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Daily Southampton: Episode 125 - Match Review Monday - WE WON!
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Southampton – We ermerged victorious from our visit to Ipswich this weekend! In a rarely seent this season show of positivity from Match Review Monday we give our thoughts!
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00:00:09
Zak
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, Southampton fans. We are reviewing a win. That's right. You didn't need to readjust your headphones. We actually won a game. Huzzah. I am joined by the entirety of the GSP and Southampton team. Gregory, mate, how are you doing?
00:00:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I'm absolutely buzzing, it's been a...
00:00:32
Zak
It's been a while.
00:00:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Saint hasn't ruined my weekend! What a time to be alive!
00:00:34
Zak
It's so weird. Oscar, how are you, mate?
00:00:38
Oscar
Yeah, yeah, buzzing.
00:00:40
Zak
Good! We're all weirdly on the same page, and I'm not gonna lie, for about 80% of that match, I was not on the same page. For a long part of that game. ultimately, all that matters is we won a winner from Paul and Ouchu, which realistically, I would have counted as a winner from Soleimada,
00:00:58
Zak
which means that I'm about o a couple of... i I'm a poor save away from having to spend money on a New South Hamptons shirt, that's where I'm at. Obviously, if people don't know, I've got a bet going on with the State Tech Work Podcast where if Sulemana scores a match-winning goal... But I have to buy a shirt with his name on it. I thought that was the safest bet in history. Not looking likely anymore, but there we are. obviously, it was a bit of a weird one. We came into it with a bit of a changed lineup. So how does everybody feel about the lineup? And then we can talk about subs and that kind of stuff too. Oscar, what did you think? Were you happy with the lineup?
00:01:39
Oscar
Yeah I mean i don't I don't know that the shape was dramatically different but I think Wellington I think added a bit of dynamism that I think was missing out that side um um and Gromback I think took a little bit of time to get into it but once he got into the swing of things I think he looked good so you know maybe it's just the sort of breath of fresh air that we needed and and not a team not players that are ah ah just used to keeping the ball for uh for the sake of keeping it because i did know that we we won a game with less possession as well which i think that's what Martin would be disgusted with but you know we take it
00:02:12
Zak
Badly.
00:02:16
Zak
I think I think that that is key for me and that was one of the things is having these players who have not been how do I put I don't want to say tainted yeah that' that that's a big part of it but like going back to to Greg consistently banging all about philosophies like you've got players that have come in and they've just kind of played football
00:02:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
mentally beaten down.
00:02:37
Zak
And it turns out if you just play football to win the game and not try and stick rigidly to a specific way, obviously you've got instructions from your manager and stuff, it you end up with what we had yesterday which is maybe a win. So um obviously I was very very happy with Wellington and Gromback who also surprised me because I didn't really know what to expect with him considering he was kind of in in favor for the first half of Ren's season and completely dropped out of it under a new manager and then we randomly took him in on loan and he was very much talking in his interview about sort of how it's an opportunity to do something special and I'm just kind of like
00:03:09
Zak
Ha, just feels like you won a couple of games. i Obviously got his start today. Same with Wellington. So yeah, i was I was real happy. What about you, Greg? What did you make of the debutants and the team in general?
00:03:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, i think I think it was good. I think it was solid. We just seemed to be a bit more creative, but it was more notably the mentality, I think, for me, that that shone through.
00:03:31
Zak
Mmm.
00:03:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
that we like We didn't panic at an equalizer. Our heads didn't drop. We sort of snuck with it. We weren't fantastically aggressive and dynamic the entire game.
00:03:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
But we stuck at it and got our award in the end. So yeah I think that some names on the team sheet did better than others. Yeah, are you said about talking about subs. I mean, did we just bring Stevens back too early? Is that where we're at?
00:04:04
Zak
Oh, oh, 100%. He must have not been fit enough to play properly if he managed if he went down after nine minutes. like I'm sorry. some Someone somewhere has made a decision potentially to put him on the bench, probably not expecting him to actually play.
