Saints in urgent need of patience
By: Mike | September 8th, 2008Firstly, apologies for the lack of posts – holidays and all that! Before going away I was subjected to the Blackpool game, the less said about that the better. More promising was the Birmingham game; albeit against less motiviated opposition in a less important match.
There are 2 things currently lacking that could suddenly see Saints become a force in the division, rather than relegation candidates. Firstly some defensive stability and nous – frankly this seems less likely with each game so let’s forget that for now. What Saints could improve is their gameplan when dominating possession, which on the evidence of the season so far, will be most of the time.
Currently Saints seem a little to eager to make the killer pass – against Blackpool Schneiderlin was doing a painfully accurate impression of Steven Gerrard on a bad day with hollywood passes finding the crowd every other minute. Hopefully the manager will impress upon the team that by working the ball around with a decent level of movement and control they will eventually create better openings.
It’s 6 games in 16 days coming up and we need to take at least 9 points from the 5 league matches if we’re to move away from the relegation zone. All of the games, home and away, are tricky but winnable – if we show the form we showed against Derby rather than Blackpool.
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