Leicester 3-4 Saints - Match Thread

[SNSUN]

Chelsea vs Leeds playing until they get a winner.

[Verbal]

Meanwhile over on the Leicester fans' forum:

Working in Southampton tomorrow. Might just keep driving into the sea.

[Vancouver Saint]

OMG - did that just happen?!

[trousers]

1 minute ago, Chez said:

Apart from starting Archer - and there may be reasons for that in terms of match fitness of the other two strikers - Tonda didn't do much wrong, did he? Lots of moaning on here, quite rightly for the first half performance, but that wasn't all down to him. For example, Jander was bloody great on Saturday but played like he was pissed tonight. Is that Tonda's fault? All the subs had an impact and were made just at the right time. Asking him to take two players off after 20 minutes is ludicrous. the long and shirt of it is he inspired one of the greatest come backs in our history. I'm getting a bit bored of the constant Tonda bashing. Perhaps some on here need to give him some credit when we fucking win - like tonight. 

That's a fair viewpoint 👍🏻

[bobby_charles]

So after turning off at half time to put the wee one to bed is there a full match replay upload anywhere? 

[macca155]

What a mental league 8 teams separated by 3 points.

Well after that we're right in the mix.

I need to lie down

[Winnersaint]

2 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

A result like that, with the form bubbling away, has to provide a huge lift/opportunity.

3 home games on the bounce, after the next (FA Cup) it is Charlton and QPR at home...got to be....surely???

That’s a great shout

[Paul_B]

Fuck my days. What just happened??

[kitch]

I can't...I just cant!

[Baird of the land]

1 minute ago, Hopper said:

I’ll say this for as poor as the first half was and that was squarely on Tonda’s selection he had the balls to make the right changes. On reflection taking off Bree was a good decision and bringing on Manning was also the right move.

The players look right behind the manager and they played out of their skins in the second half. Great fight, great result, mixed performance.

 

Archer should never sniff the shirt again, he’s done.

Loved the bree move, they take off their winger for a cb. Ok we’ll counteract and match you.

[Chez]

2 minutes ago, kwsaint said:

ChatGPT and Google Gemini saying we’ve never coming from 3 0 down to win before. Happy to be corrected.

I recall us coming back from 2-0 away at Preston in 2008, but I don't recall us ever coming back from three down away in my lifetime.

[West Dean FC Legend]

Posted this elsewhere - and I mean it....

Well the BBC scores page made it more exciting believe it or not - it was 3-1 to Leicester City at 90+2.

Anyway I am really happy for all the long-standing loyal fans who have gone to every game over the last few seasons - home and away, spent money, travelled miles and seen some dire rubbish and probably had the mickey taken out of them for months and months.

Enjoy every moment fans - every single second for as long as you can - you deserve it.

I'll be honest, since 1970 I can't remember a Saints win like this - so it is fantastic for us all.

[HarvSFC]

The triple half time subs worked as well.

[Willo of Whiteley]

Might take a look over on Foxes Talk 👀🤣

[Mr Brightside]

Wow, stunned. Can’t remember a better comeback. 
Was fully expecting full capitulation after gifting them the lead so really great to see some real passion and fight. 
Hopefully Tonda learns from this, play your best players, don’t change a winning team, don’t dick around with it at the back, get on the front foot and play to our strengths with the quality we have in attack etc. 

But anyway, get the fook in!

[Crab Lungs]

Wow, just wow.

I stuck a few quid on at 3-1 so I’m doubly pleased. 

Will give Tonda some credit for the changes but it didn’t really have to be THAT hard, they’re woeful.

Well done the players and from what I saw and heard, the fans too.

Hopefully it’s wins like this that will provide momentum from here on.

And it’s so nice to be on the other end of a win like this, and not the crumble side of things.

[hypochondriac]

13 minutes ago, trousers said:

Stupendous result but doesn't absolve Eckert's abject decision making in the first half. Should have been much more comfortable than it was but, f**k it, a win's a win...hoorah!!

Yeah but let's enjoy this today. This happens so infrequently and especially to saints. I'd start Archer in the cup in the hope that he maybe gets a bit of confidence.

[bpsaint]

11 minutes ago, Mr X said:

Please Can someone post some comments from the Leicester forum on here to top the night off! 

 

[Saint Pete]

The goalscorers make this all the more extraordinary... Stephens, Manning, Charles?!!! 🤣

[Saint_clark]

5 minutes ago, kwsaint said:

ChatGPT and Google Gemini saying we’ve never coming from 3 0 down to win before. Happy to be corrected.

Apparently it's only ever happened 5 times in Premier League history, so there are a lot of teams who have never done it. 

