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Episode 156: Match Review: Beaten by Wolves
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Southampton – Another home defeat! Are there positives to take out of this performance? Will we ever win at home again? We discuss that and much more.
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Transcript
Introduction and Game Overview
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 today joined by my good friend Oscar. How you doing mate?
00:00:19
Oscar
Yeah, not too bad, thank you.
Southampton vs Wolves Reactions
00:00:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, so
00:00:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
not what we predicted yesterday, although i feel like not a huge surprise as Wolves beat us.
00:00:26
Oscar
No.
00:00:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
How are you feeling
Critique of Management Decisions
00:00:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oscar? Let's just get straight into it.
00:00:38
Oscar
just I don't really understand what the Claviturana do at the moment. I know lots of Saints fans are sort of feeling the same way, I think. like we've we've gone It's almost like they've tried to carbon copy what we did last year.
00:00:54
Oscar
We've sacked a manager that was fairly popular, appointed someone even worse, And then made all the fans think, oh, maybe we shouldn't have sacked him. And they've literally done the exact same thing twice. I don't understand how they managed to find someone to make us incredibly worse than we already were.
00:01:10
Oscar
But they've done it.
Team Formation and Strategy Issues
00:01:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it's it's frustrating, to say the least. it was It was definitely a felt a turn in the atmosphere as well. And like from the moment the team sheets came out, it was like, oh, why are we going back to a back five?
00:01:27
Oscar
Yeah.
00:01:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then, yeah, it's just what we're doing. There's still no strikers on the pitch. Just...
00:01:34
Oscar
I don't get it when we we spoke about we spoke about the fact that it actually seemed to work. Like, surely a conversation must have been had, and I know we're not privy to everything, but a conversation must have been had in the group of first-team staff saying, that actually worked. Why don't we stick with that?
00:01:52
Oscar
Why are we changing back?
00:01:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:01:54
Oscar
Is everyone, like, petrified of him? Is it just him saying it? Or is he being bullied into changing it? I just... Why would you change it if it's been better than it was? It's not as if the personnel weren't there.
00:02:06
Oscar
Am I right in saying that this is from from what I gathered, that the back three was Vela Kocha, Pariba and Walker Peters of centre-backs?
00:02:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. pretty much yeah
00:02:18
Oscar
Why?
00:02:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah ah but
00:02:21
Oscar
just
00:02:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:02:22
Oscar
Just why? And you've got other players. And then Jack Stephens came on up front as well, supposedly.
00:02:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:02:28
Oscar
it's almost like It's almost like they're just sort of saying, yeah, that might work.
00:02:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
i
00:02:33
Oscar
Let's try it. I understand the logic of that. Nothing else has worked. But, you know, I thought they'd found something that at least maybe did a little bit. They scored a goal and they didn't concede six against, well, actually, maybe in hindsight, looking at Liverpool now, it wasn't that good a result.
00:02:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. It's frustrating.
00:02:49
Oscar
But...
00:02:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's frustrating and I guess it's even more frustrating because... it it actually kind of worked for, for a bit, at least. Like I felt watching it, like, thought, we're actually doing a bit here and we're sort of dominating the ball. and we've we've had a couple of chances and, and then immediately we switch off one awful piece of defending and we're one nil down.
Match Analysis and Key Turning Points
00:03:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
And
00:03:14
Oscar
Yeah. Well, again, it sort of sums up sums up, I know this is pretty much the straight line of the season, but it sums up the season. poor defect Well, before the poor defending, a fairly poor miss from Suleymane, where he's gone to hit it, missed the ball, and it's hit his standing leg and gone backwards.
00:03:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:03:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:03:45
Oscar
And, you know, not great goalkeeping either, in fairness, but you're probably thinking, he's probably thinking at the time, I wonder if my centre-back's actually going to challenge for this, or he's just going to let his man run off him and get a free header.
00:03:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, definitely should have done better.
00:03:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Stand there and watch it.
00:03:57
Oscar
Especially when the striker is quite big and quite good in the air.
00:03:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:04:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:04:01
Oscar
You'd have thought, you'd say, just match him up, mate. But, yeah.
00:04:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then, but then like went on in the the rest of the first, like that was their only shot in the first half.
00:04:07
Oscar
I don't really...
00:04:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
So we still went on and like stuck in and got our heads up and created some half chances, but nothing worth sort of writing home about.
00:04:14
Oscar
Yeah.
00:04:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then you're thinking, well, it's only 1-0 at the break. Maybe he'll do something.
Manager-Player Dynamics and Fan Reactions
00:04:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Maybe he'll put some fire in or something we'll come out and do something in the second half. And the two things that happened were he took Matty Fernandes off, who's been pretty much consistently our best player all season. Admittedly, he didn't have the best game yesterday, I think we were playing him up front.
