Just read a fans report from Watfords last game:
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Much as we leave the game feeling perplexed - this was in many respects an improvement on recent performances - there's really no great mystery to what happened here. Without any support - proper support - Marlon is always going to struggle against a halfway competent defence, and you can't go giving away goals, several of them, against a solid side like Burnley. The disappointment is that the home team didn't need to be any better than competent to win this at a canter - no reflection on them, they just did what they had to do.
With results conspiring to again leave us in third place despite not winning in five, the return of Henderson and a resumption of the accustomed defensive reliability might see us getting away with this run of form in the wider context of the league season. But it's no coincidence that we've taken the vast majority of points from games where we've had two senior strikers available, and precious little from those where we haven't. If Henderson doesn't return imminently, fully fit, then we'll find ourselves following Luton's slide down the table.
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http://www.bsad.org/0506/reports/sou...on/hptext.html
In fact it's a great site and well worth a read for any match review/preview junkies. Last week Southampton were torn apart by Norwich , Huckerby ran riot as he can in this division but with only King to contend with at Watford they should be ok
his conclusion for boxing day
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As for ourselves... floundering opposition or otherwise, our recent performances have betrayed some very evident limitations given the personnel currently available. Recent meetings here with the Saints have been high-scoring victories, with victories by bigger margins in the not too distant past... indeed, Southampton have only won one of their last twenty-two league visits (and John Burridge should have walked on that occasion, as I remember). Our chances of inflicting another defeat wouldn't half be improved by having two fit strikers to call on by Monday lunchtime.
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from
teamtalk:
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Boothroyd hopes to welcome back striker Darius Henderson for his first start since the 3-1 win over Wolves on 29 October.
The 24-year-old has struggled with a hip injury all season, but his return on Boxing Day would be a huge relief to Boothroyd, whose key forward Ashley Young is out until the New Year with an ankle injury.
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hmm , sometimes I wished I never looked into this! I'm hopeing Burley somehow can coax a performance from these quality players. Confidence down to
6.6/10