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Saints 5-0 Swansea - Match Thread


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More excellent passing from Edozie on the left right across to Aribo. Just needing that space for a final pass.

Stephens gets it, goes central and that's a loveley weighted pass for AA to get a shot. Moments later Edozie puts one across the face of goal, waitng for a tap in.

It's a shame all our players are involved in the build up. We need one of the,m to be in two places at once, to get on the end of the moves.

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Just now, Saint_clark said:

Only just managed to tune in, how's the performance so far? What was the goal like?

After 2 good chances very early for Swansea (they should have scored 1 of them), it has been all saints since about 10 mins, out goal was heavily deflected, after a brilliant run by Edozie

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Solid first half display and deservedly ahead. We look quite comfortable and my only worry is that Manning continues to drift into that inverted position leaving oceans of space on his flank. Not sure why he does this as he leaves the defence exposed.  There should be more goals and we need to keep getting the ball out to Edozie who is on fire.

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-Interesting set up
-57% possession, but we were more dominant with it than higher %s in other games
-Excellently worked goal.
-We created lots of build up play, but use up all our players doing it, so there's noone waiting for a final pass. So, not many actual shots.
-Swansea, who obviously know how we play really well, had a couple of early opportunities. But one at least is form an area we seem more comfortable giving opponents opportunities from. The other was from a set piece.
-They tried a couple of long cross field passes to catch us out, but haven't landed any of them.
- The interchanging and movement of our team is causign them all sorts of problems.
- Stephens might not be quite as sharp as some of the others due to his time out, but looks very keen to get us moving forward, while providing that bit of extra support at the back.
- Aribo offers more physicality than Adams, and has become so much mor emobile as the season has gone on. He's done well again, even though some of our style may not be the best fit for him sometimes.
 

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Good half of Football from Saints.  Survived the early pressure from Swansea and have controlled the situation since.  Edozie and Airibo providing speed and craft.    Downes handling the holding role well.   Stu busy and a couple of good chances for AA; KWP the usual Rolls Royce.     4-3-3 formation looks to be working well - perhaps Swansea being given too much space down their left flank - tighten up Manning.      Let's hope Saints press for a second - can see a cameo from Alcaraz coming.

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8 minutes ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

Ref is incredibly biased with the cards - someone needs to be making a noise in the officials dressing room in the break.

Yeah, this. The two he gave us in quick succession were very soft, but the two that he then ignored for Swansea were far more obvious.

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