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[Albion] AS Roma vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***



Uh_huh_him

Uh_huh_him

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AlexBH said:
De Zerbi is undoubtedly a good manager and we have had some fantastic results, scored a lot of goals and played some great football, but we’re mid table, one point above a Wolves team a similar size to us and Gary O’Neil is getting nowhere near the same amount of praise as RDZ.
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Wolves are not a similar size to us.

Gary O Neil is doing a good job with a club that have spent £250m in transfers in the last 2 seasons.
I haven't watched them too much, but the last 2 games against us, it's been Royball with better players.
 










Lethargic

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I think experience was a big factor in yesterday's demise looking at the how the teams compared I was a little surprise in the average age across the 2 teams, for Roma it almost 29 and for Brighton it was 25, I was expecting a bigger gap.

Where it is really telling is in the international experience across the 2 teams Roma totalling 621 full caps and Brighton only 175 full caps and this is also offset but the fact that a number of our elder statesmen either have only a handful of caps (Dunk & Gross) or none recently (Welbeck & Veltman) where as the Roma team was much more balanced with most of the team still playing international football consistently.

Add to that experience in European club competition and it really was men against boys.

Then there's the injuries Roma were almost full strength and we had several key player out plus the fact they are on a high with their confidence but we are currently struggling.

They were also at home with a vociferous crowd.

Maybe 4-0 was not quite so bad?
 




US Seagull

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AmexRuislip

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Lethargic said:
I think experience was a big factor in yesterday's demise looking at the how the teams compared I was a little surprise in the average age across the 2 teams, for Roma it almost 29 and for Brighton it was 25, I was expecting a bigger gap.

Where it is really telling is in the international experience across the 2 teams Roma totalling 621 full caps and Brighton only 175 full caps and this is also offset but the fact that a number of our elder statesmen either have only a handful of caps (Dunk & Gross) or none recently (Welbeck & Veltman) where as the Roma team was much more balanced with most of the team still playing international football consistently.

Add to that experience in European club competition and it really was men against boys.

Then there's the injuries Roma were almost full strength and we had several key player out plus the fact they are on a high with their confidence but we are currently struggling.

They were also at home with a vociferous crowd.

Maybe 4-0 was not quite so bad?
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Just watched the highlights.
 




















Beanstalk

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Uh_huh_him said:
Wolves are not a similar size to us.

Gary O Neil is doing a good job with a club that have spent £250m in transfers in the last 2 seasons.
I haven't watched them too much, but the last 2 games against us, it's been Royball with better players.
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Yeah, a million different factors at play here. To put style to the side Wolves are not in their inaugural European campaign. It normally costs clubs a lot more than it has cost us. We are still ahead of them after all of that as well.
 


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