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Episode 187;: Matchday Review: Another defeat at home...
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Southampton – Cut, Copy, Paste. Another stoppage time defeat at home... What a horrible season this continues to be...
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Introduction to Hosts and Podcast
00:00:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome back to the Daily Southampton, part of the Global Sports Podcast Network. My name is Greg Elliott and as always joined by my good friend, wonderful co-host, Zach Ingo Finch. are you doing mate?
00:00:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
You alright?
Personal Anxieties and Team Performance
00:00:22
Zak
Yeah, I'm alright. A bundle of nerves for random un-podcast related things that I've got coming up this week, which is just fine. But it's fine. it's Luckily, what it's meant is, because I've been so focused on this instead, I've not been concerned about Saints ruining my weekend for the umpteenth time, where we had that little bit of hope we might actually get something or build upon the draw of last week, and of course we
Southampton's Pattern of Hope and Disappointment
00:00:50
Zak
didn't.
00:00:50
Zak
We... We lost.
00:00:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
and been the story of the season, mate. It's give you just the right amount of hope to just trick you into believing and then concede two goals, one in stoppage time and yeah.
00:01:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:01:06
Zak
It's just... it's it Why we seem to switch on and play for the draw is beyond me. I understand that they they want to build something, but... when have we defended that well?
00:01:18
Zak
We defend better when we we're also actually trying to attack somehow. And I don't quite understand why someone would have to explain the ins and outs of it.
00:01:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:01:26
Zak
But bringing off Fernandes for James Bree, it was just kind of like, oh, we're really going to drag this out. And then you said, oh, they put up the six minutes.
00:01:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
know what that substitution was, mate? That was Jurich-esque, is what that substitution was.
00:01:39
Zak
Oh, that's a nasty but maybe accurate way of describing
Southampton Line-up and Injury Surprises
00:01:43
Zak
it. bob I guess we should talk about the line-ups. So it was basically spot on, except my prediction of last week came true this week in that Ross Stewart's died.
00:01:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:01:55
Zak
I don't know if there was any mention in the post-match or anything. Where did 2-4 go? Was it the bench?
00:02:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay. Yeah, no idea.
00:02:00
Zak
Was it the squad? Yeah.
00:02:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
haven't seen anything about that.
00:02:02
Zak
it is quote Full bill health on on Thursday night, oh clean bill of health. I know that you, it's funny because you joke about how that means nothing. And clearly it does because whenever we ask like, oh, there's no new injury concerns and like not the bench at all. So unless
Ross Stewart's Performance Analysis
00:02:18
Zak
he picks me up in training on Friday.
00:02:20
Zak
Yeah, no idea.
00:02:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, possibly. The man is made of glass and incapable of running for more than 60 minutes time, so... I mean, it's it's not outside the realm of possibility.
00:02:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, it's strange to have not even been mentioned. I've not seen anything in it in the post-match or anything.
00:02:38
Zak
Yes, it's just really weird. Like, I don't know, Stewart did all right, but it didn't ever feel like there was a goal coming all, really, from...
00:02:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you know, think see
00:02:48
Zak
from from
00:02:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Stuart did a while does him a disservice. I think he played well. he He held the ball up with more intent than I've seen Paul do, and he pinged the ball off a couple of times. He got through on goal twice.
00:03:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think he... I don't know if it does talk discredit because of like, he's just a bit like gangly, but Rostwick looks like he plays football with intent.
00:03:10
Zak
Yeah, i got you
00:03:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's hard to describe, but it's like he means to be doing what he's doing.
00:03:19
Zak
get you.
00:03:22
Zak
It's one of those things, and like I know there was a lot of criticism for Shane Long, because Shane Long did a lot of work off the ball.
Strikers' Struggles and Criticism
00:03:27
Zak
And I think it's, for me, until the strikers start actually scoring goals...
00:03:32
Zak
if they are in that position, we have somebody that isn't a natural goal scorer and it takes so long, so, so long, becomes a problem. And to be fair, in like perception, right? It's like a lot of people, we get a lot of we get a lot of feedback of like, archers, archers, rubbish, archers, bad.
00:03:48
Zak
And it's like, but he went on, like, had this little bit of confidence and he was scoring and stuff. for The problem is if you go, like, if you play six, seven, eight games and then they don't score, it's it's a big deal. And I guess with Stuart, I think the problem is is he has only had essentially cameo appearances right up this point. know That was his first start at St Mary's.
