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IBO Reporter - channonite
|A cracking match, where Saints really rode their luck at times and won it with a bit of individual brilliance from Moussa Djenepo. What a find this bloke is turning out to be! Pace, skill, strength and vision. Not so much a second Mané, rather a first Djenepo.
With no Danso, after his sending off in the last home game, there was bound to be some shuffling of the pack for this match. What wasn't expected was to see Djenepo as the left wing back. What?!
So we had the ever improving Angus Gunn in goal and a back three of Bednarek, Vestergaard and the returning Yoshida. The wing backs were Cédric, still keeping Valery out of the side, on the right and Djenepo on the left.
The midfield were Romeu, who now seems to be back to his best, after being sidelined by previous so-called 'managers', and captain Pierre-Emile Højbjerg. Playing wide, either side of Che Adams were Ward-Prowse and the reinvigorated Sofiane Boufal.
That then was how they lined up, but as ever, changes were made during the game and it wasn't until Djenepo was moved to a more central role, that the goal came.
I am really looking forward to the day when the planets align and we see Redmond, Adams and Djenepo, with Danso adding some pace down the left, or even in the centre of defence. With Danso, I really don't know where his best position is. Will he turn out to be like van Dijk and be capable of playing several different roles?
Another great goal from Moussa Djenepo won this match
Sheff Utd
- 1 Henderson
- 6 Basham (Robinson 84')
- 12 Egan
- 5 O'Connell
- 2 Baldock
- 7 Lundstram (Mousset 72')
- 16 Norwood
- 4 Fleck - Booked 65'
- 3 Stevens
- 17 McGoldrick
- 9 McBurnie (Sharp 65' - Dismissed 85' Straight Red)
Substitutes
- 8 Freeman
- 10 Sharp
- 11 Robinson
- 22 Mousset
- 23 Osborn
- 25 Moore
- 27 Besic
Southampton
- 28 Gunn
- 35 Bednarek
- 3 Yoshida
- 4 Vestergaard - Booked 51'
- 2 Cédric
- 14 Romeu
- 23 Højbjerg
- 12 Djenepo (Ings 74')
- 16 Ward-Prowse
- 19 Boufal (Armstrong 85')
- 10 Adams (Long 90'+2)
Substitutes
- 1 McCarthy
- 5 Stephens
- 7 Long
- 9 Ings
- 17 Armstrong
- 21 Bertrand
- 43 Valery