Southampton 2-1 Watford FC - 30/11/2019

City Gateway, bizarre aside, I have quoted to repaint that!! (I didn't get it)

 

QSF Will deploy a more attacking formation. Sarr, Deeney & Deulofeu will all start.

1-0 Saints.

 

Foster; Janmaat, Dawson/Cathcart, Kabasele, Masina; Doucoure, Capoue; Sarr, Pereyra, Deulofeu; Deeney.

Everyone is fit (mostly) and Southampton are slightly better than us but still cr@p, so it could be a good time to surprise them with a 4231. You know, the formation that he says he prefers to play. The same formation we played at Wolves and looked like we had no idea what we were doing. Oh...

 

Yep their defence is woeful. We have to go for it. I'm not overly convinced that this manager will change formation from the last 500 games though and I'm really not convinced he can get the best out of our attacking players either. We'll see.

 

I’m going to this with a group of mates for our annual Christmas get together, now we’re all spread across the country (it’s the only weekend we could all do).

Early predictions are that the football will be the worst bit of the day, I’ll be talking up the chances of my ambitious BTTS 12 fold landing at half time before sheepishly binning it 5 minutes into the second half and that the train strikes out of Euston wont spoil a good day on the beer.

2-2.

 

If Dawson is out, we can't play 5-3-2. Have to try and outscore them, which will be good banter at least.

 

Walt wasn’t great for us, but he’s in an entirely different league than Quique.

Quique is an absolutely terrible manager.

 

Oh but we can and we will. Mariappa, Kabasele and Cathcart, the defence has never looked so good...

 

Need to start Sarr

Might as well

Can't be any worse

 

Boufal injured tackling the kitchen table!

 

Something Gino thought, presumably Walt was hired as an upgrade on QSF in the first place. I reckon Gino lumped ££££ on relegation pre-season.

 

Dawson, Kabasele and Janmaat out. Good luck to those going to Soton, it's gonna be tragic

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Bloody hell. So Femenia, Holebas, Mariappa, Cathcart and AN Other in the back 5 ? We'll need to score 4 for a point.

 

Have you ever known a squad with more p_ussies in it than our current one? No wonder we are rock bottom, there isn't a drop of pride or guts between them.

 

My favourite bit is the way Flores is trotting out cliches about players 'not being risked' like we're ******* 11th.

He has no idea.

 

If he makes us play three centrebacks from this available squad, I will explode. I will literally, physically explode. Very painful and very messy, unpleasant all round. And it'll all be Quique's fault.

 

He has to 4-3-3. Anything else and he needs to be sacked. A back 4 of Cathcart, Maps, Femenia and Holesbas is very weak, but if he compounds it by playing Masina then I think QSF times up. That said I think we will lose regardless of his team selection.

 

Can Isaac Success or Troy Deeney play CB? In fact play one of them in defence and the other one up front.

 

If plays Masina at CB he’s an idiot.

 

Is Prodl fit/alive?

 

He’s alive and well and thoroughly enjoying his 40k per week contract.

 

That’s a blatant lie.

It’s £50k.

 

That's depressing but true. He's even scored a few own goals defending set pieces. Stick him in the back three.

 

And injured. Again.

 

Bit harsh on Masina, he's only following orders...

 

We do not have a defence. We all knew this, but now we really don't have a defence for the sack of the day game.
What a shower of s**t this club is.
We can only hope to keep the score down to a decent amount.
Would love a win, but l just can not see it happening.
This game doesn't seem to be of much interest to the fans judging by the lack of traffic on this thread.

 

Our “injury” crisis is no coincidence.

The players do not want to play for Flores. Why would they? Look at the way he sets up each game. We do not have an attack / counter plan whatsoever, he just prays that someone works a bit of magic. He is the most uninspiring manager in football.

The second a player gets the slightest knock or strain they’ll say thanks but no thanks and happily sit on the bench while the team self destructs on the pitch. It’s no coincidence we’ve had 7 first half subs in a row. They don’t fancy it and neither do I.

 

They sewed his head to Kabasele's bum. We're working on a human centipede.

 

I realised on Monday that I'm in the neighbourhood this week. Surprised I was able to get a ticket

 

I'd stick Gomes on pitch for this one. Let's at least have some fun about it.

 

Success can't play in his favourite position.

 

Masina is going to be the third centre back isn't he. The excuse being that they haven't worked on the 442 yet.

 

Well it's all pointing to defeat and a third "head coach" of the season before we've even got to Christmas.

The press will go into meltdown, whilst Watford fans will just breathe a sigh of relief that Flores is on his and bike and has taken his turgid, soul crushing football with him. Our thoughts will turn to the new bloke, who we hope is a footballing genius that can polish the most unpleasant of turds.

After we Google the new coach to find out who the hell he is, we'll shrug and look for crumbs of comfort in his mixed CV.