00:04:05
Zak
But, like, you're kind of hoping, I guess what I'm hoping is we just score more. And that's not on him.
00:04:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think, no, I mean, arguably he's a striker, but I know, I think that there was promise from his performance.
00:04:12
Zak
It's just not his main job. Yeah.
00:04:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
and And, you know, he he ran and he lasted like 60 plus minutes.
00:04:24
Zak
Yeah, which is fair play to that guy after being out for so long as well.
00:04:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
don't know.
00:04:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
he got in behind a couple of times and got, you know, had chances, not all like clear cut, decisive chances, but chances. And yeah, he did, he did a pretty good job, but you know,
00:04:40
Zak
I'd liked it if he'd scored.
Quality of Southampton's Substitutes
00:04:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Uh,
00:04:42
Zak
That's why, again, like, this is where, this is where I think we're always fundamentally going to little disagree a little bit where, where, you know, like, yeah, we put in a really good performance. They're like, we didn't score Greg.
00:04:52
Zak
They're like, nah, but it was right. I'm like, and I think, I think that's, I expect too much, I think.
00:04:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
think we're just going to end up making the same point though where we played like alright for as you can expect the team to play but you look at what they're bringing in on off the bench compared to what we're bringing on off the bench and
00:05:07
Zak
There it is. There it is. like I text you. I put it out on Twitter as well. Like, you know, Smith Rowe and, you know, Trorore on the bench.
00:05:17
Zak
who do we Who do we have? James Bree to come off for, you know, incredible substitution, bringing off Matty Fernandes.
00:05:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
for our best player yeah
00:05:24
Zak
Dibbling, who is is like, yeah, it's nice to have him off the bench, but he's he's been, he's not been the great towards the end of the season. I don't know whether there's a lot.
00:05:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
and't put It didn't seem... but my yeah It's hard to gauge.
00:05:36
Zak
Yeah, that that's what I mean.
00:05:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
you know I've only really watched the game in real time, but also he didn't seem to put in as much effort as normal.
Pressures on Young Players
00:05:41
Zak
i think I think there's a lot going on.
00:05:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Now, whereas Cameron Archer, when he came on, was running himself wild. And he was the only one sort of trying to push that back line. There was one moment sort of towards the end where they literally had him running in circles. It was ridiculous because there was no one supporting him.
00:05:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
And to his credit, he didn't give up. He just kept chasing the ball down and putting that pressure on. But yeah, Dibbling came on and just didn't, I don't know if he didn't seem interested or what.
00:06:09
Zak
I think there's it's got to be difficult, right? Like, you've played under, at this point, three different managers. You're brought through into the first team by by a manager that you had a bit... You're a strong bond with. you're You're being told to play different ways.
00:06:20
Zak
You're being played in completely different positions all the time. I think that's entirely the case, but, like, it's it's got...
00:06:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
100 million pound text on your head.
00:06:27
Zak
Yeah, yeah. And then, you know, it's like, it's great that they're making jokes out of it behind the scenes. Like, I've seen the Ramsdale story about him being like, every time he misses a shot, it's like, oh, 90 million now, 80 million now, and all that kind of stuff. It's lovely. But like, yeah, I feel like it's going to get to you.
00:06:41
Zak
Because again, you'll be 17, 18, you know, he's had 18 this year. I can't, I can't fathom, like, I'm in my early 30s, but like, I can't fathom that sort of pressure at that age.
00:06:54
Zak
And if you don't have the right support system, and I think he probably does, you know, he wouldn't have ended up back here from Chelsea if he didn't, but it's still, there's still a lot going on for sure. And I think that, yeah, that's fundamentally, and also we are relegated.
Relegation and Historical Context
00:07:08
Zak
Like that's, that's the other thing. What are they, what are the players, the players at this point are playing for pride. Like I'll retract some of my statements on Jack Stevens.
00:07:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, mate, we were we three minutes away from not being the joint worst team in Premier League history.
00:07:16
Zak
Like,
00:07:21
Zak
Yeah, and it was nice. And as I said, like Jack Stevens showed captaincy that game.
00:07:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, played very well.
00:07:29
Zak
He's been very well since he's been back in the side. you know as i stand by my statement in the sense of if he'd never played for us, I would have been all right with it.
