# St Etienne v Saints **URL:** \ **Category:** Southampton Football Club\ **Created:** [29 July 2017 17:11 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/st-etienne-v-saints/1033 "2017-07-29T17:11:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Saint-or-sinner](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saint-or-sinner/32/64280_2.png) [@Saint-or-sinner](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Saint-or-sinner)\ **Post date:** [29 July 2017 23:30 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/st-etienne-v-saints/1033/21 "2017-07-29T23:30:43Z")
They don’t(take your eyes away from the cleavage and it’ll become obvious). No, he skips/jumps into a perfect world(nice attempted deflection). Now say it. JWP is a God amongst mortals and only held back by the lesser beings he has been cursed to walk amongst(this is as possible as booby girls being anything more than average). ---
**Author:** ![gavstar](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/gavstar/32/86128_2.png) [@gavstar](https://www.sotonians.com/u/gavstar)\ **Post date:** [30 July 2017 00:11 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/st-etienne-v-saints/1033/22 "2017-07-30T00:11:15Z")
He does fall over and that dog is dead now :lou_sad: Great tune though ---
**Author:** ![Polski\_Filip](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/polski_filip/32/75318_2.png) [@Polski\_Filip](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Polski_Filip)\ **Post date:** [30 July 2017 06:13 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/st-etienne-v-saints/1033/23 "2017-07-30T06:13:06Z")
OK gang, help me out here. I thought we play a variance of 4 - 3 - 3. Front 3 being CF and the likes of say Redmond & Tadic in a kind of arrow head shape Then we play 3 in MF the likes of Davis Romeu & JWP. But this morning I’m struggling to understand how everyone is talking about having 2 DM’s ? So have we actually gone back to Mike Bassett days? and are playing 4 - 4 fooking - or have most of the fiverweb crew never actually noticed before? Yours sincerely Recovering from hangover so couldn’t focus on my mobile phone to watch the game yesterday ---
**Author:** ![Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/barry-sanchez/32/76_2.png) [@Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Barry-Sanchez)\ **Post date:** [30 July 2017 07:31 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/st-etienne-v-saints/1033/24 "2017-07-30T07:31:18Z")
SOS are you mad? You must be, I deflect the quality of a pop band with a falling jester dwarf, you’re off your head son. ---
**Author:** ![Simon-says](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/simon-says/32/133_2.png) [@Simon-says](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Simon-says)\ **Post date:** [30 July 2017 08:24 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/st-etienne-v-saints/1033/25 "2017-07-30T08:24:03Z")
It started as 4-2-3-1 yesterday with Romeu and Davis holding. I watched on and off on my phone and it looked as though Austin played deeper than Gabbiadini. Or maybe that was just during a short phase of play that I was paying attention to. Boufal on the left and Tadic on the right. Arguably it could have been 4-4-1-1. Definitely wasn’t Claude’s 4-3-3 though. Thank fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Simon-says](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/simon-says/32/133_2.png) [@Simon-says](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Simon-says)\ **Post date:** [30 July 2017 11:01 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/st-etienne-v-saints/1033/26 "2017-07-30T11:01:40Z")
Here you go Phil: > **[THE VERDICT: Goals key for positive Pellegrino](https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/15442301.the-verdict-the-final-word-on-southamptons-3-0-win-over-st-etienne/)** > > Goals, or rather the lack of them, contributed hugely to the demise of Claude Puel, but new Saints manager Mauricio Pellegrino looks like he has no… ---
**Author:** ![Polski\_Filip](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/polski_filip/32/75318_2.png) [@Polski\_Filip](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Polski_Filip)\ **Post date:** [30 July 2017 11:29 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/st-etienne-v-saints/1033/27 "2017-07-30T11:29:00Z")
Thanks for that @simon-says So my input. Think it was last game of last season when Austin came back into the team, it was clear he was “off the pace” but what I did notice was that he actually seemed to have a lot of time on the ball. He seems to be an intelligent footballer who can look up and make a pass (kind of the opposite to Redmond last season - who tended to do the hard work then mess up the 5 yard pass). In which case what we could be seeing is history repeat itself - Mark Hughes intially dropped into that role when he joined us. I’ll watch with interest now, I still prefer the 4 - 1 - 3 - 1 - 1 myself and Chelsea and others have shown that their Wing back 3 at the back system can tear our system to shreds at times. But then what do I know. I won one game at SMS by changing from 4 - 4 - fooking 2 to a “False 9” - got walloped in the return match for trying the same system 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Saint-or-sinner](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saint-or-sinner/32/64280_2.png) [@Saint-or-sinner](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Saint-or-sinner)\ **Post date:** [30 July 2017 14:36 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/st-etienne-v-saints/1033/28 "2017-07-30T14:36:36Z")
Go back to my first reply to you. Let me know if you’re still confused. Now Hail the living God that is JWP(almost as if this thread was about football). [Previous page](https://www.sotonians.com/t/st-etienne-v-saints/1033.md?page=1)