Match Reports
Arsenal Away EFL Cup – Quarter-Final Won 2 – 0
As November slips into December, it’s usually time for Southampton to bow out of the League Cup at the quarter final stage – they’ve done so for the last two seasons and seven times in total since progressing to the 1987 semis. Drawn away to Arsenal, the bookmakers thought this time would be no different, […]
Everton Home Won 1 – 0
Inevitably there were jeers as Ronald Koeman returned to St. Mary’s with Everton, but of course RK was responsible for jetting us off to Israel, Milan and Prague, plus Arnhem and that pokey little place in Denmark. I don’t see anyone to blame particularly for the divorce; the Koemans have a career plan that involves […]
Europa League Away Sparta Prague Lost 1 – 0
We knew what to expect from the team selection in far-off Prague: fans who had expended time and money (very willingly, it must be admitted) would have sent out a stronger XI, but Sparta were weakened by problems forced upon them by injury and suspension, and anyway the game between the sides at St. Mary’s […]
Hull Away Lost 2 – 1
After Europa League excitement, Claude Puell reverted to most of his favourite starters for the game at Hull, land of the cream-coloured phone box, the sub-£3 pint and a team coming into the match with a string of seven league defeats behind them. The Saints line-up included changes on both sides of the defence, Bertrand […]
Chelsea Home Lost 2 – 0
Bertrand returned to face his old club, Chelsea, at St. Mary’s but no place in the Premier League starting line-up for Boufal and still no sign of Soares. Saints fell behind early on from an attack down Bertrand’s flank, but it was more a question of Davis failing to handle Hazard‘s break behind the full […]
Sunderland Home EFL Cup Won 1 – 0
Matches are coming along fast and furious now, and it will surely have crossed Monsieur Puel’s mind that the best result in the club’s opening EFL Cup game would have been a defeat. Crystal Palace’s selection policy made that result unlikely, but Claude, quite understandably really, made nine changes to his starting line up in […]
Manchester City Away Drew 1 – 1
Southampton and Manchester City were both licking their wounds after European defeats, and Saints now had Long on the injured list, although Redmond was available again – injured for Inter according to the Italian press, but ‘rested’ according to the Echo. City are in a winless streak so recalled Agüero and were able to give […]
Europa League Away Inter Milan Lost 1 – 0
If the Be’er Sheva fixture sorted out the men from the boys, the boys were out in force for the next Europa League game, Internazionale at San Siro Stadio and confidently billed by the Saints web site as the club’s first competitive encounter with Serie A opposition: well, that’s not true, but presumably the Anglo […]
Burnley Home Won 3 – 1
The international break caused injury problems for M. Puel with Bertrand the worst casualty, apparently out for some time, while Long had limped out of his last match so saw out the Burnley game from the St. Mary’s bench… where he was joined by Højbjerg, replaced in the starting XI by Clasie who had been […]
Leicester City Away Drew 0 – 0
Manager Puel based his selections for the Be’er Sheva and Leicester away games with the aim of maximising the outcome from the pair rather than concentrating on one competition over the other. It was, though, a distinctly stronger line-up against the English Champions, reflecting the relative strengths of the Israeli and Premier Leagues as stay-away […]
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