Match Thread: Southampton FC vs Wolves

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2020:02:18:17:03:01 by Cheshire wolf.

Rui Patricio returns replacing John Ruddy today, but otherwise an unchanged staring line-up from Wednesday's game. Very little experience on the bench either:

That's one helluva bench. Wonder where Bennett is.

Afternoon Andy I wondered that too! I can only get a stream with probably Korean commentary which is about a minute behind play. Using the OS commentary too.

Hesgoals not working for me this afternoon so struggling to find a stream. If anyone has any suggestions I would be grateful

Jonny & Adama link up well, but Adama shoots rather than set up Neves. Goes for a corner which is cleared

Adama gives away a free kick in award-Prowse territory which goes right across to Bednarek and he loops it past Rui into top right corner. Another poor start.
Saints 1 Wolves 0

Can't get a stream either. Mind you, the way we've started......

Saints get a free kick just in our area for handball by Doc but comes to nothing.

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Andy Fincher
Can't get a stream either. Mind you, the way we've started......

Keep trying Hesgoals Andy I'm back on but no commentary And lagging behind

Raul really unlucky not to score as McCarthy fluffs a Neto cross. t the other end the dangerous Redmond creates a hewpading chance collected by Rui

Adama is taken out as he passes the ball. Free kick on the right wing for Joao to pass into Raul but he blasts it wid, but also hurts his ankle in a challenge from Ings. Seems to be OK

Now the Anti-spam I see giving me a hard time!! Ward-Prowse booked for a foul on Joao

Armstrong shot well collected by Rui. Wolves playing OK but this is going to be a hard game to win

Adama to Neto and a glorious ball in for Raul and he touches it wide - he was definitely inside too!!

At least I missed that second goal.

Shane Long gets in between Donk & Coady to head another goal
Saints 2 Wolves 0
This is becoming a repeat of last year's game

Just lost my stream again.

My stream has frozen.
Two good opportunistic goals for Saints although the defending should have been better.
Our lads are looking a bit jaded/tired and have lost some of their sharpness but are still competing.
Make a comeback from two goals down, I doubt it so it may become a game of damage limitation.

Half time whistle goes after one added minute. Southampton playing like a team in form with crisp passing and well organised defending, whereas Wolves are struggling, possible tired. Raul has had a couple of chances but put them both wide.
Perhaps Nuno will look towards the pace and energy of youth to try and create for us in second half

Well we have kicked off again with no changes to note. Southampton bring a save out of Rui before Long is called offside. Wolves still struggling to get things going for themselves

Redmond forward again and his cross finds Long's head but goes off the outside of the post

Adama centres in to Neto in the box, he controls it off his chest, pivots and scores his first goal for Wolves

Andy try this link which is working for me:
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Adama takes the ball past Bednarek and is brought down by him. Yellow card for Bednarek. Joao puts the ball in to Saiss but he's offside

Seemingly it's Neto's second goal as he scored at Watford - my mistake!!
Saints 2 Wolves 1
Neves sets up Jonny in the box and he is taken out by Stephens. No penalty given and it should be if VAR get it right...........
Penalties rightly awarded on VAR review, although ref should have gone to view it for himself

And Raul scores it calmly
Saints 2 Wolves 2

Great play by Saints and Redmond clips the top of the bar with his shot with Rui beaten. Good game now!!

Well, I take back my earlier comment.

I don't want to count any chickens, but whatever happens I never saw this coming at half-time. Cheers Chesh, I'll try that stream.

Superb interplay by Neto but he puts his shot high over the bar. Wolves are definitely on the front foot here now
Saints to make a double substitution

Long replaced by Che Adams & Djenepo replaces Armstrong opinion attacking substitutions.

Backheel by Raul to set up Jonny, but his pass in to Adama is too heavy

Great break forward by Adama who sets up Raul who calmly strokes it in
Saints 2 Wolves 3

Great break forward by Adama who sets up Raul who calmly strokes it in
Saints 2 Wolves 3

Bloody hell. We're getting all our VAR decisions in one go.

VAR checked for a handball but for once we were not guilty and the goal stands

All season we haven't had one then they all come in one match.

Raul is down hurt, not sure why. Seems to be some concern about him. Ten minutes to play so perhaps a sub at this stage would make sense. Just seen that he took a whack from the Doc as he went up for a ball!!

Raul up and OK. He is now our record PL goal scorer going past Steven Fletcher's tally

Saints throwing everybody forward but Wolves defending well. Five minutes plus added time to go

Max Kilman replace some Neto who has had another good game

Ruben Neves mistimes a challenge and gets a yellow card

Saints get a free kick on the right wing for JWP to take but it's cleared. Six added minutes to be played

JWP puts a good ball in and Stephen's header goes just wide!!