00:04:18
Zak
but That's what I think personally. And he's come back on and he's like, yeah, nah, I've messed it up. Waste of a substitution slot.
00:04:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
How would Bellis go in? How would Bellis go in off because of injury you think or something a bit but more to it?
00:04:29
Zak
I mean his performance in the first half weren't great either, if I'm totally honest, and which resulted in us having a Reebo like centre back for a significantly longer period of time than a Reebo should have been centre back. Because originally I thought of Smallbane, but I thought he was sort of moving him back into that position. But no, I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty much all of the substitutions of this this game I was against and I don't really care now because We won it. I was baffled by many of the decisions, but I guess I'm not a football manager. So, you know, I play the game. The game is very, very different to how actual humans react. And, you know, I'm pretty sure most people would have sort of, I saw a lot of discourse about Armabella Koch up again, how he's supposed to be our best center back ever, blah, blah, blah.
00:05:14
Zak
I'm sorry to all of those people. how When you do not get picked by two managers and you are your midfielder is pushed back into centre-back over you, because apparently he thinks that he would play better in James Bree.
00:05:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, a 65-minute leggy Joaribo getting pushed back there speaks volumes about what Durridge thinks is Bellacott Chapel Center.
00:05:31
Zak
i
00:05:31
Oscar
I guess that's what needs to say, doesn't it? Yeah.
00:05:33
Zak
It's just like, obviously he's not come out in public and, you know, I would be the kind of character he is. I'd expect him to maybe just be honest about that, but maybe there's stuff going on behind the scenes. But like then you, there has to be decision-making there. And I feel like it can't be the two managers in a row who are completely different people have come to the same conclusion and he's not started or playing. And you know, where I'm at is there must be reasons behind that.
00:06:02
Zak
And you know I know that everyone thinks that it's we're crying out for him all the time. and But like you know ah ah James Breeze has been solid. Nathan Wood's been pretty solid. I just don't see him getting ahead of them because he had a couple of gay good games back in 2022.
00:06:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:06:17
Zak
He didn't get bought by the club that he went out on loan to. He's still not played. He's still not played the under 20. You can see him in the under 21s because he was training with the first team. Maybe we'll see him and maybe we'll be wrong, like with Solomona and Onewachi. But the difference is is that both of them have done ah enough enough to impress the new manager to get in the starting lineup. So weird weird substitution, maybe. But again, the whole Stevens thing, like bringing it back to our original point, yeah, 100% he was brought back too early. Like he's obviously not over his injury or otherwise you wouldn't go off after nine minutes, would you?
00:06:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
but I didn't know if it was the same injury or he just picked up a different one and that's sort of the stage he's at. It was something with his ankle it looked like but I don't know what he was out with in the first place.
00:06:58
Oscar
they've they'd be quite quiet with what is yeah They've been quite quiet with what his injury was in the first place, but I think they said yesterday that it was muscular. I think Europe said that the das was yeah he said Stevens was muscular and Harwood Bellis was to do with his ankle, supposedly.
00:07:07
Zak
Yeah, it looked like he was grabbing his leg constantly.
00:07:13
Oscar
but he But I think they said Harwood Bellis should be fine. Stevens is a bit more of a concern.
00:07:19
Zak
I feel bad for him. It's kind of weird. like i'm I'm not a huge advocate of him coming straight back in after what's been going on and maybe he'll be eased back into it kind of thing anyway.
00:07:30
Zak
And you know, it must it must suck and then watching him put the captain's arm back on to then just take it off five minutes later. Yeah, it can't be it can't be nice and it can't be like it's but they ultimately it's like whatever to win the season.
00:07:37
Oscar
Hmm.
00:07:44
Zak
I think you summed up Greg, right? Like how much of the season has he missed you to suspension at this point? Like 43% or something?
00:07:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
it But at Christmas it was about 43% but I feel it dropped now because of injury.
