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

[Nobby Cybergoat]

No desire, no intensity, no passion, no killer instinct, awful second half, truly shocking. The players must be being instructed not to take people on one on one and put high floated crosses into the box, both tactics that don't suit our players. Plus this SLOW playing out from the back is just asking for trouble. I don't mind playing out from the back and understand the idea of trying to bring their players on to us to take 3-4 out of the game but it's still causing us more problems than creating opportunities as when we do break the press we don't get forward quick enough and allow them to regroup.

I've been chastised since saying after the Chelsea match that our manager isn't up to this level of football, is tactically clueless and nothing has changed my mind since. We get worse every week it seems and good players are looking so average. We just look so knackered, maybe he's overdoing the training intensity or something as we just can't sustain any sort of intensity for more than 45 mins

I disagree with everything you say

 

[Bodian]

I’m not sure if there’s something wrong with me or my perceptive skills?? Perhaps my other half is slowly drugging me via my herbal tea addiction… but I thought we played well in the first half and dipped in the second, whilst looking reasonably dangerous until we had a shot … which, alas, were either weak and/or lashed uncontrollably over the bar into outer space… for that I’m blaming the players, plain and simple… as for Pedro, that attempted elbow thankfully was as on target as his overall performance…

What is apparent is that we vastly over paid for some of new ‘talents’ and Pervis has lost so much pace it’s painful to watch… really sad… not sure that’s on Fabian really.

I think you've just about summed it up. Although presumably the reason we take ages to get in front of goal, and then fanny around is part of the 'process' rather than just the players?

 

[Ethelwulf]

I get the feeling you get told that a lot

Not really but hey ho who gives a f*** .

Just f*** off.

bet you get told that a lot as well .

Just f*** off.

Just f*** off.

Just like your user name a grizzler

 

[portslade seagull]

Just waiting for Fab to come out and say ' trust the process '

 

[origigull]

We were sooo slow tonight, Verbruggen what was he doing holding on to the ball for so long. It's frustrating and another 2 points dropped. All good except final 3rd. When we play inverted wingers they always seem to hit the ball with their weaker foot in good positions.

 

[Kosh]

I think you've just about summed it up. Although presumably the reason we take ages to get in front of goal, and then fanny around is part of the 'process' rather than just the players?

Oh; he’s part of the process and thus he’s part of the problem… but in reality tonight we didn't win because the players failed to convert several superb opportunities and present further superb opportunities from several promising positions.

 

[macbeth]

a few positives tonight, mainly solly, but i can’t quite fathom how the management decided we’d be best served attacking a packed brentford box, playing nearly on the halfway line, pinning them into their own half and hoping to break them down, when it’s obvious that’s exactly what brentford would want us to do. let alone doing it when we don’t have a single natural striker on the pitch. lunacy.

 

[Alex BH]

That second half was painful. Really poor from both teams. Real lack of quality.

 

[TottonSeagull]

The main reason is our coach is clueless and out if his depth!!

 

[Poskettspurpose]

There were positives but without any obvious discernible coherent plan. There is a lot of talent on the field that doesn't seem to know exactly where to move or pass and also appears terrified to shoot. The definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over and over again and expecting a different result. I was against any knee-jerk reactions after Palace but now I have some serious concerns that the manager just isn't ready for competition at this level...

 

[heathgate]

I think you've just about summed it up. Although presumably the reason we take ages to get in front of goal, and then fanny around is part of the 'process' rather than just the players?

It's simply because we have next to no movement from the midfield centrally,as we did with Gross and WBG, to give the defence an out option.

 

[Normandy seagull]

We were sooo slow tonight, Verbruggen what was he doing holding on to the ball for so long. It's frustrating and another 2 points dropped. All good except final 3rd. When we play inverted wingers they always seem to hit the ball with their weaker foot in good positions.

I think he holds onto the ball to draw the oppo players in then play an incisive pass forward thus taking said oppo players out the game. Thought he did well under the crowds impatience not to make any clangers

 

[birthofanorange]

That was on the players and the finishing - no more, no less. Yes, yes....we've seen it before, but how anyone calls for the managers head (hi @Ethelwulf - fool) is beyond me.
We did more than enough to win that game....except put the ball in the net, which is what players are paid to do.

 

[Bodian]

a few positives tonight, mainly solly, but i can’t quite fathom how the management decided we’d be best served attacking a packed brentford box, playing nearly on the halfway line, pinning them into their own half and hoping to break them down, when it’s obvious that’s exactly what brentford would want us to do. let alone doing it when we don’t have a single natural striker on the pitch. lunacy.

But I suppose the only way of not doing that would have been to invite them to attack us - but given how we've defended recently, that might not have been a great idea either. Verbruggen did try and tempt them, but they weren't having it. So - it's difficult for us to play on the break because they rarely committed to many men forward. And anyway, on the odd occasion we did play on the break, we messed it up.

 

[hart's shirt]

Lewis Dunk

"Frustrating, we're in a sticky patch at the moment and can't get a win."

"You look at the games we've not done enough in and dropped the intensity. You look at the stats and at the start of the season we outran teams. We looked at the stats and the games we won we ran more than them, and the games we haven't won we ran less."

"We've got top, top players."

"We knew they'd be man for man and would get bodies behind the ball. In the second half we lost patience and tried to do individual things."

"I'm buzzing for Solly March. A second ACL, two operations, did he think he'd even get back at one stage?"

 

[GrizzlingGammon]

Not really but hey ho who gives a f*** .

bet you get told that a lot as well .



Just like your user name a grizzler

Calm down Ethel and f*** off.
That coke will rot your septum (That's the wall/membrane that separates the nasal cavities).

 

[Mike Small]

There is a shit load of entitlement coming out tonight

Nah. It's frustration imo. Brentford were absolutely there for the taking but we were too weak mentally. Given that it's happened so many times there in lies the frustration.

The forward players look unconfident and lazy in equal measure.

 

[king Wombat]

Pedro should not be leading the line. He's a great player but needs someone in front of him.
Ferguson may not be in form but giving him more minutes on the pitch has got to be worth a go as we are turgid at the moment.

 

[Flounce]

Just waiting for Fab to come out and say ' trust the process '

Guaranteed, but I have given up listening to his pre and post match pressers. He is boring and seems to lack any sense of humour at all

 

[Bodian]

I think he holds onto the ball to draw the oppo players in then play an incisive pass forward thus taking said oppo players out the game.

But when the opposition players haven't shown any sign whatsoever of being sucked in by this after 70+ minutes, you think he'd stop doing it?