00:07:39
Zak
But he's strengthened up the side and he he seems to have brought some passion forward into the ground and you can see he he wants it whether or not we believe they're all good enough which I think we know the answer to that question but it was nice to see and you know again we we talked about it me and you talked about it it' was just back to basics in it you know
00:08:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, well, let's let's move on to that and let's break the game down into its two distinct parts, which is before the Fulham goal and after the Fulham goal. But first, a message from our partners at Bionique.
00:08:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, and we are
Rare Set-piece Goals
00:08:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
back. So yeah, let's talk about it, Zach. You're right. Back to basics. We pass the ball about, play players in their right positions. We get a set piece, and instead of going back to passing it backwards and sideways, we stick it in the mixer.
00:09:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
You have a centre-back run from the penalty spot to the near post and have a glancing head that knocks it in at the far post. Like, does it get more football textbook, like Football 101, than that?
00:09:14
Zak
Not really, les unless you're bringing it back to the days of 4-4-2, mate.
00:09:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
right its Yeah, it's literally like right up there with 4-4-2 in like the lineage of football heritage. Like, centre-back, penalty spot to near post run, head into the far post.
00:09:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Is it the first piece we scored from this season?
00:09:31
Zak
Yeah.
00:09:34
Zak
I want to say second. I think we didn't have one for absolutely ages, and then we we I can't remember who we broke it against.
00:09:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Was it against Man United when they bundled it into their own net?
00:09:43
Zak
wanna I want to say it was multiplied where it was technically an own goal. So I think that that might be the first actual goal we scored for a Southampton player.
00:09:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:09:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've scored.
Tactics Against Fulham
00:09:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:09:55
Zak
But also it it shows you, you know...
00:09:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
don't know it was Tallpool's deliberate header from a corner as well the other week. It's few and far between win.
00:10:01
Zak
Potentially. But it's it's all blending and so blending into just one giant... Because the problem is is, it's very hard to remember all of the good moments from terrible games we want to forget.
00:10:13
Zak
And a lot of them have fallen into moments of terrible games we want to forget.
00:10:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:10:18
Zak
Like, this this might be one of them, but I don't really know.
00:10:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, you're right.
00:10:21
Zak
As you said, it was I was more entertained watching this than I was the first Fulham game.
00:10:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
i mean Yeah. I was enjoying the game.
00:10:27
Zak
i
00:10:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
i felt like we were on top, and now I've looked at the statistics, and I feel like... I don't know. Did we just get carried up in the moment?
00:10:33
Zak
We just defended well, I think.
00:10:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like...
00:10:36
Zak
they They got car their biing already really annoyed and saying like, oh, we we came to play football and they didn't want to play football, which was a very almost Jose Mourinho-esque evaluation of the game today, which is very funny considering.
00:10:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
I did see that. It was little something like we were the only team that tried to score. I'm like, mate, have you seen us the rest of the season? That is us trying.
00:10:55
Zak
Like, yeah, three three shots on target.
00:10:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, we did score. That's...
00:10:58
Zak
Three shots on target for us is better than a lot of games this season. Seven shots away. Like, again, like most of the time we get to their half. We just we just play around with a ball for a little before we do anything with it.
00:11:09
Zak
That doesn't mean that the ball isn't... Yeah, just... Again, I imagine it's it's probably frustration and then annoyance because it took so long to break us down. uh and but but when it happened it happened and then obviously as soon as you said you were like no six minutes and then the six minutes came up obviously
00:11:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Just as soon as it went up, you just felt it in the air. think the entire stadium felt it. you know that like We were already deflated from the equaliser, but unlike other times where that's happened, we sort of stuck in and looked like we weren't going to completely capitulate.
00:11:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
But it just felt like the second that board went up, bang, it was in the back of the net. All right. That makes sense. Checks out.
00:11:50
Zak
But again, it's it's you hit the nail on the head and it's the point we both keep making and have made all season is you know you look at who they've been able to bring on, you look at who we brought on So our three substitutions were Dibbling, Bree and Cameron Archer and they had Carlos Vinicius, Earl Smith-Rowe, Adam Turore, Tom Carney.
00:12:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:12:07
Zak
you know look like yeah yeah i said to to to you about both Smith-Rowe and obviously Turore and that can make a difference in games.