00:07:52
Zak
Yeah, obviously on top of injuries like it's not ideal. Maybe he'll come back. Maybe he'll he'll put in but like would you drop anyone for him?
00:08:03
Zak
I feel like Taylor Howard-Bellis has dropped a little bit out of form recently and I can see mainly it being frustration. You know he was he was a sort of, was a fault for the goal but Manchester United, one of the goals towards the end, he's he's kind of not being as defensively strong in my opinion as Jan but again like it must be really hard to go
00:08:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
If he's gone off with a knot, maybe he's been nursing something quietly as well.
00:08:27
Zak
Potentially, it's it's got to be hard that you've you've stepped up to this sort of senior position in the team.
00:08:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
it's
00:08:32
Zak
We forget he's not he's not as old as we think he is. you know It's got to be difficult.
00:08:37
Oscar
he's He's been, I think he's been a little bit rash. I think that even the second there goal yesterday, he's come flying out to try and get ahead of the, all right, yeah, if he wins it, he's done well, but he's got nowhere near it. He's fjn2v1, so.
00:08:49
Zak
Russell Martin bravery that's instilled into all of our team now bravery which has resulted in us shipping more goals than from mistakes than any other team but obviously we'll chat some more about it just
00:08:51
Oscar
Hmm.
00:08:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
the old adage about there being a fine line between brave and stupid.
00:09:05
Zak
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00:09:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
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00:09:40
Zak
Right, we are back. So obviously the first half was a bit dramatic. We saw us go ahead and us do that other thing that we do, which is collapse. But they're not actually collapsed this time. We managed to make it to half time with it being 1-0. So what did you make of the Oribogo Oscar? Have you got a chance to see it?
00:09:59
Oscar
Yeah, ah it was it was refreshingly caused by a big long ball up to up to your six foot ten striker and a knockdown is what started the attack up and I do find it interesting because actually you know I don't want to go back to Russell Martin too much but you would have thought given the big criticism is you've got no plan B it's all playing out from the back. Playing out from the backcky back encourages the other team to press who better than to have to break that press than a tall striker that you can knock it straight over all of them.
00:10:31
Oscar
So I'm surprised that he didn't use it when you've got probably the best option for it. But anyway, it worked, knocked down, look, it's it's ah ah it's ah ah not the prettiest finish in the world, but to be honest, it probably actually helped, because if he hits that clean, it's probably going about six miles over the bar.
00:10:45
Oscar
So sometimes, you know, you need the you need the gods with you, and I think on this time, it was, so yeah.
00:10:53
Zak
kind care kind of wholeheartedly agree about you in the same boat Greg or is anything anything to add?
00:10:53
Oscar
Can't complain about a goal.
00:11:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, I thought it was, yeah, great, scored a goal. Fantastic. Does that take a Rebo to our top scorer of the season now?
00:11:04
Zak
just
00:11:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Is that three he's got?
00:11:09
Zak
Maybe? I don't know I'm waiting for any of them to get past two at this point right like that that seems to be stunning
00:11:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
think I think that's his third goal. I think so. I'll look it up while we move on.
00:11:20
Oscar
have a look
00:11:22
Zak
put put him up front. so Yeah, obviously, however, we do need to talk about about their goal. So that was bit ah was a bit hairy, right? I feel like we probably should have done better defensively. Obviously, that was what I can only refer to as the social media meltdown started, which was very, very quickly cut off once we actually won a game. But that that was our typical usual oh here we go again from sort of probably a situation where most people should have done better and yeah it's less than i ideal but obviously the fact that we were able to hold on afterwards and you know some of that's due to the fact that they they missed a lot of their chances but some of it's also good defending Ramsdale put some you know heavy saves in as well to keep us level
00:12:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
So he had one, one on one save that I don't think McCarthy makes. So that's the difference, right?
00:12:14
Oscar
I think ultimately there's probably the difference between the two teams because Miurich probably could have done better with both goals.
00:12:15
Zak
very much so.