[trousers]

1 minute ago, hypochondriac said:

Yeah but let's enjoy this today. This happens so infrequently and especially to saints. I'd start Archer in the cup in the hope that he maybe gets a bit of confidence.

Yep, I'm thoroughly enjoying the outcome tonight. On cloud nine and grinning from ear to ear!! COYR!!! 

Edited 8 hours ago by trousers

[scumbag]

Not just because of the goal (as good as it was), but Charles looks a good player and someone to build a team around. Surely must start.

[Winnersaint]

1 minute ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Might take a look over on Foxes Talk 👀🤣

It’s like this place between 8:30 and 8:45 but worse.

[Saint86]

10 minutes ago, DrunkenSaint said:

hes actually done well in the 2nd half! 

By done well. Do you mean putting the strongest 11 on the pitch (basically)...

I'll give him credit, he did turn it around. But that first half was so bad the 2nd half cannot fully excuse it.

[Sir Ralph]

8 minutes ago, Baird of the land said:

He made excellent adjustments, so he was very involved.

while the archer thing backfired, he could hardly have predicted fellows and jander would go rogue and play for the opposition.

The changes were blatantly obvious. I don’t think he deserves credit for pulling those three. 

[Sheaf Saint]

4 minutes ago, Chez said:

Apart from starting Archer - and there may be reasons for that in terms of match fitness of the other two strikers - Tonda didn't do much wrong, did he? Lots of moaning on here, quite rightly for the first half performance, but that wasn't all down to him. For example, Jander was bloody great on Saturday but played like he was pissed tonight. Is that Tonda's fault? All the subs had an impact and were made just at the right time. Asking him to take two players off after 20 minutes is ludicrous. the long and shirt of it is he inspired one of the greatest come backs in our history. I'm getting a bit bored of the constant Tonda bashing. Perhaps some on here need to give him some credit when we fucking win - like tonight. 

Good points, but I think he should have at the very least hooked Jander when he got booked. Obviously he couldn't have foreseen what a terrible game he was going to have beforehand, but once it became obvious what a mare he was having, it was negligent to leave him on until HT. 

[Lord Duckhunter]

2 minutes ago, egg said:

Behave. Starting Archer wasn't wise, but it may have been a Stewart fitness thing. Starting Jander and Fellows wasn't a mistake though. 

Exactly. Had he picked Matsuki to start over Fellows everyone would have be moaning. He made one change that everybody wouldn’t have made, but more than made up for it second half. I had this I follow thing on my firstick with Blackmore commentary. He couldn’t work out why he took Bree off, urging him to take a central midfielder off (Downes I presume). Funny that with Bree gone, Charles shifted over slightly, and scored from where Bree probably would have been.

He got it wrong leaving Stewart out, but he needs praise for the way he sent them out second half. First time for years, we haven’t rolled over after getting a chasing first half. 
 

Jack & THB lead from the front, brilliant performance second half…

[Miltonaggro]

14 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Last night in Buenos Aires. I join my ship tomorrow ba k to Barcelona. 

I don't normally drink much but...

What the f**k!

Dont get pissed and kick off about the Malvinas or Federico ‘Torpedo’ Arias! 😊

[Sir Ralph]

10 minutes ago, egg said:

Behave. Starting Archer wasn't wise, but it may have been a Stewart fitness thing. Starting Jander and Fellows wasn't a mistake though. 

But starting archer was the key issue. We had no option to get out from the press. I cannot comprehend how he hasn’t understood that from the last couple of months. It’s obvious when I looked at the team sheet that was going to be a problem. On the positive the players seem to have developed guts over the past couple of games which we haven’t seen for a long time

Edited 8 hours ago by Sir Ralph

[badgerx16]

1 hour ago, badgerx16 said:

OK, I'm off. Might check back later to see how bad it ended up.

Did I miss something ?  🙂

[RedArmy]

2 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

Yeah but let's enjoy this today. This happens so infrequently and especially to saints. I'd start Archer in the cup in the hope that he maybe gets a bit of confidence.

Larin needs to start on Saturday. Try and get him fully fit incase the seemingly inevitable Stewart injury happens. 

[Willo of Whiteley]

Leicester fans post match reaction if you fancy a laugh 🤣

https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/topic/138788-lcfc-3-4-southampton-post-match-thread/#comments

[iansums]

BBC Sports app notifications fucked up, game was 1-3 as far as I was concerned, heard a ping, assumed it was final whistle and we’d lost, WTF!!!!

[skintsaint]

First half Crimewatch.......Second half Baywatch*

*stolen

[egg]

2 minutes ago, Sir Ralph said:

But starting archer was the key issue. We had no option to get out from the press. I cannot comprehend how he hasn’t understood that from the last couple of months. It’s obvious when I looked at the team sheet that was going to be a problem 

You assume that Stewart was fit to start. I'm assuming he wasn't. 

