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[Albion] Crystal Palace vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***



Home and Away

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Sep 18, 2018
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BHAFC Modus Operandi:

1. Gain the ball
2. Wait until opposition has organised defensively
3. Pass, pass, pass, pass... (mostly laterally near the half way line) try to find a solution to break down a defence that's well set up.
4. Lose the ball.
5. Be defensively all over the place, rely on someone to be fast to break the play or foul opposition player.
6. Get done on the counter. Opposition seems to always be able to attack us without us being set up defensively with quick direct play.
7. Either concede or have a lucky escape.
8. Repeat

Other (negative) observations:

- We rely on individual talent to create something spectacular to be able to score.
- Bart doesn't seem to manage to save many attempts (please could some statistician provide some PL GK saving stats, % etc.)
- Mitoma is amazing going forward with the ball, but his passing and decision making in the final 20m seem to be extremely poor (I would love to have some stats on this as well)
- Wieffer looks like a tourist (or like a rabbit in the headlights)
- Invisible today: Minteh (except the cross to Welbz), Pedro, O'Reilly, Gruda, Dunk, Jack, Ayari, Gomez,

Positives or performance as expected:

JPVH, Pervis, Welbz, Baleba, Solly (maybe)
 






Dick Head

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Jan 3, 2010
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Having a dig at Hurzeler is laughable imo - we're 8th in the league and all the clubs above us are much bigger than us (bar forest who are still historically far more successful than us). It's been a mixed season performance wise but blimey 8th in the league at this point is very good in FH's first season ffs.

Shit week of football, but weather's absolutely glorious and set to continue for a good while yet, down at the beach all afternoon today and BBQ tomorrow... who gives a f***! 😬
It's only a game.
:shootself
 


Brian Munich

teH lulZ
Jul 7, 2008
856
We weren't very good today. We still could have got a point. The early goal disrupted us. We miss Rutter. Wieffer needs to improve a lot. The situation is not as desperately bad as some are saying but we need 3 good performances and at least 7 points from the next 3 games to get everyone back onside.
Fab isn't a crap manager but he is still learning.
I want to see Ferguson upfront next season with combinations of March, JP, Rutter, Mitoma Minteh, Welbeck and Adingra.
Baleba and Gomez as the midfield backbone will be fine.
I’d like to see 2023 Ferguson up front. 2025 Ferguson needs a season-long loan to the Championship.
 






Paulie Gualtieri

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May 8, 2018
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Well at least Villa have found some form.

As seasons go, having lost to palace twice and with them getting to Wembley at the absolute minimum we have to finish above them .
 


Home and Away

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Sep 18, 2018
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Are we Spursy?

Spursy​

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A Spursy performance, is to have success in reach but to ultimately chuck it away.
 






BN41Albion

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Oct 1, 2017
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Are we Spursy?

Spursy​

New Word Suggestion
A Spursy performance, is to have success in reach but to ultimately chuck it away.
A club our size where we are in the table and where we've finished the last few seasons, including topping a very tough europa league group? Nahh. Part of spurs being 'spursy' is that they're supposed to be one of the biggest clubs in the country - you can't be a club our size where we are in the biggest league in the world and be classed as bottlers
 








raymondo

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Apr 26, 2017
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Wiltshire
Do we have a real fighter in the squad, a really irritating never give up guy? A Yates (🤮), McGinn (🤮), a Cucurella even (🤮). Prats when they play against us but who's ours? Rutter? JPVH?
 


Mr Putdown

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Jan 26, 2004
2,906
Christchurch
Palace had 3 shots on target and one of those needed a deflection to go in. They're nothing special.

i guess we must have been nothing special for approaching 10 games now?

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A1X

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Sep 1, 2017
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Do we have a real fighter in the squad, a really irritating never give up guy? A Yates (🤮), McGinn (🤮), a Cucurella even (🤮). Prats when they play against us but who's ours? Rutter? JPVH?
Veltman?
 




Brian Munich

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Jul 7, 2008
856
A club our size where we are in the table and where we've finished the last few seasons, including topping a very tough europa league group? Nahh. Part of spurs being 'spursy' is that they're supposed to be one of the biggest clubs in the country - you can't be a club our size where we are in the biggest league in the world and be classed as bottlers
Well said. I think we’re still well in the bottom half of the table as far as wage bill is concerned. Add that to being top of the table for injuries, we’re actually doing ok.
 


Han Solo

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May 25, 2024
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No ref thread today, weird...
 


Palace had 3 shots on target and one of those needed a deflection to go in. They're nothing special.
They aren’t but as soon as they got their second they decided we were so poor in attack they could just sit back and win with 11 behind the ball then 10 then 9. They weren’t wrong.

So the shots total is misleading, it doesn’t reveal what their winning tactics were
 










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