[Albion] Brighton & Hove Albion vs AFC Bournemouth *** Official Match Thread ***

[macbeth]

loathe to criticise RDZ but maybe the reason we have these games where the starting 11 looks like they’ve never played together before is because…they haven’t

 

[Krafty]

We are getting dominated by Bournemouth, f*** me!

Missing MacAllister and Caicedo desperately.

 

[Oh_aye]

They don't play as a two up front and that combo has worked plenty of times. (A few times when it hasn't as well). He clearly liked to have the two in midfield and the two up front combining to make passing boxes. Rather than a 3 with a number 10 and an isolated striker.

It's only a problem if we get outmuscled in midfield or give the ball away cheaply and don't have the numbers or legs to get back. Like west ham

Or like this match!

 

[Gully Forever]

Oh dear

So deserved to concede after pissing around for so long, I really hate these tactics

 

[Bodian]

Commentator on my stream asking whether the exertions of Thursday night are taking their toll. It's a totally different team from Thursday!

 

[Albion in the north]

Thats risk and reward football for you. Great when its working for us.

 

[nwgull]

My god what a horror show how on earth does a keeper in this league do that.

I don’t think the rotation policy makes things easy for a newly-signed keeper.

 

[Fergus the Schnoodle]

Dahoud too lightweight looks okay when it's going well goes missing when we are struggling.

That was his reputation at Dortmund. Beautiful footballer but disappears way to often

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Dahoud looks totally lost out there

He's not that good in PL terms.

Massive down grade from what we had last season.

 

[maltaseagull]

Good night needs to be subbed.
Missing Gross too.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Got Everton again written all over it at the moment.

We looked like we should get something from Everton, we look utterly shite and don't deserve anything here.

 

[Farehamseagull]

Crying out for Lallana.

 

[London Irish]

Massive step up for Bart to play the Steele style - I personally don’t see the need for such even rotation at this moment - he’s young and has plenty of time to develop, it’s being rushed

 

[Colonel Mustard]

It's about time we f***ed up the playing-out routine. We've got complacent about our cleverness. I'm almost glad, and particularly that it's against a team we should still beat. Against a better side that would be curtains. We must win this game even if it's looking doubtful at the mo. Come on Roberto, where's that famous ability to change tactics on the hoof?

 

[Pevenseagull]

Sunday league keeping moment.

Lewes and District Sunday league division 6 circa 1995.

Although I'm not sure that I saw a bowler like that.


Oh well.

 

[TottonSeagull]

Can't keep f***ing around with your keepers. Pick one and play them!

 

[junior]

loathe to criticise RDZ but maybe the reason we have these games where the starting 11 looks like they’ve never played together before is because…they haven’t

Well they need to get used to it because you can't play the same 11 when we play 3 games a week.

 

[US Seagull]

A shot! And it only took half an hour to get there!

 

[The Fits]

loathe to criticise RDZ but maybe the reason we have these games where the starting 11 looks like they’ve never played together before is because…they haven’t

I'm afraid so.
Pundits say how organised we are, everyone knows where the other players are, they all know their role..this and the AEK has proven that's about playing first team games together IMHO.
Going to be interesting to see how we cope over the next few weeks but I think eventually RDZ will have to commit to some kind of first team.
What a lot of the teams do is have one Euro League team and one Prem team.

 

[GloryDays]

We are getting dominated by Bournemouth, f*** me!

Missing MacAllister and Caicedo desperately.

BM playing very well.

We've been found out. This had 1-0 BM written on it before a ball was kicked.