Donk lashes at the ball and gives away a corner, which goes across to Buffal and he lashes it high and wide!! One minute to go to achieve a great victory

What a comeback! Fantastic. Just a pity I missed most of it.
Well done Cheshire for the thread what with streams going down, not working and God knows what.

Cannot be anything but proud of this team and manager.

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What a comeback! Fantastic. Just a pity I missed most of it.
Well done Cheshire for the thread what with streams going down, not working and God knows what.

Thanks Andy, it was disappointing for Hesgoals not to work as well as usual but always a risk I suppose. In the end I found a link through F'book with a perfect picture and English commentary, so all ended well. Just delighted for Ivybridge Wolf who was there to watch it today

We never give up. Just wish they would stop giving away early goals. Still, how sweet it is when it we come back in the end.

My God - what happened!! Been at a function all day and managed to sneak a look at the scores - we were losing 2-0. Next time I got the chance we'd only gone and won 3-2 - absolutely chuffed - made my day! UTW!

Great 2nd half performance from the boys didn't really see it coming at ht if I'm honest, nuno must have been throwing the teacups around at ht. The guys a genius, he tweaked a few things and it paid off! Oh and did I dream it or did we actually have a few var decisions go our way for once ha ha. Well done wolves on a great win made my weekend.

What a match, what a comeback! Pleasure to be there to witness, though to be absolutely honest, I am referring to the second half, of course!
What happened in the first 45? I don’t think any of us could fathom it. A decent start up until the goal but it wasn’t as if we went to pieces, we just never got going in any cohesive manner. Poor ball control and retention, poor running off the ball, lacklustre all over the pitch. It couldn’t have been tiredness, the second half proved that, to me it was a further extension of the general poor form since the Liverpool match. Absolutely no fight and terrible body language throughout. Neves, Moutinho, Traore, Jimenez, Donk all guilty of some p!ss poor passing. And the goals, yep amateur defending. Mind you the first was after a lovely cross from Ward-Prowse and a decent finish from the lad, irrespective of Docs positioning. And then pint size Albion reject, Long beat Donk to another very good cross. And the miss from Jimenez was typical as it was poor.
Dejected at half time and you look at the bench and think oh f**k! Hideous half. There was much gnashing of teeth in St Mary’s Northam End, I can tell you.

But as I sat, contemplating the grim journey home, Nuno was at work in the changing room. Since he’s been our manager, those 15 minutes represent the biggest moment I would have wanted to be a fly on the wall. What did he say, how did he say it, how did the players react?? A speech worthy, perhaps, of folklore status??

From the off, the tempo was different, the endeavour was greater, the body language more positive. We were in their face! I’m not going to say we transformed into the silkiest display I’ve ever seen, that would be ridiculous (we didn’t) but we changed and it was enthralling to witness. Uplifting, exciting, wonderful and winning!

I hope you’ve all had chance to see the goals by now, Neto’s a lovely turn and bang, back of the net. Was a comeback possible? What energy this lad demonstrated yesterday to get his 4th goal of the season (I’m counting the nauseating VAR reversals at Anfield and Old Trafford). As for the second, the only two people In St Mary’s who didn’t think it was a penalty was the ref (what was he thinking) and Hasselhuteldootlepootle. So VAR favoured us at last? So be it. And finally the third, lovely run from Traore, but I thought it over ran it but instead he turned played a pass perfect and a beautiful deft shot from Jimenez and wild celebrations! That shot was sumptuous, Raul’s touch a delight as he guided it towards me with only the net to stop it.

We witnessed a reasonable resurgence of Saints after that, Redmond clipping the bar from distance but that turned out to be the major sweaty palms moment before the final whistle. This was because, in no small part, our defiance and guile lasted till the final seconds of the match.

Well done Wolves, a superb thriller, an excellent spectacle, a magnificent 3 points.

As for VAR yesterday, my observations are this. All of our goals involved VAR. The first took bloody ages to sort out, nobody could understand why they were reviewing a handball. We celebrated, we stopped, the review, the choruses of ‘F**k VAR’, the decision, the muted re-celebrations. Then the penalty itself. Yes it helped us but in the interest of parity it still received the same chant from big numbers of Wolves fans. Again it took an age to rectify. The third goal, I went mad for a split second then stopped, you just knew a review would dampen celebrations and so it proved, but when ‘possible handball’ came up, we were thoroughly confused. An age to decide, yet again, with the appropriate Wolves chorus yet again, followed by more muted celebrations after a decision made miles away from the action.
It’s been said before but we now in an era when you can no longer celebrate the moment which is most precious in football ....... a goal. This has been taken away from us to appease the arm chair pundits and tabloids. What a state we now find ourselves in. My moment, and that of many, many more, a rare and special moment of reversing a 2 goal deficit was dampen and dulled. Sad.

But we won and uplifting, so my grim journey home wasn’t as bad after all. It was also an important lesson, never ever give up in this team we’ve got!!!

Who’s up for beating Liverpool next? Count me in!

UTW!