[Albion] AS Roma vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

[Beach Hut]

were loose

Emphatically correct again, Dear Friend

 

[zefarelly]

Christ knows how we survived multiple batterings and a few seasons of being shit

To be fair, it was about a decade.

 

[Dick Head]

Emphatically correct again, Dear Friend

it was a self refilling prophecy

 

[Lethargic]

I think experience was a big factor in yesterday's demise looking at the how the teams compared I was a little surprise in the average age across the 2 teams, for Roma it almost 29 and for Brighton it was 25, I was expecting a bigger gap.

Where it is really telling is in the international experience across the 2 teams Roma totalling 621 full caps and Brighton only 175 full caps and this is also offset but the fact that a number of our elder statesmen either have only a handful of caps (Dunk & Gross) or none recently (Welbeck & Veltman) where as the Roma team was much more balanced with most of the team still playing international football consistently.

Add to that experience in European club competition and it really was men against boys.

Then there's the injuries Roma were almost full strength and we had several key player out plus the fact they are on a high with their confidence but we are currently struggling.

They were also at home with a vociferous crowd.

Maybe 4-0 was not quite so bad?

 

[US Seagull]

 

[US Seagull]

I'm trying AI art therapy - looking for a prompt to sum up how yesterday felt after the game.

 

[AmexRuislip]

I think experience was a big factor in yesterday's demise looking at the how the teams compared I was a little surprise in the average age across the 2 teams, for Roma it almost 29 and for Brighton it was 25, I was expecting a bigger gap.

Where it is really telling is in the international experience across the 2 teams Roma totalling 621 full caps and Brighton only 175 full caps and this is also offset but the fact that a number of our elder statesmen either have only a handful of caps (Dunk & Gross) or none recently (Welbeck & Veltman) where as the Roma team was much more balanced with most of the team still playing international football consistently.

Add to that experience in European club competition and it really was men against boys.

Then there's the injuries Roma were almost full strength and we had several key player out plus the fact they are on a high with their confidence but we are currently struggling.

They were also at home with a vociferous crowd.

Maybe 4-0 was not quite so bad?

Just watched the highlights.

 

[AmexRuislip]

I'm trying AI art therapy - looking for a prompt to sum up how yesterday felt after the game.

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[Bodian]

Even looks offside on that!

 

[PascalGroß Tips]

Anyone had their hard earned (as in £££'s) 5 points yet?

 

[Richy_Seagull]

Anyone had their hard earned (as in £££'s) 5 points yet?

Nope, still not added

 

[PascalGroß Tips]

As if by magic - both home and away EL points have just been added

 

[dstanman]

Both Roma games points added

 

[Beanstalk]

Wolves are not a similar size to us.

Gary O Neil is doing a good job with a club that have spent £250m in transfers in the last 2 seasons.
I haven't watched them too much, but the last 2 games against us, it's been Royball with better players.

Yeah, a million different factors at play here. To put style to the side Wolves are not in their inaugural European campaign. It normally costs clubs a lot more than it has cost us. We are still ahead of them after all of that as well.