Leo Scienza

[Matty's Caddy]

12 hours ago, Patches O Houlihan said:

Robinson is going to learn so much playing with Scienza, Azaz & Fellows.

He’s also not gonna come up against defending like that in this league 

[SuperSAINT]

 

[Saint Scott]

19 minutes ago, SuperSAINT said:

 

Constantin is digging him out through the majority of that interview. Obviously some kind of agenda against him.

Fair play to Leo for calling him out on it

[CB Fry]

He played Futsal.

Simon Clifford would approve.

[Dusic]

16 minutes ago, Saint Scott said:

Constantin is digging him out through the majority of that interview. Obviously some kind of agenda against him.

Fair play to Leo for calling him out on it

Is that actually him? Only 600 odd followers and mostly used to have a pop at people?

[pimpin4rizeal]

https://youtu.be/9qIV9MH0BkA?si=hphK1j5qGgmAvqW6
 

wow just wow when was the last time we had a player capable of nearly scoring from in his own half .. has a wand of a foot and great to hear the fans chanting Leo Leo Leo 

[goodymatt]

2 hours ago, pimpin4rizeal said:

https://youtu.be/9qIV9MH0BkA?si=hphK1j5qGgmAvqW6
 

wow just wow when was the last time we had a player capable of nearly scoring from in his own half .. has a wand of a foot and great to hear the fans chanting Leo Leo Leo 

Last player to score from near the half way line Che Adams vs City, wasn’t inside his own half mind. Rickie Lambert at MK Dons with the chest and volley was pretty far out too.

That effort and both goals scored were all decent technique, oppositions first game ever vs a Bundesliga team, so standard of opposition needs to be considered, same for a lot of his highlights which show him playing 3rd tier in Germany before Heidenheim.

 

[skintsaint]

1 hour ago, goodymatt said:

so standard of opposition needs to be considered,

With the long range shot the keeper wasn't in a terrible position considering where the ball was, and actually made a great save.

Didn't cover himself in too much glory for the rest of the game though 😅

[gio1saints]

If you put what the Constantin guy was basically saying into the context of Scienza’s career trajectory it makes passable sense. But he’s still a cu&t for trying to piss on our new player before he’s even kicked a ball. So I hear what you said mate now fark off. 😤

In effect, the obvious snide dissing aside, he’s said Scienza is on a mission. Mission of Impatient to score and impatient to achieve.  Impatient to rise up to the highest level he can. One can infer he has frustrated coaches due to that drive and strong self belief that he has aka EGO?
The German Coaches mates of the reporter who have moaned about him no doubt wanted to help him become a good pro- but I don’t know- maybe they are not used to that type of player & such attitudes? 

Without getting too stereotypical about it I would not be too bothered hearing how a Brazilian winger/#10 who loves to score dribble shoot do tricks plays futsal and no doubt had the crap repeatedly kicked out of him doing so in Sweden and Germany lower leagues does not particularly find defending fun! It’s hardly breaking news - But it might be coming from a reporter in a country that is renowned for prioritising discipline. I expect that from my Brazilian wingers - and its Wills job to give him freedom to score the fuck out of every game - if he can. 

As for not liking being on the bench….Good! Thats an attribute not a problem. Saints need players who do not want to sit on benches but who want to score and show what they can do- and most of all have the balls to put there hands up and go for it if and when they get the chance. 

So that guy and the idiot from the BBC can go do one. And Adam you should not have retweeted that pile of shit either so black mark to you as well - youve got off on wrong foot with Leo - and me(😂) and need sort yerself out!😁

Edited September 3 by gio1saints

[saintant]

10 minutes ago, gio1saints said:

If you put what the Constantin guy was basically saying into the context of Scienza’s career trajectory it makes passable sense. But he’s still a cu&t for trying to piss on our new player before he’s even kicked a ball. So I hear what you said mate now fark off. 😤

In effect, the obvious snide dissing aside, he’s said Scienza is on a mission. Mission of Impatient to score and impatient to achieve.  Impatient to rise up to the highest level he can. One can infer he has frustrated coaches due to that drive and strong self belief that he has aka EGO?
The German Coaches mates of the reporter who have moaned about him no doubt wanted to help him become a good pro- but I don’t know- maybe they are not used to that type of player & such attitudes? 

