Swindon V Southampton Official Matchday Thread

[Saxondale]

Yayyyyyyyy!   We are not bottom of the league I say we are not bottom of the league!

[Peter Venkman]

I am going out to have a celebration curry tonight and a couple of bevvies.

Very pleased with that win.

[Peter Venkman]

Wise men say only fools rush in but I can't help falling in love with you!

[Morgan Freeman]

Fantastic win. Top class performance from Cuthbert, rightly man of the match.

Any news on the Austin injury? Looked like he was holding his shoulder.

[girlyred]

Wow 3 points & 3rd clean sheet Happy happy happy

[Weasel]

Any news on the Austin injury? Looked like he was holding his shoulder.

Dislocated - unlikely to play for 'quite a few weeks' according to Wilson.

[carbonwhite]

ball or dossevi will have to step up then

[Arriba]

nice to win, but there is much for concern too.
the team shape is all wrong for starters.we won despite that shape, not because of it.
we need width in midfield desperately.

[DiV]

nice to win, but there is much for concern too.
the team shape is all wrong for starters.we won despite that shape, not because of it.
we need width in midfield desperately.

Yeah, but I expect we played the diamond in part to stop Southampton playing. Douglas spent all his defensive time on Puncheon. If we were playing a flat 4 Southampton would have just come straight down the middle.

We changed to a very right footed lop sided flat 4 for about 5 minutes in the second half and first thing that happen was Puncheon got a clean run at our defence.

There was a reason we kept the diamond in my opinion. If we were actually chasing the game, or even level with 20 minutes to go I reckon Wilson would have changed it. Although O'Brien wasnt on the bench was he? he would have loved that amount of space to play with.

[carbonwhite]

nice to win, but there is much for concern too.
the team shape is all wrong for starters.we won despite that shape, not because of it.
we need width in midfield desperately.

well we wont see anyone brought in this month so dont hold your breath

[Sippo]

There's enough talent/capabilities in our team to add width. Yes at times we needed it but think our formation worked well today.

[Arriba]

Yeah, but I expect we played the diamond in part to stop Southampton playing. Douglas spent all his defensive time on Puncheon. If we were playing a flat 4 Southampton would have just come straight down the middle.

We changed to a very right footed lop sided flat 4 for about 5 minutes in the second half and first thing that happen was Puncheon got a clean run at our defence.

There was a reason we kept the diamond in my opinion. If we were actually chasing the game, or even level with 20 minutes to go I reckon Wilson would have changed it. Although O'Brien wasnt on the bench was he? he would have loved that amount of space to play with.

i didn't see any diamond. i saw 4,3,1,2 with ferry and prutton taking it in turns to go wideish.
this didn't change until we scored then prutton stayed out wide right,and we were better for it.

[DiV]

Douglas was holding, Prutton was right side, Ferry was left side, JPM was behind the front two.

Douglas job was to stop Puncheon playing, as he was at the top of Southamptons diamond.

[Arriba]

why was prutton often the deepest midfielder first half then?
i think the formation wasn't to counter southampton at all.as wilson has played it recently against other sides too.
i think it's to accomadate ferry, douglas and prutton in the side.

if we go on a run and keep winning ,great.i just think we were pretty fortunate to win, and i don't personally like that shape at all.
whether that is a diamond or what i think it is,it still took width out of the team.how many times were our players looking for an outlet when in posession,only for there not to be one?

[DiV]

The formation wasn't set out to counter Southampton but it did counter Southampton, which is why we stuck with it.