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Episode 381: Matchday Preview: Leicester at home!
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Southampton – FA Cup action this weekend as Leicester are in the uncomfortable position of coming to us after throwing away their 3-0 lead in the week!
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Game Preview: Leicester
00:00:14
DailySaintsPod
Hello and welcome back to the Daily Saints pod. My name is Greg and as always today joined by my good friend and wonderful co-host Zach and mate as if one game against Leicester this week wasn't enough to spill joy over all of us we get to preview another one can you believe
00:00:36
Zak
I don't know how you'd feel as Leicester fans of like pre-booked to travel and your tickets to come down to gaff after getting, you know, our best comeback victory of all time. And again, I'm sure the teams will be heavily rotated, but in Leicester's case, it's going to be difficult because they already, again, already had a 17-year-old playing, right? The other day, don't know how much rotation that squad's got left in them.
Key Players: Rest or Play?
00:00:58
Zak
But... Also, perfect opportunity for us to go, let's take our foot off the gas, assume we're going to win again get beaten. And I don't know if we'd be that bothered because it's the FA Cup, but also, like, you've seen it before when we've been, like, knocked out of a cup and then gone a little run or we've gone internationals and all of the international teams lost and we come back and we suck after an international break.
00:01:19
Zak
So it's just making sure that we, know, carry on, I guess, momentum up.
00:01:22
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, it's a tricky balance to strike, isn't it? Because... we're all very aware that now getting to the point that we're at where playoffs is now the most viable it's been, as we discussed yesterday, strike the balance. Momentum is clearly an important part of keeping the run going, but an extra game off the back of winning might not do us any favours. So,
Strategic Player Rotation
00:01:48
DailySaintsPod
you know, do you take the, you know, not saying go out and deliberately throw the game,
00:01:53
DailySaintsPod
but how much do you rotate accepting that a loss might be the case? I don't know. I don't know if there's a right answer to that question.
00:02:03
DailySaintsPod
I suspect that you could ask 200 Saints fans and get 200 different answers is where I've landed, right?
00:02:10
Zak
Yeah.
00:02:12
DailySaintsPod
Because the reality is probably somewhere... Smack bang in the middle, right? I'm sure that we will see quite a bit of rotation, but still be fielding a team that probably should put Leicester away in there, especially after that performance in the week, right?
00:02:29
Zak
Yeah, again, we should, and it really depends if you want to keep momentum going or you want to give, again, some of the key players a bit of respite because they probably need it. I'm not going to lie. We've already started to people slow down little bit, and Leo did 90 minutes the other day, but was clearly fagging the game before.
00:02:48
Zak
And yeah, it's just... I think it's going to be interesting to see what they do with rotation. And I think it's the perfect opportunity potentially
Filling Squad Gaps
00:02:58
Zak
for some other players to get some time in as much as we, know, say mugged off, you, you were quite more defensive than I was as much as I mugged off actually the other day, you know, might be an opportunity for him to continue to get minutes and, you know, maybe see bit of action in the cup run.
00:03:17
DailySaintsPod
I think it's the only way to... In a lot of people's opinions... what he put out on Tuesday, know, as a plan B option for the rest of the season...
00:03:33
DailySaintsPod
you know, wasn't good enough to cut the mustard and that's fine. The only opportunity you're going to get to put that right is immediately, right? It's this now, this is the opportunity to rotate him in playing and get his confidence back to that point and show what he can do.
00:03:53
DailySaintsPod
Otherwise, he's not to inspire confidence in that role for the entire rest of this run where it becomes important. And, you know, that's fine, right? We've got Laren, we've got Stewart, but between them, can they manage 90 minutes of all of the rest of the games?
00:04:09
DailySaintsPod
I don't know. I don't know is the real answer. There's a lot of games left.
00:04:12
Zak
No, and it's obviously, it's not, we don't have, you know, emergency loans the same way that we do strikers, et cetera, do we? So
Goalkeeper Dilemma: Rotate or Not?
