[Albion] Aston Villa vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

[Bodian]

Baleba struggling?

Not how I saw it.

Thought he got in the way at crucial moments quite a number of times. Solid.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Anyone that doesn’t know what’s coming second half must be on crack

Gosh…..u can see into the future……presumably we’ve lost can you tell me by what score so I can put a bet on it

 

[BadFish]

I always love the positive energy in these match threads.

All over NSC at the Moment.

Joyous.

 

[Mike Small]

We've got some good players on the bench. I hope Fab brings them on quickly and not wait for us to be firmly on the backfoot or go 2-1 down.

Hopefully we've got a new strategy for how to play the ball out of defence as really struggled once we scored. Baleba needs help in there.

 

[Alex BH]

Fck sake 2-1 Villa you knew it was coming

 

[A mex eyecan]

2-1, now there’s a surprise ……

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Villa players all in the ref's ear in the tunnel prior to this half!

McGinn the worst.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Positive half in my view.

I actually think we're doing a good job defensively, but we're not doing well playing out from defence.

It's a shame we've lost the ability to effortlessly play out from the back under pressure, in quite the way we used to.

I personally don't enjoy the long balls.

Need to get Adringa on the ball more. He's looking dangerous today.

They are sitting two man markers on our defensive midfield pair when we have the ball at the back. This is blocking the out ball and the little passing triangles and forcing us to push the ball wide and then hit hopeful balls up the line. This means our attackers are starved of the ball.

We need a way round that and at the moment we don't seem to have an answer.... yet.

 

[Mellotron]

Absolutely breathless first half. Entertaining if a bit scary at times.

 

[Alex BH]

WHAT EXACTLY HAS BART SAVED

 

[Badger]

Oh dear

 

[Si Gull]

Bollox already. 2-1

 

[US Seagull]

Well, we really cocked that up.

 

[brighton_tom]

Perfect start.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

The clown show has come to town again.

 

[RandyWanger]

FFS why can't we hold onto a game

 

[Hugo Rune]

Frustrating. That was coming from the kick-off. It’s about how many we concede now. We’re done here.

 

[GrizzlingGammon]

And there it is

 

[Bodian]

Shite defending yet again

 

[London Irish]

Good clearance Bart