[Albion] AFC Bournemouth vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

[1066familyman]

Excellent 3pts tonight. Just what we needed.
Them lot seem to be a bit of a bogey team for us, and I thought they were the better team in the first half.
Great to see us come out on top as the 2nd half wore on, and brilliant for Enciso to get his first goal.

Marvellous scenes!

 

[dolphins]

Brighton midfielder Alexis Mac Allister on Evan Ferguson: "Evan is an amazing player. He was not having his best evening, but he showed his quality. We are really happy for him, we know how important he is."

On their season so far: "The club is improving in every aspect, we have an FA Cup semi final and an important game on Saturday. We go game by game."

(From BBC website)

 

[nicko31]

Much better in the second half

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Just a shame that villa won but two games in hand over them at least

Remember that we have 18 goal difference over them, whether it comes to gd or not, it's an indicator we shouldn't be scared of them

 

[LamieRobertson]

Still can't quite believe this to be honest.

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[oldboyroy]

Onto Spurs and I say it's our 1st 6 pointer of the season!

 

[Blue3]

A hard fought win two good goals defence kept a clean sheet against a team scrapping for their lives and quite happy to take chunks out of our players hopefully MacCalister and Caceido injures are not to serious

 

[The Fits]

Perfect result at the Bridge I'd say.

 

[hart's shirt]

Brighton midfielder Alexis Mac Allister on Evan Ferguson: "Evan is an amazing player. He was not having his best evening, but he showed his quality. We are really happy for him, we know how important he is."

On their season so far: "The club is improving in every aspect, we have an FA Cup semi final and an important game on Saturday. We go game by game."

 

[GT49er]

Tell Ferguson to stop lay off the goals for a bit otherwise Chelsea will bid £200M!

Would probably take that, TBH.

6th place in the Premier League and had we turned some of those draws against the likes of Brentford and Palace into wins when we’ve dominated the game we’d be in the top 4! This is the stuff of dreams. Unreal. Let’s hope we keep hold of this squad and this manager!

6th. place in the PL while losing 11 points to Brentford and B'muff Fulham (!) is even weirder!

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Doesn't sound hopeful for Saturday though, which is a real 6 pointer. Have to hope he has similar resilience and powers of recover to Knockaert.

Fingers crossed but a lot more comfortable with Ayari who slotted in well and bags of energy

 

[GT49er]

Perfect result at the Bridge I'd say.

Absolutely not! For once in my life, I'd have preferred (with gritted teeth) a horrible entitled Chelsea win. Liverpool are a threat; Chelsea ain't.

 

[Sheebo]

Caicedo a bad ankle twist - but hobbled off so maybe not too bad

I thought he trod on his foot so worried it’s a broken metatarsal - I best be wrong..

 

[The Fits]

f*** me, if we can turn it on at Spurs things are really starting to enter the realms of impossibility. The table is crazy reading.

 

[dolphins]

Brighton forward Julio Enciso, speaking via team-mate Alexis Mac Allister as his translator: "I'm very happy and really grateful for all people who supported me in the last moments."

On his first Brighton goal tonight: "I was very nervous, but the good thing is it was a goal."

On facing top four rivals Spurs on Saturday: "We all know how important Saturday's game is, so we will try our best to win it. We are dreaming of playing in Europe."

 

[Sheebo]

Absolutely not! For once in my life, I'd have preferred (with gritted teeth) a horrible entitled Chelsea win. Liverpool are a threat; Chelsea ain't.

Both are. Draw is good imo.

 

[Weststander]

Agree about Estupinan. He is just an incredible player, some matches like tonight he is just unplayable. Pace, strength, knowhow. I would back him to win a one on one battle against ANY player in the world when he’s in this form.

Steele brilliant too. Hopefully some of the posters who have been unfairly itching to blame him for every goal we concede will back off now.

That ‘cements’ Steele’s place in the first 11 for a very long time imho. Quality of passing is everything to RDZ.

 

[Mackenzie]

Good win that. Bournemouth have played quite well in patches recently (second half against Fulham for example).

Hopefully Caicedo will be fine after a bit of treatment, we’ll need him at the weekend.

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

That ‘cements’ Steele’s place in the first 11 for a very long time imho. Quality of passing is everything to RDZ.

Agreed. I’m actually a bit worried that RDZ has said Sanchez will come back in for the semi, I would rather Steele started personally.

 

[Weststander]

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