Player Ratings Brighton V Palace

[finlaych]

Koosh 7
Bridge 10
Upson 8
Greer 8
Calde 7
Bridders 8
Orlandi 8
Spanish Dave 8
Lua Lua 9
Buckley 8
Ulloa 9

 

[B52]

Bridge, Kaz, Bridcutt and Ulloa were stand out players for me, although no-one had a bad game.

This sums it all up for me!

 

[Tummy Burger]

Bridge, Kaz, Bridcutt and Ulloa were stand out players for me, although no-one had a bad game.

Exactly the same for me. Spot ON.

 

[Blue and White Tiger]

Kuszczack - 9
Calderon - 7
Upson - 8
Greer - 8
Bridge - 9
Orlandi - 8
Dave - 9
Bridcutt - 8
Buckley - 9
Lualua - 8
Ulloa - 10

 

[big nuts]

Sensible post. You know exactly what I mean. The oddness of the goalkeeping marks means he can only be marked up through the mistakes of another in the team.

I stand by the point. Start the goalkeeper at ten and remove marks for mistakes !

Quite often particularly a top 4 Prem side will completely dominate a game such as Man Utd's comprehensive 4-0 drubbing of Norwich last week. Norwich had no shots at goal throughout the game, therefore it becomes very difficult to mark a goal keeper. You certainly wouldn't mark De Gea as a 10.

Appreciate you could mark based purely on distribution but my feeling is if a keeper hardly touches the ball you're better of not marking like you would a substitute who only plays for five minutes. Or start as a 5 (average) if you mark as a 5 due to not enough involvement in the game then that speaks more about your teams domination.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Tomasz Kuszczak 9 Magnificent save from the Upson header and celebrated our goals with passion.
Inigo Calderon 8 Solid, flair and passion.
Gordon Greer 8 Absolutely magnificent performance, Murray never had a chance.
Matthew Upson 7 Sloppy passing at times, but solid defensively when it mattered.
Wayne Bridge 8 Had no problems against their dancers on the wing.
Liam Bridcutt 8 Patrolled the midfield and dominated it from start to finish.
Spanish Dave 9 Oozes flair all over the place and formed a genius diamond on our right with Calde and Buckley.
Andrea Orlandi 8 Quality triangles on the left with Bridge and LuaLua, really added depth and balance.
William Buckley 7 Worked hard and got into good positions, playing himself back towards form.
Kazenga LuaLua 8 Potent and determined to impress. Top class player.
Leonardo Ulloa 9 Links play, holds the ball well and can finish with his head AND feet. Class.

Subs
Andrew Crofts 7 Shame Buckley didn't pick him out late on, brilliant run.
Dean Hammond Participated.

Amazing win and the team performance after going 1-0 up was magnificent. The first 40 minutes are long forgotton now but until we went 1-0 up and then 2-0 straight away, it was in the balance. We scored the goals to change the game in our favour at the right times, that's what we haven't done all season but today we saw the value of taking the chances you create... Sounds simple but it's true.

Another set of these scores.

 

[countryman]

Koooooshak - 7 Solid and produced one great save from Upson's diving header.
Calderon - 8 Some great runs down the wing and was solid.
Bridge - 8 Had Zahahaha in his pocket.
Upson - 6 Nearly scored an own goal at the beginning of the game but other then that seemed solid.
Greer - 7 Solid.
Bridcutt - 8 The usual Bridders
Lopez - 8 Cracking free kick.
Orlandi - 8 Some great creative passes and his header to set up the third was brilliant.
Buckley - 7 It was great to see him running at full backs again and put some decent crosses in.
KLL - 9 Brilliant in both attack and defence.
Ulloa - 9 I would have given him a ten 10 if he had managed to get a hat-trick.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

PIG - 10 earned his bacon today

Inigo - 7 in 'e go and won the ball (mostly)

Upson - 8 Murray didn't like it upson

Greer - 8 lose the vowels Grr! enough said

Bridge - 9 a bridge too far for Zaha. This bridge was shut for traffic today

Orlandi - 8 or land it there........ run out of puff!

