Saints 0-2 Brentford - Match Thread

[LiberalCommunist]

Not as big as the Swansea game, but if we win, it will become as crucial over time. 

This will be a very tough game. They are having a cracking season, anyone who thinks they are on the beach needs to think again.

[Charlie Wayman]

This is going to be a nail biting, anxious and distracting day for most fans especially those going up to St Mary's this evening. This match matters. Most will be feeling that we must win at all cost but dreading the oft repeated experience of abject disappointment on the night. So often in the past hope has translated into despair and in this season more often than not.

Certainly not a day for faint hearts and certainly not a day for passivity. Today we can and must be the twelfth man, staying positive, staying optimistic and above all getting behind our lads tonight and letting them know we care. Every voice matters, together we can do it. Make St Mary's a wall of sound.

COYS

 

Edited 15 March, 2023 by Charlie Wayman

[Whitey Grandad]

1 hour ago, JRM said:

When they closed block 1 they also closed part of block 48 so away fans are not right on the divide, but that happened after we were due to play Brentford in the original game in Sept so they'd have some fans with tickets in that bit. 

Less than 200 home end tickets left for tonight so should be a sell out, good for a 7.30 Wednesday game but most tickets were sold when this was due to be a 3pm Saturday game (was only called off day before wasn't it?) 

Correct. The original game was scheduled for the 10th September but all games were called off on the 9th.

[Mr Nimbus]

18 hours ago, Dark Munster said:

I’ve got peacock here in the USA but they aren’t showing it live. They are only showing a replay 24 hours after the match has finished. 

Yeah I have just noticed on the PL app (USA version) it's been switched to USA. Point still stands that a stream should be doing the rounds.

It does make it annoying for people who allegedly have the US version of Peacock in the UK and the game is moved to USA or NBC

[Pilchards]

Not listened to the presser but I would keep the same starting line up as previous matches.

ABK looked to be struggling last game so its Salisu in for him.

To freshen it up he must get S Armstrong, Maitland, Edozie off the bench first.

Adam Armstrong & Maru should get on the pitch sometime but hopefully only during  the half time kick about.

THIS IS MASSIVE TONIGHT!

[cloggy saint]

1 hour ago, Charlie Wayman said:

This is going to be a nail biting, anxious and distracting day for most fans especially those going up to St Mary's this evening. This match matters. Most will be feeling that we must win at all cost but dreading the oft repeated experience of abject disappointment on the night. So often in the past hope has translated into despair and in this season more often than not.

Certainly not a day for faint hearts and certainly not a day for passivity. Today we can and must be the twelfth man, staying positive, staying optimistic and above all getting behind our lads tonight and letting them know we care. Every voice matters, together we can do it. Make St Mary's a wall of sound.

COYS

 

Bloody hell mate, it's a football match, not Braveheart.

[Totton Saint]

On 11/03/2023 at 16:58, GrumpyYorkshireSaint said:

Everton ain't helped and the point for Leeds is a kicker.

 

[Saint Fan CaM]

12 minutes ago, Totton Saint said:

Everton ain't helped and the point for Leeds is a kicker.

As is often said, there’s no point over analysing what other teams do. We have to concentrate on winning our games and if that’s still not enough at least we can be proud of our team for giving everything.

[SaintLondon]

Bit of a nervous wreck today.. Really feel tonight could be a massive turning point in the season.. Get a positive result tonight and then there is less pressure on the Spurs game.. We're so brittle in our mentality that it seems that the moment a bit of pressure emerges we fall to pieces. The relative up lift in performances / results since Selles came in seems to have eased the fear a tad.. A bad result tonight and I think it really is goodnight Vienna (I'm pretty confident it already is but you know.. always hope etc.) 

[Dusic]

I am not really nervous. This season feels different, in that we have been so bad, are on the third manager and based until now absolutely deserve to be relegated.

We have a chance still, but I don't really have belief that we will take it. We can't keep winning 1-0 and don't have any obvious way of starting to score more goals - and that will be needed to stay up considering the fixtures we have.