00:04:20
Zak
that would be an issue for sure.
00:04:22
Zak
And, you know, if he does, for example, you know, not cut it and with them relying on two, that's when maybe you look to the under 21s to promote and, you know, maybe you give potentially, you know, Jay Robinson a shot there.
00:04:31
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:04:35
Zak
Like think originally that's what his role was.
00:04:36
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:04:37
Zak
There are, yeah,
00:04:37
DailySaintsPod
Or Oikenle, right? Like, he's been floating in and about and all there or thereabouts with the first team.
00:04:45
Zak
But it's
00:04:45
DailySaintsPod
And, I mean, if you're basing it purely off of Tuesday's performance for Cam Archer, and realistically... most of the times we've seen him in a Saints shirt this season, admittedly, at no point has that really been in a way that plays his strengths or in a way where he has been able to string enough minutes together to build any confidence or momentum of his own.
00:05:10
DailySaintsPod
But you'd sort of take that as a whole up to this point. In a lot of people's opinions, that's probably, you know, bringing in the guy who scored goals for fun in the under-21s is probably the preferable option.
00:05:24
Zak
Yeah, that's what I was kind of alluding to anyway. It was that if we get to that point, then we will have to find a solution. But again, it's not a game that's going to require that. This is a game that you can test around and have a look at who's in the background and if those people in the background can participate a little bit more and what they offer. think it's because of the fact that It's not that we don't care.
00:05:49
Zak
I just think that we've got a game that gives us a little bit more freedom and is a little bit less pressure, right? We might see George Long out for the first time, potentially, and it's not really like a thing we're intending to keep forever.
00:06:01
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:06:04
Zak
Probably, don't think he'll be signed at the end of the season or anything like that.
00:06:05
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:06:09
Zak
So, yeah, the problem is it's like,
FA Cup Lineup Predictions
00:06:12
Zak
you're going to have to give him a bit more exposure in game time if you want to have a plan B from him because clearly what he's shown is that the league currently doesn't have the confidence to do it.
00:06:20
Zak
And, you know, what better way of treating it than getting right back on the horse in a game that I think most people will not be devastated, as you pointed out, if we lose. But then, as always, whenever we discuss cup matches, there's always the...
00:06:32
Zak
argument that you want to keep momentum and keep some of the better players in the team. And I have argued that our last couple of Cup games, and every single time, it's been really, really heavily rotated, despite the fact they said it wouldn't be. And that's why we haven't seen a press conference yet. don't if we'll get one. And I won't believe a single thing they say about team news either way, because it's not going to be what we expect. So, yeah, I hope that if they're going to do any tinkering or trying to see how people are or who's up to fitness, I hope that they it.
00:06:59
Zak
in this game and you know if we lose it so be it but i think it's an opportunity either way right
00:07:09
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, definitely. It's going to be interesting, but I'll tell you what it does mean, mate, is that this segment that's normally, at this point, a bit of a struggle for us where we predict the team line-up suddenly becomes
Defensive Strategy Consistency
00:07:25
DailySaintsPod
probably the most interesting and varied part of the show, right?
00:07:29
DailySaintsPod
So you think George Long gets the shouting goal or...
00:07:31
Zak
I think
00:07:34
DailySaintsPod
Or do you think we just stick with Perrette?
00:07:39
Zak
it was, don't know if it was last game the game before, he had a bit treatment, right? I think it was last game. And so I wouldn't surprised if you're like, okay, well, there's no reason to really bring him out.
00:07:44
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:07:48
Zak
And again, it's like, what are the priorities of the FA Cup for the team, the board, where the team's at the moment? Probably not massively high up. So do you give him a chance? I guess, yeah.
00:08:02
Zak
I don't think it would be the end of the world. I think, you know, Leicester might end up not heavily rotating as much as I initially predicted, just because, you know, it depends if they want a little bit of positivity. And this seems to be one of the places they might be able to get it, especially after, you know, they lost to us 3-0 last time and then we humiliated them on Sunday. You're going to want...
