A trip to the Seaside - Southampton Away, 19/12/15

[Totti]

I missed the game so just had a look at the passing stats....
Today we recorded our lowest number of forward passes this season.
Our forward pass completion rate (61%) was also the lowest for the season (which is more worrying).
Our number of passes in the attacking third was the second lowest for the season.
Looking at the overall pass pattern it seems that a lot of long balls went astray.
Maybe our pressing and/or ball recovery rate made up for the poor passing.

Clean sheet and a 2-0 win. That'll do.

 

[Super Jan Fan]

Great that we are in fourth on GOAL DIFFERENCE. When was the last time we were ahead of anyone on goal difference?

 

[scott]

Great photo of our HK scoring:

So proud of our lads again.

If we can win our next two games against Watford & Norwich, we will be right in the mix for the top places and hopefully ahead of those cunts in red.

COYS!!

at the beginning of the season a dog would have run on & blocked his shot on the line.

 

[SouthStand Billy]

Poch got it all wrong Chadli and caroll instead of Son and Bentaleb :avbfacepalm:

We win away 0-2 and Poch got it ALL wrong.???. You're a strange kind of fan..

 

[Maccer]

Was good having Moose back today, we look a better team with him about.

 

[Natty Roots]

Hail father of Zion.
We walk brothers and sisters out of thee wilderness .
Top 4 our spear of destiny .
Rejoice the king of kings is upon us .
Bombastic bushwasha fuckery, Natty well concious .

 

[Spurs1882DW]

Get in there, great result and up to fourth. #COYS

 

[The Dane]

I think Lamela has been much worse than Eriksen.

Harsh perhaps, but I just think he has the decisionmaking of a vastly inferior player.

Think he's been probably our best player lately

 

[Gatsby]

So glad to have Moussa potentially back this weekend.

Dembele receives the ball
Gets hit by a bus
Retains possession.

 

[n17troops]

at the beginning of the season a dog would have run on & blocked his shot on the line.

 

[Deuce]

 

[SouthStand Billy]

Absolutely delighted with that result.. We could have folded after last weeks no show but that win shows character...

Top 4 at Crimbo.. Beautiful.

 

[ChiTownSpurs]

Vertonghen was fantastic today, seemed to be able to sniff out everything Southampton tried to do. Had a couple of great tackles as well

 

[scott]

must win game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

if we dont then it means the next game is a must win game!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Nabil Bentaleb]

the greatest man that ever lived

 

[Bale'sHairLine]

Fucking love Lamela. He works his little cotton socks off week in, week out.

 

[Danoir]

Poch got it all wrong Chadli and caroll instead of Son and Bentaleb :avbfacepalm:

It's 2-0 Spurs at Southampton. Would you shut the fuck up?

 

[pleb]

 

[joespurs]

First 20 I feared the worst for us as Southampton started pretty strong, fortunately after the first goal and the quick second it was all over and we controlled the game second half. The best thing about this game is we took the lead but we didn't get too sloppy and let Southampton back into it... shows they've learnt from the Newcastle match

 

[palmers_green_yid]

The Dane -

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17 PL matches, 5 exciting performances imo:

Everton (despite 0-0, high tempo, lots of chances created);
Citeh;
B'mouth;
Goons;
Wet Spam.

7 dull ones.

10 matches, we've scored 0 or 1.

Every season we get this...we've won so many games but we only played well in x amount of them. In my opinion, every team can say the same including the scum, and I guarantee if you look on their forums there will be fans saying the exact same thing. Fact is that lots of football games are scrappy and most wins are going to be ground out rather than won with great football. The sign of a successful team is being able to win when not playing well...or else we could go back to Ossie Ardiles and play 5 up front and finish 17th? We try and play the ball on the floor, OK it's not all out attack but we're hardly Pulis-era Stoke City.