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

[PeterT]

Would love to hear a good explanation of how that third goal got given.

2-0 is very different to 4-0.

I don’t think we’ll overturn it but I can see us going 2 up at home and the atmosphere ramping up when we do!

 

[pb21]

Bit of a capitulation that

 

[Seasider78]

Was hoping for a home tie where we may have had to come back but had a chance of progressing but just exited the competition in a whimper looking like absolute amateurs away form home

 

[Deadly Danson]

Because he’s useless. Only people who don’t understand football can’t see that.

And that wins the award for the most f***ing stupid thing anyone has written on here tonight. And you are up against stiff competition.

 

[SlickHenry]

Surely in the first leg of knockout European football you focus a bit on defense?? Terrible tactical plan and given us zero chance in the return leg

 

[hart's shirt]

Didn't watch


Did I miss anything?

"Well it started badly, it tailed off a little in the middle & the less said about the end the better. But apart from that, excellent."

 

[AlexBH]

I’ve drawn my own line- OFFSIDE

 

[the wanderbus]

I

8th could be Europa Conf and that could be fun…

Shot ourselves in the foot a bit with that one tonight too!

 

[American Seagle]

Lack of a capable defensive midfielder is at fault here. Teams just get straight through the middle exposing our defence. Recruitment letdown

We need to shield the defense better. Without the higher quality holding midfielder we need to not be so suicidal going forward. Yes it will mean less goals, but will mean we have a greater chance of a result in games like this.

 

[worthingweird]

Steele wasn't to blame tonight, the defence were atrocious, including Dunk - he looked way off the pace.

Thought Dunk had a complete mare, uncharacteristically...

 

[Hamilton]

What a time to put in our worst performance. Feels like this season is unravelling very quickly.

You must be forgetting Villa, Luton and Fulham

 

[fruitnveg]

Lack of a capable defensive midfielder is at fault here. Teams just get straight through the middle exposing our defence. Recruitment letdown

Looking a bigger mistake match by match, not filling the position adequately. We're so porous.

 

[um bongo molongo]

It’s felt like this has been coming really. Our early season wins papered over the fact that we’ve downgraded our squad. Igor < Colwill, Gilmour < Mac Allister and Baleba < Caicedo. Couple that with injuries to key players in Mitoma, Pedro, March and a few players clearly not fully fit/up to speed (Estupinan, Dunk, Enciso) and not sure we really had a chance of doing much better than we have in this competition.

 

[PeterT]

I’ve drawn my own line- OFFSIDEView attachment 178254

Do you live anywhere near Parco di Stocelli?

 

[El Turi]

I did fear that might happen today but Roma weren’t actually as good as I thought they would be. We just made it easy by gifting them easy goals and not taking our chances.

 

[Triggaaar]

Being generous, the camera is not level with the last men there's a slght angle to it

The position of the camera in this case makes the person closest to the camera (Mancini) look further from the goal and less offside.

I'm pretty confident he's offside.

 

[Weststander]

So it isn’t just Webbo.
What has the manager done to our defenders?

Veltman - Dunk - Colwill - Estupinan
MacA - Caicedo

Was levels above this season’s defensive system.

The sum of parts, they dovetailed beautifully.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Thought Dunk had a complete mare, uncharacteristically...

Not really in big games

 

[Justice]

Would love to hear a good explanation of how that third goal got given.

2-0 is very different to 4-0.

I don’t think we’ll overturn it but I can see us going 2 up at home and the atmosphere ramping up when we do!

Who’s going to score?

 

[scooter1]

The totally unnecessary shithousery from the Roma players was so galling. They’d won the game, and we didn’t look like scoring but going down every 30 seconds holding their faces was something else. It’s going to be a long 90 mins next week, if thats their game plan