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

[peterward]

Enciso shoved in the back and the ref waves play on. Getting silly now.

TV money demands the title race be kept alive.

Brooks is doing his job to perfection.

 

[lizard]

The pen. I’d have been screaming for it if it were t’other way round. That being said, Tariq got a touch on the ball. No pen.

Would never have been given the other way round.

 

[BBassic]

We'd be spitting feathers if we were on the other end of the penalty incident so I'm largely ok with it.

Some of the other refereeing decisions have been nothing short of shambolic.

It's going to be one of those games.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Clever feet from Jesus on the penalty. Little flick going straight into the feet together dive after the touch from Tariq. 9.8

 

[Husty]

Can't believe that people arguing that wasn't a pen. Specs so rose tinted they must be opaque

 

[BevBHA]

Karen Carney “because Jesus can get to the ball after Lamptey touches it, it’s a penalty.” Wonder what Barton is doing today.

 

[macbeth]

this is the same ref who drew the wrong lines when he was VAR in the palace game last season. just saying.

 

[Curious Orange]

the ball doesn’t change its flight though. He barely clips it at most but mainly he kicks Gabriel. I don’t like it but it’s a fairly clear pen tbh

My view from the WSU there was clearly a change of direction towards the West Stand (the opposite direction of travel).

Looked a clear penalty if the Arsenal player was collected before the ball, so I assumed Lamptey had clobbered Jesus first when the penalty stood.

 

[sussex_guy2k2]

Can you imagine if it was the other way around and how many of those on here saying it wasn't a penalty would still be saying that.

But we wouldn’t have been given that if it was the other way around. We all know that.

 

[KZNSeagull]

The reffing has been terrible but we can't get through their press well enough and when we do we're not creating chances

We have burst through their press beautifully several times. Best I have seen from us for a while.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Brooks is a useless **** always will be, he’s not up to it

 

[Krafty]

Stonewall penalty. Anyone saying it isn’t is lying

 

[BBassic]

But we wouldn’t have been given that if it was the other way around. We all know that.

Forget the hypothetical.

Switch the shirts round. We get that penalty decision - nobody on here is going to say it wasn't a pen.

 

[Mancgull]

He didn't WIN the ball - he barely touched it and it never changed direction. I'm sorry but that's an obvious penalty, much as I wish it wasn't.

Eh? You don’t have to hit the centre of the ball for it to be contact. He got the ball but the Arsenal player then makes the most of the contact and as the ref has given Arsenal virtually every decision this half, why change the habit.
It’s been an entirely biased performance by the ref and Alan Smith’s commentary has been nauseatingly biased.
Having said that Arsenal have been the better team but I think we’ve done ok.
I’d love it, love it ( in a Kevin Keegan type way) if we got a last second equaliser to f@ck up Arsenal’s title challenge.

 

[Pevenseagull]

3-1 Albion. Lump on LARGE

Hell yeah.

Gone a MASSIVE 50p @ 140/1

 

[Commander]

He touched it, it did change direction. No penalty.

Can’t believe anyone seriously thinks that isn’t a penalty. We’d be going absolutely mad if it wasn’t given for us. It’s stonewall.

The ‘got the ball’ argument is ridiculous. If you kick the ball away cleanly and then smash the attacker in the face with a brick, it’s still a penalty.

 

[chrisg]

You would have done better, obviously.

Umm no, I am not a professional player with 400 games experience.
You think him sliding past Saka was good defending too ?
As we saw against Roma, he makes a lot of errors

 

[Vin]

Can't believe that people arguing that wasn't a pen. Specs so rose tinted they must be opaque

Never a pen. Got a touch on the ball.

 

[peterward]

We have burst through their press beautifully several times. Best I have seen from us for a while.

We have, but we lack the dynamism. Baleba and Pedro have that, Moder and Gross slow it down.

 

[Ethelwulf]

We'd be spitting feathers if we were on the other end of the penalty incident so I'm largely ok with it.

Some of the other refereeing decisions have been nothing short of shambolic.

It's going to be one of those games.

Expect the same when Man City come to town