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Match Review - Wolves vs Southampton
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A win!!! 3 points!! But what does it all mean?
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Introduction and Episode Kick-off
00:00:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello everybody and welcome back to another Daily Wolves episode. I'm your host today, Will, and I'm joined by Chris. Chris, hello.
00:00:17
Chris
Hello, happy Monday, everyone. Welcome in.
00:00:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, i you see, I knew you'd be excited, so I let you have your Happy Monday line. I let you have it today.
Wolves' Victory Over Southampton
00:00:28
Chris
Thanks. Well, it's been a while since we felt this good on a Monday, so embrace it. Embrace it while you can, everyone.
00:00:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
um
00:00:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah no very much so it's um it's a first isn't it i remember saying after the writing game that it was weird that we were recording an episode and you know a fairly positive mood and this should be worn up on that um you know it's it's our first win
00:00:48
Chris
Hmm.
00:00:55
Chris
It is. I mean, let's face it, the path is clear now. We, you know, we're going to be victorious. Season is fixed. It's all done and dusted. um ah You know, premiership champions, here we come.
00:01:08
Chris
It's all, we're going to reign supreme.
00:01:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah i have to say i'm not getting uh that optimistic just yet um but no yeah it certainly certainly makes for a pleasant change um grabbing our three points and i mean i'll say it now for anyone who doesn't know um we beat south ampton 2-0 at home on saturday and um yeah chris will
00:01:10
Chris
We're going to reign supreme will.
00:01:19
Chris
Come on.
00:01:38
Chris
clean A clean sheet, a clean sheet.
00:01:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know, I know, yep.
00:01:43
Chris
Just think about that for a moment and just revel in it.
Defense and Player Performances
00:01:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Look, all I'm going to say is Tossi Gomez was excellent. The back three were excellent. It was Santiago Bueno, my boy, it was his birthday and he was excellent. um I mean, i having said that, Southampton were awful.
00:02:06
Chris
Yeah, but we knew, you know, we've said before, we're actually good defending from open play.
00:02:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
but
00:02:10
Chris
And, admittedly, they haven't got much upfront, but they are, we knew that, so I know I'm aware I've probably deviated from the the plan that we always create before we go into the episodes. But, you know, we, we're good at defending open play generally.
00:02:23
Chris
So for all their possession, which is what they do, they didn't actually trouble Saar much at all.
00:02:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
no not not at all in fact i don't know if they had a shot on target um but yeah as yeah as you mentioned and ah deviating from plan there somewhat and i know it's it's fine look we're excited we've won a game you know the vibes the vibes are good um but yeah so chris i just wanted to get your thoughts on um you know um 2 pm saturday the lineups were announced
00:02:36
Chris
Sorry.
00:02:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
and um yeah well what what were your feelings what were your thoughts because it was it was you know it was slightly different to last week and your your boy Seravia stayed in who I know you want to give a mention to so yeah yeah
00:03:08
Chris
Yeah, I was happy. I was happy to see Sarabia, Sarabia. I feel like that's a potatoes, potatoes thing that I've just discovered there. um I was really happy that he was given another chance because I do think he was a little bit hard done by last week. Yes, it wasn't a stellar performance, but as I mentioned in one of our previous episodes, he was at least getting him himself.
00:03:31
Chris
in the positions for those opportunities that he wasn't able to put away last week and that's half the battle right half the battle is making the right runs to be in the right space the right places whatever you think of his physicality he was involved in opportunities which means he was putting himself you know he he was thinking as he always does about being in the right place and so i was happy to see him giving another shot and i was so happy So happy that he has scored, he scored not only super quick, but the quickest wolves goal ever in the Premier League. And just and um in that one fell swoop within the first two minutes, just kind of put to rest some of that, that the indecision or the the crowd speculation over him being in the lineup again.
00:04:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, and I mean, we couldn't have asked for a better start and he took the goal very, very well. You know, just a nice little goal, nice little finish round the baggie.
00:04:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
in between the posts for Southampton and yeah just slotted it home but
00:04:32
Chris
Yep.
Lineup Changes and Player Minutes
00:04:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah I think
00:04:39
Chris
In terms of, sorry, in terms of midfield, cause you mentioned the lineup, obviously we saw Lomino come back in. I think it was partly to be expected because i apparently last week he was obviously nursing the injury as well in the first half last week, presumably had some more time to recover since.