00:12:16
Zak
And is' that's that's the problem is that we we don't really have, you know, we had that the it's almost like we miss a Ryan Fraser from like championship era, being able to come on and get those sign of goals for us.
00:12:28
Zak
Obviously like no idea what's going on with him because he's not in the game either.
00:12:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, he came on and made an impact. Yeah, do you know, you could argue that you would bring him on and he would do the same in the Premier League as the other players we've brought on. But you're right, that sort of impact off the bench is exactly what we're missing because, you know, the way that we're playing with the even back to this, back to the basics football, it's tiring.
00:12:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
It takes its toll on our players.
00:12:48
Zak
yeah
00:12:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
And also we've mentioned that our team is not the fittest.
00:12:52
Zak
just can't manage the 90 minutes and i think you you briefly covered it before where you're saying like russell martin's football didn't really require it as much but like it's gonna we're gonna need it i think we need to go back to that level and like gone are the days where you know we think of like sort of the pochettino era where fitness was the most important thing and you got you got to worry you got think you know who can hack it because this is why feel like we're getting so so many injuries and why just players just can't see out 90 minutes and then we don't have the depth
00:13:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:13:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
It just frustrates me, mate, because knowing how much money those football get players get paid to not be fit enough to run around a pitch for 90 minutes is a joke.
00:13:29
Zak
But then
00:13:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's It feels like that's like the minimum basic requirement.
00:13:35
Zak
but but then also, we we shored up our team to try and deal with this, right? That's why we brought in so many new faces. The problem is is none of those new faces are sticking around. them You've got Adam Armstrong still out Westbrook, Ben Mertany, the entire front line of players that realistically would be able to make those decisions. I don't know what's happened with Fraser. Like, I know that we kind of briefly... but he He was briefly mentioned under the Juric, right?
00:13:58
Zak
Where Juric was like, I like him, there's just other players that are better. and And since then, nothing.
00:14:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:14:03
Zak
We said the same about Ross Stewart for a really long time. But clearly, because they like that target man approach with Paul and O'Achi, that's why ross Stewart is basically taking that place with wherever Paul has gone, which is pushing Cameron Archer behind, which means that, you know...
00:14:19
Zak
it's just It's going to be an interesting summer. I think we've gone over that
Relegation Reflections and Future Matches
00:14:22
Zak
point multiple times. But yeah, this this game is just, like again, like a such a snapshot of the season. And we've said that about so many games.
00:14:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
We could but could literally copy and paste about 15 of our Sunday evening recordings of games on a Saturday afternoon at home.
00:14:36
Zak
Oh, 100%. 100%. hundred percent
00:14:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Just, oh, yeah, well, we we had you know we were good in spells and we looked promising, and then we conceded. And we didn't fully capitulate this time, but then we got stoppage time, and to wow, their quality off the bat is just...
00:14:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
just tiring, mate. It's just plain old nonsense.
00:14:52
Zak
It is tiring. It's...
00:14:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's such a horrible way to lose a game.
00:14:54
Zak
It
00:14:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
like Even at 1-all, a point was we talked before about like these draws that feel like wins and draws that feel like losses. And 1-all actually
00:15:07
Zak
felt like losing, didn't it?
00:15:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
in well in normal circumstances it would have been a draw that felt like a loss, but because it still would have been the point that took us over that 11-point mark, it would have been
00:15:09
Zak
I did. I thought it
00:15:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
like not as bitter, right? It would have been draw that felt like a loss, but something was taken from it.
00:15:25
Zak
It would have been we built on something, right? This is a lot of the problem is is we can't we can't string two performances together.
00:15:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:30
Zak
And again, we we showed we can't stream string. You know, there's that guy who's like, oh, can't cut my hair until Man United win five games in row. If I agreed to that, I'd have like Rapunzel hair by the end of the next couple of years.
00:15:42
Zak
don't remember. Obviously, we had that massive run in the championship. I don't remember us winning five times in a row. We had a couple of draws in between that.
00:15:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
They were basically all draws while we finished fourth, mate.
00:15:51
Zak
okay but But yeah, like and and that's and that's the thing is that it's just sort of... It was probably one of our best opportunities. like Our next opportunity will come against Leicester. But like I could see Jamie Vardy, now that he's leaving, going on to score against us because he loves to do that. That would be a wonderful send-off for him in the El Carapio derby.
