Fergus the Schnoodle
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[Albion] Brighton & Hove Albion vs Chelsea *** Official Match Thread ***
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Agreed on Cucurella, he was annoyingly good today.
Mustafa II
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Cucurella made as many mistakes as he did decent moves.
Moises looked completely average, and has done all season for Chelsea, at best.
DO you know what wood is? I know it's a rare material these days. . . . Especially for anyone under 35Even with the inter web, and doing some cheating. I have no idea what that means
we had a player named, traditionally, after a trade Which used to use this ancient material. No offence, It was in the aulden days
Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
- 13,672
Decent game overall
It’s just early days. So many new players who all need to learn how to play not only De Zerbi’s style, but to adjust to the pace of the PL. They’ve only really been here a few weeks and they haven’t played alongside each other before.
It’s going to show for a while but as they get used to it, it will improve.
It’s going to show for a while but as they get used to it, it will improve.
SIMMO SAYS
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No, you are the most annoying thing
Cotton Socks
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- Feb 20, 2017
- 2,215
I like their commentary, after listening to them for years I found it hard to adjust to streams. If I turned my back to the pc & just listened then I'd have no clue what was happening either. Team JC & Warren here, they're also very bias towards Brighton which is good.
Silverhatch
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Dahoud is a wonderful player but has even worse goalscoring instincts than Lallana.
- Oct 17, 2008
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Thought we controlled the first half, missed two must-score chances with dreadful misses. Once you’ve done that, it’s very hard to overcome sometimes and it creeps into the mentality. Chelsea looked extremely nervous and the fans sounded it too. Sanchez was a liability and their defence hugely shaky.
Second half they came out fired up and were winning all the 50/50’s they had been losing in the first half. After their goal they went man for man and truly did an excellent job on us, looking organised and structured in a way they didn’t in the first half.
All in all, we can’t have too many complaints given our disappointing second half and appalling finishing in the first half. We looked very leggy from around 65-70 minutes and they had their tails up. Cucurella was superb for them in that second half, and Jackson started showing flashes of quality including a clinical finish.
Some disappointing individual performances tonight; Dahoud in particular looked slow to everything, lots of silly freekicks and overplaying tempered with the occasional nice touch or good cross. Not dreadful, but a downgrade on last season naturally. £115m difference - I’m not so sure - but not in the same league.
Finally, the referee and his assistants had a dreadful game for both sides. Four times(!) he stopped play progressing in an attacking area to give a freekick in a neutral area. Twice for each team. Constantly ignored dissent/balls being thrown/kicked away to prevent restarts. We got away with a number of drag backs/trips when pressing, as did Chelsea.
The big one of course being two awful tackles from Ugochuku. The first one was borderline - “orange” card if you will - the second should’ve been a straight red. How he wasn’t even booked (and subsequently sent off) I have no idea as replays showed Mr. Bramall had a perfect view and was looking directly at the incident.
He had a very poor game tonight.
Final word for our fans who sounded incredible throughout (through the stream at least!).
Disappointing and onward to Saturday. Hoping Fati wasn’t brought off injured due to that shocking tackle, but I fear he was. We need him for Saturday.
Also concerned for a few other players who looked like they were struggling a little with knocks/fatigue.
Second half they came out fired up and were winning all the 50/50’s they had been losing in the first half. After their goal they went man for man and truly did an excellent job on us, looking organised and structured in a way they didn’t in the first half.
All in all, we can’t have too many complaints given our disappointing second half and appalling finishing in the first half. We looked very leggy from around 65-70 minutes and they had their tails up. Cucurella was superb for them in that second half, and Jackson started showing flashes of quality including a clinical finish.
Some disappointing individual performances tonight; Dahoud in particular looked slow to everything, lots of silly freekicks and overplaying tempered with the occasional nice touch or good cross. Not dreadful, but a downgrade on last season naturally. £115m difference - I’m not so sure - but not in the same league.
