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

[Si Gull]

Awful from Baleba. Poor control and daft yellow.

 

[BevBHA]

Baleba has been well below his best. Unusually looks very uncomfortable on the ball

 

[oldboyroy]

Bookings could cost us this game.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

VAR Lines made it look closer than it appeared looking at the still image.

Need to get to half time and make a few tweaks, allowed them to dominate too much of the first half.

 

[maltaseagull]

Polite question.
Who's Albion app commentary keeps cutting out ??

Mine wouldn't even start.

 

[nicko31]

Baleba has been well below his best. Unusually looks very uncomfortable on the ball

Clumsy booking

 

[oldboyroy]

We've been quite poor this half apart from the quality goal in 1st 10 mins. I'm sure Fab will get into them at half time

 

[AstroSloth]

We got away with one there. We are still so sloppy at the back sometimes. Always as likely to concede as we are to score.

No we didn't get lucky, we played our high line well and played the player offside.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Mine wouldn't even start.

F'kin thing keeps cutting out.....

 

[US Seagull]

We've looked better in stoppage time here.

Still welcome the whistle.

 

[Bodian]

Commentator says they have scored more after 80 minutes than anyone but Man City. We'll need one or two more before that point then.

 

[Gabbiano]

Think we'll improve second half. Good signs but its not linking together well enough in these conditions. Bournemouth's high press is causing us problems, but they'll tire and we'll bring on the likes of O'Riley and Enciso to run at them.

We're very lucky they've been so poor at finishing.

 

[Albion my Albion]

3 more goals would be brilliant.

 

[Si Gull]

Probably fortunate to go in ahead, Bournemouth fast and direct on the break. Need some tweaks for the second half, and stop giving them the ball. Great start but second best for much of the half, and just a couple of chances other than the goal.

 

[BrickTamland]

Anyone got a clip of the goal?

 

[trueblue]

Thank goodness the disallowed goal didn't stand. A perfect illustration of why the law is a joke these days. Evanilson, right next to Van Hecke, is a good couple of yards offside but that's deemed to be of no consequence and they're only looking at the winger. Evanilson then has a free run on goal from a sizeable head start to tap the ball in. It's a ridiculous loophole. Whatever happened to interfering with play? If putting the ball in the bloody net a few seconds after being miles offside is not affecting the match, what the hell is?

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

3 more goals would be brilliant.

Might be able to relax then!

 

[ChickenDipper]

Great start - they’re not a bad team and grew into the game in horrible conditions

 

[Mustafa II]

Tough place to play. Tough conditions. Distracting twat on drum in the background.

Think we're doing fine under the circumstances. Was bound to be a bit scrappy. We had numerous spells of nice touches and all-round play. We deserve to be winning.

Hopefully we can keep this up and score a 2nd to finish them off... but Bournemouth have a very good record here, against us and under these circumstances.... will probably be a very tough 2nd half and we'd do very well to take 3 points here.

 

[um bongo molongo]

We’ve only played well one half in most games this year. So hopefully that was the poorer half. We look dangerous in the final third though.