00:16:13
Zak
So, yeah, it's just... Again, it's just frustrating. and it's you know But the other thing is, the other way to look it is it's still pre-season. And if we go down as the joint worst of all time, it's not the worst of all time.
00:16:27
Zak
No, we should talk about what's coming next, mate. What's next?
00:16:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Alright, well let let's think about that.
00:16:30
Zak
Who we got next?
00:16:33
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00:17:00
Zak
Yeah.
00:17:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
mean, can we build upon this performance? Can you believe that? At half time, turned around to one of the people I sit around within our little community that we've built in the corner,
Season-long Effort and Management Concerns
00:17:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
and we're all good friends now, and said, why did it take us to get relegated to play football this well?
00:17:14
Zak
yeah
00:17:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Now I'm looking at the statistics of the game and the first half in particular. I'm thinking... How bad have we been this season for me to feel like that was such a like step up?
00:17:32
Zak
Yeah, but it's because we were defensively solid and and we weren't making the stupid mistakes. Like, you are you are watching...
00:17:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
But we were are still making stupid mistakes, right?
00:17:39
Zak
Yeah, but not to not to the level that they put away.
00:17:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Rambo passed it to...
00:17:42
Zak
That fat was bad. That was bad. But also, he gets a pass for the amount of times he's got us out of jail.
00:17:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
He also, after that, kicked it into touch about three times in a row.
00:17:48
Zak
this
00:17:52
Zak
Okay. then I know what to tell you, mate.
00:17:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, I know that we didn't sign him for his distribution,
00:17:55
Zak
The reason...
00:17:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
but
00:17:59
Zak
The reason I think that that you feel like that is that there is a weird sense of pressure that's been lifted. And also the reason that you think that is that we're not reliant on these weird philosophies of sort of strange footballing heritage for people like Martin and Juric. You have this idea of how they we we just played a level of football and it was a level of football that you recognised and you watched the game happen that wasn't Sounds very much like Waffle, but like, I just think that we've been so bad because we've tried to play in a way that's really, really not at our level under Martin.
00:18:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
You're right.
00:18:39
Zak
And then we switched into Juric, who we thought was going to do something different, and he didn't.
00:18:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah right You're right. Like, we did the basics.
00:18:43
Zak
And now we're playing to our level, which unfortunately...
00:18:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
so We played a game of football, and so it felt like good football because we played, you know, centre-backs at centre-back and midfielders in midfield and gave them a go.
00:18:49
Zak
yeah
00:18:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we had a striker up front who knew you know looked like he knew what he was doing at least some of the time. Got in behind a couple of times. car' walk This sort of three-at-the-back formation that we go with, get threes up.
00:19:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Carl Walker-Peters to go and be creative in just about any way he wants. and you know He had a shot on target that that he probably could done better with again. it just
00:19:18
Zak
Yeah, but again, like, shooting practice is a it's a, you know, you sit near them when they do shooting practice, mate, you know that sometimes they get some really good runs.
00:19:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
I sit directly behind the practice goal, which is both wonderful and sometimes distressing. So I can tell you from the warm shooting warm-up that Ross Stewart didn't hit the target once, that Mati Fernandez absolutely buried some really impressive efforts, and that Leslie Gachukwu shouldn't be allowed to use his left foot ever.
00:19:53
Zak
But there you go. and that's And that's the thing is you've been able to, you know, what you saw a bit more of a competitive game of football. And it wasn't us completely dying, which is, you know, we've we've been drowning under pressure and we were under pressure a lot of that game.
Fulham's Control vs. Southampton's Resistance
00:20:12
Zak
But it also didn't feel like Fulham were in as much control. They had a lot of shots. A lot of them really go anywhere or do anything. Again, even like even the first yeah was is the first goal was deflection, right? I can't remember who was the first or the second.
00:20:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:23
Zak
The one which literally came off of Yanni B.
00:20:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, was the first one. He bounced off of me.
00:20:25
Zak
and like it I reckon if it had gone at Ramsdale, it probably would have saved it if he'd been out of the way.
00:20:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's
00:20:30
Zak
And again, like that's that's again positioning and communication and and silly things like that.
00:20:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
unfortunate.
00:20:35
Zak
But also...