00:08:21
Zak
I guess to put out a stronger team to be able to try bring something from it. But I'd expect him to get the nod now that he's been deputized. We brought a third choice in. And yeah, just give Peretz a break, man.
00:08:35
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, no, I'm there for It's fine.
00:08:38
Zak
Let him rest out those mistakes, right?
00:08:39
Zak
That's kind of where I'm at.
00:08:41
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, no, absolutely. It's hard to tell with goalkeepers in particular, if they're going to be one of these players who just don't want to miss a game and want to keep the momentum, or if really just needs to rest up, save it and go again in the league.
00:08:55
DailySaintsPod
It'd be interesting to see. Yeah. What about the back line? Do we think that changing, you know, knowing that there's going to be rotation in personnel, do you think we stick with this four at the back formation still and just swap the players in?
00:09:13
DailySaintsPod
Or do you think that the rotation also brings the change of shape?
00:09:14
Zak
why would we well if again like if we're going to rotate round and we're going to be playing this system going forward would the point of changing the formation and getting those players that are rotated used to a different way of us playing in the league because if we then go if they are end up having to come in because of injury or whatever at least they'd have had a little bit of experience in that system rather than bringing them into a system they've not really played yet they've trained in but not had any match experience in And like you'd like to point out, Greg, since the dawn of time, there have usually been four players at the back.
00:09:16
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:09:46
Zak
This whole three at the back thing is a very sort of development over the last decade, right?
00:09:49
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:09:51
Zak
Maybe bit longer. But besides the point, yeah, no, I think of course we skip a four at the back because that's the formation we're running with most of the time. And that's the formation that any of the players would have to come in, will have to play.
00:09:59
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, makes sense.
00:10:02
Zak
So yeah, that's my opinion on anyway.
00:10:04
DailySaintsPod
Makes sense. So,
Midfield Rotations
00:10:05
DailySaintsPod
I mean, going to throw four names out there as who I think will play and you can criticize away.
00:10:11
Zak
Okay.
00:10:13
DailySaintsPod
I think Yeller, Wood, Kwasi, Manning.
00:10:17
Zak
I agree with the three out of four of those. If Roros Feva is back to fitness, considering he's not a lone player, I wouldn't be surprised if he gets some time.
00:10:20
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:10:24
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:10:25
Zak
Just
00:10:25
DailySaintsPod
He was supposed to be seeing a specialist last week, right? And that doesn't scream match fit to me.
00:10:40
Zak
Maybe, you know...
00:10:41
DailySaintsPod
I don't know. He's been such an important part of the positivity since he came back.
00:10:46
Zak
Are you about to say that we shouldn't waste at FA Cup game?
00:10:48
DailySaintsPod
I just... Genuinely, yeah, 100%.
00:10:52
Zak
Interesting.
00:10:53
Zak
Okay.
00:10:54
DailySaintsPod
But also, he's such an important part of the positivity in the team as well, that if he goes out, we're going to need someone else to play in that position.
00:11:00
Zak
Yeah.
00:11:05
DailySaintsPod
So, yeah, I mean, if it's not that... Yeah, I just... Howard Bellis has played basically every minute under Tonda, right? So Stevens is playing lot.
00:11:19
DailySaintsPod
Wood Kwasi stepping up as a pairing, think will be fine. I don't have concerns about that in a game like this. Wood was doing quite well before we found this more solid lineup that we've got as first choice, and I don't think we'll have any problem stepping into it.
00:11:37
DailySaintsPod
Kwasi we've seen as being more than capable of holding his own. So just makes sense to me. And Manning, you know, is losing minutes at the moment because Wellington is performing that much better.
00:11:49
DailySaintsPod
So just kind of makes sense, right?
00:11:58
DailySaintsPod
Yeah. Yeah.
00:11:59
Zak
To carry on with the rotation, mate, we see a Cam Bragg-Romeu midfield?
00:12:05
DailySaintsPod
I think it would be Cam Bragg and Shea Charles.
