Melanius Mullarkey Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 3-2 Arbroath (pens missed that is) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnstoun Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 £50m man wins it for Saints! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Positive, sometimes. Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 Unlucky Arbroath. Played well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossBFaeDundee Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 Cracked under the pressure 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mizfit Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 More difficult that it should have been. Hopefully see Arbroath around about the play offs this season, well run club. As for us, f**k me we need to find our shooting boots pronto. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIVIFOREVER Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 Unlucky Arbroath, great effort. Both finalists shitfesting their way into the quarters then, odds on we'll be drawn together now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonksy+HisChristianParade Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 19 minutes ago, mizfit said: 4 posts in 30 minutes In a neutral thread. Absolutely normal behaviour. A really odd little man. Pretty sure the same guy was all over the Galatasaray thread gloating as well. Made himself look a bit silly on this occasion though. Shame. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtie23 Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 Ref had a big hand in getting the defending champs through. Absolutely horrific decision to give a corner instead of a foul on our defender that lead to the Saints equaliser. thought to a man we were terrific today. TOB and Low our standouts 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tree house tam Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 8 minutes ago, lichtie23 said: Ref had a big hand in getting the defending champs through. Absolutely horrific decision to give a corner instead of a foul on our defender that lead to the Saints equaliser. thought to a man we were terrific today. TOB and Low our standouts Big decisions always go in favour of the big teams. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint in exile Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 Are we a big team now? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtie23 Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 2 minutes ago, saint in exile said: Are we a big team now? Against part time Arbroath you are. To be fair the ref was horrific for both sides 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint in exile Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 1 minute ago, lichtie23 said: Against part time Arbroath you are. To be fair the ref was horrific for both sides You can certainly be proud of your team mate we were extremely lucky to win the tie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtie23 Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 (edited) 12 minutes ago, saint in exile said: You can certainly be proud of your team mate we were extremely lucky to win the tie Yea they were superb. Thomas O’Brien could walk into plenty Premier League sides defences IMO. Edited August 15, 2021 by lichtie23 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afc_36_0 Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 Zander Clark never got near any of our pens tbf, shame 3 were off target 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real Saints Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 We’re just really really good at penalty shoot-outs, I’m afraid. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Positive, sometimes. Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 21 minutes ago, afc_36_0 said: Zander Clark never got near any of our pens tbf, shame 3 were off target Seemed a strange sub. Until last seasons game at Dens I'm fairly sure he'd never saved a penalty. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludo*1 Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 32 minutes ago, Mr Positive, sometimes. said: Seemed a strange sub. Until last seasons game at Dens I'm fairly sure he'd never saved a penalty. In non-shootouts, Zander Clark has faced 22 penalties and saved 5. 4 for you and 1 for QotS. Elliot Parish has the exact same penalty record. Faced 22, saved 5. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radford Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 What a go Arbroath gave that and they'll be gutted to go out. Saints weren't good at all today but live to fight another day and everyone would have accepted that with LASK to come, today was all about getting the job done, whatever it took. Ideally that wouldn't have involved ET. Not much to pick over for us, poor all round. We only looked dangerous when the centre backs were prepared to step out and that didn't happen often enough. For one reason or another, don't think I'd ever seen Tom O'Brien play before today but was very impressed. As said, Arbroath gave us a real game. Get in the ice baths until Wednesday then next stop Austria. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 Chalk that up as a lucky escape and move on, IMO. Our midfield is fairly useless on the ball if you remove Bryson and Wotherspoon, today a lovely example of that. Didn't even attempt to play through Arbroath until Ballantyne came on. Liam Craig is so far off it this season. We were so, so, passive at everything, yet every time we ran at Arbroath we caused them issues. Defence without Gordon remains an issue too. No way we concede such weak goals if he's organising in there. Didn't think the shape was necessary. Didn't like the starting line up. Didn't like the subs made. The whole atmosphere around us today felt like this was just a nuisance game to get out the way before Thursday. Thankfully we've still got the ability to grind results out. Job done, move on. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloPerth Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 Well played Arbroath, better team on the day. Just happy to be through, our players had a big off day and looked knackered but stuck in there when they were up against it, so fair play for that. Liam Craig had a howler, but a big ask after starting against Galatasary then 120 minutes today. Stevie May and Callum Hendry need to have long hard looks at themselves. Arbroath centre backs probably had their easiest game for a while. You see the difference Kane makes by challenging for every ball. Arbroath won just about every header in defence and midfield. You're going to struggle to get a foothold in a match which has a lot of aerial duels when you lose most of them all game (apart from our defenders). Callum Hendry won one all day. Fair enough if you're up against a player stronger in the air, but he was hardly even jumping close to his opponent to make it difficult, his reading of where to position himself to challenge for headers was horrendous. To be fair to Hendry, he did have a cracking flick to Middleton in the build up to his shot off the bar, and put himself forward to score from a penalty. Watching that today emphasises my fear about group stage European football, we will struggle with the squad we have. But overall, the will to get through was superb, so credit to Saints for that, and getting through is what matters. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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