Without getting too stereotypical about it I would not be too bothered hearing how a Brazilian winger/#10 who loves to score dribble shoot do tricks plays futsal and no doubt had the crap repeatedly kicked out of him doing so in Sweden and Germany lower leagues does not particularly find defending fun! It’s hardly breaking news - But it might be coming from a reporter in a country that is renowned for prioritising discipline. 

As for not liking being on the bench….Good! Thats an attribute not a problem. Saints need players who do not want to sit on benches but who want to score and show what they can do- and most of all have the balls to put there hands up and go for it if and when they get the chance. 

So that guy and the idiot from the BBC can go do one. And Adam you should not have retweeted that pile of shit either so black mark to you as well - youve got off on wrong foot with Leo - and me(😂) and need sort yerself out!😁

Exactly this - I am amazed he didn't just bin this interview instead of putting it out there for Saints fans to listen to when it is so critical of a player we have just signed. Blackmore should know better.

Edited September 3 by saintant

[gio1saints]

2 minutes ago, saintant said:

Exactly this - I am amazed he didn't just bin this interview instead of putting it out there for Saints fans to read when it is so critical of a player we have just signed. Blackmore should know better.

I think he will realise that eventually. Prepare for some extra sucky fluff piece on Leo from him in near future…

[trousers]

 

 

[CB Fry]

You bunch of wet wipes pissing yourself because a local journo didn't just blandly say our new players is just simply wonderful.

I take more from that interview than some video of him scoring some goals at what could be a Conference/National League stadium.

Let's hope he does the job but he's obviously not the finished article otherwise he'd be going up the Bundesliga not hopping sideways/down to the English second tier.

 

 

Edited September 3 by CB Fry

[saintant]

1 hour ago, CB Fry said:

You bunch of wet wipes pissing yourself because a local journo didn't just blandly say our new players is just simply wonderful.

I take more from that interview than some video of him scoring some goals at what could be a Conference/National League stadium.

Let's hope he does the job but he's obviously not the finished article otherwise he'd be going up the Bundesliga not hopping sideways/down to the English second tier.

 

 

Nobody is pissing themselves.

[Patches O Houlihan]

You can easily imagine getting fed up with the rigidity of German training regimes when you play with freedom like this.

Will Still is known for telling players to be themselves, simplify and just do what they do best, within a loose framework, so that, plus PL potential and to play in a team at the top of a league rather than the bottom may have been why we have been able to sign him. 

I think this season is going to be fun

https://www.instagram.com/tv/B-7p_Xnpzd4/

(Video above of training ground/lower leagues is worth a watch just to get a sense of his playful playing personality)

[Saint Matty 76]

No idea if that account is actually Scienza (Alfie follows, maybe a sign it is?) but pretty funny nonetheless.

Especially Blackmore admitting that he never actually listened to the podcast before sharing the negativity on, proper journalism! 

[Roo1976]

On 02/09/2025 at 07:34, Patches O Houlihan said:

I assume you'd be smashing it in your 3rd or 4th language?

English is my 3rd and 4th language...................................................😁

[Patches O Houlihan]

1 hour ago, Roo1976 said:

English is my 3rd and 4th language...................................................😁

Must be tricky enough in your first language when you have a split personality like that 😉

[Maggie May]

Will Still needs to go full Alan Ball and “give it to Scienza”.

[Guan 2.0]

Seems to have the Shane Long DNA that allows you to draw a foul, no matter where he is on the pitch!

[Gloucester Saint]

Would be great to have a player with a bit more character and spark, because otherwise it’s a very boring squad to watch. 

