Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [10th - 11th January 2015]

[nemtizz]

Remember when Southampton sold 4-5 of their best players in one window? Good times.

 

[gilchrd]

Bloody brilliant.

 

[Stewy]

****ing Juan Mata you **** neckbeard ****.

 

[Shamikebab]

Where did the other 2 come from?

Most matches have 4-6 subs in the 2nd half plus a goal or 2 without 5 mins being added on.

Southampton created at least a couple of minutes with their cheating at the end there. Forster not taking a kick, them not taking a throw, Tadic pretending to be injured etc.

 

[fez]

Southampton defended really well 90% of the game and got that little bit of luck to get the goal. They deserved it more than we did.

 

[JohnnyG]

Remember when Southampton sold 4-5 of their best players in one window? Good times.

I'm sure Brendan Rodgers remembers -

“I have absolutely no sympathy for Southampton,”
“They have a choice as a club. They don’t have to sell. They had that choice. Maybe Southampton’s objectives have changed. They were on course to be a Champions League club, I believe, but, obviously, that has changed.

 

[manic111]

Southampton created at least a couple of minutes with their cheating at the end there. Forster not taking a kick, them not taking a throw, Tadic pretending to be injured etc.

Their cheating? Every single team in the league does it. It's gamesmanship at worst, intelligent at best.

 

[Stewy]

Why on earth would you play Di Maria, a player who is fantastic at picking the ball up from deep an injecting pace and a brilliant crosser of the ball, up front? Why would you do that? Anyone?

 

[Robert]

Where did the other 2 come from?

Most matches have 4-6 subs in the 2nd half plus a goal or 2 without 5 mins being added on.

Wasn't there an injury the whole ball being kicked out thing?

 

[BaZ87]

Remember when Southampton sold 4-5 of their best players in one window? Good times.

Key for them was that Lallana aside they either had ready made replacements or lost easily replaceable players (Lambert mainly).

Keeping Schneiderlin was huge and the success of the Tadic and Pella signings more than made up for Lallana and Lambert.

 

[FrankJH]

Where did the other 2 come from?

Most matches have 4-6 subs in the 2nd half plus a goal or 2 without 5 mins being added on.

Its pretty standard to give 30 seconds per sub + whatever celebration time per goal

Free kicks could well have added some more time

Its not exactly an obscene amount of time being added

 

[Moothead2]

Yullaw: Looks like an easy win for Man Utd with a hat-trick from Angel Di Maria. Note my words!

Duly noted.

 

[Shamikebab]

Why on earth would you play Di Maria, a player who is fantastic at picking the ball up from deep an injecting pace and a brilliant crosser of the ball, up front? Why would you do that? Anyone?

Why would we need him out wide when we have Valencia? Clearly our master plan is to spend that much on a player, then just have him as a body in the box who can sigh when Valencia ***** up for the 60th time in the game.

 

[JohnnyG]

Southampton defended really well 90% of the game and got that little bit of luck to get the goal. They deserved it more than we did.

I said when Chelsea drew with them over Christmas that they were the best defensive set up I've seen this season.

 

[FrankJH]

Why on earth would you play Di Maria, a player who is fantastic at picking the ball up from deep an injecting pace and a brilliant crosser of the ball, up front? Why would you do that? Anyone?

fitness concerns - as he has only had one sub appearance (against Yoevil in the FA Cup) since being injured for how ever many weeks

He wasn't exactly stellar when he got the ball deep either today....

 

[Shamikebab]

Defended really well? Let's face it, defending a team that is 90% two players crossing who can't cross is not exactly difficult, and they nearly screwed that up (Forster missing an easy cross)

 

[FrankJH]

I said when Chelsea drew with them over Christmas that they were the best defensive set up I've seen this season.

They are the best defensive team in the EPL according to the stats

 

[BaZ87]

Wasn't there an injury the whole ball being kicked out thing?

That was the first half.

Its pretty standard to give 30 seconds per sub + whatever celebration time per goal

Free kicks could well have added some more time

Its not exactly an obscene amount of time being added

That 30 second thing is a rough guide. As I said, most matches have similar amounts of subs and more goals without 5 minutes being added.

5 minutes added on in a half where little to nothing happened was an obscene amount. Even when you use the 30 second guide you only get 3 minutes.

 

[Jono8]

Well then. What a horrible result.