Match Reports
Arsenal 1-0 Saints
No Schneiderlin to face Arsenal, but Cork returned, so that was OK then. Well it was OK for 30 minutes, anyway, but then Cork limped out of the contest and again the solution was to move Alderweireld forward. What we had was two well-organised defences and two sets of able midfielders who were clearly comfortable […]
Saints 0-3 Manchester City
Steven Davis is a key man in the Saints line-up, so it was good to have him back to face Champions Manchester City, with Long sacrificed to accommodate the extra midfielder. However, Saints found it difficult to adjust to the step up in class of opponent compared with recent fixtures, and the first twenty minutes […]
Aston Villa 1-1 Saints
All of our players returned safely from the international break, but the injury to Davis that caused him to miss Northern Ireland’s matches also meant that he was unavailable to face Aston Villa. The obvious replacement was Cork, but Saints adopted a more offensive approach with Long, Pellè and Mané all playing. Despite an ill-judged […]
Saints 2-0 Leicester City
Shane Long came off the bench to score twice and maintain Saints’ winning run
Hull City 0-1 Saints
Victor Wanyama’s long-range effort ensured Saints took all three points from a long trip to Humberside
Stoke City 2-3 Saints
Saints weathered a second-half Stoke comeback to squeeze through to the quarter-finals of the League Cup for the first time in a decade.
Saints 1-0 Stoke City
A deserved 1-0 win over Stoke failed to tell the full story as Saints hit the woodwork three times and were rarely troubled at the other end to move into second place in the fledgling Premier League table.
Saints 8-0 Sunderland
A frankly ridiculous afternoon saw Saints trouble the vidiprinter on eight occasions after an incredible display of non-defending by Sunderland.
Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Saints
Saints fell to a lacklustre defeat in one of the games the fans would particularly have wanted to win after the summer’s events.
Saints 2-1 Queen’s Park Rangers
Saints finally buried the ghost of Harry Redknapp with Graziano Pelle’s stunning acrobatic effort settling the game.
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