[Albion] Brighton & Hove Albion vs Aston Villa *** Official Match Thread ***

[Weststander]

Player ratings for:

Dunk
Welbeck
Enciso - in fairness, too lightweight for 80 minutes of EPL football.

All bloody awful, did Welbeck play?

Southgate 100% correct about Dunk.

 

[brightn'ove]

They done us, fair and square, again.

Fair and square

 

[Mike Small]

Villa are a horrible lot and not very good. 1-0 in under a minute. You can't lose that. You can't lose to them.

Rules need changing. Foul from March at 96.20. They feign injury and pretend to argue with Dunk who carries on. They restart 97.40. Ref blows 98.09.

 

[doogie004]

What a load of shite
Not up for it from the start

 

[Bridcutt]

Reffing in this country is just disgustingly bad

 

[Normandy seagull]

We deserved nothing. What a pisser before the break- no time to put it right

 

[Scotchegg]

Villa are a horrible muggy little team, but too many off the pace today. The BS penalty decision just the rotten cherry on the top of a an ugly game really.

 

[Bodian]

Seven bookings for Villa....

 

[The Fits]

Just utterly shit. Forgetting the result, that was depressing for anyone watching.
Some thoughts - VAR is a good thing but isn't working in this country and should be binned
Colwill will be an excellent player.
Undav isn't up to this level.
Putting on Enciso was a huge mistake and all RDZs subs were wrong in terms of timing and personnel.
Something feels very familiar about this performance and result. Getting a bit depressing how hard we seem to make things at home so often.
Lots of positives for RDZ to head into the break with but he and his team will realise there's a hell of a lot to do too

 

[B-right-on]

They done us, fair and square, again.

Done us.

But more like cheating and bent than fair and square

 

[zefarelly]

Thats the shittest dirtiest cheatingest worst officiated game I've seen for a long time.

ah well. Villa up a notch on my table of hate.

 

[London Irish]

Frustrating but don’t dwell on it, some silly mistakes cost us but I’d much rather have our team than theirs

 

[Si Gull]

Well, that was shit. Such a great start then Lallana going off seemed to change everything. Villa were a disgrace and deserved nothing. VAR a joke again. Ref useless.

 

[Farehamseagull]

Disappointing but we got what we deserved for a really poor performance overall.

Losing Lallana so early was a devastating blow but not good after that from experienced players like Dunk, Gross and Trossard. Colwill and Caicedo the highlights, both excellent.

Attacking squad players Enciso and Undav look off the required standard at the moment, need some additions in January.

Long break to get over it and overall, I’m excited about the future under RDZ from what we’ve seen so far.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Deserved and should of had a draw if it wasn't for incompetent VAR.

 

[Popeye]

Shit referee and them being one of the biggest prick teams I have ever seen in terms of time wasting did not help. But overall can only blame ourselves; we simply did not show up for this one, no creativity, corners straight horse shit, etc. Sucks but we are still in a good spot in the table and just move on to the next one.

Bad days at the office happens.

 

[Normandy seagull]

Too many poor performances- did Trossard play? Welbeck crap. Caicedo poor today- their midfield won the battle

 

[zefarelly]

McGinn is such a fat f***

He is a cheating dumpy ****. Emery has just brought a sack load of dirty tricks with him.

 

[Superphil]

A few players already on the plane to Qatar?

 

[Swansman]

Scandalous decision not to give March a penalty.

Overall though I think the performance was not good enough. Bringing on Enciso for Lallana was a decisive call imo, giving away a fair bit of control - Gilmour or Veltman should have been brought on.

Trossard already in Qatar. Caicedo and Ali Mac will also get shit for "saving themselves" but won't agree there really, thought they did well.

Colwill looked pretty decent, March was good for the last 20-30 minutes but overall I'd say this game is just one to forget and move on.