[Football] Staying up in the Premier League

[The Terminator]

This isn’t Albion-related, but I know plenty of us just enjoy watching football in general

I’m fascinated to see how the promoted sides approach it next season. In recent years, most have come up and gone straight back down. For the sake of the Championship’s reputation, I’d like to think the teams would have learned from past mistakes.

Both had strong defences in the Championship, surely that has to be the foundation in the Premier League? Instead of going gung-ho trying to entertain, build on being hard to beat, tough at home, and pick up points where you can.

It’s not about being negative, it’s about being smart. Too many newly promoted sides come up with a plan to play expansive football, only to get picked off weekly. I’m all for attractive football when it suits the squad, but it’s got to be horses for courses surely?

Curious to hear what others think about the modern trend in football.

 

[Albion my Albion]

Chris Hughton was the right manager at the right time. It was boring but he kept Brighton in the PL at a critical time.

 

[Mackenzie]

Low block and counterattack at pace seems to be the easiest way to survive.

 

[bhafc99]

Chris Hughton was the right manager at the right time. It was boring but he kept Brighton in the PL at a critical time.

100%. Some of those early games were painful, just backs to the wall defending with Dunk & Duffy throwing themselves in front of everything, but it gave us the time to build and become a PL team.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

It might be better now (or maybe it's just that I watch much less football), but it always used to annoy me when Fulham or Norwich or whoever would get promoted and the commentators would jerk themselves silly over the lovely football they were playing, and they'd only notice sometime around February that they were losing every week and were nailed on to be relegated.

It's not good football if you lose most of the time and go straight back down.

 

[happypig]

Leeds will be top 4 by playing the greatest football the world has ever seen, think 1970 Brazil but reet gradely

 

[The Terminator]

Agree with a lot of what’s been said. And without sounding too biased, it really does feel like we went about it the right way.

Started off, let’s be honest, pretty negative. But gradually, we introduced a more attractive style of play. It doesn’t always work, I remember Stoke trying to move away from what had made them so effective for years, and it backfired pretty quickly But being hard to beat has to be a main priority for these clubs.