00:12:09
Zak
Yeah. Shea Charles to get his minutes back up because he's still trying to build up to fitness.
00:12:10
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:12:14
Zak
Downs probably because he needs a break anyway. Yanda had a bit of a wobble last game.
00:12:17
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:12:20
DailySaintsPod
Yeah. Which, yeah.
00:12:24
Zak
knows?
00:12:24
DailySaintsPod
No, I think he's still here, but I just don't know. I think it would be either Cam Bragg if he's fit and Shea Charles or Shea Charles and Casper Yander because like you say, he didn't have a great game on Tuesday and maybe getting back on the pitch and just getting out of his system is what he needs.
00:12:43
Zak
Get back on the bike, innit?
00:12:43
DailySaintsPod
Or maybe what he needs is a rest. So I don't know. Depending on... you know, Tondo sees him in the training ground will hopefully have a better understanding of what of those two things he needs than me speculating. yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to see any combination of those three.
FA Cup: Distraction or Opportunity?
00:12:59
DailySaintsPod
I wouldn't expect to see Flynn Downs included in starting XI.
00:13:03
Zak
Fair enough. So I guess the attacking lineup is going to be a bit different as well, right?
00:13:09
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:13:10
Zak
So I've already suggested I probably think Archer will probably start again just because of the fact that he's probably been promised more game time.
00:13:15
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, I agree.
00:13:19
Zak
He's going to have to be developed as a plan B. And if he doesn't sooner rather than later, he probably will eventually be swapped out for someone younger. So what do you reckon?
00:13:30
Zak
Jay, Matsuki, Archer.
00:13:35
DailySaintsPod
And probably as as still, I think.
00:13:36
Zak
Probably Azaz still.
00:13:37
DailySaintsPod
He's going to want... Yeah, I think he's going to want...
00:13:42
DailySaintsPod
I'm trying to phrase this in a way that doesn't...
00:13:44
Zak
Are you going to try and say that he's not going to be as tired as the rest of them because he doesn't run as much?
00:13:45
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:13:49
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, mate, that's what I'm getting at.
00:13:50
Zak
But you don't want to say that in a way that's like calling him lazy because that seems to be, you know...
00:13:56
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, he... His game is less of that, right? And...
00:14:01
Zak
It's not a run game. We're aware of this. That's why Sienza's there. That's why Sienza looks really doing it, even though he scored less goals than him.
00:14:05
DailySaintsPod
Tell you what, mate, what sounds magical to me is a player that has an absolute wonderful eye for a through ball pass through to a player who loves running in behind and off the shoulder of strikers.
00:14:18
DailySaintsPod
Like, it just makes sense, doesn't it?
00:14:21
Zak
Okay.
00:14:21
DailySaintsPod
And, you know, if he wants to come out and make straight up 11 changes, then I don't know.
00:14:22
Zak
Yeah, you're right.
00:14:29
DailySaintsPod
I don't know who else we have to rotate into that role.
00:14:31
Zak
Would you move Jay Robinson back into that position and then maybe put a dozy out on the left?
00:14:37
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, I mean, I could definitely see that being a starting lineup, for sure.
00:14:43
Zak
That would almost mean an entirely full rotation apart from Cameron Archer and maybe Shea Charles. Actually, even technically Shea Charles because he came on later. So that'd be kind of nuts, wouldn't
00:14:52
DailySaintsPod
Yes. Yeah.
00:14:54
Zak
But also...
00:14:56
DailySaintsPod
Rotated team, but it still feels strong enough, right? Like...
00:15:00
Zak
depends what the rotation that the Leicester puts in, right? Because, you know, they did score three goals against us initially and our subs very much changed the game.
00:15:15
Zak
Buzz?
00:15:17
DailySaintsPod
It's not, oh, it's our game at home and we've got something to fight for after all of this nonsense going on in the background and the points deduction. I'm really going to prove it and get it over the line and score three goals from three shots.
