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Impressive Saints breeze past Burnley
5:01pm Saturday 11th February 2012 in Sport
SAINTS cruised past Burnley 2-0 at St Mary’s to move a point behind leaders West Ham at the top of the Championship.
The club’s first home victory of 2012 came courtesy of Adam Lallana’s header and a Ben Mee own goal.
The Hammers, who Saints visit in a huge clash on Tuesday, had their trip to Peterborough postponed because of a frozen pitch, allowing Nigel Adkins’ side to close the gap.
Saints received further boosts elsewhere today, with third-placed Birmingham having their match against Barnsley called off and fourth-placed Cardiff losing 2-1 at Leicester.
That means Southampton have now opened up a five-point gap over their nearest two challengers for second position.
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olddellsaint
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5:10pm Sat 11 Feb 12
sk8srsinking
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5:18pm Sat 11 Feb 12
philiprhampton
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5:38pm Sat 11 Feb 12
St.Yorkie
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5:39pm Sat 11 Feb 12
Tirau Dan
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5:41pm Sat 11 Feb 12
Enjoying Spurs 2 up already against Newcastle.. impressive.
City Saint
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5:42pm Sat 11 Feb 12
Norwegian Saint
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5:48pm Sat 11 Feb 12
YOUR BOYS TOOK ONE HELLLLLL OF A BEATING!!!!
Lestevier26
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5:57pm Sat 11 Feb 12
mack chinnon
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5:59pm Sat 11 Feb 12
RedArmy1
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6:01pm Sat 11 Feb 12
WELL DONE NIGEL AND THE TEAM.
COYR
Strasbourg Saint
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6:08pm Sat 11 Feb 12
Norwegian Saint wrote:Fair play Burnley, not a bad list.
Sir Ian Mckellen, Eric Knowles, John Kettley, Ted Heath, Jonny Briggs, Alistar Campbell......
YOUR BOYS TOOK ONE HELLLLLL OF A BEATING!!!!
sfcned
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6:15pm Sat 11 Feb 12
David Crook
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6:17pm Sat 11 Feb 12
SPIKEISLANDTRADER
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6:22pm Sat 11 Feb 12
hedge end bob
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6:30pm Sat 11 Feb 12
David Crook wrote:Hope you will now believe like Eddie How stated yesterday, WE HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR AT ST MARY,S. A very good win today, roll on West Ham. With Rickie Billy Tadanari and David we are looking full of goals.
Well done Saints,thats much better.
legod7
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6:41pm Sat 11 Feb 12
andysaints007
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6:43pm Sat 11 Feb 12
philiprhampton wrote:'chung' !! thats a bit racist ain't it??
If the few minutes that Chung had is anything to go by( he looked really up for it) it's gonna be a great ride for the rest of this season COYRs
SaintMax
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6:45pm Sat 11 Feb 12
petethephantom
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6:48pm Sat 11 Feb 12
crept back in your hole
well done boys from an ozzie watching and listening from sydney,
look out west ham tuesday night, then derby @ home next saturday,
things couldn't look rosier
COYR
george chivers
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6:50pm Sat 11 Feb 12
Absolutely spot on, a great team performance. Looking forward to the West Ham game and Derby next Saturday.
brighton saint
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7:03pm Sat 11 Feb 12
DisplacedFan
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7:20pm Sat 11 Feb 12
st mike
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7:23pm Sat 11 Feb 12
Oldfan
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7:25pm Sat 11 Feb 12
Brillant result today plsu other results gone our way. It is entierly different now to two weeks ago and very important to be going to West Ham in positive frame of mind - lets keep another clean sheet there and so give Lambert and Sharp the best chance of winning it for us
petethephantom
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7:32pm Sat 11 Feb 12
for me i am so excited that we are in one excellent position
One Heart....One Vision
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7:38pm Sat 11 Feb 12
The Saints are Coming !!!
PS: After this mornings DE Negative report....sounds like some happy pills have been taken....at last!!!. COYR
batesieboy
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8:00pm Sat 11 Feb 12
City Saint wrote:Quite.
Well done Saints, this win builds on a steady improvement through january and a hard fought draw away to the brum. So with no cups left to distract us from the main mission, time to look ahead to the last sixteen games of the season. All games after west ham look winnable with the current squad. If we draw or better with west ham, the rest of the season is squarely in our hands. No reason why we cant average slightly above two points a game in the last fifteen games. We will rarely have a better chance to get back to the premiership. We've done the hardest work, now let's see this out.
batesieboy
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8:03pm Sat 11 Feb 12
andysaints007 wrote:So is "andysaints" you idiot. Try and keep up.
philiprhampton wrote:'chung' !! thats a bit racist ain't it??
If the few minutes that Chung had is anything to go by( he looked really up for it) it's gonna be a great ride for the rest of this season COYRs
batesieboy
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8:07pm Sat 11 Feb 12
petethephantom wrote:Not sure that "rosie" should be mentioned on here.
where are all the gloom and doom mungers
crept back in your hole
well done boys from an ozzie watching and listening from sydney,
look out west ham tuesday night, then derby @ home next saturday,
things couldn't look rosier
COYR
Costa Baz
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8:09pm Sat 11 Feb 12
petethephantom wrote:What the negative posters don't realise is that all the other teams are just as likely, if not more so, as Saints to lose games.
i meant for those that come on here and continually put the team down, thats all,
for me i am so excited that we are in one excellent position
They saw us lose form and automatically panicked, assuming that the other teams would pass us by, yet as we have seen, despite our loss of form in December and some bad luck in January, only West Ham have managed to get past us. And that took them several attempts, because they are feeling the pressure the same as everyone else.
