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Saints 3-1 Stoke - Match Thread

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Lighthouse

Lighthouse

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1 minute ago, St Chalet said:

Never in doubt! #WeMarchOn

I'll admit I did have some doubt at half time.

 

 

 

Sorry no, trout. I had some trout at half time.

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ant

ant

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What a few minutes. 😅

Bloody good to nick the 3 points - and no bad thing to do so whilst off the boil - but ample reminders throughout of the need for recruitment.

Fair play to Tonda on the implementation and timing of the subs. Made decent use of what's currently available to him.

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St Louis

St Louis

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10 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Win without spying, we can win without spying, win without spying…..

Very assumptive! Or were you spying on our analysts?

austsaint

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4 minutes ago, ant said:

What a few minutes. 😅

Bloody good to nick the 3 points - and no bad thing to do so whilst off the boil - but ample reminders throughout of the need for recruitment.

Fair play to Tonda on the implementation and timing of the subs. Made decent use of what's currently available to him.

Subs made a huge difference.  Confident Dobbin is going to be a good player for us; likewise Mubama has something about him - great finish after the Dobbin, Azaz build up.     Much better second half - it's obvious where the recruitment is needed at cm, cb and ideally another striker.   Downes our best today, and Matsuki, though not a cm, did well but will need to drop the Sugawara "off your feet" tackling style quick smart.   Massive win while not playing well and with key player losses.

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HKsaint

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9 minutes ago, James said:

Great result. West Ham losing at home, Boro losing too. Lovely afternoon.

Will boro sue us for this lost?

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Patrick Bateman

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2 minutes ago, Golac's Iron Gonads said:

Sweet Cyle Larin

Good times never seemed so good

 

My 50th party today so we were't there, but great result and I love sweet Cyle Larin ... will be slurring that all night ... 

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Vancouver Saint

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Is it fair to call that an unconvincing 3-1 win?

I missed the first 15 mins and thought Stoke were the better team for the rest of the first half I saw. Saints better in the second half - and a great goal from Muamba to win it.

Am I the only one who thought Edozie was offside for the penalty? Glad it wasn't called but from the one angle I saw he looked well off. 

To be clear - very happy with the win and three points - much-needed, but if it had finished 1-1 we couldn't have had too many complaints I feel. Just trying to manage my own expectations here - we hardly dominated a team that finished 17th last season with a manager who is apparently disenfranchised.

Dan Johnson

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First and second goals are quality, thought Edozie was offside for the pen.

Scenzia miles off it today, offered nothing. 

Need to strengthen in the midfield and at CB. 
 

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OneMrsWallace

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8 minutes ago, Paul_B said:

Well I wasn't expecting that after checking the scores at 85mins! 

Great to see Mubama getting a goal too!

I checked at 88mins - equally surprised! Replace Charles and THB with decent signings and we can really kick on. 

RedArmy

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If we could keep a volley down we’d have scored 5 or 6. 
 

 

Not sure we need to worry about anyone chucking a big bid in for Scienza. He’s been figured out, stick 2 men in his face when he gets the ball and give him a few kicks and he does nothing. 

 

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Patches O Houlihan

Patches O Houlihan

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16 minutes ago, Vancouver Saint said:

Is it fair to call that an unconvincing 3-1 win?

To be clear - very happy with the win and three points - much-needed, but if it had finished 1-1 we couldn't have had too many complaints I feel. Just trying to manage my own expectations here - we hardly dominated a team that finished 17th last season with a manager who is apparently disenfranchised.

Johansen dislocated his shoulder early in the season and didn't;t play agin until their last game. Stoke signed Bazunu and he was out injured for months from day 2. So they had a junior in goal for most of the season. Stoke looked pretty good before that.

Harry_SFC

Harry_SFC

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3 minutes ago, stfrancisofbenali said:

Great win but sorry, we are way off it and need to be so much better to get anything from Millwall. 

Doesn't help when the best player from last season (THB) isn't playing, another one seems to have given up (Scienza) and another is injured (Jander) 

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Patches O Houlihan

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1 minute ago, Harry_SFC said:

Doesn't help when the best player from last season (THB) isn't playing, another one seems to have given up (Scienza) and another is injured (Jander) 

and we sold the fourth best, and lost to a contract screw up the firth best... 

AlexLaw76

AlexLaw76

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8 minutes ago, Swaythling Saint said:

Just divine! Missed the match, will watch the highlights later 

Once you see the Larin goal Just skip to about the 55th minute 

Harry_SFC

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2 minutes ago, Patches O Houlihan said:

and we sold the fourth best, and lost to a contract screw up the firth best... 

Tbh I don't blame the club for the Stewart situation. They absolutely should have had a replacement for Charles ready to go though. 

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SaintlyAnd

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Really need to get the tempo and speed of play up. Its not a big surprise that goals come when we play fast, one-touch passes forward and through defences rather than pumping in crosses. We have the quality to play that way with Azaz, Leo, Dobbin, Matsuki and Cyle/Divin on the end.

And I don’t think the right side is working.
 

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revolution saint

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28 minutes ago, Vancouver Saint said:

Is it fair to call that an unconvincing 3-1 win?

I missed the first 15 mins and thought Stoke were the better team for the rest of the first half I saw. Saints better in the second half - and a great goal from Muamba to win it.

Am I the only one who thought Edozie was offside for the penalty? Glad it wasn't called but from the one angle I saw he looked well off. 

To be clear - very happy with the win and three points - much-needed, but if it had finished 1-1 we couldn't have had too many complaints I feel. Just trying to manage my own expectations here - we hardly dominated a team that finished 17th last season with a manager who is apparently disenfranchised.

My first reaction was Edozie was offside as well, I’m not quite in line and a little further up so will be interesting to see the highlights but yeah, looked off to me,

RedArmy

RedArmy

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9 minutes ago, saintant said:

The good news is only two teams have won both their games.

The bad news is only one team started on -4 

Harry_SFC

Harry_SFC

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10 minutes ago, SaintlyAnd said:

Really need to get the tempo and speed of play up. Its not a big surprise that goals come when we play fast, one-touch passes forward and through defences rather than pumping in crosses. We have the quality to play that way with Azaz, Leo, Dobbin, Matsuki and Cyle/Divin on the end.

And I don’t think the right side is working.
 

Doesn't help when you've got Stephens and Wood at CB. They are both so slow on the ball. THB is the key in that respect. So his replacement really needs to know how to pass the ball forwards quickly and accurately. 

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