Southampton 1-2 West Ham Utd (27/12/18)

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Re: ⚽ Southampton v West Ham United: Match Thread

Post by Beavis Danzig »

SpongeBob's Pants wrote:Hes still too lazy in getting back at times, but i reckon that will slowly improve too.
his defensive stats are consistently better than any of our attacking players.

beggars belief that still people are wheeling out the "lazy south american flair player" b*llocks.
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During the first few games it was a fair criticism to level at h, but since he hit his straps about 8 games ago, he's worked his nuts off in both directions. He ain't afraid of doing the donkey work, when he fancies it. And thankfully of late, he's fancied it big time. Which is surprising in itself considering the time of year it is, you'd normally expect new south Americans to the league to struggle acclimatising, but not him, he loves the winter season so far. I suspect that time in Italy helped toughen him up in that respect and none of it fazes him now.
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I could watch our second over and over again. Pure clinical counter-attacking perfection; a storming run and sublime ball from Antonio with an absolute belter of a finish from Anderson sending our away crowd into raptures

Love it

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Anderson never has, and never will be the type of player to track back all game, yet still makes more tackles than anyone else in our midfield/attack. Payet was the same, if Anderson is scoring goals then I think we can let him off for not tracking back.

They also played no wingers, and just wing backs, Antonio on the other side only had one player to deal with, and Diangana and Snodgrass hardly had to put a defensive shift in either. I noticed Rice and Obiang were often out wide doubling up with our full backs which was great to see as it meant we could hit them on the counter, and the latter had a storming game which went rather unnoticed.
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Obiang had a quiet game in the best possible way.

Controlled the midfield, held the ball and gave it to the attacking players. A very important shift.
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Would've been an easy game to lose, especially considering their quick start.

The way we are retaining possession in tight situations is a joy to behold. Thank you Pellers :scarfer:
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I have family that are Saints fans and watched the game. Their opinion is that the Hammers deserved to win and were one of the best teams to visit St Marys this season.
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Loved that we could make as many changes as we did and still put in a great performance, not just get a lucky win.

Fabianski was a monster early and if not for him we could have been 2-0 down.

Rice is a beast, the Irish Kante!!

Antonio played his best game this year
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Reading the comments on that Southampton forum, there's a surprising lack of mention of the penalty shout for Snodgrass and a sprinkle mention the handball for the goal... in saying that, if ever there was a call for VAR, this was it, ref bungled a f*** load.
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what a result from a patched up hammers side. can we imagine what moyes or fat sam would have done. we would have defended and lost 2-0 as Southampton grew into it.

MP has them playing football no matter who comes in. great to see.

fab - great display and best keeper for some time.
antonio - did his best at RB but so dangerous going forward. most improved player after snoddy.
diop - a good game from the monster
ogbonna - strong and did well
cresswell - great display and deserves the start ahead of arthur as LB.
snoddy - good performance again from hum
diagana - learning all the time but deserved to be subbed
anderson - poor first half, great second !
perez - poor and not up to it.
carroll - getting his fitness up but doesnt suit our style now.
noble - did what was needed to see game out.

Pellegrini - has got us playing the west ham way ! Thankyou . we finally have a decent manager who is building a good winning mentality.
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Anderson does track back, and his stats prove this.

But you don’t want your best attacking players constantly tracking back, when will people get this around their heads? If he gets injured, we will be pretty much ****ed.
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Post by Hindley Hammer »

Beedub wrote: Rice is a beast, the Irish Kante!!
I think you meant Kante is the French Rice :D
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My_Sobriquet wrote:Anderson is stinking the place out at the minute. Losing the ball then walking back casually.

What’s up with this guy, has the talent but talk about inconsistent!
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Here comes the attention seekers. 8-)
How is this attention seeking?

It was written in the first half... did you even watch the game? Or Watford? I was there, trust me Anderson was terrible. He had a fantastic second half last night but that was kind of my point wasn’t it? That he has the talent but wasn’t playing to the standard he can?
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hammerman11 wrote: fab - great display and best keeper for some time.
antonio - did his best at RB but so dangerous going forward. most improved player after snoddy.
diop - a good game from the monster
ogbonna - strong and did well
cresswell - great display and deserves the start ahead of arthur as LB.
snoddy - good performance again from hum
diagana - learning all the time but deserved to be subbed
anderson - poor first half, great second !
perez - poor and not up to it.
carroll - getting his fitness up but doesnt suit our style now.
noble - did what was needed to see game out.
I agree with all that but would have to say that Obiang was excellent with Rice in the middle today, classy performance & kept things simple. :scarfer:
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Post by S-H »

Can't stop watching that second goal, at the very start of the move pretty much all of our players were defending in our box, then bang we have 5 players breaking on the counter, we had more players attacking than they had defending, it really was a thing of beauty, finished superbly by Anderson.
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Great performance and result. Shame about the socks!
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This is more about highlighting how good our goalkeeper is, but I think Fab would have saved our second goal.
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Queuing to get into nick - sleep deprived, hoarse, skint but still bouncing.
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Post by My_Sobriquet »

only1post wrote:This is more about highlighting how good our goalkeeper is, but I think Fab would have saved our second goal.

I thought that but when you watch it back he hit it so hard I think it was past him before he could react
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Post by mickeymacavennie »

Finally the second goal shows that we've come full circle.

Have been having recurring nightmares about Liverpool breaking all over Slaven's naïve team nearly two years ago. From a West Ham corner...

Now we've put that ghost to rest. And its Pellegrini's West Ham that are ripping someone else to shreds from THEIR corner.

Loved Antonio getting his head up. Never thought Andersen would miss!

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