00:12:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:12:20
Zak
yeah
00:12:20
Oscar
So that's where spending that, you know, 20 odd million on Ramsdale, you know, has probably got us three points in that game. so
00:12:29
Zak
Yeah, that's that's the thing, right? like it's I know that we we we've discussed discussed previously, if we'd gone in for Liam Dilapp, would we have potentially been better off than actually if we'd actually got him?
00:12:39
Zak
Potentially, but if we hadn't managed to pull off the Ramsdale sort of transfer, it wouldn't matter if we managed to get through some of the games with three goals, we'd have definitely conceded four. you know we we've Most of us have been there for the games of you know and it's not...
00:12:50
Oscar
yeah that's true
00:12:54
Zak
It's not too much criticism. While Alex McCarthy and Joe Lovely, they're just not as good as Ramster. Simple as that, really. And, you know, with some of the mistakes we've made this season, they they were always going to ship goals.
00:13:01
Oscar
yeah
00:13:05
Zak
So it's nice that to have. It's going to be sad when he goes and then he can add another accolade of re-relegation to his, his his what, like utility belt of relegations at this point before he goes on to clearly better and brighter things.
00:13:15
Oscar
Yeah, that's true.
00:13:19
Zak
Or it would stay. I can't see it happening. We probably want to get the money back by that point. but
00:13:23
Oscar
Do you not have faith that we're going to stay up now then?
00:13:24
Zak
Strange things.
00:13:26
Oscar
Is this not the start of the comeback?
00:13:27
Zak
Why? Right. is this all right So let's let's get into that. No, at not at all. We but you actually beat the team above us where pretty much the rest of the season and all of last season, if you had told me during the championship that we're coming up against Ipswich, and I'm i'm sorry to Ipswich fans, I would have said we should have beaten them comfortably.
00:13:49
Zak
And I don't think that really should have massively changed from us coming up. Obviously we made a real big struggle with the first time around and drew with them and I wasn't confident we were going to beat them. I kind of ah ah thought if we did we would scrape past them and we I guess we we kind of did but we we did it through two goals so it's not not like we scraped scrape past them but I still see us going on to struggle against other teams. If it it does boost their confidence and we get to a point where all of a sudden we start picking up two or three wins.
00:14:23
Zak
who Who knows? Stranger things have happened. And I think the state of the bottom of the table, and you know even looking at like even looking like teams at like Spurs and United and stuff, like anything's possible this season.
00:14:35
Zak
But that would be truly the greatest escape of all time. And I would rather not boost any level of self-confidence that we can manage it.
00:14:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
I just, I just think that they're just a bit too far out of reach if we're being honest, you'd want, you'd want another team, you'd really, you'd like Everton to have four less points to be right down amongst it because
00:14:50
Oscar
Yeah, yeah, of course.
00:15:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Realistically, we've only got Wolves, Leicester and Ipswich to get past and of those teams, based on current form, even if we go on a proper streak, it just feels like Leicester's the most likely, right, to to clinch it.
00:15:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, even Wolves got a win yesterday. It's a long way away.
00:15:21
Oscar
and Konya has just died until...
00:15:21
Zak
yeah it's got it why You say that, Everton, Everton beat Leicester 4-0. Obviously, we be we beat Ipswich.
00:15:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:27
Zak
and It's still a long way, though, so look at the table. We now have nine, and Wolves are in 17th with 19.
00:15:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm more confident that we're not going to be the worst team in Premier League history, and now I may be fancy our chances against Burnley next week.
00:15:34
Zak
say
00:15:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's the optimism we've got to take from it.
00:15:43
Oscar
That's... The thing I'll say as well is if we can get that monkey off off our back of being the worst Premier League team and they suddenly do get over the next few games, if they do get that 11-point mark, all of a sudden the pressure's off.
00:15:56
Oscar
what They can't lose much for the rest of the season. And so maybe that might help might help take the handbrake off a little bit.