00:04:57
Chris
And given how well he performed when he came on for the second half last week in like the buildup to the goals, we we spoke about some of his turns on the ball to like, just push people out of the way.
00:05:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:05:07
Chris
I think it was. Yeah, I think is as sad as I am for Doyle because I do think He works, you know tirelessly to to really put his best shift in for the team I don't think it was that much as of of a surprise to see Lamina come back in
00:05:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
no ah not at all and i mean you say is sad as you are for Doyle which don't go me wrong i don't disagree with um but Andre as well i think is very harsh on him in terms of again when he came in and the games was all in play do come visit sorry I don't think I've ever seen the man give the ball away um but yeah it's it's one of those and nothing nothing surprised me too much the only thing I did think was I mean I know he scored but I would have
00:06:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
put Gueda's in for Sarabia.
00:06:03
Chris
Hmm.
00:06:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think I do really think he deserves some more minutes and I know he got some later on in the game but yeah I really like the look of him this season but apart from that you know um I saw a lot of people complaining about the back five which ah I understand um but I don't think it was an issue with formation at all today i mean um obviously we went one the lot but i think it's undeniable that after that um it was just it was just a bit flat from both teams it was never a game of you know obscene unmissable femier league football quality you know it was just flat and um i think we had our moment and it's a good job i think it's a good job
00:06:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
played Southampton specifically um because of what we've spoken about with them keeping the ball and this that and the other but not having anything to show if it was it played out exactly like that um but
00:07:07
Chris
Yeah, i was um i was in terms of the game itself, there were periods and where, particularly in the first half, where it almost felt a little bit end-to-end at points, you know it a little little bit frenetic for periods, and then it would kind of die down again.
00:07:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
and
00:07:24
Chris
And obviously part of that, as we mentioned, is because they do like to just pass the ball around a lot and try and keep possession as much as possible.
First Half Frustrations and Improvement Hopes
00:07:31
Chris
But what was frustrating me in the first half, which I'm glad we did see improved in the second, was it we didn't, as a unit, press them in the first half like I thought we would.
00:07:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yes. No.
00:07:42
Chris
you know we We saw a lot of that last season. I feel like as we've deteriorated over the course of this season, that pressing game has kind of taken a little bit of a back foot, almost, I think, maybe through fear of conceding more goals and leaving ourselves open.
00:07:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:07:57
Chris
that that seems to have gone away a little bit. I don't know if that's just my imagination, but then I was so thankful that obviously had a chat at halftime and be in the way they do pass it around the back. And they've made something, it's been spoken of that they've been made mistakes already this season in that that manner of being pressed. We finally came out second half and and and did that more, at least for the first part of the second half, did that more cohesively pushing as a unit. And it did force some errors that almost led to a couple, you know, there was a couple of half chances from it and and there could have been more.
00:08:29
Chris
And I want to see more of that. And maybe some of that was the confidence of still being 1-0 up and, you know, just being a bit more optimistic, having protected the lead for a little bit longer.
00:08:40
Chris
I want more of that because I feel like when we're on the front foot and we're pushing teams back, we do create those chances.
00:08:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
hmm well yeah i mean chris you have read my mind verbatim i mean uh that's where i was going with it was i don't think um you know although the football was flat at times i don't think that was a result of the formation i think it was a result of that lack of intensity perhaps in terms of yeah um putting pressure on them at times which it was frustrating to watch and it was annoying i mean i couldn't care less because we won um but going forwards is it's not a great look when
00:09:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
um your you're conceding I think Southampton had 70 odd percent of the ball throughout the entire game which when you look at that I mean I know they've got nothing to show for it and they can take the ball home will take three points um it's I don't know it it's not a good look is it up you know especially with them being a newly promoted team um
00:09:43
Chris
No, but I think, you know, given ah form, you know, we've we've spoken about the fact that I don't going into the game, we were all very much like I didn't care how boring it was, was we just needed the three points.
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00:09:56
Chris
And, you know, I know that we're still in the bottom three but the table just suddenly looks a little bit healthier being only one point adrift now and you know in ah in a much stronger spot going into the break than we were before that it just just looking at it makes an immediate motivational difference.
00:10:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
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00:10:44
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If you're ready to tell your story, check out the link in the show description to learn more about Zengaster. But yeah, so overall, first half, you know, I i don't anymore i don't want to say good performance, but OK, you know, and and we went in 1-0 up.
00:11:04
Chris
Yeah, well, obviously we went and won them up because ah they did have the ball in the net and ah we that was overturned.
