[Albion] Brighton & Hove Albion vs Chelsea *** Official Match Thread ***

[METALMICKY]

And those poor City players are on a luxury coach heading back as we speak. Those poor souls.

I think we can all feel for the little poppets!

 

[um bongo molongo]

Ghost of Potter haunting us tonight I reckon. Missed a load of good chances and Cucurella looked like a footballer. Total throwback.

 

[Zeus]

I appreciate he is only a child, but he looks a long way off being a 1st teamer right now IMO.

he needs some serious gym work and plenty of minutes playing European men’s football on loan away from the spotlight. Really bad decision to keep him here this season.

 

[Wardy's twin]

Bottom line is if you miss 4 decent chances then you really aren't going to progress. A lot of players looked light weight tonight a nf bringing on lalana to chase the game said it all.

 

[London Irish]

Positives: JPVH, Pedro, Tariq, Karou, Pervis, and Karou roasting Cucutwatface.

Negatives: Thought Baleba looked a few games from being ready, gave it away a lot. Dahoud also looked lazy and wasteful until Billy came on. Buonnanote I have defended a lot but tonight showed he is a long way from being physically ready for this level. It’s actually unfair putting him in there at the moment. Should be off on loan getting stronger and minutes. Fati missing another sitter.

I thought FB had a good first half but he lost his way after the break. Surprised he wasn’t replaced earlier - but there you go, while we wanted to win I think we also saw this as a development game and had to balance those two things

 

[London Irish]

Bottom line is if you miss 4 decent chances then you really aren't going to progress. A lot of players looked light weight tonight a nf bringing on lalana to chase the game said it all.

Yep first time Sanchez breathed easy all night

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Meh, as long as Chelsea don’t win it, or anything this season for that matter, I don’t care.

we can do without more fixture headaches and potential injuries

 

[Weststander]

Adingra ! That's a bit of a reach.

Second half on Sunday he was outstanding. In form, pace, a tormentor.

 

[London Irish]

Agree. People telling us on this board Europe is not that important either. What happens when we start losing in the league !!!

No way we disrespected this cup, we put in a good performance but didn’t take our chances, it happens - will happen in the league too (and already has this season)

 

[OzMike]

Well that didn't go to plan, still wanted the win just because it was Chelsea.
Won't bother to watch later.

 

[ozzygull]

Just back from the games. Shame we lost but not going to lose any sleep over it. I don’t know if anyone was watching on TV but from where I was standing I am sure Chilwell put the ball out with hand in the second half, and should been a penalty. Or did I imagine it?

 

[dazzer6666]

Enjoyable night apart from the result. Good panto, but Chelsea fans just awful. Misfiring in front of goal cost us, but if we’re going to exit any competition early this is the one. Good minutes for some of the wider squad/combinations. Walked past a pub on the way back to car with a background sound of ‘we’ve scored a goal’ being sung

 

[dazzer6666]

Unfortunately Igor's erratic positioning and play is exactly what fiorentina fans warned us about. Constantly out of position as well. He has the raw talent but he needs to be guided. Which is why I couldn't understand why de zerbi went with that defence tonight.

Because there another game on Saturday …….

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

Enjoyable night apart from the result. Good panto, but Chelsea fans just awful. Misfiring in front of goal cost us, but if we’re going to exit any competition early this is the one. Good minutes for some of the wider squad/combinations. Walked past a pub on the way back to car with a background sound of ‘we’ve scored a goal’ being sung

Also singing about us, tragic ****s.

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

Felt very much like a Potter performance, all the gear no idea.

 

[Milano]

Just got home.
The team to score first tonight were likely to win. We missed 2 great chances 1st half to do that and then paid for it. That said Solly just f***ing had to score, even more annoyed that he let that wanker save it, shite header. It’s details like that which mean he’ll never get that cap.

My take aways from tonight:
I absolutely loved Sanchez being absolutely shit tonight, talk about a micro-summary of why RDZ dropped him!
Goodnight is NOWHERE NEAR ready, perhaps if we’d been at home to L1 oppo but not Chelsea away, there are kids in the U21s more ready, very strange situation.
Pedro needs shooting practice.
Fati will score and then keep on doing it. I was slightly surprised he was subbed and I think it affected us.
Chelsea are a £1bn Burnley.
I realise how much I miss pubs being within walking distance of our ground.

 

[jcdenton08]

People saying no injuries… pretty sure it was the reason Fati was subbed. He was hurt in the tackle which should’ve been the red card.

Pretty sure he’ll be out for Saturday and hope it’s not as serious as it appeared.

 

[WhingForPresident]

For context, tonight's squad spend (using rough figures)

Bart- £15m

Lamptey £3m
Van Hecke £2m
Igor £13m
Perv £14m

Dahoud £0
Buonanotte £8m
Baleba £25m
Ansu Fati £0 (loan)

Mitoma £2m
Joao Pedro £30m

Subs
March £0
Lallana £0
Hinshelwood £0
Gilmour £7m

Total around £100m. Which seems a lot, especially for us, 'til you compare it to:

Sanchez £25m

Chilwell £50m
Disasi £40m
Colwill £0
Cucurella £60m

Caicedo £115m
Ugochukwu £25m
Maatsen £0

Mudryk £90m
Jackson £30m
Palmer £45m

Fernandez £110m
Sterling £50m
Gallagher £0
Broja £0

£630m give or take.

For a League Cup game. At home. Against our reserves. When they should've been down to 10 men for the second half and presented us with ample opportunities to be out of sight. Whilst we were without Dunk, Veltman, Gross, Ferguson, Adingra, Enciso etc. Whilst we brought on a guy that has made one senior appearance from the bench when we were behind because it meant that little to us. Whilst we've played three games in six days and they had a nice week off between their draw with Bournemouth and defeat by Villa. And their fans are banging on about it as if they've just won the Champions League.

Let them have it, we'll show them who the better side is in a few months' time when it actually matters.

 

[Zeus]

Got the sense at the game that RDZ just wasn’t that fussed about going out tonight. Didn’t throw Adingra in and let Facundo play far far longer than justified,

 

[Seagull1989]

Just back from the game . First half we are the better team but after the goal we didn’t create too much, Solly having the best chance.

The chances at the other end I didn’t have a great view of but looked like Fati faked to shoot and then still put it in the same corner.

Im also not sold on Joao Pedro being our out and out striker. Athens and Chelsea hasn’t worked with him being there and needs to play behind a striker imo.