If we win tonight then maybe I will start to believe a bit, but I certainly don't expect us to win, and thats based on logic and factual patterns from this season rather than a deep rooted negativity.

Its actually quite amazing that we aren't dead and buried already.

[NewYorkSaint]

One key thing: if you look at the players we brought in in Jan compared to other teams, there's a key difference. We genuinely have a better squad than the first half of the season. Our relegation peers did not improve to same extent (bournemouth poss exception).   So even leaving aside the manager drama, there's an objective reason to think we will do better in rest of season than we did first half.  Haven't seen tall Paul come through yet, but Alcaraz and Sulemana are fantastic talents, and I think they adjust better to the league w every game. That plus Lavia's return (and, yes, the steadying hand of Selles) is what gives me reason to believe. 

[Wade Garrett]

Would like to see tall Paul given a run in the side.  With his career goals to games ratio, he has to be our best finisher by a country mile.

[Saint Matty 76]

32 minutes ago, Dusic said:

I am not really nervous. This season feels different, in that we have been so bad, are on the third manager and based until now absolutely deserve to be relegated.

We have a chance still, but I don't really have belief that we will take it. We can't keep winning 1-0 and don't have any obvious way of starting to score more goals - and that will be needed to stay up considering the fixtures we have.

If we win tonight then maybe I will start to believe a bit, but I certainly don't expect us to win, and thats based on logic and factual patterns from this season rather than a deep rooted negativity.

Its actually quite amazing that we aren't dead and buried already.

There is no way a team should be able to stay up with a debacle quite like the Jones one.

Saying that, there's also no chance that nerves and a sudden wave of expectation/belief won't come across me closer to kick-off.

Can't make the Spurs game due to the train strikes so hoping for a good game tonight at least.

[SotonianWill]

12 minutes ago, Wade Garrett said:

Would like to see tall Paul given a run in the side.  With his career goals to games ratio, he has to be our best finisher by a country mile.

over than a long range effort, has he even had a clear cut chance? Id like to see him and che upfront for a bit

[alehouseboys]

This feels more like an end-of-season 'great escape' game than one still in March - if we can find the same kind of belief on the terraces as well as on the pitch it should make for a passionate encounter. We had a few in the Dell days, Southampton/Pahars/Everton springs to mind (quarter a century ago!), something like that should do it.

Around 150 tickets left for this tonight, just about all the expensive halfway line ones (650 left for the spurs match - so both should sell-out).

[Charlie Wayman]

3 hours ago, cloggy saint said:

Bloody hell mate, it's a football match, not Braveheart.

You are so wrong on every level cloggy, this is life and death for many.

[gecko]

I'd bite anyone's hand off for a dodgy 1-0 win from a VAR cock-up and a 0-0 from tonight and Spurs

[Dman]

I’d be tempted to start DCC with ABK tonight, to counter the physical / aerial threat of Toney. 

[Whitey Grandad]

2 hours ago, Charlie Wayman said:

You are so wrong on every level cloggy, this is life and death for many.

"Somebody said that football's a matter of life and death to you, I said 'listen, it's more important than that'."

Bill Shankly

[100%Red&White]

15,000 could make a bit of a racket at the Dell in those troubled days of the 90s, about time the fans turned up at St Mary's with the twice that number, doesn't happen often enough but now's the time to step up. Two home games that could turn our season.

[hasper57saint]

I don’t really care if we win ‘ugly’ as long as we win. Since Ruben has taken control the increased aggression is creating results. 
Three more points and we get out of the basement. What’s not to like? 

[Suhari]

I think we're going to find our scoring boots tonight.

3-1 Saints. JWP, Sully, Alcatraz

[HnycS]

On 14/03/2023 at 07:49, Dark Munster said:

I’ve got peacock here in the USA but they aren’t showing it live. They are only showing a replay 24 hours after the match has finished. 

NBC Also owns USA network, so to drive up viewing numbers they show some games live on that channel then hold the release on Peacock, pain in the ass, but means streams should be plentiful. 