What Saints have, that WHU, Birmingham, Cardiff et al don't have, is the fact that we KNOW that we can handle the pressure, as proved last season.
WHU and Birmingham are still recovering from being relegated and are (especially WHU) under intense pressure to go straight back up again. Cardiff are perennial bottlers, usually falling away early into the new year, settling for play off places each year.
I am still quietly confident of an automatic promotion spot, but expect it to go to the wire.
iswhite10
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8:17pm Sat 11 Feb 12
ghk230473
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8:24pm Sat 11 Feb 12
Glad to see guly r/midfield, he deserves his chance. Lallana bright, sharp feeling his feet, fonte and hos dominant. Full backs poor distribution from both. When opponents have corner, why do we not have an outlet, both our forwards are defending. Attack is the best form of defence, at least 1 forward should be pushing their defence on the back foot.
Baddesley Bill
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8:25pm Sat 11 Feb 12
mack chinnon wrote:Spent it...put it on the tab...you know it makes sense...COYR! :O)
Bill, 10 chances today. Five pounds please.
Charlie_SaintsFC
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8:36pm Sat 11 Feb 12
Velleity
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8:40pm Sat 11 Feb 12
ghk230473 wrote:Congratulations on the first truly negative post about today's performance.
Good result today. Burnley didn't threaten at all, bit like palace. Our play is all pretty but we need to be more dominating, opposition seem to have a way back into game. Lambert needs to get into box more often, seems to spend most of his time on the wings.
Glad to see guly r/midfield, he deserves his chance. Lallana bright, sharp feeling his feet, fonte and hos dominant. Full backs poor distribution from both. When opponents have corner, why do we not have an outlet, both our forwards are defending. Attack is the best form of defence, at least 1 forward should be pushing their defence on the back foot.
To be honest, I was expecting it, as you're nothing if not predictable.
Boring, in other words.
Costa Baz
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9:37pm Sat 11 Feb 12
ghk230473 wrote:Frazer Richardson with another assist to his name.
Good result today. Burnley didn't threaten at all, bit like palace. Our play is all pretty but we need to be more dominating, opposition seem to have a way back into game. Lambert needs to get into box more often, seems to spend most of his time on the wings.
Glad to see guly r/midfield, he deserves his chance. Lallana bright, sharp feeling his feet, fonte and hos dominant. Full backs poor distribution from both. When opponents have corner, why do we not have an outlet, both our forwards are defending. Attack is the best form of defence, at least 1 forward should be pushing their defence on the back foot.
Hope his distribution is that bad on Tuesday.
OSPREYSAINT
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11:15pm Sat 11 Feb 12
Strasbourg Saint
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11:30pm Sat 11 Feb 12
OSPREYSAINT wrote:Gimme an 'S' ......
Stracqualursi, that easy for you to say, imagine our lot trying to spell that one!
OSPREYSAINT
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12:13am Sun 12 Feb 12
OSPREYSAINT
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12:15am Sun 12 Feb 12
OSPREYSAINT
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12:23am Sun 12 Feb 12
BowesSaint
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1:11am Sun 12 Feb 12
Costa Baz wrote:I hate to say this but in one way Ghk is right. When we are defending corners or free kicks we don't leave anyone up front so when we clear the ball goes straight back to the opposition. Nigel screamed at Billy Sharp to stay up on more than one occasion from a set piece.
ghk230473 wrote:Frazer Richardson with another assist to his name.
Good result today. Burnley didn't threaten at all, bit like palace. Our play is all pretty but we need to be more dominating, opposition seem to have a way back into game. Lambert needs to get into box more often, seems to spend most of his time on the wings.
Glad to see guly r/midfield, he deserves his chance. Lallana bright, sharp feeling his feet, fonte and hos dominant. Full backs poor distribution from both. When opponents have corner, why do we not have an outlet, both our forwards are defending. Attack is the best form of defence, at least 1 forward should be pushing their defence on the back foot.
Hope his distribution is that bad on Tuesday.
However, this is easily put right on the training pitch. Today (and Tuesday despite what the boo boys say) we were positive, creative and attacking. A welcome return to form. I am now licking my lips for my short journey to upton park.
Billy_The_Fish
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2:41am Sun 12 Feb 12
rob the saint in NZ
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6:52am Sun 12 Feb 12
Billy_The_Fish wrote:& they just wasted all that money painting the toilets!
No skates on here tonight then, must be busy packing up the shed to move out, I hear H&W are thinking of buying it
zambucco
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9:57am Sun 12 Feb 12
andysaints007 wrote:I believe it's 'Chun' as his twitter account is @ChunTadanari and it's what NA calls him
philiprhampton wrote:'chung' !! thats a bit racist ain't it??
If the few minutes that Chung had is anything to go by( he looked really up for it) it's gonna be a great ride for the rest of this season COYRs
sledgerite
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1:28pm Sun 12 Feb 12
e did say to be fair to him burnley beaten by a better side.
rocketone
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3:43pm Sun 12 Feb 12
Echo you need to think up a headline for Tuesday.
Cole for a gole?
Nolan to do Saints ?
Big Sam ain't scared of Saints?
OR
Just maybe....
Saints all out to return to the top ?
saintmicky
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7:26pm Sun 12 Feb 12
Great performance and the twelfth man nearly back on form!
COYRS!!
click2find
willygetaway says...
5:09pm Sat 11 Feb 12