Chuffed with the result. Another excellent win on the road. Southampton have been good at home this season - to take 3 points cannot be understated.
I'm still not sure 4-4-2 is the way to go. Eriksen is one of our best players, and he doesn't really fit into that formation, unless we play a diamond midfield and have Sandro/Capoue on the pitch holding. The flat 4 across the middle is outdated, and we would have conceded more against a better side, possibly without the 3 goals as well.
Defensively we were poor. I actually thought Rose was the worst of them. He seemed shaky when defending and didn't link up with Siggy going forward. Speaking of Siggy, why oh why do we play him on the left? THAT IS NOT HIS POSITION. HE'S NOT EVEN LEFT FOOTED FOR FUCK SAKE. Chadli is a natural winger - I don't know why he was sat on the bench from the start. It makes no sense. It annoyed me when AVB done it (endlessly), and it annoys me know. Stop it, Tim. He has no attributes to suggest he is a winger.
Lamela looked low on confidence, never really putting 100% into beating his man or getting a shot off. But I think we should keep playing him - it'll come. No point constantly starting him/dropping him.
Adebayor was excellent again (as he was against West Ham). I just pray that he continues his form and we see the Ade of 2 years ago. If so, we will have great competition for places and a good crack at top 4.
Lloris needs to be more stable between the posts. Punching from corners is one thing (which annoys the fuck out of me) but mistiming his runs out of goal is costing us. The pen against Man Utd was only a couple weeks ago.
It was nice to see Nabil get on, but if I was Holtby I'd have been pretty pissed off. He has been one of our best players of late, and he gets snubbed for an unproven youngster. I know the boys need a chance at some point, and he did nothing wrong when he came on, but Holtby isn't old either, and recent game time has done him the world of good. He can play in a flat 4, and should start instead of Dembélé next game, who I thought was poor (and has been this season).
Still don't want Timmy given a contract, but I am not liking a lot of the names linked with us either. The latest - Van Gaal. Just no.