00:15:32
DailySaintsPod
They've got to come to St Mary's and... I mean, can't possibly imagine that St. Mary's is going to be sold out for this, to be honest. Cup game, even though the prices are low, you know, fans don't have as much of an interest in the Cup, especially in championship years, because they know that the club aren't going to see it as as important. So it's... Yeah, it's going to be...
00:15:59
DailySaintsPod
difficult for them to come and get themselves properly fired up to kind of stick it to us, especially after losing the way they did in the week and with all of the other stuff.
00:16:09
DailySaintsPod
And, you know, they'll be facing the same thing, right?
00:16:10
Zak
Yeah.
00:16:12
DailySaintsPod
Even if they're not as rotated of a team,
00:16:17
DailySaintsPod
you know, we've talked about motivations and getting teams fired up as being a thing and a problem. Coming into this game, if nobody cares about it, which is, you know, it's a silent truth, right?
00:16:32
DailySaintsPod
Like,
Fan Turnout Speculations
00:16:33
DailySaintsPod
if you're going to make it...
00:16:34
Zak
How busy is the stadium going to be, you reckon? Because that will be a big indicator. How many people do you reckon are going to show up? Because obviously you've already alluded to the fact that they have tried kind of convince more fans to come to FA Cup games through, know, potentially bolting them on season tickets, which... If you speak to a lot of non-football people, Greg, they assume that your season ticket covers FA Cup games anyway. But it's always a fascinating discussion to explain to them that no, that's just for these specific games and also only half of the games, not really even half of the games.
00:17:03
Zak
So be very interesting.
00:17:03
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, only the games played specifically in your stadium. There are quite a lot of tickets left available.
00:17:13
DailySaintsPod
At the time of recording on Thursday afternoon, there are lots of tickets available.
00:17:13
Zak
What was our last home attendance?
00:17:18
Zak
Yeah. There you go.
00:17:19
DailySaintsPod
You're not going struggle to walk up and buy a ticket.
00:17:20
Zak
There
00:17:21
DailySaintsPod
There are hundreds of tickets available in every block of the Northern Stand.
00:17:28
Zak
you go.
00:17:28
DailySaintsPod
Right?
00:17:29
Zak
That's...
00:17:30
DailySaintsPod
It's... It's going to be... It's going to be a quiet one. So... Yeah. I don't know. It's just going to be... don't think it's going to be a very good quality game.
00:17:42
DailySaintsPod
Because I don't think either team is really going to have... the ability to properly fire themselves up for it. Arguably, if we play a squad that is that rotated, might actually give us the best chance of firing ourselves up like that because at least all of those players have something to fight for and something to prove because they'll be playing to fight their way into the first team.
00:18:01
Zak
True. It's
00:18:04
DailySaintsPod
Like Matski, for example, that made a huge difference when he came on in the week.
00:18:09
Zak
like really well.
00:18:11
DailySaintsPod
And so if he backs that up and starts tomorrow and carries on with that, it makes a really tough decision between him and Fellows, who did not have a great game Tuesday in the first half.
00:18:24
DailySaintsPod
So, you know, that's the... That's the hope of that's what will fire them up and kick them on if that's what they need. But I don't see it being a particularly high quality game either way, to be honest.
00:18:37
DailySaintsPod
How about you?
00:18:41
Zak
No, I'm kind of with you. The only other thing that I would point out, I don't want to be too reign of superiority because we were down at halftime. And that's a fact. Like, yeah, okay, cool. We managed to come back and win 4-3. It was incredible comeback win. But that first half, you know, pretty sure people were calling for Tonda's head at that point. And, you know, Leicester did, you know, okay, it was some of their... Potentially you could put it down to some mistakes and whatever.
00:19:06
Zak
But what I don't want us to do is start...
00:19:06
DailySaintsPod
Oh, I mean, we literally played them in and held triangle on FIFA with Peretz.
00:19:14
Zak
Right, true.
00:19:14
DailySaintsPod
One of the goals was literally a gift and all three of their goals were their three only shots on target. We were poor, but the scoreline flatters them, right?
