[Albion] Leeds United vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

[Triggaaar]

Pretty impressive to score twice in a 1-1 draw

Still true

 

[Icy Gull]

2 points dropped. Steel only made 1 save all game, their 2 other shots would have been easily saved with better positioning. Passing wasn't good enough and we lacked something up top.

Mostly agree but Koch took MacAllister out at least three times and don’t think he got booked. It was a good but incredibly frustrating game

 

[LamieRobertson]

Still unbeaten away from home since last October….not to be sniffed at …plus a touch of reality

 

[The Wizard]

Winning at home and drawing away is famously enough to win the league.

If you can't see how Leeds had a defensive game plan against us today, and how it worked, then it's probably a shame that there will be no analyses on MOTD tonight...

As we get better and our reputation grows, expect to see similar performances like this against us... just like all the other top teams experience, who also drop points in this kind of fixture.

It's not that we played badly, at all, it's just they were set out to stop us - and it largely worked. We would have won if it weren't for two goals that, to be honest, we should have defended against better.

Genuinely, what defensive game plan? Explain to me what they did? They sat deep and played on the counter, but they didn’t do it well, a team like Brentford for example away did it to us perfectly and we didn’t create much at all, Leeds were crap defensively.

We could have scored 6 or 7 and that’s no exaggeration, if a team give away that many chances they certainly haven’t defended well, we were just extremely wasteful.

That being said, we also defended poorly and made the game more complicated by giving away possession in dangerous areas over and over again.

 

[WhingForPresident]

Get colwill in asap . Webster gives away too much . Accident waiting to happen

Beat palace and all is well

Teams that sit off us eh !!

Don't worry, he'll be out for another three months now...

 

[Seagull58]

Sanchez in goal against Palace, please. I feel Steele lost his place with that performance

 

[Icy Gull]

That was a flawed performance in many ways. Not a lot of the boys can be happy with their performance today.

Dont quite get why Sarmiento / Buonanotte / Enciso were stuck on the bench all game.

A feisty PL game was probably not for them

 

[sheebo]

V frustrating. The game was so open at 1-2, and we really should have put it to bed then. Both their goals well taken but soft. To be fair to Leeds, they don’t stop running and I’m surprised they didn’t start with Gnoto. Anyway, as others have said, to go there, get a point and feel very disappointed is kind of a new feeling. Now let’s turn our focus to Wednesday when we are owed several after their luck over the last few games. I have a feeling it will be a memorable and fantastic night to be an Albion fan…

Bang on. Don’t be too down with today. They could have nicked it too for all our dominance. We played some great stuff in a hostile atmosphere. Our fans were great. We are a proper football team in the top division. We got an away point. So many reasons to be positive.

 

[Swansman]

A feisty PL game was probably not for them

Maybe, maybe not. A feisty PL game usually means that some fresh legs in the final 15 or so could cause quite a bit of nice things.

 

[andys320]

That was a flawed performance in many ways. Not a lot of the boys can be happy with their performance today.

Dont quite get why Sarmiento / Buonanotte / Enciso were stuck on the bench all game.

Thought Estupinian had a storming game.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Very frustrating to have the lead twice and not come away with the win. At least it's not a defeat but could/should have been more.

Still, if we smash Palace I won't be too worried about today's game.

 

[Swansman]

Thought Estupinian had a storming game.

Yeah he was good, Dunk was good, Caicedo was good... Gross ok. The rest can do better.

 

[Triggaaar]

On a more positive note - just switched on for City against Palace: Haaland has scored 6 more goals this season than Crystal Palace

 

[Wardy's twin]

On the coach waiting to get out the car park. Awful view but definitely feels like 2 points dropped. That was a game we should have won.

 

[The Wizard]

So we outplay the opponents and take the lead, and then we sit back, inviting them onto us, and then complain about the tactics when they inevitably score, screaming 'why didn't we just carry on as we were!'

I’m not saying that, that used to drive me mad under Potter, I’m an advocate of going for the throat merely pointing out that away from home the tactic doesn’t seem to have been AS successful, we’ve thumped a lot of teams at home this season.

 

[Icy Gull]

Maybe, maybe not. A feisty PL game usually means that some fresh legs in the final 15 or so could cause quite a bit of nice things.

I don’t think they are quite ready for feisty, much like Ali Mac when he arrived here

They will be soon enough though

 

[Robinjakarta]

I didn’t see Sanchez throw the ball in the net

If only Leeds had had Gary Sprake in goal. But that's another story.

 

[Whitechapel]

Still true

It’s not.

Happy to help.

 

[The Wizard]

Bang on. Don’t be too down with today. They could have nicked it too for all our dominance. We played some great stuff in a hostile atmosphere. Our fans were great. We are a proper football team in the top division. We got an away point. So many reasons to be positive.

It’s a game that on the balance of PLAY I would say a draw was a fair result but CHANCES we should have won comfortably, funny old game football.

Whenever I write in capitals it REMINDS me of an old NSC poster called Ernest.

 

[Triggaaar]

It’s not.

Happy to help.

It is. We scored twice. That is a fact. One of the goals was incorrectly disallowed by VAR, so it's not allowed to count in the result or stats, but we did score it.