00:20:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
It'd been coming to that point, though, right? They'd hit the post, I think, and one like somehow didn't come.
00:20:40
Zak
yeah exactly.
00:20:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
So it's not like it was against the run of play. it was It was unfortunate, but it had been coming. And it just, yeah. I guess it's the context well, though,
00:20:49
Zak
And also, you're going to remember the good moments. That's the other thing, mate, is that you have to remember the good moments.
00:20:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:20:55
Zak
But the thing is, is that it didn't... You did not feel like they were out to batter us like 10-0.
00:21:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I agree.
00:21:01
Zak
Whereas a lot of the other games that you've been in this season, you you are like, how many is it going to be?
00:21:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, especially as in like in the context of the season, like Fulham are eights, they're potentially pushing for a European spot. So, yeah.
00:21:12
Zak
that's why they were so happy. Yeah.
00:21:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:21:15
Zak
And like and that's that's the bad thing about it. It's like I said, like you know they're probably one of the ones that are closer to us. And that was mainly based on the last game. And, you know, again, like the fact they've been able to bring on you know, it was two ex-Arsenal graduates, you know, where you managed to make the first goal.
00:21:32
Zak
and And then Smith-Rowe managed to bury the other one, right? like Or I think it was the other way around.
00:21:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:21:37
Zak
yeah You just have, it's the gulf of quality, but also the gulf of expectation and the fact that, you know, you kind of knew what you were getting with Rusk and Lallana being at the helm in comparison to Juric and Martin in the sense that they are just trying to win the games the best they can, best their ability.
00:21:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:21:55
Zak
And like we found a formation that works. The players, as long as they're fit, are being played in the correct positions. Paul was swapped out for Ross Stewart, who plays in a similar way for him.
00:22:07
Zak
so So you almost feel a bit more of a confidence in... that it doesn't feel like Russian roulette every single time we go into a game, which means that, yeah, you are going to watch and, you know, and we're still behind the team and we know what's coming in next season. There is no expectation that we're meant to do a lot other than get past that sort of points.
00:22:26
Zak
And, you know, it's embarrassing we're even in that position.
Speculations on Future Changes
00:22:28
Zak
And I know the players have all said that, So, yeah, I think that maybe, mate, you just watched a game of competitive football. that's That's why you enjoyed it.
00:22:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:22:38
Zak
And, you know, Fulham were frustrated because it took them so long to get two past us, really.
00:22:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Maybe rightly so. I mean, like I say, it wasn't like having me come in. Okay, well, it's just another week, mate. Another week, another loss. We might, yeah, at least like at least next season we might you know win a game at home or something.
00:22:53
Zak
Yeah, we move on to Leicester now.
00:22:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Or or now the entire season's finished and Liverpool have actually mathematically won the league. Maybe we'll beat both Arsenal and Man City because it's funny.
00:23:07
Zak
Yeah, well, it depends. City surely still got to fight for European place, There's some candles up there.
00:23:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, unless they win the f FA Cup, mate, they're in the final now, so.
00:23:17
Zak
Oh, yeah, just weird. Yeah, I feel bad for Forrest. I really hope they somehow win the next few games. And that would be a very Salampton thing to do. It's just randomly be City for no apparent reason.
00:23:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely.
00:23:30
Zak
But again, I also think that that's going to come at Everton. And then we've also still got Arsenal to play as well, which you've pointed out.
00:23:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. That's
00:23:36
Zak
it's just It's just a bit weird. It's very it's very much pre-pre-season, but...
00:23:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
it, mate.
00:23:39
Zak
For me, it's like I always want to get onto the summer and see what we do because we're going to have, you know, we've still got, still going to try and put out this week another sort of manager profile for potential managers we've got.
00:23:51
Zak
We're going to end up probably knowing our luck, hire not a single one we cover.
00:23:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
and okay I've seen us linked with some wild names, but we will cover that as the week goes on.
00:23:59
Zak
but
00:24:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
That is just about all that we have got time for today.
00:24:01
Zak
Indeed.
00:24:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Zach, thank you very much for joining me.
00:24:06
Zak
right, it's me.
00:24:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you everyone for listening. you think it was better? Let us know on the socials. Just copy and paste the the same loss every week for all of eternity.
00:24:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
At least next year will be better, right? Thank you very much. We will see you tomorrow