[Albion] Arsenal vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

[Driver8]

My stream went down just after the goal - did they show the VAR lines - looked close to being offside on first view.

No need, was clearly onside.

 

[MTSeagulls]

Why did Gross get booked?

 

[Ethelwulf]

Milner has not been the best signing for us

 

[Krafty]

Not going to complain today.

Arsenal are an excellent side and we played a few days ago - this was a "free hit".

 

[Seagull58]

My stream went down just after the goal - did they show the VAR lines - looked close to being offside on first view.

Well onside. Igor was playing him on

 

[brightn'ove]

God we've been hyppia poor

 

[AmexRuislip]

Why did Gross get booked?

Back chatting officials

 

[Drebin]

My stream went down just after the goal - did they show the VAR lines - looked close to being offside on first view.

On the reply it didn’t seem lines weee needed. Easy to see he was on.

 

[dolphins]

Why did Gross get booked?

According to the JC and Warren commentary, for backchat to the ref.

 

[jimhigham]

Ah, well! A shame. Would have been nice to have made a match of it but can't complain about the outcome. Hardly unexpected.

Just beat that bunch up the road on Thursday and my mojo will be restored.

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

Utter shite. Hate Arsenal too, bunch of gimps, fan bass are cocks.

 

[Zeberdi]

That’s it - very brave performance from our lads - asked a few questions at the end - we are a depleted and fatigued team - I don’t think we played badly overall at all and had moments where we played very well - both Dunk, VH and Verbruggen were so good under the pressure we’ve been under. Two very good chances failed to convert from Gross and Hinshelwood. Declan Rice too much for our MF, Saka too good for Milner. Not at all ashamed of that scoreline.

 

[Mustafa II]

Gotta feeling NSC is going to have its typical insufferable lack of context after this result.

It hasn't been a poor performance. It's been a decent performance away against a very strong team and potential champions at the top of their game. We defended well enough for most of it. We made some good chances in the last 10 minutes that on another day we would have put away. We can be proud about that, especially given the circumstances.

We are riddled with injuries, +1 to Veltman early on, and our bare bones squad still recovering from a really tough game just a few days ago. Arsenal don't have any of these problems.

Definitely shouldn't feel downhearted with this result. At least it's out of the way. Beat Palace on Thursday and this will be a distant memory.

 

[Justice]

So hard in the PL without our pacy full backs Lamptey & Pervis make a huge difference

 

[Jeremiah]

Cause Arsenal problems when we went at them with intent. Which was last 10 minutes. Wrong starting line up and tactics IMO

 

[Superphil]

Goalscoring statistic wiped out.

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

No issues with this result for me, keeping our powder dry for Palace.

 

[The Fits]

Neither of our keepers are pulling up trees. Bart has huge potential and made a couple of really strong saves but they both seem very porous and liable to make mistakes.
Gross is our best number 10. He’s a 15 goal a season player there.
Lallana and Milner offer us nothing on the pitch now.
Great experience again for Hinsh.
Time to get over that one and look forward to Palace.

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

Ah, well! A shame. Would have been nice to have made a match of it but can't complain about the outcome. Hardly unexpected.

Just beat that bunch up the road on Thursday and my mojo will be restored.

No, I would rather not just accept another league defeat thanks. I can see Thursday being shit

 

[Gabbiano]

Think this match has shown us more than any since Villa, the lack of power we have in midfield since the loss of Caicedo and Mac Alister. And the full back situation is killing us against any decent quick winger.

Arsenal and particularly Rice have bullied us and their speed and quality of passing was far too much for us all game.

Really impressive from Arsenal, but we really were nowhere near them.