Brighton have dropped 12 points from winning positions

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Football is about GOALS.

I don't really care if, in the 1-1 draw or the 3-2 win we went 1 goal up or 1 goal down.

When the ref blows his final whistle, that's all that matters.

Ultimately, draws at Burnley, QPR and Derby are excellent results. Don't really care how they came about.

 

[Seagull58]

Only Charlton (13) have dropped more.

Discuss.

If we have any sort of "problem" that needs to be addressed then this is it. Some teams are very good at getting lead and then protecting it but we don't seem to have that ability. We tend to go 4-5-1, drop deep and invite pressure that we can't absorb resulting in an equaliser, or we concede within 5 minutes of scoring.

 

[CHAPPERS]

ultimately, draws at burnley, qpr and derby are excellent results. Don't really care how they came about.

exactly.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Away win at Ipswich. Away draws at Burnley and Derby. Home wins v Hull and Birmingham. Home draw v Cardiff

Boro to complete the top 8 (7 not including us).

And we haven't played anyone yet this season

 

[Da Man Clay]

Won't do any kind of damage when Austin leaves next month. He will want a shot at the euro squad.

He won't leave. Could have gone in the summer. He's more interested in the massive signing on fee he'll get from his free transfer move when his contract ends after this season.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

How many of those have been by fault of Lewis Dunk?

Forget the witch hunt.

 

[Igzilla]

Brighton have only been behind in 21 games for a total of 140 minutes, and came back to win.
In 11 away games we haven't been behind at all.
21 games unbeaten from the start, which is a Championship record.

A better scenario to discuss perhaps, or are you a Palace fan?

Apart from the unbeaten stat, I think is is by far the most astonishing fact of our season to date. Why are we not bigging this up more?

 

[Eeyore]

Obviously better than teams who rarely find themselves in winning positions at all.

 

[GT49er]

WTF is wrong with everyone..........

Not a lot with many of us, actually. Delighted to be to of the league (well, OK, second) and it's one of our best seasons I can remember (going back to 1957-58). But all teams have room for improvement, and that doesn't mean every team except us.

Although we're excellent at chasing a game down, our achilles heel is our seeming inability to either push on and put games out of reach of our opponents, or to just see a game out with a one goal lead (as in '1-0 to the Arsenal' in days gone by). So? - well, that's where we can do with a bit of work to improve. Let's hope we do!