As is the conclusion that it must be a poor performance if you lose. I'm not sure we played any worse than we did at Bournemouth, we finished up 2 nil winners there, 3-1 defeat here. We got punished last night for errors, sometimes you get away with them.
He may well do, but who is sold, who is available to buy, who is affordable will dictate who he actually gets, and he'll again have to adapt to how the transfer window goes, how preseason shapes up, and how any young players push on. I'm not going to dispute we can't strengthen, but it is from a...
Agreed. Both Potter and RDZ have been very flexible tactically to shape the system to the strength of the squad available. RDZ has pretty much played every combination of 4 at the back whether 4-1-4-1, 4-3-3, 4-4-2 and his seemingly preferred 4-2-3-1.
I think we buy players because we think...
We have a squad built for playing progressive, entertaining, attacking football. De Zerbi was hired because his style and methods matched what we have. He probably jumped at the job looking at a squad that he could instill his way of playing into. An lucky semi defeat on pens, 49 points from 30...
In terms of PL minutes played not a single Brighton player gets into the top 20 players list. There are players like Kevin DeBruyne who have made over 40 appearances already this season in all competitions. Just food for thought at the notion some of our squad are being overplayed.
A selection...
We made 719 passes but our completion rate was below its normal level, something like 87% meaning over 90+ passes gave the ball back to the opposition. It did look like tired minds a bit, as @Commander said in elite sport you only need your levels to dip slightly.
I actually thought we were worse than that against them at home. Arsenal we were poor too by did rally a bit toward the end. Despite winning the game we weren’t that much different home to Bournemouth to be honest. Results and performances don’t always correlate. We’ve played like we’ve played...
How I saw it. Great chances for Mitoma, Enciso, MacAlister, March - they just capitalised on what really were unforced errors. If and buts BUT they don’t get a lucky goal before HT and it’s a comfortable second half for us with a tense home crowd. Each mistake we made gave them a bit more...