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Your Southampton v Manchester United Match Reports

I_would added 15:02 - Aug 27 Sh*te. Need anyone who can shoot straight, or create a goal, before Thursday night. Expect the same every match if Ralph insists on playing Elyounoussi and Adams . Ward Prowse is pointless.
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silverspringsaint added 15:15 - Aug 27 First full game I have seen this season. So we lost, but hardly deserved to. Performance gave me hope for this season, after the dreadful end to 2021/22 and the first game at Spurs. All the new signings looked good, much better defensively than hitherto. Bella- Kotchap is a find and Mara and Aribo look like potential difference makers. I thought A Armstrong was much more effective playing wide. Negatives were lack of midfield creativity and missing cutting edge in front of goal. Che worked hard but is at his best alongside an Ings style player. We March on …

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StRipper added 15:51 - Aug 27 Saints were unlucky. Che will be kicking himself for being so profligate with the great chances he had at the beginning of the game. We were so unlucky not to equalise with the phenomenal overhead kick (whoever that was). Bella-Kotchap is a beast of player. Hope we can keep him past this season
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Block8 added 15:51 - Aug 27 Good performance a bit lacking around the box and need to have a dig sometime rather than look for the perfect move. Surprised Adam Armstrong was hooked as we were very strong down the left to that point but not at all afterwards. I thought penalty a the time and until I've seen replays still do, VAR is not a friend to the smaller teams, which annoys the cr*p out of me. We still need to move the ball quicker through midfield but sometimes our movement isn't quite good enough to enable this and we have to go backwards. It would however (in my opinion) benefit us to be a bit less risk adverse at times and slide balls between defenders for players to move onto. I appreciate we risk losing the ball but it's risk vs gain?

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Block8 added 15:53 - Aug 27 Not sure how Aribo scores so highly, wasn't his best game?
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silverspringsaint added 16:15 - Aug 27 Should have added that we ought to have had that penalty for the McTominay handball. …
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AmericanSaint added 17:40 - Aug 27 Well that was a tough one to lose and took a world class strike off a volley pass to beat us. Not the end of the world and there were some goods signs. Seems RH has realized our 4-4-2 or a variation is our best. Djenepo had another good game as well as AA.
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NewburySaint added 17:44 - Aug 27 Was definitely at a different game to I_Would because I thought Saints were superb - all deserving of at least 8 out of 10, except Mo El who was probably a 7.5 out of 10. The reality is the so called big 6 teams should be smashing us but today showed that there is still hope for teams like us yet as long as we put in the hard work & commit. IMO Manure we’re lucky to get anything today, let alone win - we were by far the better team.

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SWH1748 added 18:25 - Aug 27 I would you know anything at all about football ?
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SWH1748 added 18:25 - Aug 27 I would you know anything at all about football ?
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WestSussexSaint added 18:28 - Aug 27 On the whole it was a decent team performance. But for wasting chances in front of goal and dodgy VAR decisions we would have taken something from the match. Adams wasn’t the only culprit in missing chances with ABK and KWP both having good opportunities which should have at least been on target. Ultimately that’s the difference between our players and those that cost many times more is that they are more clinical in front of goal. Can someone explain to me how McTominay managed not only to get away with handling the ball TWICE and not concede a pen but also repeatedly haul down our players when they were about to break and only receive one yellow card. Baffling refereeing.

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halftimeorange added 18:46 - Aug 27 I left the ground full of hope. We have the makings of a good team. We need some height in attack and a versatile defender but, none of our starting eleven put in a poor performance. In fact, several were very good. Bazanu, Bella-Kotchap, Djenepo (!) and KWP are all worthy of mention. This was a tough game for both sides won by one brilliant move and a failure by VAR to review what appeared to be a deliberate hand movement to control the ball. This will be a hard season but, I saw my team fight for everything and that's enough for me.

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Sadoldgit added 19:32 - Aug 27 Gutted. We deserved something from the game. Good team performance and another monster performance from ABK. Good to see us competing again. Looking forward to the rest of the season.
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Avior added 19:55 - Aug 27 I thought this was a really promising performance which we only lost due to one piece of quality from a generally uninspired MU. Ten Haag was not happy, hopping about all over the place and generally whining. Bella Kotchap was immense and amazingly mature for someone who has played so little. Lavia could be something special, he has so much time and unbelievable technique. hats off to Djenepo who after a nightmare at Spurs has really knuckled down. 4-4-2 definitely the way forward and keep mixing it up i.e. some long balls and sometimes play out from keeper. One slight worry is that the excellent KWP does tend to let people in behind him on crosses. Obviously we need another striker, dont think Lyanco is the solution, and a creative midfielder

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Flamingbankers added 07:23 - Aug 28 Saints all over Utd. Cheated out of the game with Ref and VAR ignoring a blatant penalty. Have to remember small clubs always play against 13 now when they're playing the money monsters.
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SaintPaulVW added 08:26 - Aug 28 I can't really add much to the other comments on here. Competitive for most of the game just lacked a cutting edge up front. Fantastic bodies on the line blocking by all the defence in one spell just before half time, to deny 3 shots on target. You just know no one would have really bothered last year and just shrugged off the inevitable goal. Great to see. ABK, Lavia, Arma and Djenepo were great yesterday. Made enough chances to get back in the game but we lack someone with a clinical finish. Should have had a penalty for McTominey's repeated hand balls - once the first contact with his hand had happened he should have pulled away to prevent the others. Didn't so -penalty. Play like that against other sides and we would have won. COYR

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Zambucco added 08:53 - Aug 28 Just lash out £25m for Saša Kalajdžić mic drop....
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Dell1964 added 12:50 - Aug 28 Trying to give 'an even handed view' here ... but Saints probably just about deserved a POINT from the game. But we're undone by their lack of shape in the final third
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sidsaint added 13:44 - Aug 28 Deserved something from the game. The new young guys show promise and should gel more with each game. Tough start with Chelsea to come. Still need proven goalscorer.Keep the faith.
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sidsaint added 13:44 - Aug 28 Deserved something from the game. The new young guys show promise and should gel more with each game. Tough start with Chelsea to come. Still need proven goalscorer.Keep the faith.
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Dell1964 added 17:10 - Aug 28 Trying to give 'an even handed view' here ... but Saints probably just about deserved a POINT from the game. But we're undone by their lack of shape in the final third
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Dell1964 added 17:13 - Aug 28 Trying to give 'an even handed view' here ... but Saints probably just about deserved a POINT from the game. But we're undone by their lack of shape in the final third
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