An odd thing to write, under the guise of 'Dear All'.
What would you expect the Southampton fans to do/sing?
What would you expect Maupay to do?
What would you expect The Duffman to do?
In fairness
What would you expect Southern Rail to do?
A text book day out.
Natural goalscorers aren't consistently tackling on the edge of their own penalty area.
Setting up attacks in midfield.
Marauding down either wing.
Imagine pairing that player WITH a natural goalscorer!
As we seem to suggest exactly the same issues with all our strikers 'isolation' perhaps we need to start looking at the position of centre forward differently.
Certainly in the first half, he was asked to do a lot with passes from a distance.
Irrespective of how high a line Chelsea played, their centre backs were never going to get caught out having been given a few extra seconds notice.
Hang on, that's not quite what I'm saying is it?
But a drag back from the by-line to an already well positioned striker, on the penalty spot, with the ball arriving on the half volley has to be day 1 lesson 1 in striker school.
I'd wager 9p Maupay is more likely to score that goal when he's...
The penalty spot miss ought to have gone in from muscle memory alone.
It's the sort of goal he'll be about to score when he's 70.
That said I thought he looked great and against that West Ham defense he'd have got 2 or 3 had he arrived with us earlier in pre-season.
T'is a shame he didn't sing yesterday that was this threads 2 month anniversary.
If every 'big money' transfer still takes 2 months it's no wonder #TeamLikepalace are struggling to sign anyone.
In that regard he's only a few weeks behind the rest of the squad, all of whom only recently walked into a brave new dawn.
As much as it's not ideal it's still better than joining late a settled squad all going through the same old same old.