Shite performance, very lucky to snag the 3 points for mine.
Our general passing and ball possession was horrid, we looked a completely different outfit than the one who played Dortmund off the park only 7 days ago. I guess the pressure of this being the first competitive game of the season got to the boys a bit. Thing that really worried me was that it wasn't as if Soton cam out all guns blazing and fired up putting us on the backfoot, they were poor in that first half yet we just went through the motions expecting things to happen instead of putting the foot on the throat. When they actually came out in the 2nd half and started playing it really rattled us big time and we were lucky not to concede 2 or 3.
First things first Johnson and Lucas both need the ass, they were both dreadful as usual. Moreno in at LB and Can in for Lucas. Can is raw as buggery but at least he showed some hunger in pre-season, he also has the benefit of being able to run unlike Lucas whose legs are made of concrete. Just look at the difference Allen made when he came on, he went looking for the ball and actually took pride in holding onto the f*cking thing.
We play like that next week against City and we will get ripped apart.