00:11:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes.
00:11:14
Chris
I mean, at first they went in and I was thinking typical, here we go again, you know, immediate, pretty swift turnaround, because it wasn't that long after after our goal, opening goal, and it felt like it.
00:11:25
Chris
But And I'm curious what
VAR Decision Debate
00:11:28
Chris
you'll make of this. Actually, I'm going to ask you in a sec. I'm going to ask you first before I give my input, because I've, I've watched, uh, various angles and I wasn't sure at first, but I've made my definitive decision.
00:11:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm. Hmm.
00:11:38
Chris
So what did you make of the ARs, um, decision on this or stepping in?
00:11:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
what i will say is i've not had the chance to see it back but in the ground i just thought oh here we go again and there was that overriding feeling i think throughout the 90 minutes but where we went one and up and they had the ball a lot it did feel a little bit like a ticking time bomb until they nicked one and got back in the game um i just thought thought that was that i you know um
00:11:48
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:12:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
I didn't see anyone particularly appeal or complain for it. um I just think it was classic VAR and we were on the right end of the decision this time.
00:12:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know if it was the correct decision or not um from a neutral point of view but yeah I've not had the chance to see it back to be able to yeah have a definitive answer like you.
00:12:27
Chris
Okay, well, here we go then, here we go then. So the initial replays, I actually, and in the in original cluster, I can see why the ref just gave the goal because there's quite actually quite a few bodies in that area at once because like there was Dawson and Somato and it was very, very tight at that point. In like the space of like a meter, there was a bunch of bodies, but the initial replays and the one bizarrely that they actually showed to the ref on the monitor,
00:12:56
Chris
are the ones that made me think it wasn't, uh, it shouldn't have been disallowed and it was potentially a goal. It looked like Somato had just been kind of marginally pushed in the back and gone over, which is what most of the angles seem to show. Ironically,
00:13:10
Chris
The replay I've seen of it last out of all of that, which is not the one that I, as far as I'm aware, because I watched the coverage, was not the one the referee saw on the monitor. It's the one that shows the clearest um idea of why I actually now believe it was right to be disallowed, is because um the Southampton player that is coming through Somato from behind There's a camera angle on the far touch line, as in the Steve Ball touch line that looks back across the penalty area through all of the bodies.
00:13:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah.
00:13:39
Chris
So it's harder to see, but there is a clear moment where you see that as he's coming through him from behind, his leading leg goes through the back of Sommato's leg and takes his leg out from underneath him.
00:13:49
Chris
So it's not the push in the back. It's the leg to leg contact for me that pushes his leg down, and which pushes him down to the ground, immediately taking him out of the chance of of getting the ball.
00:13:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm.
00:13:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:14:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Look, you know my thoughts on it. I just think, you know, switch VAR off and just get on with it. But no, it's one of them. it's You know, we've been on the wrong end of a lot of those decisions, so if if it so happens, which as you're saying um or as you were initially thinking, if it so happened that we got a bit lucky with one, then brilliant.
00:14:16
Chris
Mm hmm.
00:14:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you know what I mean? i just If that is the case, or if people see that as an incorrect decision, then it's a long time coming for one of those to go in our favour.
00:14:38
Chris
Totally. But yeah, I think a lot of people are thinking it was soft. But as I say, look out for that other angle, because I believe that's the one that for me confirms it as the right call.
00:14:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hm.
00:14:49
Chris
Because I would i even I was like that and looks a bit soft.
00:14:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:14:51
Chris
But but that final angle I've seen remakes me think actually we've we've been done OK there.
00:14:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah and um you know we've been we've been recording now for 15 minutes chris and um you know there's been something on my mind um before before i clicked record actually and it will be afterwards and has been for a long while that i would like to talk about and i'd like you to to introduce this
00:15:04
Chris
Mm hmm.
Ruben Neves's Emotional Return
00:15:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
this next uh feature if you like
00:15:21
Chris
well well Yeah, well, we mentioned in the week in the um and previews that there was a certain someone visiting Wolverhampton this weekend. ah And it is the one in a Ruben Neves who was in town.
00:15:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
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00:15:35
Chris
there was lots of There was lots of little photos hitting social media before the game of like, we spotted him, all that kind of stuff.
00:15:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
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00:15:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:15:43
Chris
And obviously he got a lovely sing-along, ah which was fantastic. And we spoke about the fact that, you know, um he's always welcome back even though he is selling his home in Wolverhampton.