[HnycS]

21 hours ago, OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint said:

Thought there was some potential in the way Che and Sulemana linked up, more so than Tall Paul and Sulemana. In fact, just getting the impression that Tall Paul isn't really a fit for the current set up, so not sure how much game time he'll get tomorrow.

Not sure that Tall Paul is a fit for the Premier League let alone Saints, looks like he may have attempted a step up too far, from his brief appearances so far he has not impressed like Graziano Pellè did in his initial games. Unless he starts poaching some goals during his cameos I am not sure we will see very much of him at all.

[OttawaSaint]

50 minutes ago, Suhari said:

I think we're going to find our scoring boots tonight.

3-1 Saints. JWP, Sully, Alcatraz

I'd love that!

[davefizzy14]

Hoping we can get the three points tonight to start climbing the table. 2-0 to us - Prowsey and Onuachu to score - COYR

[Saint Matty 76]

Ah come on man for what possible reason is Lavia on the bench

[The Cat]

Time for Diallo to shine!

[Disco Stu]

This is why we needed cover for Lavia in January. No Lavia, no points.

[Lighthouse]

2 minutes ago, Saint Matty 76 said:

Ah come on man for what possible reason is Lavia on the bench

For the reason of three games in seven days, I’d imagine.

[Chris cooper]

No Lavia .. that’s fucked it !!

[Saint Matty 76]

Just now, Lighthouse said:

For the reason of three games in seven days, I’d imagine.

Play him in the most important and winnable one then?

[grezz]

In Selles I trust........until Diallo fooks it up, upon which I will slate him.

[Wsaint]

1 hour ago, Suhari said:

I think we're going to find our scoring boots tonight.

3-1 Saints. JWP, Sully, Alcatraz

If he scores tonight will you spell his name right? 

[Saint NL]

 

Elyounoussi and Diallo.... Uh oh

 

[Saint_clark]

Sigh...In Selles we trust.

[Saint NL]

1 minute ago, grezz said:

In Selles I trust........until Diallo fooks it up, upon which I will slate him.

That's about 7:31pm then.

[verlaine1979]

Is that a 4-2-2-2?

[Suhari]

2 minutes ago, Wsaint said:

If he scores tonight will you spell his name right? 

Only if we escape the drop.

[LeBizzier69]

So….overhit easy passes from Diallo and underhit easier ones from Moi. 
Maybe tonight will be different..

[Convict Colony]

1 minute ago, Saint NL said:

 

Elyounoussi and Diallo.... Uh oh

 

Am guessing moi in the side for his defence, expect charly to be super high up with che - question is can we score

[adrian lord]

"Gulp!" at that line up

[Toadhall Saint]

3 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

 

Elyounoussi and Diallo.... Uh oh

 

Hmmmm

[Suhari]

2 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

 

Elyounoussi and Diallo.... Uh oh

 

Does Lavia have fitness issues?

Can understand Theo given age and the shift he put in at the weeked. Perhaps sensible to have him off the bench.

Still no Edozie...

Interesting that Bree is on the bench, since the Mrs and I are about to have salad, olives and um....cheese for dinner.

[Wsaint]

3 minutes ago, Suhari said:

Only if we escape the drop.

Fair deal

[Saint NL]

BBC has it as a 4-2-3-1.

[Convict Colony]

2 minutes ago, Suhari said:

Does Lavia have fitness issues?

Can understand Theo given age and the shift he put in at the weeked. Perhaps sensible to have him off the bench.

Still no Edozie...

Interesting that Bree is on the bench, since the Mrs and I are about to have salad, olives and um....cheese for dinner.

Better pick it up so you dont forget it

[Saint_clark]

Elyounoussi is due a good game, he'll score and assist today.

[Convict Colony]

2-0 to us

[FarehamSaintJames]

Not against that team. Walcott and Lavia will be a miss but are also due a rest given injury history.

Come on Saints!

It feels like there’s a real change in atmosphere around the club, especially for tonight’s game! Please, please win!