00:16:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:03
Oscar
So I'm not saying that I think we will stay up, but, you know, from it.
00:16:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Maybe we give ourselves a better go of it.
00:16:07
Zak
if it If it means that we can yeah if it means we could get more entertainment out of the rest of the season, I'm kind of there at this point because I don't know how many more like harrowing 5-0 drabbings I can manage.
00:16:15
Oscar
Yeah.
00:16:19
Zak
It i just i should not be the norm at this point, but it's feeling and starting to become the norm. So this is like a little bright spark. And again, like I flicked back to that Sheffield United fan that just said you need to enjoy every single moment, every single goal, every single win, you know, for this weekend we we won. it Was it scrappy? Yeah. Was it in a way that we would have probably won any of the games that we were intending to previously? No.
00:16:45
Zak
Did we get it over the line, though? Yeah. Somehow, we managed to hold onto a lead.
00:16:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:49
Zak
We managed to hold onto a lead when it went into extra time. That extra time, it didn't feel like we were threatening too much either. So it's just just it's just nice.
00:16:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
The only thing I'm a bit sad about is that that exact series of events didn't happen at St Mary's because a Rebo scoring first is always going to light the crowd on fire with that song. And then a tall pool winner might just blow the roof off St Mary's. That would really be the icing on the cake.
00:17:17
Zak
I have some thoughts on that, so oh I'll hold you to it once we hear from our partners at the Global Sports Podcast Network. So the Global Sports Podcast Network is changing the face of football podcasting with dedicated daily content for every Premier League team, women's football, fancy football, and a daily Premier League wrap-up, broadcasted in five different languages. This is your one-stop shop for your daily football fix. Find GSPN wherever you find your usual podcasts. We are back.
00:17:50
Zak
um
00:17:52
Zak
If it happens at home and we go 1-0 up and Joe Rebo scores, right and then they equalise, what's the fan's reaction at that point? know Because i've I've noticed that that is that is a thing that sometimes can happen that becomes difficult and is one of the maybe contributing factors to the mentality at home specifically, is that the crowd is really good in parts. But there are times where our frustrations boil over. And like I'm talking about it personally as well. And it's like, oh, here we go. We're falling apart again. And like if everyone in the stadium has that level of energy,
00:18:30
Zak
surely that's absorbed on the field whereas when we play away like our away fans are amazing mainly because you've got you know usually sell out crowds going to towards the bottom of the premier league not really expecting much so quite happy to just have a day out and sing along the way so like it would be incredible Greg but I wonder you know would it have happened at St Mary's?
00:18:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know. Well I guess the real answer is that we'll likely find out in the next few weeks. We've got plenty of games at home to ah to to to work on that.
00:18:56
Zak
Exactly and that's again, it's not It's not really to criticize because like I can understand when you're paying week in week out so much money to go and see drops but like I think that I guess like maybe being behind enemy lines and having the sort of extra um of knowing that you know, how much the away fans I guess contribute in my head potentially makes it a more exciting fixture. There's a lot of ifs, buts and ands there, I'm very aware. It's just it wasn't unnoticed to me like how much better I think we are support when we're away than sometimes we are at home and I can understand why but obviously in my head it has an effect.
00:19:55
Zak
So, Toolpool scored a goal. A second goal after having no end product for so far the entirety of the season, the entirety of the season he played for us before, we've now had two goals and three games.
00:20:08
Zak
Greg, what do you think? You're happy with Toolpool, right?
00:20:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:11
Zak
Now, are you a believer?
00:20:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, he's scoring goals. What more do you want?
00:20:12
Zak
Are you reformed?
00:20:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Uh, look, it it was a goal that was scored purely out of want. Like he wanted that ball more than the defender. So he got there and scored it. Uh, and that was, that was the, what made the difference.
00:20:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
And what more can you ask for? That's, that is all we ask for from our team is to put their all in and want it. He put that fight in and and got to the ball first. Great.