[Harry_SFC]

20 minutes ago, Guan 2.0 said:

Seems to have the Shane Long DNA that allows you to draw a foul, no matter where he is on the pitch!

About time. He drew 3 fouls from their right back in less than 10 minutes. 

[Fabrice Fernandes no.1 fan]

17 hours ago, Harry_SFC said:

About time. He drew 3 fouls from their right back in less than 10 minutes. 

And wasn't shy in letting the ref know that too, good to have a player in the squad willing to take a defender on, draw a foul and wind up the defenders at the same time

[kjurwi]

Seen him for 10 minutes, and he looks like the players i like the most. An annoying prick to play against. Hope he continues.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

On 14/09/2025 at 15:25, Guan 2.0 said:

Seems to have the Shane Long DNA that allows you to draw a foul, no matter where he is on the pitch!

Hopefully, he doesn't have the other Shane Long super power, and stays onside. 🙂

[The Wyvern]

I thought he looked more interested in drawing a foul than getting on with playing the game. We needed to keep pressure on them not give them constant breaks to regroup and have a breather.

Does look like a character. Reckon he could easily go one way or another- become a cult-hero or frustratingly fade out and last one season. 

[hypochondriac]

55 minutes ago, The Wyvern said:

I thought he looked more interested in drawing a foul than getting on with playing the game. We needed to keep pressure on them not give them constant breaks to regroup and have a breather.

Does look like a character. Reckon he could easily go one way or another- become a cult-hero or frustratingly fade out and last one season. 

Brilliant. We haven't had a player like that in ages.

[The Wyvern]

5 hours ago, hypochondriac said:

Brilliant. We haven't had a player like that in ages.

It might be brilliant at times, but didn’t help us at all against the skates. Just slowed the game down, gave them a chance to breathe and us a free kick on the half way line. Hope to see him focused a bit more on playing football and making an impact around the opposition box. 

[benjii]

1 hour ago, The Wyvern said:

It might be brilliant at times, but didn’t help us at all against the skates. Just slowed the game down, gave them a chance to breathe and us a free kick on the half way line. Hope to see him focused a bit more on playing football and making an impact around the opposition box. 

Most of those times he had received the ball under pressure and did well to win the foul.

Fuck me, our fans.

[hypochondriac]

1 hour ago, The Wyvern said:

It might be brilliant at times, but didn’t help us at all against the skates. Just slowed the game down, gave them a chance to breathe and us a free kick on the half way line. Hope to see him focused a bit more on playing football and making an impact around the opposition box. 

I say this as politely as possible but what the fuck are you talking about? Drawing multiple fouls is obviously a positive.

[TheSoundman]

8 hours ago, hypochondriac said:

Brilliant. We haven't had a player like that in ages.

Hypo - Not often I 100% agree with you, we haven't had a player who could draw a foul for ages... but once the defender dived over him and got the free kick, it seemed to piss him off and after that he only seemed interested in drawing foul after foul. For me, he was more interested in that than trying to win the game.

Hopefully it was a one-off. He looks like a game changer if he wants to be.

It'll be interesting to see if there's any accuracy in that Journo's interview. We'll see - it's all up to him.

Edited Friday at 19:24 by TheSoundman

[hypochondriac]

1 minute ago, TheSoundman said:

Hypo - Not often I 100% agree with you, we haven't had a player who could draw a foul for ages... but once the defender dived over him and got the free kick, it seemed to piss him off and after that he only seemed interested in drawing foul after foul. For me, he was more interested in that than trying to win the game.

Hopefully it was a one-off. He looks like a game changer if he wants to be.

It'll be interesting to see if there's any accuracy in that Journo's interview. We'll see - it's all up to him.

And he succeeded every time. Be honest, had you not heard that random journo interview you wouldn't have posted this.

[TheSoundman]

4 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

And he succeeded every time. Be honest, had you not heard that random journo interview you wouldn't have posted this.

I'll be honest, the first half of my post was my observation at the time.

The comment after re the journo was a throw away addition that was unrelated - it's funny how often I regret making them as people focus on the wrong thing.

