[Albion] Brighton & Hove Albion vs Ipswich Town *** Official Match Thread ***

[miffy6]

Typical of their donkey goalkeeper to have a worldie against us, no one saw that coming.

 

[aolstudios]

QUOTE="Right Brain Ronnie, post: 11291780, member: 44588"]
I think Dunk pulled rank.
[/QUOTE]
Again.
It's embarrassing.
Absolutely f***ing excruciating.
Has the bloke got no self awareness at all?

 

[bhafc99]

Genuinely terrible performance from us. Ipswich play like that for the rest of the season, they're beating Derby's record.

To be fair, remember our first season in the PL? We were just as defensive as Ipswich were today, if not even more so at times - games went by with Dunk & Duffy heading the ball out pretty much all we did. We’d have been chuffed with an away point at a Top Ten, ‘good footballing’ side. Expect Ipswich feel just that way today.

 

[Flounce]

We could have lost, that run and shot that hit the post was the closest to a goal in the game.

 

[7dialssouthpaw]

Not sure Mitoma isn't colour blind - think he couldn't see them in their purple shirts and passed them the ball three or four times!

No Pedro no party, and first game we noticeably missed Gross giving our attack purpose!

Can see why we fancied their manager, though, and it was a fair point in the end.

 

[borat]

Focusing on the positives - Baleba and Ayari were superb in parts and will only get better.

Aside from a poor touch to give the ball away.
Ferdi K. looks like he will offer a lot of energy and purpose.

JPVH was class again and is capable of an incisive pass forward to break lines rather than taking the obvious option.

 

[London Irish]

Plus was Baleba
Negative was despite all those price tags no one stepped up for Pedro

I guess we’d not be worrying if Mitoma had put away those simple first half chances

 

[Durlston]

Point gained.

Are people forgetting the Manager of the month curse?

I cringed when Hurzeler got it - a 3-0 win over a terribly poor Everton side, an incredibly lucky last minute goal over Manure and if Declan Rice hadn't been a silly boy, we would have come away with nothing from the Emirates.

FH still has a lot to learn and the honeymoon period might be coming to an end. Still a very good start but the two home games should have been the reverse - draw with United and three points today.

Next week will certainly be tougher against Nottingham Forest after their incredible win at Anfield today. Sky have chosen a good match.

 

[Weststander]

Typical of their donkey goalkeeper to have a worldie against us, no one saw that coming.

We kept passing to him with pace-less lofted crosses and in the first half awful-first-touch daisy cutters.

 

[WhingForPresident]

Again.
It's embarrassing
Again.
It's embarrassing.
Absolutely f***ing excruciating.
Has the bloke got no self awareness at all?

It's pathetic that he is still taking free kicks, especially one in that position at that point in the game. It was so obvious he was just going to twat that into the wall, as usual.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

So 4 games in, unbeaten, 6 goals scored, 2 conceded, 2 clean sheets, played Arsenal & Man Utd and currently 3rd in the table, and we’re “shit”, “moronic”, “terrible”, “really, really bad”, oh and “Dunk can f**k off”

Nice!

 

[Flounce]

Focusing on the positives - Baleba and Ayari were superb in parts and will only get better.

Aside from a poor touch to give the ball away.
Ferdi K. looks like he will offer a lot of energy and purpose.

JPVH was class again and is capable of an incisive pass forward to break lines rather than taking the obvious option.

Yep, lots of positives but still incredibly frustrating

Ayari is a revelation and Baleba is a beast, now my favourite player. Ferdi might overtake him…

 

[Washie]

To be fair, remember our first season in the PL? We were just as defensive as Ipswich were today, if not even more so at times - games went by with Dunk & Duffy heading the ball out pretty much all we did. We’d have been chuffed with an away point at a Top Ten, ‘good footballing’ side. Expect Ipswich feel just that way today.

But they didn't even defend well. We just made absolutely awful decisions.

 

[Talby]

Couldn’t make it today okay. Youngest went and his brief summary was ‘absolutely wank’.

 

[Han Solo]

So 4 games in, unbeaten, 6 goals scored, 2 conceded, 2 clean sheets, played Arsenal & Man Utd and currently 3rd in the table, and we’re “shit”, “moronic”, “terrible”, “really, really bad”, oh and “Dunk can f**k off”

Nice!

I think most people are talking about our performance in this game, not the season or as a team in general.

 

[Right Brain Ronnie]

Again.
It's embarrassing
Again.
It's embarrassing.
Absolutely f***ing excruciating.
Has the bloke got no self awareness at all?

I don't know, but his body language seemed to very much indicate it.That said Encisco, didn't appear to strike the ball at all well since he came on..... and it was quite close to get the ball up and down anyway. I was most disappointed with Mitoma his form seems up and down.

 

[The Fits]

So 4 games in, unbeaten, 6 goals scored, 2 conceded, 2 clean sheets, played Arsenal & Man Utd and currently 3rd in the table, and we’re “shit”, “moronic”, “terrible”, “really, really bad”, oh and “Dunk can f**k off”

Nice!

Today was ropey at best.

 

[Flounce]

So 4 games in, unbeaten, 6 goals scored, 2 conceded, 2 clean sheets, played Arsenal & Man Utd and currently 3rd in the table, and we’re “shit”, “moronic”, “terrible”, “really, really bad”, oh and “Dunk can f**k off”

Nice!

Wait until we lose to Forest!

 

[Right Brain Ronnie]

Couldn’t make it today okay. Youngest went and his brief summary was ‘absolutely wank’.

Such a proud father son moment.

 

[southstandandy]

What concerns me is that we had no Pedro, Wieffer, or Gruda available at all, and Estupinan was only on the bench. I know they traveled during the week, but does that mean that we drop players after almost every international break?