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[Albion] Brighton & Hove Albion vs Chelsea *** Official Match Thread ***
- Thread starter Dick Head
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Plus offside barely inside their half three or four times too, when he was not even looking to run in behind.
GT49er
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Not sure it's any sort of mystery why loud groans and moans come from the home fans when we don’t go forward. Defending deep and playing defence against attack isn't exactly doing us a lot of good at the moment.
To go forward? Stephens hasn’t played a forward pass all game. Not interested in scoring, just try and keep the score down.
At least I can get an early dart without worrying about missing anything.
Farehamseagull
Solly March Fan Club
We can’t start games with Stephens, Gross and Murray anymore. We’re far too slow and predictable. Bissouma and Andone HAVE to start every game when fit from now on. They have genuine pace and quality.
saafend_seagull
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Lol, you can apply that to every goal ever scored.
Completely outclassed, world class footballing move out did us.
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Get them on at HT (Fat chance) for Murray and Stephens.
RM-Taylor
He's Magic.... You Know
- Jan 7, 2006
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But we’re playing against Chelsea, a team who won the Premier League 18 months ago. Maybe a bit of perspective is needed here.
Losing against Chelsea is understandable, dropping in-form players, continuing to play out of form players and rolling over for them isn't.
ukpolska
Well-known member
Defo offside.
So what? Does that mean you can’t at least try and attack? The alternative certainly isn’t working is it.
London Irish
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I'd go for the old fashioned triple and see how we fare with pace in the team, Murray Gross Stephens off Andone Bissouma Locadia on, wake up the crowd
GT49er
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To be fair, so did most of us. The difference is, most of us - well, many of us at least - would have liked that to be taken as an opportunity to risk playing a more attacking game rather than a none-too-successful damage limitation attempt.
my question of the day .... do the Albion players actually practise passing the ball to one another ?
my answer would be .. on that first half display ... hell no
I have seen some poor performances from Albion this season , this isnt the worst but can the players actually see each other because they seem convinced we are playing in yellow by the number of times they have passed straight to a yellow jersey
poor decision on first goal as was offside by player standing in front of and affecting Ryan but top 6 side will always get the decisions (generally)
second goal no idea what Balogun was doing , he fell into the Chelsea trap and boom 0-2
some good forward movement but completely lacking any teeth in the final third , even worse is even if we had the teeth we have no one feeding it into the right place
game over , we wont get 3 without reply in the second half , be lucky to get 2 without sadly
my answer would be .. on that first half display ... hell no
I have seen some poor performances from Albion this season , this isnt the worst but can the players actually see each other because they seem convinced we are playing in yellow by the number of times they have passed straight to a yellow jersey
poor decision on first goal as was offside by player standing in front of and affecting Ryan but top 6 side will always get the decisions (generally)
second goal no idea what Balogun was doing , he fell into the Chelsea trap and boom 0-2
some good forward movement but completely lacking any teeth in the final third , even worse is even if we had the teeth we have no one feeding it into the right place
game over , we wont get 3 without reply in the second half , be lucky to get 2 without sadly
sjamesb3466
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It was brilliant from Hazard but if Bernardo had done the basics he would have prevented the goal. My point was that a top class Chelsea punished us when we have switched off (which you seem to agree with) so not sure what your argument is.
On a different topic, it appears that Captain Morgan rum is called Captain Johnson in the US. Who knew
GT49er
Well-known member
Sorry, I didn't realise our current plan was working well.