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[Albion] Chelsea vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***
- Thread starter Dick Head
- Start date
Washie
Well-known member
My chelsea friends disagree.
the right footed denilson
New member
Let's hope we at least have a go on Saturday. What an odd season.
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
- 72,015
Are they the same ones calling for Sarri’s head on Saturday? Entitled twats sums up the vast majority of Chelsea fans I know.
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Well played lads....a whopping 25% better result than last year. That's progress.
Bladders
Twats everywhere
If he sets the team up like this at Wembley with no points to worry about he can **** off
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Washie
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The gulf widened when teams started sitting back against the big teams.
ManC were always going to breeze past Brighton, a £850m squad and all that.
Simply need to find fight and adventure to beat Cardiff and one other now in the PL.
The manager, the players and the fans expected us to lose this and we showed no inclination to try and win it so a Chelsea team on the back of some poor performances were playing a team that was beaten before a ball was kicked. Some stoic first half defending but with CH’s ingrained defensive tactics we were beaten as soon as they scored. Chelsea played themselves back into form against a team who offered absolutely nothing apart from organised defence.
To think I was stupid enough to think we were doing OK at halftime
Hard to disagree
Indeed. Chelsea are our bogey team. They always get the decisions and bring the world class goals to the game. **** em. It's all about Wembley now!
BN41Albion
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- Oct 1, 2017
- 6,442
No way we'll do what Swansea did, not a chance in hell unfortunately
portslade seagull
Well-known member
We still have the nucleus of a championship team. Now proving they are not good enough
Wolves, Bmuff, Leicester, Palace and Watford have often taken the game to the top 6 and won. CP won at the Etihad.
goldstonegull
Active member
My fear is, he will play exactly the same way on Saturday, and us getting stuffed.
giveusfalmerplease
Well-known member
STAT OF THE DAY TO HIGHLIGHT THE GULF IN CLASS
14 points separate 6th place Manu from 7th place Wolves
14 points separate 7the place Wolves from 17th place Burnley...(and us & southampton of course)
14 points separate 6th place Manu from 7th place Wolves
14 points separate 7the place Wolves from 17th place Burnley...(and us & southampton of course)
In all honesty it was more about by how many rather than if we lost tonight.
Improved effort from Saturday , less of the slow predictable passing across the back line but thats probably only because we did not have the ball enough for it. We are still slow in the mind & have no idea what to do when encamped on our penalty box line other than a hoof up & long hoping someone is where the ball goes and can control it , hold it and wait for someone else to help out which does not happen even if they do hold it for a few seconds.
I know it was Chelsea a multi hundred million pound squad & a top 6 club but that just proves we are not good enough on a consistent basis to compete & although I can not criticise the overall tactic we dont have the gumption to carry it out for a draw or win because we are reliant of having a 0-0 scoreline for as long as possible which in most cases has been not even to half time.
As for Izzy wizzy lets make him invisible then I know CH knows more detail than me but if March was injured then in my opinion Izzy would have been much better as a sub than Knocky who IMHO is not good enough for a winger as he does not defend well enough & should be in the no.10 role if on the pitch so at least he does not have defenders relying on him solely as back up.
OK enough said , overall better but was never going to be good enough & Saturday will probably be an exact replay just on a bigger stage.
Improved effort from Saturday , less of the slow predictable passing across the back line but thats probably only because we did not have the ball enough for it. We are still slow in the mind & have no idea what to do when encamped on our penalty box line other than a hoof up & long hoping someone is where the ball goes and can control it , hold it and wait for someone else to help out which does not happen even if they do hold it for a few seconds.
I know it was Chelsea a multi hundred million pound squad & a top 6 club but that just proves we are not good enough on a consistent basis to compete & although I can not criticise the overall tactic we dont have the gumption to carry it out for a draw or win because we are reliant of having a 0-0 scoreline for as long as possible which in most cases has been not even to half time.
As for Izzy wizzy lets make him invisible then I know CH knows more detail than me but if March was injured then in my opinion Izzy would have been much better as a sub than Knocky who IMHO is not good enough for a winger as he does not defend well enough & should be in the no.10 role if on the pitch so at least he does not have defenders relying on him solely as back up.
OK enough said , overall better but was never going to be good enough & Saturday will probably be an exact replay just on a bigger stage.
That's not correct. That's a tactical response to an ever increasing gap in capital available and investment in player stock...that is the gulf, the sitting back is the response to how you mitigate getting torn apart by an A and B team of class that outweighs your best 11.
saafend_seagull
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Palace are safe. Their results are absolutely irrelevant, and will hand 3 points to Cardiff at the end of the season.
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Sorrel
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Could do with a goal fest of a Liverpool win on Friday night now.
