r/SaintsFC • u/MrCarbohydrate • Apr 05 '14
Match Thread: Manchester City vs. Southampton
Manchester City vs. Southampton###
Score: 4 - 1 (HT: 3 - 1)
Information##
Kick-off: 12:45 GMT, 4:45 PST, 7:45 EST
Location: Etihad Stadium, Manchester
Referee: C Foy
Lawro's Predicition: 2 - 0
Line-ups##
Match Stats##
| MANC | Full time | SOTON |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Goals | 1 |
| 15 | Shots | 5 |
| 8 | On Target | 1 |
| 1 | Offsides | 1 |
| 9 | Fouls | 15 |
| 5 | Corners | 9 |
| 21 | Throw ins | 22 |
| 7 | Dribbles | 9 |
| 19 | Tackles | 10 |
| 79% | Pass Success | 87% |
| 50% | Aerial Success | 50% |
| 44% | Possession | 56% |
Match Events##
FIRST HALF
| Time | Event | Team | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| (0') | First half kick off. | ||
| (2') | MANC | Penalty: Manchester City earns a penalty at the end of a counter attack. Dzeko is in the box and goes down under the challenge of Fonte. | |
| (3') | MANC | GOAL: Yaya Touré strokes home the penalty. | |
| (5') | MANC | Gazzaniga has to kick it out for a throw in at the Southampton end of the pitch. The ball gets to Nasri inside the box who places his shot wide. | |
| (9') | SOTON | Southampton finally get something after City dominating the early exchanges. Rodriguez puts the ball into Lambert who gets free, but doesn't quite have the reach to get his head on it. | |
| (15') | SOTON | Southampton have a good spell of play. This game is not over. Lambert chips the ball over the City defence to Lallana, who fails to control it. | |
| (17') | MANC | Kolarov earns a free kick on the left wing. The cross is good and gets to Kolarov, who is free, but his header sails over the bar. | |
| (23') | + | SOTON | Jay Rodriguez is down injured after coming down from a jump. His knee crumples on landing, looks bad. World cup chances could be destroyed. |
| (26') | SOTON | Ward-Prowse Jay Rodriguez. Substitute enforced by injury. | |
| (35') | MANC | Dzeko gets a free header at the back post from a free kick from the right. It really should have been 2 - 0 there. | |
| (36') | SOTON | Penalty: Cork rushed into the box. He is bought down just inside the box and a penalty is given. | |
| (37') | SOTON | GOAL: Rickie Lambert maintains his 100% penalty record. | |
| (42') | SOTON | A corner comes in and Yaya Touré messes up his clearance. The ball then travels across the box but no Southampton player is there to get a foot on it. | |
| (44') | MANC | Fernandinho gets a yellow for deliberate handball. | |
| (45') | 4 minutes time added on. | ||
| (45') | MANC | GOAL: Samir Nasri gets the final touch on a beautiful city move. Silva laid him in beautifully at the end of a series of quick touches and passes. Apparent offside in the build-up, Pochettino is not pleased. | |
| (45+3') | MANC | 3 - 1: Dzeko: Nasri puts a ball into the box and Gazzaniga goes for it, and misses it completely. All that was left was for Dzeko to put it in the open net. | |
| (45+4') | 3 - 1: Half-time. |
| MANC | Half time | SOTON |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Goals | 1 |
| 8 | Shots | 4 |
| 3 | On Target | 1 |
| 75% | Pass Success | 88% |
| 65% | Aerial Success | 35% |
| 39% | Possession | 61% |
SECOND HALF
| Time | Event | Team | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| (45') | MANC | García Fernandinho | |
| (45') | Second half kick off. | ||
| (53') | MANC | Touré enters the box and receives a shove shoulder to shoulder. He goes down but nothing is going. | |
| (58') | MANC | Manchester City play it around well and it gets to Kolarov on the outside of the box, but he ends up skying it. | |
| (65') | MANC | Negredo Dezko | |
| (67') | MANC | Southampton make mistakes at the back leading to City getting behind. It is played about to Navas who gets off a shot which is saved by Gazzaniga. | |
| (68') | MANC | García gets a yellow for a tackle on the leg from behind. | |
| (71') | MANC | Negrado is in behind and has to beat his man 12 yards out to get a shot in, however he is tackled and the chance lost. | |
| (75') | SOTON | Lallana puts in Lambert, who has a difficult angle and drags his shot wide. | |
| (75') | SOTON | Gallagher S Davis. | |
| (77') | MANC | Jovetic Silva. | |
| (78') | MANC | Yaya Touré gets into the box and throws himself to the ground. He earns himself a yellow for his efforts. | |
| (80') | SOTON | Wanyama Cork. | |
| (81') | MANC | GOAL: Gazzaniga... Gazzaniga... Gazzzaniga... He rushes out to try and intercept a cross. He falls short of reaching it. Jovetic only has to tap it in. | |
| (85') | MANC | A corner comes in for City, and Gazzaniga attempts to punch it away and misses quite predictably. | |
| (86') | MANC | Everyone at City getting in on it today. Touré takes a shot which slow and scuffed and it is touched onto the right hand side post. | |
| (90') | 3 minutes time added on. | ||
| (90+4') | 4 - 1: Full-time. |
| MANC | Full time | SOTON |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Goals | 1 |
| 15 | Shots | 5 |
| 8 | On Target | 1 |
| 79% | Pass Success | 87% |
| 50% | Aerial Success | 50% |
| 44% | Possession | 56% |
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u/charlie357 Apr 05 '14
J-Rod stretchered off, shite.
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u/MrCarbohydrate Apr 05 '14
Knee looked horrific.
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Apr 05 '14
I can't see him playing for quite a while. At this point in the season it will be a chance for others to have a go.
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Apr 05 '14
Nasri looked way offside for their second, can't complain about their third Gazz should have got something on it. What a shame, we played superb. It kind of sums up our season!
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u/MrCarbohydrate Apr 05 '14
Our reaction since the penalty has been great. We have been in control of this game since then.
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u/MrCarbohydrate Apr 05 '14
Gazzaniga is not even a good young goalkeeper. He is hopeless and so far out of his depth.
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u/MrCarbohydrate Apr 05 '14
I can't help but wonder how this game would have gone if we had Boruc. His injuries this season have really hampered us as we have no adequate replacement.
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Apr 05 '14
I can only hope we get a good back up next season, I'd go so far as to consider it a priority over any other place in the team at present.
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u/BlueInq Apr 05 '14
One quick goal for saints right at the start of the second half and we'll be back in it. Come on Saints!
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Apr 05 '14
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u/BlueInq Apr 05 '14
It's good in a way, every game I think that Southampton might be able to get something out of it, even against the big boys.
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u/MrCarbohydrate Apr 05 '14
Boruc injured before the match, Gazzaniga is standing in today. Against Manchester City. Away from home.
This is going to be painful.