00:19:20
Zak
But my point is, Greg...
00:19:24
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:19:24
Zak
My point is that that still happened, right?
00:19:30
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:19:31
Zak
what we should not do is go in there, go in, we can beat him with any team we shove out.
00:19:31
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:19:44
DailySaintsPod
I mean, look, I don't think that that's what I'm saying.
00:19:49
Zak
No, I just...
00:19:49
DailySaintsPod
think that any team that we stick out against them this weekend will be good enough because it doesn't matter, really, right?
00:19:58
Zak
Right. Okay.
00:20:00
DailySaintsPod
One
FA Cup Outcome Predictions
00:20:00
DailySaintsPod
less game for the rest of the season probably helps our chances of doing better in the games we have got left.
00:20:08
Zak
But we're probably also still going to want win.
00:20:12
DailySaintsPod
getting through and inevitably drawing Liverpool in the next round and having a long away day just to get knocked out.
00:20:22
DailySaintsPod
What's the point?
00:20:24
Zak
It is becoming some sort of an ongoing joke at this point that no matter what, in some sort of cup, we will always end up throwing Liverpool. And then, you know...
00:20:33
DailySaintsPod
It's always either Liverpool or Man City, except when it's Man City, we tend to inexplicably somehow beat them. Right?
00:20:43
Zak
You're right.
00:20:43
DailySaintsPod
Like, mind floats back to Moussa Gineppo accidentally lobbing the goal and us beating them 2-0 and in absolute shell shock. Like...
00:20:55
Zak
You're right, we did stop them.
00:20:56
DailySaintsPod
By the way, the only thing that stopped them winning the quadruple that season being Nathan Jones. So...
00:21:03
Zak
It's, yeah, it sure is... Yeah, it's hard to even get motivated necessarily to talk about it because we're like, just kind want to get back to the league action, right?
00:21:13
Zak
Yeah.
00:21:13
DailySaintsPod
It's different, isn't it? If at this point we were... worse off than we are and we're like properly down and out with no hope of playoffs then it becomes a more important game because the momentum is more important and you know maybe a cup run is good now that you know running in with where we're at the push is important we've got to keep those playoffs in reach if we're going to do it right there's no dropping off that's going to
00:21:45
Zak
Thank you.
00:21:47
DailySaintsPod
get us there. So, you know, adding another game into the mix probably doesn't help, especially if that game's, you know, a big, long away day or what.
00:21:59
DailySaintsPod
It's a shame. It's the shame of the Cup, right? Because realistically, from an objective perspective, we're probably not winning the FA Cup this year. So... So if you're not going to win it all the way... What's the point?
00:22:19
Zak
don't know, just feels wrong. It feels wrong being so blasé about any game we play.
00:22:23
DailySaintsPod
I hate it. I hate that... I hate that thing...
00:22:26
Zak
But that's also the state that they've created with domestic cops for most teams, though, now, right?
00:22:26
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:22:31
DailySaintsPod
But that's why it's more important for middle-of-the-range Premier League teams, right?
00:22:31
Zak
And, like...
00:22:35
DailySaintsPod
Because... In the Championship, A, it's a much tighter league. There's, what, seven points covering the ability to go up and the ability to go down, or something stupid like that.
00:22:49
DailySaintsPod
But, whereas in the Premier League you don't have that incentive, right? Sure, top four or top seven for Europe is an incentive, but... realistically, if you're sitting in that sort of eight to 14 zone, suddenly the cup becomes much more important for you because it's your opportunity to do something. And, and for teams lower down the order than that with other stuff to fight for, realistically, it, it just becomes a distraction.
00:23:17
DailySaintsPod
And, uh, I mean, honestly, we should think ourselves lucky that that's the position we've got ourselves to back to at this point, that we've got something to play for for the rest of the season. And so it's a
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00:23:29
DailySaintsPod
distraction and not our only hope of winning something.