Finally, the referee and his assistants had a dreadful game for both sides. Four times(!) he stopped play progressing in an attacking area to give a freekick in a neutral area. Twice for each team. Constantly ignored dissent/balls being thrown/kicked away to prevent restarts. We got away with a number of drag backs/trips when pressing, as did Chelsea.
The big one of course being two awful tackles from Ugochuku. The first one was borderline - “orange” card if you will - the second should’ve been a straight red. How he wasn’t even booked (and subsequently sent off) I have no idea as replays showed Mr. Bramall had a perfect view and was looking directly at the incident.
He had a very poor game tonight.
Final word for our fans who sounded incredible throughout (through the stream at least!).
Disappointing and onward to Saturday. Hoping Fati wasn’t brought off injured due to that shocking tackle, but I fear he was. We need him for Saturday.
Also concerned for a few other players who looked like they were struggling a little with knocks/fatigue.
Normandy seagull
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Bit harsh thought Goodnight was actually ok at times. Think there’s a player in there but certainly young and raw
I wasn’t tuned into thinking in those lines at all. I was thinking of a chippy as in a fish supperDO you know what wood is? I know it's a rare material these days. . . . Especially for anyone under 35
we had a player named, traditionally, after a trade Which used to use this ancient material. No offence, It was in the aulden days
Mike Small
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- Dec 26, 2008
- 3,106
Chelsea really are desperate aren't they lapping that up. I'm not to disappointed to be out really. We've got bigger things to focus on.
Don't know what Buonanotte offers us. He has no attributes that makes us better and just comes inside when playing on the wing. He will never start centrally and did nothing for the 30 mins he played there. Bar one small run V City he makes us worse - see Forest away (lose - I know he scored), Everton home (battered) and Bournemouth first half on Sunday (losing).
JPVH and Lamptey were good although weak at the end.
JP's finishing was very poor.
Pervis should have had the night off.
Concerned by March at the moment. It's like the March prior to RDZ - needs a rocket up his arse.
We are so much better with Dunk, Joel and Billy in the team.
Don't know what Buonanotte offers us. He has no attributes that makes us better and just comes inside when playing on the wing. He will never start centrally and did nothing for the 30 mins he played there. Bar one small run V City he makes us worse - see Forest away (lose - I know he scored), Everton home (battered) and Bournemouth first half on Sunday (losing).
JPVH and Lamptey were good although weak at the end.
JP's finishing was very poor.
Pervis should have had the night off.
Concerned by March at the moment. It's like the March prior to RDZ - needs a rocket up his arse.
We are so much better with Dunk, Joel and Billy in the team.
Normandy seagull
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Calm down dear!
Silverhatch
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BUT THE (media) WORLD WILL SHOUT CHELSEA ARE BACK.
SIMMO SAYS
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You should post more ............................................................... perhaps not
Mike Small
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- Dec 26, 2008
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You reckon? How did that work out? Absolutely woeful at best. Pleased he started after getting hooked at half-time but he offers us absolutely nothing. Not skilful or fast enough to take anyone and just cuts inside. Pleasing on the eye but that doesn't get a goal or an assist. Our stats with him in the team are dreadful.
Hope RDZ can tease a player out of him in time.
Mustafa II
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I don't care about anything tonight.
To be honest I am glad we are out of this competition - it would have been a hindrance towards more important goals.
I thought we played well enough, no complaints - apart from defensively we could have done better.
I do think Cucurella is an absolute twat though. Cheating fucker. Literally did the rolling around thing for about 2 seconds before getting back up. Good riddance.
Sanchez looked an absolute liability too.
f*** Chelsea. Horrible club. Glad we get to focus our efforts elsewhere,
Baleba looked good, not far from first team, which is nice.
To be honest I am glad we are out of this competition - it would have been a hindrance towards more important goals.
I thought we played well enough, no complaints - apart from defensively we could have done better.
I do think Cucurella is an absolute twat though. Cheating fucker. Literally did the rolling around thing for about 2 seconds before getting back up. Good riddance.
Sanchez looked an absolute liability too.
f*** Chelsea. Horrible club. Glad we get to focus our efforts elsewhere,
Baleba looked good, not far from first team, which is nice.