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

[Napier]

West Ham looking dangerous every time they go forward. We look ponderous and over complicated. Maupay, Moder and Dunk should all have done better, as Sanchez should have with their goal. All too predictable - loads of possession and no goals. Also appears that WHU are always first to the ball.

Come on The Albion, let's get this sorted!

 

[TottonSeagull]

Their goal doesn't look any better when you see it again ... and again

Exactly the same as a goal that Liverpool conceded. You would of hoped our esteemed coaching team would have prepared the team for it!

 

[Seasider78]

If Moder slots that away would probably be best team goal since Izzy at Stoke

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Could have been 2 or 3 down but still in it. Having said that, we somehow need to remember how to score. Every pundit now taking the piss out of our possession/failure to score, so frustrating.

Yes and it doesn't help.
That happened for a large part of last season, I thought we had got rid of it but it has returned and so is the piss taking.
Problem is, that the longer it goes on, the worst it gets.

 

[wellquickwoody]

What an absolute peach of a ball that was from Maupay to Moder! Pretty much took 5 players out of the game.

Moder should be finishing that off though.

At least he hit the target.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

At least with only one sub left this reduces the chances of seeing the DJ Shirley?

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Keep it at 1-0 until about 70 minutes and Lampty has to come on

 

[Hugo Rune]

West ham giving us a lesson on how to win a football match.

To be fair, like most teams, they have an utter reliance on us missing big chances. They’d not be 1-0 up against most EPL teams if the chances created fell to another side.

 

[RandyWanger]

One of the fans so bored they've got a laser pen

 

[Gabbafella]

Same old. Massive amounts of possession and **** all to show for it.

 

[London Irish]

What an absolute peach of a ball that was from Maupay to Moder! Pretty much took 5 players out of the game.

Moder should be finishing that off though.

Maupay is a good player, I guess Hughton had Knocky’s brain to figure out, now Potter has Maupay’s - I always want Maupay on the pitch, in a team of low goalscorers, he still remains our percentage bet to get something. We could do a Palace result tonight if we hang in there and don’t hand them a second

 

[Eggman]

Bring on the Jurgmeister

 

[Birdie Boy]

At least he hit the target.

The keeper is not the target...

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Glad we're giving the commentators and pundits something to laugh about.

Perhaps you should go back to the brexit thread, you seem happier there.

 

[Wardy's twin]

Look to me that Bowen missed a chance as well

 

[Pevenseagull]

Exactly the same as a goal that Liverpool conceded. You would of hoped our esteemed coaching team would have prepared the team for it!

Too busy having emotional intelligence workshops to prepare defending set pieces.

 

[ShandyH]

Some really nice football at times. They scored same goal against Liverpool so we’re not alone. Can we come back? Absolutely.


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[One Teddy Maybank]

Yeah, I've spotted three occasions he's been caught up field, and they have attacked down our left in the gap he left. They hit the bar from one of them. Lost the ball from a few headers and passed it out of play twice. Just not his usual standard today.

But given our system is for the full-backs to push on, isn’t that inevitable. The bigger question is more why no-one was intelligent enough to tuck in once possession was lost…. That is normally what Gross is excellent at.

Just very frustrating though……

 

[Mtoto]

I’d like to criticise this first half performance but we were bottom of the football league a quarter of a century ago so Graham says I’m not allowed to.

He didn't say that at all. He said that you're entitled to your opinion, but he totally disagrees.

As do I, fwiw. Just watched a really exciting & competitive half of football between two of the best teams in the country, and personally think we looked like the better side overall. It's a game in which it is fiendishly difficult to score and that's never going to change.

This is the best Brighton team I've seen by a very long way in 40+ years as a fan and we're still getting better, because we have one of the smartest managers in Europe and an owner whose understanding of what's required is second to none. If you can't take pleasure from being an Albion fan at this moment in time, when will you?

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

What an absolute peach of a ball that was from Maupay to Moder! Pretty much took 5 players out of the game.

Moder should be finishing that off though.

Smatterings of “smith must score” the way the ball bounced kindly after hitting as the commentator said “hit his undercarriage”

Arse