Sunday, November 26, 2017

With a goal fest, the Saints finally set their march



Scandalous and spectacular was today’s performance for the Southampton Saints at its coastal colossus of Saint Mary’s showing off a total sold out and delivering a grand match for its followers.

In addition, raising more red flags and putting more in crisis the likes of the visiting Everton Toffees and its interim manager David Unsworth, which the top brass back in Goodison Park are to start looking for the ultimate of solutions, in the likes of a manager.

Very well enlarging their list of potential candidates to five and with names of the likes of Big Sam Allardyce, Sean Dyche, and Marco Silva and now the name of Diego Simeone emerges as another top candidate that can turn things around for the School of Science.

While the Toffees are to decide their future, let us get back to the match that belonged in its entirety to the local Saints, with its initial eleven finally playing a serious game of football and showing an all-around hunger.

Especially since the get go, as the squad of Mauricio Pellegrino emerged with the label of favorites and took advantage of all the opportunities these came upon all afternoon by not conceding any open spaces to the visitors.

Still the Saints did managed to take care of all of its chances in the first half by opening the score with a nice combination from a workaholic in Ryan Bertrand that despite not scoring a single goal, but with his assistance in two plays that ended up as goals. 

In the 18 minute of the match, Bertrand set the play to Dusan Tadic for the 1-0 sending the whole of Saint Mary’s attendance into frenzy after seeing their Boys unsurmountable times trying to open up the score and two close plays, when finally the first goal was score.

That early goal did not hamper the Toffess into submission despite their five shoots to goal that one of them made it across the defensive wall set by the Saints keeper Fraser Forster all afternoon long, when Gylfi Sigurdsson finally scored his first goal in the 45 minute.

As the match going into halftime tied, for the visitors Manager David Unsworth , seeing a possibility of reviving the possibilities of delivering a win that at the end could uplift his squad spirits and confidence.

Unfortunately, that did not happen and the visiting Blues seeing their luck dwindle in a matter of minutes when their hosts suddenly turned the tables against them and with a dynamic series of counterattacks, the Saints were in total control of the match.

In the 52 minute it’s when Everton backfield will like to put it behind after seeing another team display by the locals when Ryan Bertrand aperies on the scene and contributed with an amazing assist to Charlie Austin and giving his squad the 2-1 lead.

With an inspired Austin once again teamwork being involved with the author of the first goal assisting his teammate six minutes later and Charlie with his second score in the 58 six minutes later, Charlie Austin had a double and giving his squad a 3-1 advantage.

So far, in the match, a nonexistent Everton being victimized by the dominance of the locals push and top of the line game that at the end earned them in what seemed a very valuable win and three points of gold.

 James Ward- Prowse play and combination to an open Stephen Davis who did not hesitated to send a  cannon of a shoot into the posts defended by not to successfully by Jordan Pickford seeing once again his effort going futile and surrendering the fourth and definitive goal. 

A goal fest, indeed, as the Saints marched with an all-around authority.

The win puts the Saints in total command of tenth place with 16 points and a match next week considered as one hefty challenge to tackle against Man City at Etihad an enterprise not so easy to tackle for Pellegrino and company.

 
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