***soton v city official match thread***

[Pretty Boy Lee]

Fucking fuck

[Ted Hughes]

what was pellers yelling about when he was pointing to his watch?

Telling the players to take time on the ball rather than giving it away.

Great goal, utter dogshit defending by VK etc.

[Moonchesteri]

Gorgeous goal tho has to be said. Come on City!!

[Clowncrete]

That's a pretty good goal to be honest. :-(

[Lee_R]

ffs bad defending but an awesome finish

[LookMumImOnMCF.net]

Quality finish though

[Cit.revenge]

We look like train crash at back

[dick dastardley]

good goal been coming better side last 20 mins

[Twobob]

Sounds like that was coming.

[PrezIke]

wow what a goal...sheet

[Sideshow Bob]

Get Milner the fuck off. He is yards off the pace.

[gmercer1]

All over the shop at the back and I don't mean just for the goal

[ashton287]

To be fair they could easily be 3-1 up by now.

[Bleed_Blue]

What a goal !!

[Ted Hughes]

To be fair they could easily be 3-1 up by now.

They should be 3-1 down.

All the shit Micah gets. Zabba has been a fucking joke 1st half. Absolute shit.

[carl_feedthegoat]

Milner better not come back on second half..did zero for 45 mins apart from one clearence...navas on asap.

[Florida Blue]

What a brilliant goal....

That said we have had 4 solid chances that have ended up in the stands... the last 20 minutes were more exciting than the start (other than the goal).

[dick dastardley]

getting skinned out wide everytime need to tighten up or we'll get beat

[Tesl]

Great goal, this game could go absolutely either way. Unless we improve a fair bit going into the second half I make them slight favourites.

They are leaving plenty of space behind for us to exploit and score from, but have otherwise controlled possession and look good going forward. This is an interesting test for Pelligrini, this would be a huge huge win for us if he can pull it out the bag. I think this next 45 minutes really could be defining for our season ....

no pressure then .....

[Douglas Higginbottom]

can't really argue with the score so far as Soton have played well.Great goal it was too despite some average defending.But we should have scored a 2nd from Kun plus that Nasri chance at the end where he should have at least worked the keeper.

What we are seeing is what happens when a good passing team who press high and get plenty of players in midfield and we have 2 playing up front.Does Pellegrini change it or carry on with the gamble/belief we will score more than them.