[St Louis]

14 minutes ago, MarkSFC said:

Awesome win. Tonda still needs to go away from our club. He is just guessing all the time. 

Yeah, 4 wins in the last 5 and a draw away in the derby... clueless!

[captainchris]

Just now, Lord Duckhunter said:

Exactly. Had he picked Matsuki to start over Fellows everyone would have be moaning. He made one change that everybody wouldn’t have made, but more than made up for it second half. I had this I follow thing on my firstick with Blackmore commentary. He couldn’t work out why he took Bree off, urging him to take a central midfielder off (Downes I presume). Funny that with Bree gone, Charles shifted over slightly, and scored from where Bree probably would have been.

He got it wrong leaving Stewart out, but he needs praise for the way he sent them out second half. First time for years, we haven’t rolled over after getting a chasing first half. 
 

Jack & THB lead from the front, brilliant performance second half…

Well you say it wasn’t a mistake…. Two things we do know for certain, one is Jander cannot play two games in a week, we all know that but the manager doesnt…

Second, Fellows has not been great for a little while now and so it was coming that we needed to have an alternative….

 

[LoyalSaintSO50]

Was confident our second half form would see us over the line. Incredible, get in there!!!! 

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

23 minutes ago, Charlie Wayman said:

Quite a few idiots on here need to wobble their heads. Doubt they have the guts to retract all their spiteful venom aimed at the manager and certain players at HT. 

Thanks captain hindsight. 

You can thank me for calling them shits at half time and turning off the telly, thus giving them the luck and impetus to win.

Great comeback though and credit to the team and fans there.

Edited 8 hours ago by JohnnyShearer2.0

[SNSUN]

I don't care if the table has already been posted, it's worth seeing it again...

[SaintStinger]

That was pretty mental that second half. I remember it happening to us twice, Leeds and Tranmere so imagine just how pissed off Leicester fans are right now. What a great feeling to win like that. Love it! 

[trousers]

[Sir Ralph]

6 minutes ago, egg said:

You assume that Stewart was fit to start. I'm assuming he wasn't. 

He had two proper 9 strikers who could have played 45 mins each. He also has oyekunle. Playing a small 9 has been one of the killers all season, as well as playing a back 4 instead of a back 3 (which he eventually grasped). I don’t rate him but regardless it’s a superb result mentally. The players will get huge confidence and team spirit from this which is great

Edited 8 hours ago by Sir Ralph

[Winnersaint]

Feel sorry for Whelk who ate a dishwasher tablet at HT.

[Chez]

7 minutes ago, scumbag said:

Not just because of the goal (as good as it was), but Charles looks a good player and someone to build a team around. Surely must start.

maybe not the time, but unless he signs a new contract soon, then we wont see the best of him. He looked a class above tonight. He's got the first touch to play at a higher level and the loan to Wednesday has got him making deep runs too. 

[LGTL]

Genuinely stunned by that. Unbelievable.

[Sergei Gotsmanov]

9 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

Apparently it's only ever happened 5 times in Premier League history, so there are a lot of teams who have never done it. 

I can remember Leeds doing it to us....i think that was the Championship though

[StrangelyBrown]

Blimey amazing turnaround. Hats off to the manager and players for turning that around. Not sure what he was thinking to begin with though!

[Saint Pete]

12 minutes ago, Chez said:

Apart from starting Archer - and there may be reasons for that in terms of match fitness of the other two strikers - Tonda didn't do much wrong, did he? Lots of moaning on here, quite rightly for the first half performance, but that wasn't all down to him. For example, Jander was bloody great on Saturday but played like he was pissed tonight. Is that Tonda's fault? All the subs had an impact and were made just at the right time. Asking him to take two players off after 20 minutes is ludicrous. the long and shirt of it is he inspired one of the greatest come backs in our history. I'm getting a bit bored of the constant Tonda bashing. Perhaps some on here need to give him some credit when we fucking win - like tonight. 

Surely he should have hooked Jander well before half time if he was playing like he was pissed?! It's fantastic we came back, but this was a once in a lifetime occurrence, we should never have been 3 down to this Leicester side, and he should have acted sooner with Jander's bizarre performance. 

[West Dean FC Legend]

12 minutes ago, Chez said:

I recall us coming back from 2-0 away at Preston in 2008, but I don't recall us ever coming back from three down away in my lifetime.

To be fair, local league football, I can't remember too many games where it happened. I can think of a few were were were cruising about 6-2 and won 7-5 or something but I don't remember winning or losing too often after being 3-0 up or down at halftime.

That's how difficult it really is.