't bad.

COYR!!'

Nice to keep up the 100% record this season. 😀

[saint1977]

Excellent performance, wasn’t a weak performance there. Vest did well v Deeney, Bed unlucky with the OG, both full backs good and KWP big improvement on Valery who needs experience in Champ/L1 next season to toughen up and professionalise. Midfield more mobile without Hoj, JWP terrific and first to every ball, FK icing on the cake. Would have been MOTM but for Ings, looks like a £50m plus player. Was so willing Che to score, quality when he came on. Redmond very unlucky to his the post. Really enjoyed watching that. 

[Kingsbridge Saint]

Everyone was on it today. All showed they belong at this level. Ings a proper 9.5 performance. Vesty a revelation, Smallbone looks a gem. What a hit by JWP. Players deserve all the plaudits after that one. Superb.

[The Cat]

Really good performance. Clinical in fact, which is something you don't often associate with us. Even Vestergaard played well, although that's the sort of strike force he's better against. Might be different up against faster, more skilfull players.

Moving on I'd play Walker-Peters and Smallbone in every match and give Adams game time over Obafemi as possible.

 

 

[Ashby Saint]

KWP is so much better than Valery. Need to sign him up or buy another starter. Bednarek is a good defender, but he doesn’t like to pass the ball. He looked panicky whenever it was played to him.

[stknowle]

Great win. Only the 3rd time we've scored 3 all season and 2 of them have been post lockdown. Ings is just far too good for us, inevitable that better teams will be in for him and who could be surprised or blame him if he wants to go. Hopefully it'll be a Vardy situation and he won't.

[OttawaSaint]

To me, Adams looks much better than Obafemi. He plays with his head up, looks better at holding up the ball and has better movement. Obafemi seems more physical but I think Che is the better all round player. A goal will really settle him I think.

Edited 28 June, 2020 by OttawaSaint

[Saint_Tony]

Just imagine if we could win home games. Lot of credit to the players, they've clearly been working a lot harder than other teams over the last three months. Few tough ones coming up, but Ings will certainly have his eye on the golden boot now

[Shroppie]

The huge difference was that it was 13c cooler than on Thursday and we could play our normal.game.  Great win.

Che was good when he came on. Strength, pace, vision. God, how I was willing him to score.

[Born In The 80s]

Staggered by how much confidence we played with today. So impressive. Ings' control and first touch is as good as any striker in the top flight, and it's hard not to be hugely impressed with what we've got in Smallbone: hopefully they can keep hold of him. For the rest of the season, I'd like to see Vestegaard and Adams given extended runs in the XI to see if they can cut it at this level. Perhaps a few of us were too quick to judge Vestegaard?

[Delmary]

Great win. We are now safe for another season. 

[Katalinic]

Great away performance. KWP upgrade on Valery. Pierre who?

[Ivan Katalinic's 'tache]

Excellent win. Good response to the disappointment v Arsenal. Ingsy clinical and KWP looked decent. Certainly earned a run in the team. Felt for Adams with the chance not going in but still think there's a player there. Good stuff. Onto City now...

[stknowle]

20 minutes ago, Hawkswood said:

Well I didnt see that win coming. Brilliant performance. I know everyone will give Ings MoM, and he was excellent, but, and I cant believe Im going to say this, but Id give it to Vestergaard. Was rock solid. I also really like Che Adams. I think hes a great all rounder.  I just hope he comes good.

 

Hmmmm. Vest actually played very well 2nd half but looked his usual ropy self in the first half with headers pinging in the opposite direction to that intended. He did alright but to suggest he was better than Ings is utter nonsense imho. Anyway who gives a fuck we won again, C'MON!!!!!

[SaveloyMush]

5 minutes ago, Katalinic said:

Great away performance. KWP upgrade on Valery. Pierre who?

Love the man, loathe the player that he has become.

Hopefully, there will be some cash proffered to shift him.

Edited 28 June, 2020 by SaveloyMush

[stknowle]

4 minutes ago, Ivan Katalinic's 'tache said:

Excellent win. Good response to the disappointment v Arsenal. Ingsy clinical and KWP looked decent. Certainly earned a run in the team. Felt for Adams with the chance not going in but still think there's a player there. Good stuff. Onto City now...

Yeah, he did well there to carve out the chance and unlucky for it not to go in. 

[Marino]

Great performance by everyone,  no weak links across the team. KWP was outstanding , and whilst Danny was brilliant, I have JWP as my MoM. He was everywhere, first to any loose ball and led the team by example.

Encore svp.

[Nordic Saint]

A very classy performance against a Watford team, which, let's not forget, beat Liverpool 3-0. I've been a big critic of Vestergaard in the past but I'm very happy to revise  my opinion of him. Today he gave an almost flawless performance. He won everything in the air, made good interceptions and his passing was excellent. If not for the brilliant Ings playing like a world class striker, Vestergaard would have deserved Man of the Match. Walker-Peters has secured that right back spot and what a free-kick that was from Ward-Prowse!

[gammon cheeks]

Great all round display ......special mention for Romeu ..never wasted a pass and stood up to Watfords bully boy tactics .   if we can get Adams scoring with ings we really could be onto something special next season

[Harry_SFC]

That was a solid, well disciplined performance.

McCarthy - 7, KWP - 8, Vestergaard - 9, Bednarek - 8, Bertrand - 8, Romeu - 8, JWP - 8, Smallbone - 7, Redmond - 7,  Long - 7, Ings - 9.

Both Armstrong and Adams played very well when they came on. Personally I'd start Adams against Man City. We have nothing to lose and if he manages to bag a goal his confidence should rocket.

[Wes Tender]

A very solid and entertaining performance from the lads today. Hard to criticise any of them and praise all round. Bednarek is excused the own goal and it was just one of those balls across the face of the goal that needed him to attempt a clearance, but very easy to get wrong. Smallbone put in a good shift and Hasenhuttl timed Armstrong coming on to replace him at a good time, where Watford were in the ascendancy and his fresh legs and forward threat changed the balance again in our favour.  Vestergaard had a really good match alongside Bednarek and Kyle W-P put in a good shift with Bertrand out wide. Romeu also replaced Hojbjerg well as the other selection change and the team played well as unit all over the pitch.

Two great goals from Ings puts him in the frame for the golden boot for the season, only one goal behind Vardy, and J W-P produced a stunning goal from a free kick which left Foster rooted to his spot. Redmond also hit the post, and Adams came close to his very first goal for us in the PL . I hope that Hasenhuttl gives him some more match time, now that we are absolutely safe, although it isn't impossible with a few more wins that we could grab an 8th place entry into Europe. More play like this, less play like at Arsenal, and it just could be a long shot chance.

[verlaine1979]

Anyone else notice Smallbone receiving the ball on the half turn and pressing forward before providing the pass for Ings' first? In the same situation, Hoj would probably have knocked it back where it came.

[Nordic Saint]

Just now, verlaine1979 said:

Anyone else notice Smallbone receiving the ball on the half turn and pressing forward before providing the pass for Ings' first? In the same situation, Hoj would probably have knocked it back where it came.

Yes, it was clearly Smalbone's assist for that goal.

[redder freak]

Pick TV seems to suit Saints.

[Saint Billy]

I just do not understand why we are a completely different side away from home. 

Good result all the same. 

[BallBoy]

Everything was good about that. Effort, fitness, organisation and skill. What pleased me most was the performances of the fringe players. Smallbone, KWP, Vestergard, Romeu. A good cameo from Adams.