Man City 2-1 Saints - Match Thread

[NewYorkSaint]

It's so weird to have the heartbreak of a loss down to two impossibly unlikely goals... and yet feel so much pride in this team.  We truly showed the world this: we deserve to be in the Premier League....

[Lord Duckhunter]

Superb performance, proper defending & tactics. I don’t get the criticism of Fellows he worked his socks off defensively & helped Bree out massively. Wellington was brilliant for me, not really played much & Leo isn’t great defensively, so he could have been exposed but wasn’t. Jander our best player, but the centre halves ran him close. 
 

Scored too early really, 10 mins a fucking  long time to hang on against them. The fact they had to bring all the big guns on to get it over the line speaks volumes for our players & manager. 

[sockeye]

1 minute ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

The fact they had to bring all the big guns on to get it over the line speaks volumes for our players & manager. 

Haaland coming on late reminded me of the league cup win against them a couple of years back.... alas not to be.

[SNSUN]

50 minutes ago, trousers said:

Just back from the match. I'm a little hoarse... 

I'm so knackered I may not even make it to bed. What a day, what an experience, what a performance even though we didn't get the result. 

[Saint Pete]

18 minutes ago, Hatch said:

Doku completely changed the game today.  All that shyte passing city were doing was getting them nowhere.  

Doku beat Fellows every single time and put them on the front foot 

Agree, think he was the main difference in City's improved showing in the 2nd half, he is such a good substitute, so direct and difficult to stop. Lucky goal though! 

[Dr Who?]

So proud of our club today! 

[HarvSFC]

As we all know, last year we weren't competitive at all, and two years ago we were getting smashed out of the cup by Liverpool's Under 21s. Now, under Eckert, we've played three Premier League teams, two of the best in the country and been competitive in all of the games right up to the final whistle.

Confident that if we were to go up, that we'd give a much better account of ourselves this time. Our line-up on the opening day of the 2024-25 season was shocking. McCarthy, Sugawara, Smallbone, Aribo, Armstrong and Brereton-Diaz with Bednarek and Stephens in a back three alongside THB, and none of them can play that formation. 

We've come a long way in just over a year, they did us proud today, which we couldn't say once this time last year.

[Sir Ralph]

Brilliant performance from players and fans. City fans an embarrassment 

[Hussar Saint]

What a performance, I’m so fucking proud of this group after that!!

This team competes in the PL, we have to go up this season to keep the group together and improve it !!

[Charlie Wayman]

58 minutes ago, saintant said:

Lots of good things said about us today by the commentary teams and pundits and not in a condescending way - most of it came across as genuine credit for how the team have developed under Tonda. Always nice to hear because we don't always get the credit we deserve.

Even Shearer is now proud to call himself a Saint and reflect upon his time at the Academy

[Dr Who?]

On 23/04/2026 at 22:23, die Mannyschaft said:

 Could leave all the 1st team out, Ipswich and Preston are dead games and at this rate of cards and injuries we won't have a decent 45 mins team. 

Typical Stephens, Downes and Manning out for City. 3 of our best players. 

I think you underestimate of squad depth. 

[Sir Ralph]

1 hour ago, kevdoh said:

Look at the difference between fans today. They can keep their money and their cheating. They are a soulless, she'll of a club. Take away their money now and they have nothing. Not a peep from them until they got the winner. Pathetic 

100% soulless club. Prefer to have been in the end of a real club and lost.

[Farmer Saint]

Just back from the game with the kids - great day out and very proud of the team. City fans were utter horseshit. Doku changed the game, shame we couldn't get that transfer over the line a couple of years ago.

Edited 57 minutes ago by Farmer Saint

[Charlie Wayman]

1 minute ago, Hussar Saint said:

What a performance, I’m so fucking proud of this group after that!!

This team competes in the PL, we have to go up this season to keep the group together and improve it !!

We still need at least a couple of players with good PL experience.

We must keep Peretz, not sure about Larin or Stewart. Fellows won't cut it in the PL and James Bree will struggle.

Bragg, Jander and Welington are real prospects.

[Sir Ralph]

Just now, Charlie Wayman said:

We still need at least a couple of players with good PL experience.

We must keep Peretz, not sure about Larin or Stewart. Fellows won't cut it in the PL and James Bree will struggle.

Bragg, Jander and Welington are real prospects.

Bragg is top class. When we were under pressure he made the right decision every time. Decision making was superb

[Hussar Saint]

2 minutes ago, Charlie Wayman said:

We still need at least a couple of players with good PL experience.

We must keep Peretz, not sure about Larin or Stewart. Fellows won't cut it in the PL and James Bree will struggle.

Bragg, Jander and Welington are real prospects.

Like I said, improve it…

[Mr Brightside]

Proud of the boys, proud of the fans. I get why City didn’t sell out, but to be so quiet, really poor.  
Hopefully we push on and get promoted now, what this team, and us fans deserve. COYY. 

[Hussar Saint]

10 minutes ago, Charlie Wayman said:

Even Shearer is now proud to call himself a Saint and reflect upon his time at the Academy

He was smoking Man City cock for most of the game!

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

Just now, Hussar Saint said:

He was smoking Man City cock for most of the game!

Really? Sounded quite fair to me.

[CB Fry]

14 minutes ago, Charlie Wayman said:

Even Shearer is now proud to call himself a Saint and reflect upon his time at the Academy

Shearer has always been nice about us, his missus is from Southampton for a start.

[Turkish]

7 minutes ago, Hussar Saint said:

He was smoking Man City cock for most of the game!

 

6 minutes ago, JohnnyShearer2.0 said:

Really? Sounded quite fair to me.

 

1 minute ago, CB Fry said:

Shearer has always been nice about us, his missus is from Southampton for a start.

Was he fuck he spoke for a few minutes before the game about how much he loved his time here then during the game was pretty fair. They did dominate, we were holding on at some points but we were always in it, didn’t say or do anything wrong 

[The Wyvern]

Great effort from the lads, no complaints from me. 
 

Forgot how frustrating it is to play Manchester City. Having to sit behind the ball while they pass it about creating the correct angles- boring!

[CSA96]

[SaintBobby]

It turns out you can simultaneously be incredibly proud and utterly heartbroken.

Never knew that before.

So, for me at least, that made today pretty f-ing epic. 

[Football Special]

20 minutes ago, CSA96 said:

For a team that is "red and white" we always do yellow and blue really well 

[Football Special]

On way home now, i know we're supposed to accept defeats to teams like Man City but feel absolutely gutted, taking the lead briefly gave us that hope that it could just be our turn 

[PerthshireSaint]

23 minutes ago, SaintBobby said:

It turns out you can simultaneously be incredibly proud and utterly heartbroken.

Never knew that before.

So, for me at least, that made today pretty f-ing epic. 

Nicely put sir. 

[SouSaint]

Gutted but so proud of the lads. Up the Saints. 

[saintant]

1 hour ago, beatlesaint said:

I’d just like to say a word about Wellington. Given he’s hardly played for what, 2 months? I thought he was fantastic today.

Such a shame he had to come off.

Some saying Wellington came off because he was shattered - I think I spotted him pull up when he felt a twinge as though he'd done his hamstring or calf. He carried on for a bit but I reckon he's probably out for our remaining games now.

[Harry_SFC]

We defended so well but if we are being honest, they (as expected) had too much for us in the end. 

Special shout out to Welington who has barely played for 2 months. To put in a performance like that against Cherki etc was outstanding.