00:15:54
Chris
Sad times, sad times.
00:15:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yeah for a bigger one that's all yeah
00:15:57
Chris
for a bigger one, clearly. ah But yeah, it was lovely to see him.
00:15:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah
00:16:01
Chris
It was awesome to for him to come to you know his home, let's let's face it, his hometown, his home from home to visit the ground. And I did put out some tweets during the game.
00:16:12
Chris
ah And there was people posting the songs and of like everyone chanting at him in the box. And if you follow us ah at GSP and Wolves, I put about, Will must be in tears right now, because it's a beautiful moment.
00:16:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah i mean um you know at halftime ah itself um he came out obviously had a little chat um and it was when the whole ground started singing his song um he looked he looked very emotional and i don't i don't think he was the only one because i i was getting there and it was just i mean it was great it was great to have him there and great to see but it did just um remind me of those times that we had a few years back and what we were sort of dealing with now and it i don't know it upset me in a way but he said something he said something chris which i'm sure is something you'll agree with and get on board with is he he called for the fans he said i'm asking for just one thing from you is in the second half is we all we all pull in one direction you know it's this time where we all need to be together
00:17:04
Chris
Okay.
00:17:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
and support the team and luckily for us and for him um that's that's what happened we we managed to yeah turn a 1-0 victory we managed to not only hang on to the victory but we managed to keep a clean sheet and build
00:17:24
Chris
Mm hmm.
Cunha's Goal Celebration
00:17:41
Chris
and build and it's yeah and it is quite poetic that Kunya stuck scored an absolute stunner from like 25 yards in front of Ruben Neves, which is uh there was something quite poetic about that I thought and that did obviously seem to bolster the confidence as well you know being too nil up at home there seemed I know I know the game kind of died off a little bit but it did seem like it just
00:17:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
on that one lead and yeah
00:17:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:18:07
Chris
Obviously, you could feel a bit of the the relaxation and the confidence coming into the team, I thought.
00:18:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yeah yeah no 100% and i as much as um I mean, first of all, I want to mention how good of a strike that was from Cunha.
00:18:21
Chris
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00:18:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
You just saw of it when no one, no one closed him down and he seemed to have all the time in the world and you could see like the clogs in his brain going.
00:18:25
Chris
No.
00:18:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
And from where I sat as well, I sort of behind him, if that makes sense, as he moved ah out to that right hand side of the centre of the pitch, um when he set himself up, I just thought, go on, why not?
00:18:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Why not hit it? And it was a great strike.
00:18:45
Chris
Yeah, because you're in the Billy quiet stand, right?
00:18:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes, yes, unfortunately.
00:18:48
Chris
Yeah, so that's why. But yeah, it's it's one of those that makes the when you watch the replays even now, that in the moment, it was beautiful. But you watch the replays and it's one of those where the the way it hits the side knitting and goes around the the net ripple.
00:19:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:19:02
Chris
It's one of those where the net ripple is just scintillating. I know that's the weirdest thing in but
00:19:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. No, it's satisfying. It is satisfying.
00:19:11
Chris
there's something beautiful about the way they do that when it hits the inside of the side netting and the force on it makes it kind of roll around the whole net and it's just, yeah.
00:19:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
like you said the whole the whole you know action and the goal in general it was certainly yeah I had something poetic about it and um it's it's the one it's the one that confirmed our first three points this season but um yeah before we go on
00:19:28
Chris
But yeah, what a strike, what a strike.
00:19:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Chris to you know talk about where that leaves us going up from here you know um you mentioned a a moment ago that it certainly leaves us in a better place just being at one point adrift from safety now and um yeah looking to kick on now in terms of picking up more more wins as we go on I'd just like to give a quick reminder that this podcast is part of the global sports podcast network The Early Network bringing you exclusive daily news and views on your Premier League team, the Premier League, women's football and fantasy football.
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00:20:25
Chris
every day.
00:20:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, I've seen ah seen a few people In fact, the vast majority of Wolves fans are buzzing to get those points on the board, but b it does um just leave us in the situation that we spoke about earlier in the week.
00:20:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah You know, it does just feel a little bit like prolonging our suffering and our situation down in those relegation places and I just want to know your thoughts on that and O'Neill and the performance and where you see us being able to pick up another three points from. Bearing in mind that as much as we did well today to win, Southampton were poor. They were really, really poor I thought.