Regardless. He has the potential to really move us up a gear.

[hypochondriac]

Just now, TheSoundman said:

I'll be honest, the first half of my post was my observation at the time.

The comment after re the journo was a throw away addition that was unrelated - it's funny how often I regret making them as people focus on the wrong thing.

Regardless. He has the potential to really move us up a gear.

Agreed. Hopefully can draw a few more fouls as well so Manning can thump them in.

[Patches O Houlihan]

49 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

Agreed. Hopefully can draw a few more fouls as well so Manning can thump them in.

Scienza has a better free kick record than Manning this year...

[hypochondriac]

8 minutes ago, Patches O Houlihan said:

Scienza has a better free kick record than Manning this year...

Maybe he will do it himself then. Either way, crazy to suggest that drawing multiple fouls would be in any way negative.

[The Wyvern]

3 hours ago, hypochondriac said:

I say this as politely as possible but what the fuck are you talking about? Drawing multiple fouls is obviously a positive.

I appreciate you’re obviously one of the thickest people on here but you’ve not even been able to explain why it was such a positive for us. I can see you spend your life on here looking for arguments, so I’ll leave you to it. 

[hypochondriac]

13 minutes ago, The Wyvern said:

I appreciate you’re obviously one of the thickest people on here but you’ve not even been able to explain why it was such a positive for us. I can see you spend your life on here looking for arguments, so I’ll leave you to it. 

Drawing fouls slows them down, not us. It kills their momentum, prevents them from hitting us on the break which was one of their main tactics and gets us further up the pitch, allows our strikers to get into position and winds their players up. If Pompey are hacking him down, it means he’s causing them problems — that’s literally the point. Pretending that’s a negative is just clueless. What's more, judging by the responses to my last post it seems that quite a few people agree with me. I'd expand more but you were being a bit of an abusive twat so I won't bother.

 

Edited Friday at 22:06 by hypochondriac

[AlexLaw76]

43 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

Drawing fouls slows them down, not us. It kills their momentum, prevents them from hitting us on the break which was one of their main tactics and gets us further up the pitch, allows our strikers to get into position and winds their players up. If Pompey are hacking him down, it means he’s causing them problems — that’s literally the point. Pretending that’s a negative is just clueless. What's more, judging by the responses to my last post it seems that quite a few people agree with me. I'd expand more but you were being a bit of an abusive twat so I won't bother.

 

The stop start nature of the game was Still’s biggest gripe about the fixture.

 

[trousers]

21 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

The stop start nature of the game was Still’s biggest gripe about the fixture.

 

He was predominantly talking about PCFC's time wasting tactics (and self inflicted injuries) in the first half, I believe 

Edited Friday at 23:11 by trousers

[BarberSaint]

7 hours ago, trousers said:

He was predominantly talking about PCFC's time wasting tactics (and self inflicted injuries) in the first half, I believe 

First corner to them and Murphy spent ages. Putting the ball down, standing around, picking up the vape thingy that had been thrown near him and giving it to the ref and strolling back and looking up and ... this was about 5-10 mins in and he should have been booked as it was obvious he was time wasting. Good player to be fair though; knows what to do but wouldn't be good enough in the league above.

As for Leo, yes it was the case that he did want to collect free kicks but I think he wanted to unsettle the defender as well. If he kept drawing them, the defender got on a yellow, etc it would mean he might have a bit more leeway to do things; it was quite clever but it was also late in the game so slowing things down like that might not have been counter productive. 

I imagine he was also pissed off at the stupid dive the defender did to get a free kick off him - put both his feet together and then just jumped and pulled his feet back - and was aware that he wasn't being given any space to turn or possibly even move inside.

So I agree he'll be fun to watch, haven't seen/read anything from any journos about him but can see both points about his value. For me, the main thing was that there was little time to go and we wanted us to get to the bye-line and put in low, hard, dangerous crosses.  I think he didn't want to just get the ball and recycle it.