Match Thread Southampton v Everton. 15th Aug at 12.45.

[StatesideBlue3]

2 wingers on the bench, but none starting. With 2 strikers.....

Am I missing something?

I think Mirallas and Del aren't fit?

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

4-1-2-1-2

 

[Bilko]

"I want us to play two strikers..." Plays two strikers

"WTF's going on playing two strikers"

I was wondering this,to me this is what the fanbase has been calling for ??

 

[Walken]

I don't think I've seen a single sane person ask for two strikers to be played or to be the only team in the world that thinks a move back to 4-4-2 would be sound thinking, what I have seen is plenty to ask for him to pick a team based on balance, he hasn't, and also to stop shoehorning in as many favourites as possible, he has more so than ever

 

[GwladysBlue]

That team is beyond woeful.

 

[MikeH72]

He'll find a way of making that a 4-2-3-1 with Barry and McCarthy alongside each other

 

[flibbyflob]

"I want us to play two strikers..." Plays two strikers

"WTF's going on playing two strikers"

Nobody will moan if both are up top but we all expect one of them to be out wide hence the fume.

 

[quasi modo]

There might be a keeper in there somewhere as well

Keeper? Really Tim Howard?

 

[harry]

He is trying to change things but i still dont think he is addressing the problem, our holding midfielders who receive the ball from defence do not have the passing range and vision to step up and move us up the pitch.

I can see a different team same problems today. It will be interesting to see how they line up.

 

[Titus Bramble]

That team is beyond woeful.

What's wrong with it mate?

 

[Bluesnapper]

To play two centre forwards there needs to be crosses coming into the penalty area, have we players on that pitch that can do that?

 

[zirc]

We will play utter rubbish and somehow manage to snatch a point, and it will be more depressing than if we gave a good account of ourselves and lost.

 

[Hibbertinho]

Ronald Koeman: "We know the qualities of Everton. We know the way they play, and it will be an attractive, open game - they like to play offensive, entertaining football."

Why does everyone in football have this opinion? Clearly not watched us play for a very long time...

Or there is a collective agreement throughout Premier League managers to flatter Martinez in order to obscure from him the fact that a long-deceased stoat is more lively than our current brand of football.

 

[The Mighty Quint]

Time to call on what I like to call the Chalice of Victory...

I'll be filling it with Peroni and throwing several down my neck as a sacrifice to the Footballing Gods to forgive us for playing no nautral wingers and to give us victory today.

 

[edge]

Not confident today , but on a plus piont the subs bench looks decent for a change