00:21:20
Chris
Yeah, I think ah ah in terms of, first of all, in terms of the table, yeah, it's it's nice that now, you know, six points unbeaten in three, you know, how do you want to take that to two draws and a win? I mean, particularly the comeback against Brighton was obviously a good starting point for that.
00:21:39
Chris
One points off Palace, who arguably, arguably, you know, the draw at least meant that we had against them and they're still kind of, you know, that they didn't get away from us as such. Southampton beating Everton, was it last weekend, obviously meant that ah that's kept them not too far away either.
00:21:56
Chris
And I know these aren't, you don't want to be thinking about this stuff, but it is good just mathematically that now that it just leaves us in that better position going in, as I say, into the break. So in terms of the table, I'm happy. Don't get me wrong, I'm not happy because we're still where we are 18.
00:22:10
Chris
But I'm much happier than I was this morning, and feeling that you know there's light potentially light at the end of the tunnel. In terms of the squad and O'Neal, I would like to think, particularly in terms of the squad, first of all, that being unbeaten in three getting the win finally in in with a clean sheet and the strike from Kunia.
00:22:32
Chris
I mean, the first goal even was another example, as we've said, of another beautiful...
00:22:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah.
00:22:37
Chris
Going forward is not really the problem.
00:22:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:22:39
Chris
We've scored beautiful goals. We saw another one in the first couple of minutes and then an absolute stunner from Kunia. And so, again, optimism for what is possible going forward. And I would like to think that the team at least will be feeling positive with, you know, having kind of nullified some of the losses for a period of time
Tactics and Management Discussion
00:22:57
Chris
and getting three points on the board.
00:22:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:23:00
Chris
As for what it means for O'Neill and them combined?
00:23:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
and this is the big one this is the big one yeah yeah no it would make no sense for him to go now after not going
00:23:05
Chris
Yeah, yeah. I think, I think he obviously I think he will stay. I think winning today will confirms that.
00:23:16
Chris
I don't, you know, I don't think I think it would be foolhardy now, or that they would, they would feel, I don't think they have, after a win. Yeah.
00:23:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
all these other times, it'd be bonkers, yeah.
00:23:33
Chris
Exactly. Exactly. and And I would, I'm going to hope that like we spoke about the fixtures still to come in the next month, the likes of is it Bournemouth, Fulham and so on, that this run of three games without a loss and finally getting the win and everyone feeling a bit more motivated that we can get some more wins or and more points on the board in the next few games. And and maybe, maybe it is,
00:24:02
Chris
Maybe it is time for optimism again.
00:24:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah i i like it i it's like you know um the all the optimism that we started off with you having i like the idea of it slowly blossoming once more um however i i'm naturally going to um do my best to put a stop to that uh no uh i just think um i just think i look at south hampton and i
00:24:17
Chris
It's rekindling, rekindling.
00:24:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
there's so many ah sort of similarities to us in a weird sort of way with you know a young english manager um and there's obvious quality with them being able to pass the ball and move it the way they do and it's like well that's brilliant but you do nothing with it you've got nothing to show for it and it's clearly not working as a tactic to win new football games um and I sort of I feel sorry for their fans in a way because I you know I couldn't sit and watch that every week. i I'd way rather be watching boring football and and it get results. The one thing that confused me, um and I don't know their name unfortunately, but they bought a strike one.
00:25:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Chris he must have been at least nine foot he was a giant he was he was massive and ah especially um when i saw him come on and i was thinking of set pieces i just thought just he may as well just stand like a statue at the back post and it's almost a guaranteed goal for them but But this is what I didn't understand.
00:25:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
They brought him on and i I remember watching it. I only remember it going long to him once. I remember them being too nil down with six minutes added time and taking a short goal kick.
00:25:56
Chris
Yep.
00:25:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I remember watching it just thinking, it's bonkers.
00:26:01
Chris
I mean, they, they, when we, sorry, but when we had the crossover with, you know, we spoke to the guys at GSP and Southampton, you know, they said he, that's what they do and they won't change that this manager they have now that's the formula and it won't change no matter what.
00:26:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
and And... Hmm.
00:26:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah i think that's i think that's stupid ah you know because it's going to cost in the long run and it evidently is i think you need to be you always need to be ah adaptable and um variable and that's something that i remember from only all last year um which was that
00:26:33
Chris
Mm.
