*** Southampton FC vs Sunderland AFC Match Thread ***

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Saturday 5 March 2016 | St. Mary's Stadium | Kick-off 15:00

Sunderland

Mannone

Yedlin, Kaboul, Koné, van Aanholt

Kirchhoff

N'Doye, M'Vila, Rodwell, Khazri

Borini

[Subs] : Jones, Larsson, Pickford, O'Shea, Defoe, Toivonen, Mandron


Southampton

Southampton : Forster, Martina, Bertrand, Clasie, van Dijk, Fonte, Mané, Oriol Romeu, Pellè, Davis, Tadic

[Subs] : Alves Soares, Yoshida, Ward-Prowse, Reed, Juanmi, Stekelenburg


Referee: Neil Swarbrick
Assistants: P Kirkup, H Lennard
Fourth Official: A Marriner

Match Facts

- Sunderland suffered their worst Barclays Premier League defeat in this fixture a last season, an 8-0 loss at Southampton.
- The Black Cats have won just one of the last six BPL meetings with Southampton (W1 D3 L2).
- Sunderland have kept the joint-fewest clean sheets in the league this term (three, along with Norwich City).
- Saints have won none of their last 11 BPL matches where the opposition have scored (D3 L8).​

 

[Bishop Mackem]

Southampton team looks average fond

 

[Dobblemackem]

Borini is not playing through the middle he's on the right, N'Doye in the middle

 

[Peaknutt]

N'Doye on the wing again

 

[Mrjardine]

Surely ndoye up front??

 

[KarlM]

Why are we playing that useless bastard N'Doye? Every time he gets the ball the attack breaks down.

 

[heroesof73]

surely Borini and N`Doye other way round !

 

[Peaknutt]

Borini is not playing through the middle he's on the right, N'Doye in the middle

Good!

 

[safccfas]

We will win today...

 

[hank williams]

Fuck small prick as referee

 

[CraigyLee]

Southampton team looks average fond

I said that last season egg arl ower my pyatt

 

[Fireball07]

Presumably it is N'Doye up front since he's blatantly not a wide player. Borini's work rate will definitely be useful.

Would I drop Defoe? Probably not, it would be better if Defoe could feed off N'Doye, maybe dropping off him into positions like where he scored that screamer against the mags after Fletcher won a header. That would mean dropping Rodwell though, and obviously Sam feels Defoe wouldn't do the defensive work needed for that position.

 

[james93safc]

Southampton look scary on paper but I think we will steal it 1-0

 

[deleted user 785]

N'Doye on the wing again

 

[mad maxim]

Toivonen and Mandron on the bench, couple of last minute saviours there like.

 

[Steesafc]

H T L!

 

[ErichZann]

N'Doye will score today

 

[janey]

Well I suppose as long as we concede less than 8 we can claim progress

 

[Fireball07]

It's not the best Southampton team but that midfield will work very hard to close us down, whereas when we kept the ball in midfield against Palace, we walked all over them- Cabaye had no interest in being there.

 

[onkeldonald]

Surely ndoye up front??

Must be or he's losing it. Agree that Defoe might need a rest to get back to form, problem is we have no decent replacement.

O'shea will be as much of a miss though.