00:04:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
From what I could tell. And brought on Tall Pool. So... i mean, that was literally met with chants of... You don't know what you're doing.
00:05:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
So...
00:05:05
Oscar
Yeah, that's always you know a bad sign, especially for Southampton fans who are, to be honest, fairly passive in terms of you know not the most vocal a lot of the time.
00:05:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:05:16
Oscar
That is a negative sign if that's that starts to happen at the start of a turn. And
00:05:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:05:22
Oscar
I still think that's probably why they didn't bite the bullet and actually try and pay the money for someone like Danny Roll. I think they knew that there was a very real possibility this would happen for the rest of the season.
Defensive Strategy and Counter-Attack Problems
00:05:33
Oscar
And so, as I said like a couple of times, I think Juric is basically just being used as a full guy, which, you know, fair play to him if he's taken it.
00:05:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:05:42
Oscar
He's taken it with that taking it on the chin with that. But, you know, he hasn't helped himself either.
00:05:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
no and I mean the sort of the frustration is that I sort of understand the logic behind the change bring an actual striker on the pitch whether that's the striker I would have brought on, no.
00:06:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
If that's the player I would have taken off to make way for him, no. I don't think Diblin was having the best game. I probably would have taken him off, although then he went on to co sort of create the goal that we did get.
00:06:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
But also, as well as the change and that sort of outcry of negativity, the other first thing that happened less than three minutes into the first half is, you know, we lose the ball in midfield and then all of our players just stand and watch Wolves walk through and score.
00:06:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
like
00:06:31
Oscar
Which, you would again, you would have thought that defensive transition, given the the season that we've had so far, would be the biggest thing you're working on. If we lose the ball, we need to get back and get behind the ball. like The amount of goals that we've cost ourselves from doing that, you would have thought by now someone would have tried to address it You know, and it can't, I appreciate it.
00:06:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's Jeff.
00:06:52
Oscar
You know, you can't always point at the manager if it's a different manager and it's the same players, but at the same time, it's up to that manager to try and get a change and get a change of tune out of the players, if that's the case.
00:07:03
Oscar
Like, we just seem woefully, i don't know what it is. now Martin said in his Monday Night Football, it's about athleticism. We don't have enough athletic players. Yeah. but we just seem woefully unprepared for when teams counter-attack almost as it a surprise and not how 90% of teams play in the Premier League.
00:07:21
Oscar
Dynamic forward play.
00:07:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it's just, it's crazy. And just in the amount of times it happened as well, where just, everyone's just stood still. Like, there were a couple of times where Suleymane, like, took a man on and beat a man and got into a position and then just had to turn around and go backwards because there's just no movement on or off the ball. It's just completely stagnant. It's,
00:07:45
Oscar
Yeah, I suppose that comes from, you know, because that's something that very much wouldn't have wouldn't have been something that they would have wanted him doing in Martin's system. So they're probably still a bit like, why are you doing that? We don't know how to do that. Oh, no, wait, Martin's not here any anymore.
00:08:01
Oscar
Like, we actually need to maybe try and play differently, but hey-ho.
00:08:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
Return from Break - Positive Moments and Striker's Role
00:08:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
but despite all of that, there might still be yet some positives to take, maybe clutching at straws, but, we'll touch on that after a message from our partners.
00:08:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, and we are back.
00:08:54
Oscar
Thank you.
00:08:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, yeah, as as alluded to before the break, we got 28 minutes of tall Paul and Cameron Archer.
00:09:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
And look, with both of them on the pitch and Tyler Diblin creating opportunity, we got goal. And, you know Paul might have tripped over the ball on its way into the net, but...
00:09:18
Oscar
I did enjoy that. When I saw the description of the goal, before I even knew who it was, you said he's literally tripped over the ball and it's gone in. I said, that sounds like a vintage tall pool goal for his first one at St Mary's.
00:09:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:09:33
Oscar
But maybe it's a lesson to some of these managers that try and be too clever for their own good. If a striker is on the pitch, they are they are likely to score a goal because that's what they've been doing since they've been yeah since they've been young players.
00:09:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:09:47
Oscar
So they find themselves in the right place. And especially if someone is seven foot tall,
00:09:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because,
00:09:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah Because he might not be the best in the air or bring the best in the as an outlet, but he knows how to be in the box and be in a position when the ball comes to him. And even though he's sort bundled it in clumsily, he's put the ball in the back of the net and put himself as our joint top goalscorer for the season, which is...
00:10:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, maybe as much of a scathing indictment of the season as anything else, seeing as our other joint top goalscorer is our centre-back, Joe Aribo.