The View from the Away End

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First of all lets deal with the important stuff; it’s time for gratuitous pictures of Shane Long (actually the same picture I always use, but it’s just so good). As is always the case when certain teams come to our place there is zero confidence from the away fans. Based on previous games this season, this makes me very nervous. On the plus side Silva is back, and apparently the Saints are without Pelle. If we had Joe in the squad I would feel much better. I still think we can come away with three points, and I suspect there will be a few goals in this one.

Now….COME ON CITY!!!

Team Selection

Stek
Yoshida, Fonte, VVD
Cedric, Ryan
Davis, Romeo, Clasie
Mane, Long

Referee: Roger East

My favourite

Joe Hart taken off near the end of tonight’s match ….. Head and Shoulder Injury?

And the rest…

Given how much we troubled Jack Buckland last Saturday they could probably play Pellegrini in goal and still keep a clean sheet

sadly, a defeat here

Re the CL game midweek: will be interesting to see their reaction to this game after their appalling show against Liverpool who …(tbf) …looked very good. I know that even with Pelle, and playing at our best….we’d do well to get anything out of this game.

Doesn’t really matter if you’re just going to lose at home to Stoke! We’re too erratic. Could surprise them but over the course of the season it isn’t going to make much different. No Pelle will make it very difficult too….Might as well go and try to frustrate them. Would normally play Long when Pelle out but his performance yesterday just ****ed me off. I think maybe Tadic and JWP wide in a 4-5-1 and just let Mane play up front for pace on the break.

We will lose and it could be embarrassing. Having said that, Norwich went there and only lost 2-1 so perhaps we should be more optimistic

To put it bluntly; We have no Pelle…They got smashed 4-1….Ageuro is back…I think we may get smashed 4-1

I don’t think we’ll get smashed. We’re very dull to watch most of the time, but we’re nearly always well organised and hard to beat

Tadic the only one (Mane aside) who is creative. Its not always going to work. If you want 95% pass completion then play JWP, but you need to allow a certain amount of risk to get the reward of creating chances in the PL…You don’t need 5 at the back versus City. Its the attacking midfielders that you need to neutralise.

Really dunno what to think of this game. If Kompany is not playing then maybe we have a slim chance. We certainly seem to be better at the defend/counter line up which could almost suit with Pelle out. City are nothing too special so have a weird feeling we’ll come away with something. But as mentioned if there big guns are fit again then it’ll be difficult…1-1

This is the one game I pretty much write off every season

Saints are showing worrying signs of having a weak underbelly and a lot of that is because Tadic often goes missing. He is our most creative player but not sure he is strong enough mentally for the Premiership

If we go there and stand off them then we may as well stay home and save the hotel bill!!!
Why on earth we refuse to work hard and close down in too many games I don’t know but surely Koeman can at least sort this basic out..Too often RK s tactic is sit deep, stand off and allow the crosses to come in… We must engage with their players when they have the ball – let the fans do the spectating !

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4-0 to City. We’ve kind of lost the plot, big man is missing up top and they have a great squad – “no chance” is probably stating the obvious

I’m not looking forward to this match at all. It will be more of the same, with Koeman playing his usual gang of favorites and failing to be adventurous one little bit. Past managers when playing a game like this with the odds against us have experimented knowing it stood a better chance of getting a surprise result. Rather than playing Long as the direct replacement of Pelle, why can’t give Ryan Seagar a game, or play the likes of Van Dijk in attack. We’ve little to lose and everything to gain. I’d rather something like this than watch the recent dross with Long achieving nothing at all.

Looks like Silva fit which is a blow as he combines superbly with Aguero…However Kompany and Hart may both be missing.

So a high scoring game with neither team able to keep the ball out of their own net.

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