00:23:33
Zak
Yeah, you're right. Man, you've bumped me out. That's usually 100% the other way around. I guess it will be what it will be, but I guess they're switching on its head, Greg. Who's going to win? What's the scores going to be for this exciting fixture that we're all really apparently excited and thrilled about?
00:23:59
DailySaintsPod
man, part of me really wanted to go full bum out and say nil-nil and lose on penalties, but I don't know that's on the cards. Yeah.
00:24:09
Zak
No, I'd rather... thanks.
00:24:11
DailySaintsPod
2-1 Saints.
00:24:15
Zak
Oh, we're conceding then, at least.
00:24:18
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:24:18
Zak
Interesting. I was thinking potentially 1-0. I could easily see just a really solitary goal at literally any point during the game, and then we just shut them out and close down the game, then we get win.
00:24:28
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:24:29
Zak
And then we're like, oh, no, now we've got another cup battle to carry on where we potentially go to Liverpool again.
00:24:34
DailySaintsPod
Both...
00:24:35
Zak
Yeah.
00:24:36
DailySaintsPod
both quite low scoring predictions for, you know, fixture that four days ago had seven goals.
00:24:42
Zak
Yeah, because we've also explained that there's be a fully rotated squad and there'll probably be rotation both sides. And I don't know, know, it's not like we're going to get a couple of players that are hot off the presses that going to, you know, storm out there and get a couple of goals.
00:24:55
Zak
Because also... exactly what you pointed out is how many players are going want exert a significantly large amount of energy a cup battle. And I know that that's not the case. I think if you progress in the competition, you start actually ramp up, it becomes significantly more important, right? Sadly, like you said, the middle of the table clubs. But like the current...
00:25:13
Zak
position of both us and Leicester in the league us and Leicester with this competition is very much sort of going to be don't think it's going to be a crazy goal scoring affair because I don't think either team are going want to go full throttle for the sake of it again I can see can see a scenario where Leicester come at us really hard and really aggressive because they're trying to like make up for the other day and then we just like pop a goal in and then it just takes the wind out their sails and we don't decide to do anything more
00:25:23
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:25:42
Zak
That's kind of what I think will probably potentially happen. But yeah, so 2-1 for you and 1-0 for me. You're right.
00:25:49
DailySaintsPod
Yeah.
00:25:50
Zak
Between the two of us, less goals than the entirety of the game on Tuesday.
00:25:51
DailySaintsPod
And then
00:25:54
DailySaintsPod
Do you know what, Joel? The funny thing that this is genuinely how I feel and think about the Cup, but I'll still be watching it and willing us to win.
00:26:03
Zak
yeah, we'll still both watch it.
00:26:04
DailySaintsPod
And then I'll still sit on, I presume, Monday night.
00:26:05
Zak
And we'll still both talk about it on Slop.
00:26:10
DailySaintsPod
That's normally when the draw is. And sit and watch the draw with... like excitement anticipation because because football's done like that like you can't it's hard to remove the objective right and wrong thing of what's important what's to push and uh the feeling of winning so don't know we'll see it's uh it's gonna be an interesting one either way i think and uh
00:26:19
Zak
Yeah.
00:26:37
DailySaintsPod
Yeah, I don't know. Let us know. Let us know in the comments, on the socials, how you're feeling about it. Are you feeling on the more optimistic side or just don't care about it at all?
00:26:48
DailySaintsPod
Let us know. We'd love to hear from you. We are Daily Saints Pod everywhere. Blue Sky, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, YouTube.
00:26:54
Zak
And then
00:26:56
DailySaintsPod
Hit us up. Let us know. We love hearing from you. And regardless of how the game plays out, we'll be back to talk about it. Monday morning, bright and early. And we'll put it all right then, as we always do. But until then, Saints fans, thank you so much for joining us. Thank Zach, as ever, for joining me.
00:27:20
DailySaintsPod
hope you all have a wonderful weekend with the FA Cup fun. And until the next one, come on, you Saints!
00:27:29
Zak
Wee.