[Albion] Post match review by both managers

Doc Lynam said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkbe-R8M35M


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIbd-Iupmww

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What do you think of Brighton?

I said in my press conference and to my players you're in-front of one of the best English manager right now.

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DJ NOBO said:

Usual patronising sentiments from Pep after collecting three points from us.
He likes playing Brighton because we take City on at their own game rather than parking the bus.
It means they win and look good.
(Not that parking the bus would necessarily get us any closer to winning).

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PILTDOWN MAN said:

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/manchester-city/guardiola-brighton-potter-foden-b1787097.html

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PILTDOWN MAN said:

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/manchester-city/guardiola-brighton-potter-foden-b1787097.html

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PILTDOWN MAN said:

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/manchester-city/guardiola-brighton-potter-foden-b1787097.html

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DJ NOBO said:

Usual patronising sentiments from Pep after collecting three points from us.
He likes playing Brighton because we take City on at their own game rather than parking the bus.
It means they win and look good.
(Not that parking the bus would necessarily get us any closer to winning).

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“I said in my press conference before the game and I said to my players, we are in front of the best English manager right now,” Guardiola declared, and he wasn’t talking about Gareth Southgate, who was watching from the stands at the Etihad.

Graham Potter, Guardiola said, had demonstrated that it is “not necessary to have a top, top side to have courage to play”.

“They are good players, they have good build up,” he continued. “Every pass makes sense, every movement of the people between the lines and up front makes sense. Every player is in his position to get the ball to be free.

“When I saw all the games, I see them being better than the opponent. They play better than the opponent, the statistics are better than the opponent. They are struggling to score goals and that’s why they are in this position.

“All I can say is as a spectator I like to watch these teams,” Guardiola added, before paying Brighton the ultimate compliment. “I was a football player and I’d have loved to play in this team.”

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Stato said:

I think that you're unfair in labeling his comments patronising. Guardiola is complementary because he is a football purist and recognises that Potter shares the same ideals and applies this to his teams. He didn't make complementary remarks about us after Chris's team made them work equally hard to get a victory in the FA Cup semi final, because our approach did not match his ideal for how all football teams should play. He was honest last season when they beat us 4-0, saying that the scoreline was skewed by the brilliantly clinical finishing of his strikers that day. Oh how lovely that comment would be to hear coming out of Potter's mouth. Just imagine him, on Saturday night, saying "We weren't that superior today, but moments of quality won it for us and made the scoreline look far worse than it should have for the opposition."

Last night showed that we can defend if we don't over commit, that we are a well coached team in the sense that Pep is describing. However, it also showed that we are often confronting a packed penalty area because our counter attacking is not incisive enough, slows down and allows the opposition to get themselves set. I still think that we need to play a bit more 'rope-a-dope'. We need to find ways of tempting out lesser opposition in order to gain space. Potter seems to try to do this through building from the back, but this is closing spaces. I'd like to see us ceding a bit of possession and keeping our shape like we did last night. There were chances on the counter last night that, against lesser defenders, would have been shots on goal. I think back to the second goal we scored against Newcastle and to Wellbeck's against Villa as examples of situations that show that we can do it. Without Lamptey's pace or Lallana's passing ability available to us, it seems that it would be easier for us to create these situations if our opponents had more of the ball and were given the opportunity to make the kind of mistakes that we have made that give attacking players good chances in clear spaces.

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Stato said:

I think that you're unfair in labeling his comments patronising. Guardiola is complementary because he is a football purist and recognises that Potter shares the same ideals and applies this to his teams. He didn't make complementary remarks about us after Chris's team made them work equally hard to get a victory in the FA Cup semi final, because our approach did not match his ideal for how all football teams should play. He was honest last season when they beat us 4-0, saying that the scoreline was skewed by the brilliantly clinical finishing of his strikers that day. Oh how lovely that comment would be to hear coming out of Potter's mouth. Just imagine him, on Saturday night, saying "We weren't that superior today, but moments of quality won it for us and made the scoreline look far worse than it should have for the opposition."

Last night showed that we can defend if we don't over commit, that we are a well coached team in the sense that Pep is describing. However, it also showed that we are often confronting a packed penalty area because our counter attacking is not incisive enough, slows down and allows the opposition to get themselves set. I still think that we need to play a bit more 'rope-a-dope'. We need to find ways of tempting out lesser opposition in order to gain space. Potter seems to try to do this through building from the back, but this is closing spaces. I'd like to see us ceding a bit of possession and keeping our shape like we did last night. There were chances on the counter last night that, against lesser defenders, would have been shots on goal. I think back to the second goal we scored against Newcastle and to Wellbeck's against Villa as examples of situations that show that we can do it. Without Lamptey's pace or Lallana's passing ability available to us, it seems that it would be easier for us to create these situations if our opponents had more of the ball and were given the opportunity to make the kind of mistakes that we have made that give attacking players good chances in clear spaces.

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Stato said:

I think that you're unfair in labeling his comments patronising. Guardiola is complementary because he is a football purist and recognises that Potter shares the same ideals and applies this to his teams. He didn't make complementary remarks about us after Chris's team made them work equally hard to get a victory in the FA Cup semi final, because our approach did not match his ideal for how all football teams should play. He was honest last season when they beat us 4-0, saying that the scoreline was skewed by the brilliantly clinical finishing of his strikers that day. Oh how lovely that comment would be to hear coming out of Potter's mouth. Just imagine him, on Saturday night, saying "We weren't that superior today, but moments of quality won it for us and made the scoreline look far worse than it should have for the opposition."

Last night showed that we can defend if we don't over commit, that we are a well coached team in the sense that Pep is describing. However, it also showed that we are often confronting a packed penalty area because our counter attacking is not incisive enough, slows down and allows the opposition to get themselves set. I still think that we need to play a bit more 'rope-a-dope'. We need to find ways of tempting out lesser opposition in order to gain space. Potter seems to try to do this through building from the back, but this is closing spaces. I'd like to see us ceding a bit of possession and keeping our shape like we did last night. There were chances on the counter last night that, against lesser defenders, would have been shots on goal. I think back to the second goal we scored against Newcastle and to Wellbeck's against Villa as examples of situations that show that we can do it. Without Lamptey's pace or Lallana's passing ability available to us, it seems that it would be easier for us to create these situations if our opponents had more of the ball and were given the opportunity to make the kind of mistakes that we have made that give attacking players good chances in clear spaces.

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Doc Lynam said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkbe-R8M35M


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIbd-Iupmww

7:25
What do you think of Brighton?

I said in my press conference and to my players you're in-front of one of the best English manager right now.

They have good players, good build-up, their 2 central defenders, Webster they are fantastic in they commit to the next line, one extra man. Every pass makes sense, every movement by people between the lines makes sense.

All I can say as a spectator I like to watch these teams, I like to watch Brighton play. I recognise it, I was a football player and I would have loved to have played in his team.

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