[Albion] Brighton & Hove Albion vs Crystal Palace *** Official Match Thread ***

[Chicken Run]

Well... time for my summary.

We were excellent tonight. By far the better team. Toothlessness in the final third let us down... again.

Palace weren't lucky. They had a game plan. And it worked. Men behind the ball with the hope to break us on the counter.

We deserved to win, of course. We dominated. We are a striker away from being a great team... but oh how important a goal scoring striker is.

Here’s my summary, we played well they didn’t but scores two goals, we scored 1, well played Brighton.

 

[Invicta]

We are naive, our manager and our players. Picked off by the big boys tonight sadly.

 

[birthofanorange]

I’d be shagging my own arse with glee, but that’s just me.

I didn't think it would be possible, after what just happened, for anything to put the faintest of smiles on my face, let alone make me chuckle.

Thanks for that.

 

[Justice]

Unlike a few I didn’t get carried away after a fluke win at Anfield, we are very capable of not winning for the next ten games. I feel I’m in a time loop watching us play we do the same thing over and over expecting a different result.

 

[Superphil]

That's what I don't understand. To be fair, apart from the ending, that was an enjoyable 2nd half, with goalmouth scrambles and decent attacking but surely there were better options than Ali J.

It was like going down to 10 men.

 

[Mo Gosfield]

FFS I'm not going to pin that on White.

He hoofed it badly, but there's plenty of opportunity to prevent the opportunity from that point to the cross coming in.
Abject defending.

Lallana's 3 misses were worse by my reckoning.

Today was about bad luck and shit finishing.

Where was the bad luck?
To me..it was just a whole game of ineffective offensive play Same old. Same old.

 

[The Fits]

It'd be worth having a ban on new posts an hour after games,
Do we really need people slagging off White or happy clapping the side after a loss like that?
Won't this thread do?

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

We played brilliantly.

What an absolute joke.

Might have to give up football now.

Brilliantly in the second half, we were poor in the first half

 

[Mancgull]

I'm finding this hard to believe. We were shot at the end from the tempo in the first 25 minutes of the second half but that was poor defending.
Cahill was immense for them, the block on the Ali J shot when teed up by Welbeck and many other chances for us.
What will now define our season is how we respond to this. If we don't beat West Brom I really fear for us. I really hope the players are desperately hurting and determined to put this right.
Some of the other responses on this thread are born out of intense frustration and anger. I feel the same, but hopefully the players can channel the huge injustice to finish the season in a strong manner.

 

[Leegull]

Best player on the pitch by MILES. I wonder if he can play DM if we sell Biss.

Agreed. Baffled when Smith gave MOM to Ayew because he ran quite a lot
I thought that Veltman was outstanding again.

 

[giveusfalmerplease]

Best player on the pitch by MILES. I wonder if he can play DM if we sell Biss.

Veltman looking like bargain of the decade. been more that a replacement for lamptey - brings something different to the team

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Where was the bad luck?
To me..it was just a whole game of ineffective offensive play Same old. Same old.

Cahill's block on AJ's shot. The pinball in the second half not falling our way. Mateta's goal going through two sets of legs.

 

[FloatLeft]

The criticism of Ben White is ridiculous. Yes he made a mistake but he has been great all season. We are not in a relegation fight because of him. There are plenty of others that have been poor for most of the season and Im including the manager in that as well.

My criticism of his hoof is nothing to do with the season. I’m just talking about a moment in a game.

I think he has been great this season and I still have the right to be incredulous at what he did at such a critical moment in the game.

 

[elwheelio]

There are shades of Poyet in Potter. A little bit too dogmatic about style over substance. The evidence is pretty overwhelming that our approach doesn't work against almost all teams at home (and many away) but because we play football "the right way" we are led to believe that anyone who questions the method doesn't understand football. Potter has to change something fundamental in his approach.

 

[rogersix]

Potters fault for bringing on Ali J, unless he is being forced to play him. I can't think of any other reason.

yeah, but you're palace tho', do fuk off

 

[Napier]

What a difference a loss makes. I feel gutted, demoralised, frustrated and angry. And to think how much I was looking forward to that game.....! Roll on Saturday!

 

[Icy Gull]

Cahill's block on AJ's shot. The pinball in the second half not falling our way. Mateta's goal going through two sets of legs.

Impossible to put into words how I feel. Completely mugged by Palace yet again. I actually expect it now

I imagine Allardyce will do it again on Saturday

 

[Bry Nylon]

Still, doesn’t matter that we’ve just become about the only team ever to lose to a Zaha-less Palace and we’re right in the relegation shit because I’ve heard the football world owe us an apology.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Because it’s Potters fault that Lallana skies it over the bar from 5 yards out twice.

The Potter Out Campaign is back with a vengeance tonight.

All those misses are always his fault with those dullards; a manager is there to be shot at, remember?

 

[Weststander]

I love Lamptey or Veltman, with Mac Allister, great interplay, so creative.

Whilst on the left flank, without Solly, we’re shit at defence and atteck.



I’m praying that Ashworth, Winstanley and Porter have recruitment plans for our left this summer. Burn has blinders, but so many other games where he’s successfully targeted as a weak link.