00:26:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah we sort of had a style but we would change week in week out to match the opposition and to you know um sort of play to our strengths and play to their weaknesses also and we've seen none of that so far this year i just think um the phrase i'm gonna quote nathan um even though he's not here but the phrase papering over the cracks comes to mind because i think about it i think about um two excellent goals, you know a really nice goal from Sevabio earlier on a brilliant start but then a really poor performance again from both sides um for for the remainder of the first half and then second half I think we looked a little bit better but still barely kept the ball at any points and it was just a wonder strike from Cunha and I just think there's so many little
00:27:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
things, um you know, I think back to Brighton away and um how Doyle intercepted that pass. If Southampton's goal hadn't have been ruled out, you know, if there isn't just a complete wonder strike, you know, there's all these little minute things that sort of paint the picture for your destiny, really, in terms of when you're in the um the shoes of O'Neill and you you know you've got all that pressure on you these fine things it is fine margins at that yeah
00:28:04
Chris
But I mean, you can flip that in reverse to play devil's advocate in terms of you think back to, you know, the AR stepping in for the late goal, the man city one with, you know, that these things also go, if you think back enough, you analyze deeply enough, you can say the same on the flip side that there's been games that we've lost or, you know, whatever that where the similar decisions or similar moments and that's the beauty of sport and football right that on any given day any of these things could be just the complete opposite and would be halfway up the table so yes papering over the cracks but also potentially but then and there was a bunch of times today when people gave away the ball far too easily but then there's been other games where they've passed far more coherently been far far paid played far better
00:28:52
Chris
perform like massively better and not got the points. So yeah yeah it's yeah, I'm just.
00:28:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah no i do get your point i do i do 100% get your point and i suppose it's one of those whereby again to quote nathan um you make your own look in these situations and um it's just nice to be on the right side of it i i suppose my worry or my concerns are that the recent results and the two draws after that on well I accredit them to O'Neill's tactics or um you know I don't think that there's been a drastic change in the management of the team or certainly there hasn't to the naked eye at least, obviously we don't see behind the scenes.
00:29:39
Chris
i mean
00:29:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think it's come down to five margins that like you said could go you the other way but I just think in the bigger picture of going forwards you know in theory if we stay up I just can't see where the next step is I just I don't know I feel a bit of a sort of disconnection there
00:30:01
Chris
I hear you.
Substitution Strategy and Sarabia's Role
00:30:02
Chris
And again, I, and maybe maybe I don't know if it's for the sake of, I don't know if this is just the way I am in terms of wanting to create the discussion or because it's podcast or whatever, but I naturally have to give the counter, which is, you know, we you could argue though that we have seen some tweaks and changes recently.
00:30:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:30:20
Chris
Serabia, we were going for ages, like where is Serabia? We've seen him now two games on the trot. People booed him for the subs last week, and yet they actually came on and did well. Gueda's being involved in the goal, for example, in Stellar Form. Yes.
00:30:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah that's one of the things that i would have mentioned i don't think those subs won us the game ah well but they didn't win us they they got we got to do all
00:30:40
Chris
Okay, but Gueda's got an assist.
00:30:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yeah but i think it's these are very sort of basic things if that makes sense hmm yeah yes hmm
00:30:48
Chris
No, yeah, yeah, but I'm just pointing out we've seen shifts because earlier I swear it to you earlier in the end the season it feels like he wouldn't bring on you anyone until like five minutes to go when there was absolutely no proposition of them doing anything. Whereas we've seen changes more recently yeah earlier for one thing, just a shift in the clock. I mean that's a That's a change in in ah in a direction that we wanted, where he's no longer waiting until the 85th minute.
00:31:15
Chris
He's actually making them sometimes a half time, sometimes like 10 minutes into the second half. That's a shift.
00:31:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:31:20
Chris
Seeing Cerebio come on and start as a shift. We saw Rodrigo Gomez again today for the first time in an affinity. Where has he been?
00:31:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, this is what I was going to mention just then when you spoke about early on in the season only or not making any subs until it was sort of five minutes left. And it just reminded me, in an added time to today, we saw number two emerge from the bench.
00:31:40
Chris
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:31:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
I just thought, I just thought of you.
00:31:42
Chris
Yeah.
00:31:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
I just thought, you know, everyone's going home happy now. Doverties, come on. Rodrigo Gomez has played.
00:31:48
Chris
Yeah.
00:31:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Santiago Bueno started, completed 90 minutes on his birthday, was excellent.