00:20:38
Oscar
think criticism I criticism I had of him in the past but it was his movement and to be fair he showed good reaction to that ball.
00:20:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Good. Long may it continue.
00:20:45
Oscar
he was He was alert to it and on the move before he'd even saved it he was already going and stretching those long legs out.
00:20:46
Zak
don still' expect to get to
00:20:53
Oscar
He's he's got a tail on it so fair play to the lad.
00:20:55
Zak
100%, because I'm not going to lie, the rest of the game, there was a lot of the game where the ball was getting to him and going miles away insu it into the Ipswich players, or alternatively out, and it was like, um Ramsdale may has been may have been kicking it out, and he was doing my head in, and honestly, he was one of the players that I was like, I'm surprised we didn't sub him off.
00:21:13
Zak
So, you know, I ah feel bad for that. I'll come to Oscar on. So obviously, Tall Paul gets the plaudits, but the man that really changed the game that Ipswich didn't have an answer for was obviously Salamana, who was out with injury, was slightly worrying. I was worried he would come back and not be the same Silamana that left, you know not as bad as his long-term injury previously, but I was worried that that was potentially what's going to happen.
00:21:37
Zak
He came back in, it was his strike that resulted in that goal realistically, if he's not pulling off that hit, that that hit I don't think you were going to get Paul scoring off the recovery of it, so what do you think of him?
00:21:48
Oscar
And the and the the positivity, right? Like, again, I don't think something we would have necessarily seen under Martin, and it's not criticism, it's just, ah you know, that is the way he wants to play, and probably why he didn't get the best out of Sulimana, because he is, I'm going to get the ball, I'm going to get out of someone, I'm going to try and shoot most likely, or...
00:21:51
Zak
and
00:22:04
Oscar
or vaguely attempt to cross. but And that's probably why you're seeing better of him now, because he is that. And I think it probably helps coming on against tied leg. A bit like, I think I was just someone talking about it with Onuachi, like sometimes when he's been playing for a whole game, he does look a bit leggy towards the end and he's not, and he can be quite effective when he's fresh.
00:22:21
Oscar
And I think that was the case with Sulimana. And probably as a full back, if you've been playing for a sort of 70, 80 minutes, he's probably the last play you want to see from Southampton come on, maybe be dibbling as well.
00:22:34
Oscar
as as I'm sure Leno Yorra will attest to from Man United. So yeah, I think, again, fair play to him because he he has knuckled down. I know he's done things that that not everyone's been happy with at times, but he hasn't ever really at least outwardly moaned and and he's been given a chance and he's taking it.
00:22:53
Oscar
So hopefully maybe we just need to manage him in a way if he has got this long-term injury where he does come and do fits and bursts rather than can be one that we rely on for 90 minutes.
00:22:54
Zak
yeah
00:23:02
Oscar
but
00:23:03
Zak
Yeah.
00:23:04
Oscar
but just have to sort of see but yeah fair play i didn't think it was going to come around i'm sure you didn't judging on your bet so
00:23:11
Zak
Not at all. I'm not going to lie. Yeah, 100% not. i'm I'm really, really glad to say it. Obviously, we we saw Adam Lallana get on the field again for more than like five minutes, which was wild.
00:23:22
Zak
I can't remember seeing him a lot, but I'm guessing you can see that he was organizing the sort of, I guess, the calmness on the field a little bit towards the end. I did feel for Dibbling not being able to, but it made sense if Wellington went down, was already on a card. I felt bad that he kind of got stripped and ready and then didn't get to see the win through. But, you know, is what it is. And again, like the fact that We have a manager now that's ready to make those kind of big calls because I feel bad for the one time that Solomona did get a chance under Martin and he got subbed off within five minutes to kind of try and revert back to playing the exact same way we'd played previously, despite being sort of 4-0 down by that point.
00:23:58
Zak
So, yeah.
00:23:58
Oscar
To be fair, I think Lalana was the one that was sort of encouraging him to get up the pitch a bit more and adding a bit more of a voice, which is that's where we need him at this point.
