[Albion] Crystal Palace vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

[theboybilly]

Connolly should have been booked.


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For waiting for the push that duly came?

 

[Scappa]

Brighton midfielder Adam Lallana, on the Palace penalty:

"If that is a penalty then there are probably nine or 10 a game. I am confused as to what is a penalty now. It is physical at corners and you are trying to get to men to block them. Without the legal physical contact it wouldn't be a game, would it?"



Brighton manager Graham Potter speaking to Sky Sports:

On the penalty: "The devils advocate would say if the player has hands up he gives the ref chance to give penalty. But the ref and VAR still have to decide if it is a foul or not. It didn't look a foul to me and he went down a bit easy. But they decided it was

"It looked a little soft. In defence of the referee, as soon as an arm goes up you give them an excuse to give the penalty.

"But, saying that, just because the arm goes up doesn't mean it is a penalty either. He went down very quickly and I'm not sure it was a penalty.

"VAR got to see it and gave the foul. I'm not convinced, when saw it live I thought it was a little bit cheap."

 

[portlock seagull]

Can’t argue with this, palace brought nothing to the game how they stole a point is beyond me.


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But they do, and often pick up wins. Consistently. Think we need to get our headS out our Arses and recognise their far better record at this level. We aren’t as great as we think we are. We just don’t beat them despite dominating last time too. And today we nearly lost.

 

[vagabond]

Played Mac.

Wow, didn’t notice the flick from Connolly. Class play.

 

[neilbard]

Been much better overall for me. Much more consistent and okay a great passing game in the prem - not sure what people want / expect? We’re not Man City...!

I sort of agree, its just that when Potter arrived we all had a **** fest, problem for me is, he walked into a Premier League managerial job with no experience and fair enough he's done okay.

Supporters are very fickle and it's a fine dividing line, if we had been beaten today we may have seen a slight meltdown.

In conclusion, penalty decision was a joke and our goal was deflected, a draw is a fair result, possession means nothing if you don't use it.

 

[Seasidesage]

I felt this season we would progress, but at the moment I'm not seeing it.

We've only played 5 games you've gone a bit early there....

 

[Hampster Gull]

Wow, didn’t notice the flick from Connolly. Class play.

That was hit so sweetly it was going in on the other side anyway

 

[Scappa]

But they do, and often pick up wins. Consistently. Think we need to get our headS out our Arses and recognise their far better record at this level. We aren’t as great as we think we are. We just don’t beat them despite dominating last time too. And today we nearly lost.

But neither are we as bad as some like to make out

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

I HATE Kevin Fecking Friend

That’s all

And

Hoops;
Jon Moss;
Atwell;


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[Stato]

The old cliche 'goals change matches' applies here. Had Atwell inexplicably awarded a penalty to us and not them, they would have had to come out and play and it would likely have given us the space to repeat the Newcastle game. Instead his intervention allowed them to play exactly the way they like to play.

We are not the best at playing against teams lined up in front of us, but the bonus is that we got the draw, when I think last season, we would have lost.

Onwards comrades.

 

[Seasidesage]

Palace showed they are still likely to finish above us. For all our possession and ‘brand’, we simply don’t turn it into points more often than not. Cannot be said we’re any better really, until that happens and we aren’t constantly hovering above the trap door. Frustratingly isn’t it?!

Fancy a bet?

 

[loz]

As a Palace all I can do is apologise, we actually stole a point off you. I am actually shocked at how little ambition the players showed. Shocking absolutely shocking.

Going to join the bin fest of the BBS now.

 

[phoenix]

Read bits of this thread.What a load of miserable ***** you are !.Basically C Palace playing Hughton's game but with slightly better players. All the moaning and oh ahh crap. Southampton totally dominated the tossers from Croydon, and lost 1-0. We were ok I think he (Potter) could have made subs earlier. As for Lewis was hoping for someone to clear the ball.So it would hit him and go in. So obvious even Souness mentioned it, good point lads well done.

So for a well known quote Crystal Palace "are anti-football".

 

[Icy Gull]

And

Hoops;
Jon Moss;
Atwell;


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I didn’t want to bang on too much

 

[neilbard]

We've only played 5 games you've gone a bit early there....

How many matches have we won in 2020?

 

[Whitechapel]

I thought there was more contact when Connolly went down at the end then there was for their penalty. Abject referreing performance really.

 

[Seasidesage]

How many matches have we won in 2020?

Enough.

 

[St Leonards Seagull]

Crystal Palace vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

But they do, and often pick up wins. Consistently. Think we need to get our headS out our Arses and recognise their far better record at this level. We aren’t as great as we think we are. We just don’t beat them despite dominating last time too. And today we nearly lost.

They often might, I don’t watch Palace unless they are playing Brighton.
They brought nothing today though, I can’t think of any time in the game when I was worried about them scoring (questionable penalty aside).
They looked a lot worse than I have seen them vs Brighton in previous seasons.
I’ve not said we are great but we are a relatively young team who will learn if given the opportunity.


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[Uh_huh_him]

Clumsily had his arm on the attacker.
Attacker made the most of it, as they tend to.
Gave the ref a decision to make.
It was naive.
We are naive.

Burn didn't throw himself to the ground.
we are naive.

 

[portlock seagull]

I’ll take finishing below them (and staying up) playing the way we do 100% over that turgid awful excuse of football they play most of the time season after season. 100% mean that.

Even if means championship? Come off it, we’d give our eye teeth to win at Old Trafford, Anfield etc whilst staying in the PL year after year. Points trumps purist I’m afraid. All.Day.Long.