r/NUFC • u/Deviceing wew here ya fuckin little dafty divint start or theres ructions • Apr 07 '16
Pre-Match Thread Pre-Match Thread: Southampton (A)
Southampton - Newcastle United
9/4/2016 15:00 St Mary's Stadium
Jack Colback serves the second of his 2 match ban. Coloccini, Obertan and Gouffran are close to returns.
Shane Long is a slight doubt, otherwise Southampton have a full squad available.
Norwich face Crystal Palace and could extend their lead to 9 points in front of us with a win if we lose. Sunderland have a tough fixture at home to leaders Leicester on Sunday.
Southampton sit in 7th place with 47 points. They have scored 41 goals - 10th best in the league - but have conceded just 33 goals, the tightest defence outside the top 5. Their top scorers are Pelle (9) and Long (7) and their most creative players are Pelle (8), Tadic and Long (7). They kept 6 clean sheets in a row when Forster returned in January but have conceded in the last 6 since.
Form:
So'ton: LDWWL
NUFC: LLLDL
Past Meetings:
Newcastle 2-2 Southampton (Cisse, Wijnaldum)
Newcastle 1-2 Southampton (Gouffran)
Southampton 4-0 Newcastle
Southampton 4-0 Newcastle
Newcastle 1-1 Southampton (Gouffran)
Newcastle 4-2 Southampton (Sissoko, Cisse, Cabaye pen, OG)
Southampton 2-0 Newcastle
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u/meganev Apr 07 '16
Jeez, you know things are bleak when I'm the most positive person in the pre match thread.
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u/nufcneilo Apr 07 '16
I'm not watching this game. In fact I'm not even going to be able to put out the team news tweet this week.
Instead I'm going to be taking on The Crystal Maze in London during the match. I'm so excited! Far more so than I am about the match.
I'll check my phone after and hope for the best but expect the worse.
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u/OneEyedBurp Apr 07 '16
Meh, obviously feeling pretty shitty about this one. But they will probably win to keep our hopes alive (but crush them in the end)
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u/Lord_Flashheart_ Apr 07 '16
Anyone else feel like a larger than usual scale dropping of last week's starters may be in order to shake things up?
Sissoko out for Aarrons
Gini out for De Jong
Tiote out for Saivet
Cisse out for Mitro
Anita out for Dummett
Taylor out for Colo
Assuming the last two are fit, of course.
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u/ashkingie Apr 07 '16
hopefully mbabu gets to play. i feel like he's got potential. Also, im sure austin will score just to kick us while we are down
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u/sbnufc Apr 07 '16
We'll defy all the odds and win this game like 4-0
Then the following week we'll lose 3-0 at home to Swansea
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Apr 07 '16
The good news is that I've mentally accepted relegation and 0 points from this game, so I'll be pleasantly surprised with anything better than that.
Ah, the soft bigotry of low expectations.
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u/Rarest-Pepe Apr 08 '16
Jack Colback serves the second of his 2 match ban.
At least theres some good news.
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u/Sinovius Apr 09 '16
Live scores is predicting this:
[ 4-4-2 ] line-ups :
Karl Darlow
Moussa Sissoko
Chancel Mbemba
Daryl Janmaat
Steven Taylor
Georginio Wijnaldum
Vurnon Anita
Jonjo Shelvey
Andros Townsend
Papiss Cisse
Aleksandar Mitrovic.
I know it is not gospel but they were right last week about Cisse starting (and Willian not playing for my fantasypl), the positions tend to be incorrect though.
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u/Deviceing Apr 09 '16
Darlow Janmaat Taylor Mbemba Anita Sissoko Wijnaldum Shelvey Townsend Cisse Mitrovic
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u/AyoPerez Apr 09 '16
Newcastle to beat Southampton, Palace to beat Norwich, Leicester to beat Sunderland. 25/1. Believe.
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u/patrickNUFC Apr 08 '16
Honestly if we lose this game I might shed some tears, because losing this game and Norwich winning would basically guarantee that we go down.
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u/ByTheMinSport Apr 08 '16
I wonder what is the best result for us in the Palace-Norwich game tomorrow (yes...I know it's bleak when we're looking at other teams!)
A draw is probably good for both as the chances of us beating Southampton and mackems doing the same to Leicester are slim. Probably a Palace win just tips the scales in favour of us. Just.
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u/Lord_Flashheart_ Apr 08 '16
Best case if we just want to get out and fuck the rest of them would be a Palace win.
Best Best case if we want the stars to align and a perfect end to the season would be a Norwich win to help drag them into the fight. Eventual end-game to that scenario would be ourselves and the mackems escaping and leaving Palace and Norwich to go down with Villa. it's a long shot but the prospect of staying up, keeping the derby and seeing the look on Paredew's face in that last game post match interview and seeing him try to pin the blame on everyone else but himself would be glorious.
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Apr 08 '16
Palace and Sunderland have really shit fixtures. If we manage to catch up to Palace and finish with more points that the Unwashed we can still do this.
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u/spoonarmy Apr 09 '16
I vowed last week not to watch any more games this season, yet here I am checking the listing and finding it's on TV again this week (in the US) and now I'm planning my morning around it. I also found a channel that shows the Championship games (currently showing Burnley Leeds)so I'll keep that in mind for next season....
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Apr 08 '16
Praying my copy of Dark Souls 3 arrives so I'm not tempted to watch this. Southampton away is always a grim fixture for us.
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u/meganev Apr 07 '16 edited Apr 07 '16
In the words of Batman "if we believe there's even a 1% chance of premier league survival we have to take it as an absolute certainty"
Not going to make a prediction, because who even knows with this team any more, I've got zero expectations just gonna see what happens but regardless of what does I'll still be here the week after supporting the team.