| This mythical 23-match unbeaten run 13:46 - Jul 24 with 693 views | PatfromPoole |
I keep seeing reference to this 23-match unbeaten run from two seasons ago.
First comment is that it was 22 matches.
As has been established on here, it is a principle that Cup matches don't count.
Here is the run of games:-
Southampton 3–1 Leeds United
Stoke City 0–1 Southampton
Southampton 1–1 Rotherham United
Hull City 1–2 Southampton
Preston North End 2–2 Southampton
Southampton 3–1 Birmingham City
Millwall 0–1 Southampton
Southampton 2–1 West Bromwich Albion
Huddersfield Town 1–1 Southampton
Southampton 1–0 Bristol City
Southampton 2–0 Cardiff City
Watford 1–1 Southampton
Coventry City 1–1 Southampton
Southampton 4–0 Blackburn Rovers
Queens Park Rangers 0–1 Southampton
Southampton 5–0 Swansea City
Southampton 2–1 Plymouth Argyle
Norwich City 1–1 Southampton
Southampton 4–0 Sheffield Wednesday
Swansea City 1–3 Southampton
Rotherham United 0–2 Southampton
Southampton 5–3 Huddersfield Town
Some undeniably good results in there, and the Huddersfield 5-3 game is one of my favourite games I have ever seen at St. Mary's. However the majority of those games were simply games we would have been expected to win. We didn't face Leicester or Ipswich (4 defeats out of 4 against those two), at all in that run of games.
There were 6 draws, a number of which should not have been, and we did concede more goals than we should have done.
To laud Bazunu and Manning with high praise for this achievement is bizarre.
Should we have a clamour for the return of Sekou Mara so that he can come on again for the last 5 minutes of games when the game is already won?
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| This mythical 23-match unbeaten run on 17:04 - Jul 24 with 551 views | LondonSaint76 |
Seconded.
And, with reference to the mythical run being used in defence of Super Baz, when he lost the plot post-mythical run, many say it was the fact he was out injured that went a long way to helping us get promoted. Seen it said many times on here that if Baz had been in goal for the entire run in we would not have been promoted.
Ultimately the stats don’t lie, fair enough he was thrown to the Wolves, as Nick put it, in his first season but looking at his stats in the Championship he was one of the worst ranked performers overall. |  |
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