00:31:53
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:31:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
We got three points. Nevers was in the crowd. It's looking, you know, if if you think back, yeah, if you think back a few weeks, as you just said, it's I suppose there's change in that sense.
00:32:01
Chris
Yeah.
00:32:07
Chris
So yeah, I'm playing devil's advocate and I'm playing Mr. Optimism that yes, whilst I do believe we've seen, and I've agreed and I said that, you know, I'm not, I'm confused by some of his panicky comments we've seen in the last couple of weeks.
00:32:22
Chris
And I believe some of that was literally panic like rabbit in the headlights comments that we've seen like with the appearances and things like that in terms of him being clearly fearful for his job and and what's going on.
00:32:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:32:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm. Yeah.
00:32:34
Chris
So not chained, not taking that away at all but just making the point that we have seen some shifts in approach or just little things here and there and you know I'm hey Serabi is playing I'm happy and he only came off because he got that knock in the first half and he didn't quite recover from
00:32:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
Fan Reactions and O'Neill's Management
00:32:54
Chris
it
00:32:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
um just Just to finish up with then, just on O'Neill, I want to speak about something that happened after the game, which was a small group in the staff making coverage of these fist pumps at full time.
00:33:09
Chris
Mmm, mmm, mmm.
00:33:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
I won't repeat what I said when I saw that, but I think, and this is probably wrong with me, but it's all those little comments like that that you just mentioned from O'Neill that have just made me grow to dislike a man who I thought was excellent for our football club just a couple of months back.
00:33:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've grown to sort of, yeah, I'm just, I'm out. Do you know what I mean? I'm not sold on on him anymore and it's, I don't think that'll change.
00:33:39
Chris
I get it. But the point, you know, we did what we needed to do today. And I'm say we, let's hope that, let's hope it is a step in the right direction. And I don't think, obviously, there's clearly as as those reactions show, there is still, it's not everyone that wants him out.
00:33:59
Chris
There's still a split in the fan base. There's still time for him to, you know, he's still in the job. So he's still got an opportunity to show people that he can do something. As long as you're in the job, you've got an opportunity to make it better, right?
00:34:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:34:12
Chris
And so he's got that chance. And I don't think, yes, it's Southampton. Yes, it it's a win, a potentially ugly win.
00:34:23
Chris
Well, not potentially, it is a slightly ugly win.
00:34:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:34:25
Chris
However, however, given the course of the season so far, I don't think it's just let them let them let off some steam is what I'm trying to say.
00:34:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:34:37
Chris
I mean, you know, it's been a long time coming and we're human and they're human.
00:34:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:34:42
Chris
And surely he, as much as anyone has been wanting that victory and letting off some steam and actually enjoying the three points. I mean, I'm not going to be grudging that to be honest.
00:34:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, it's more my issue would be with the fans are actually because the you know that those are the same people that are now going on to Twitter and complaining about him or were booing the subs the other week.
00:35:01
Chris
Mm. Yeah.
00:35:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
and you know my i think as much as yeah enjoy it let's have a bit of a sense of a reality check of we are still not in the greatest spot and it's just like never said pull together in the same direction and hopefully um this yeah this is now the turning point um what's that five points in my last three it's not awful um
00:35:34
Chris
No.
Optimism and Unity Among Fans
00:35:35
Chris
And you you mentioned the the fans reacting differently to how they did last week and so on, you know, te but obviously not everyone's in that bracket, but some may have been, again, as and as a person who's been around for a very long time, that's human nature and people are fickle and things will, you know, that that's what it is.
00:35:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yeah well on that note are there any are there any closing words from you as we conclude today's episode and we have some time off actually yeah
00:35:57
Chris
And I am Mr. Optimism and then I was Mr. pet Pessimistic and now I'm Mr. Optimism again. So, you know,
00:36:08
Chris
Just enjoy the fact that you can feel good this week, you know, or at least feel better. We've got some points. Enjoy the fact that there's a... Yeah, enjoy the fact that there is a break ah without feeling so miserable for a change, that there is potential delight at the end of the tunnel.
00:36:28
Chris
And as Will reminded everyone, yeah, we don't ah put out as many episodes during the international breaks, but we'll be here and there but for any, especially if any big news happens during any of that time.
00:36:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:36:40
Chris
And most importantly, remember that as we are beginning to see, Will, as we are beginning to see, I can almost glimpse it.
00:36:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Go on. Go on.
00:36:51
Chris
I can almost see it out of darkness, cometh light.