Dave - 9 So good he's got his own TV channel

Bridcutt - 8 Cut above

Will - 9 he or wont he....he did

Lualua - 10 Sooo good they named him twice

Ulloa - 10 Argentinian Beef

 

[Trigger]

Kuszczak - 8
Calderon - 7
Upson - 8
Greer - 8
Bridge - 9
Orlandi - 7 (Crofts 7)
Lopez - 8
Bridcutt - 8
Buckley - 8
LuaLua - 10
Ulloa - 9


Gus 9 - Finally did what anyone could see we need to do at home, play two wingers!!!

 

[BHA96]

Kuszack 8- Not much to do, made a good save from Upson header

Calderon 9.5- Brilliant going forward, good defensively
Greer 10- Had Murray is his back pocket, Great to have him back
Upson 8.5-Looked a little shaky in the first half but was better in the second
Bridge 10- Done brilliant against Zaha and Bolasie and did well going forward

Bridcutt 10- Showed everyone why he is the best DM in this division, was simply sublime
Dave 9- Becoming one of our best players, Free kick was incredible
Orlandi 8- Not his best but still a good performance, His pace lets him down

Buckley 7.5- Not what he was at the start of the season , Doesn't use his pace like he should
KLL 10- Showed today why he should be a regular starter, Terrorized richards, got back and made key challenges

Ulloa 10- Got lucky with his first, has a knack of being in the right place at the right time, held up the ball and was strong making good passess




Crofts 8- Done the Job he needed to do
Hammond- not enough time to make impact

 

[keaton]

A lot of people seem to giving our centre-backs some pretty low marks considering we restricted a 30-goal striker and Man U-owned Zaha, etc to two chances in the first half and none that I can rememeber in the second

 

[Eddie Bee]

Koosh 8
Bridge 9
Upson 8
Greer 8
Calde 7
Bridders 8
Orlandi 8
Spanish Dave 8
Lua Lua 9
Buckley 7
Ulloa 9

 

[Landgull]

PIG 8 for that save from Upson
Calde 7
Bridge 9.5
Upson 7
Greer 6
Bridcutt 7.5
KLL 8
Buckley 7
Orlandi 7
Lopez 8
Ulloa 9

This for me plus I thought the ref also had a good game.

 

[Mackenzie]

Kuszczak 8
Calderon 7
Upson 8
Greer 8
Bridge 9
Bridcutt 7
Orlandi 7
Spanish Dave 8
Buckley 7
Kazenga 8
Ulloa 10

 

[edna krabappel]

Speroni 7
Murray 6
Zaha 6
Parr 2
The other full back 2
Centre halves 3 (great marking, lads!)
Bolasie 4
Phillips 0 (can't actually give him marks as he didn't do a thing)
Williams 7 (surprised to see him subbed)
Dikcagoi (?) 5 (lump, thanks for the free kick)
Jedinak 6

 

[Acker79]

Any more?

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Kuszczack - 9
Calderon - 6.5
Upson - 6.5
Greer - 7
Bridge - 9
Orlandi - 8
Dave - 8
Bridcutt - 8
Buckley - 7.5
Lualua - 8.5
Ulloa - 9.5

 

[portslade seagull]

Kus is a 9 for keeping out the goalbound header from Upson .... kazenga was my MOM with Ulloa a close 2nd and GG played well I thought

 

[Sheebo]

Speroni 7
Murray 6
Zaha 6
Parr 2
The other full back 2
Centre halves 3 (great marking, lads!)
Bolasie 4
Phillips 0 (can't actually give him marks as he didn't do a thing)
Williams 7 (surprised to see him subbed)
Dikcagoi (?) 5 (lump, thanks for the free kick)
Jedinak 6

Agree bar Murray who literally touched the ball 6 times. 2 for him.

 

[Soulman]

With two wingers Buckley and KLL, and two offensive wide midfielders, Dave and Orlandi, then it just shows the class of Bridders.....he bossed the midfield.
This is a good set up, especially as our defence looks quite solid.