00:24:06
Zak
Yeah, leadership qualities.
00:24:07
Oscar
And yeah, okay, if he can only do bits and pieces, that's fine, but his experience and getting them up, I think partially is what led to us scoring that goal rather than just, I think in the past, we might've got deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper and pushed back till eventually they got one in.
00:24:20
Oscar
So maybe that maybe that had an impact.
00:24:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, you're right. You can see in the build up to the goal him literally ushering players up the pitch and shouting. So, uh, yeah, i it raised an eyebrow when, you know, we took off big less and bought him on, but you're right.
00:24:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
That was the the voice of experience and. Positivity that we needed to get to that point and get the goal. So great.
00:24:43
Zak
This is what I mean.
00:24:44
Oscar
I'm sure it would have been different if we'd conceded one.
00:24:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:46
Zak
In fact, true.
00:24:47
Zak
But this is this is also, I guess, what I mean, where as fans, we all have the right to voice our opinion. I can be as mad as I want about certain substitutions.
00:24:57
Zak
That doesn't mean that we're not going to question them. But ultimately, like when these decisions are made, you know, these these managers are paid significantly large amounts of money and have been, in you know, jerks been in football management for for a long old time.
00:25:10
Zak
And like, you know, maybe in the future, we'll look back on the way that we had Russell Martin like we do with Pochettino now, which is, wasn't it great that we gave him his first opportunity into English management? But ultimately, you know, not having a plan, we really did screw him up. And it does now feel like we we sometimes play the game differently depending on our opposition and it's actually really really lovely to see and sometimes that means that we are not going to see like for like substitutions that we would expect and that's kind of how I felt yesterday is I feel like oh well that's kind of mad we should have brought this person we should have brought that person on.
00:25:42
Zak
ultimately what he did and the changes that he made and the players that came on are the ones that changed the game and and won it. So long may us be wrong, long may myself be wrong in all of my predictions if it means that we consistently win.
00:25:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:57
Zak
Do I think we're going to go on to win every game the rest of the season though? Am I more confident that we can now beat that horrible, horrible points record? Yes. The fact that that is now the goal when we have podcasts earlier this season where we laugh about it is insanity. So, Greg, any final or thoughts for today, mate?
00:26:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, that's it. the Look, if we're talking mathematically, the only thing that's impossible is winning the league. So we could still be on for a European run next year.
00:26:24
Zak
you're still that good
00:26:26
Oscar
If we can get the red stripes back out for Southampton in Europa, then I'm all for it.
00:26:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's it.
00:26:30
Oscar
what one I do have one thing which I think was my favourite moment of the day.
00:26:31
Zak
and he i was sweet costcarro
00:26:35
Oscar
I don't know if you've seen the video of when we scored Aaron Ramsdale knee sliding to the Ipswich Rams.
00:26:39
Zak
The knee slide, yes!
00:26:41
Oscar
I don't think they appreciated it very much. but That is prime vintage Aaron Ramsdale.
00:26:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
but
00:26:46
Oscar
That's what we signed him for.
00:26:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's it.
00:26:48
Zak
Oh, absolute heritage. Wonderful. Well, I think that's going to wrap up this extremely positive and happy match review where I'm sure we'll be back to the misery of ah rest of the season.
00:27:01
Zak
After that, not much longer. So thank you very much for joining us today, Saints fans. We are all over the social medias. We are on Facebook now. We have a new Facebook page. We're on X slash Twitter. We are on Blue Sky. We are on YouTube where we're under the official GSPN.
00:27:18
Zak
YouTube channel now. We also have an Instagram and a TikTok. That's a lot of social media, my lord. yeah, we're we're all over there. and and Obviously, let us know what your thoughts on the match are. Are you as happy as we are? Do you think it's just a a positive bump in the road towards misery? And even if it is, shall we all just enjoy it? I know I will. So thank you and goodbye.