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

[Mike Small]

I mean he did call for consistency in his dressing room huddle after United.

We are VERY consistent at home against shit teams.

He sounds like David Brent with all these crappy platitudes.

How about don't plan all week not to start our TWO most in form players. Don't talk about wanting players to develop relationships on the pitch then just make a needless change. Gruda an inverted winger coming inside making the pitch even more congested. The mind boggles.

He is lucky to work for Brighton. We are not lucky to have him currently.

 

[Eeyore]

Pathetic. Absolute pile of shit.

Shocking day for Hurzeler and all of the players. Wankers.

And if I have to see another Albion player try to gee up the crowd when they’re serving up that shit?! Just f*** off and concentrate on your own game.

Johnny said the same on the wireless. Most of the crowd were probably so fed up they were heading towards the exits.

 

[oldboyroy]

Shocking result and shocking from Fab in all honesty. We've shown more fight after final whistle than during the game. Hope Fab has learnt from this because that 1st half was diabolical. Improved 2nd half but Everton were comfortable defending

 

[Seagull58]

One shot on target for each team.

 

[maltaseagull]

Totally inept attack throughout.
Pumping balls into the box for Dickford to catch. When they actually had a few players in our half we pass back or sideways.
Mitoma has lost the will or the skill to go past a defender.
Forget any hope of Europe. We will be lucky to finish top half.

 

[The Fits]

Would much rather have seen Enciso come on for Welbeck in the second half to run at defenders

Enciso doesn’t want to play for us.

 

[Krafty]

Our two best players last Sunday don't even get a start today. Ridiculous decisions by Hurzeler. What is he thinking?

 

[Bodian]

One shot on target for each team.

I'd be interested to see how many touches Everton actually had in our box - 3 or 4 at most?

 

[Home and Away]

Well, that was shit.

 

[chickens]

They've played a great game plan but they have been poor all game

Disagree. If they’d been poor at what they were doing, they’d have lost. There are no poor teams in the PL, they simply don’t get this far. They were ugly, but completely effective.

 

[Alwaysblue]

Poor game! neither side deserved the win really. Ref fell for everything everton did but same story as the last few season, shit against bottom teams!

 

[Ethelwulf]

Our two best players last Sunday don't even get a start today. Ridiculous decisions by Hurzeler. What is he thinking?

Trying to be like Jose M his hero to clever by half just f***ing shocking today

 

[el_ciddy]

Quite. Can't see how he would have made any difference. That was a difficult listen on the radio. They felt there should have been more time added on but also concluded that it would be better if the match was euthanised. Albion wouldn't have scored for another month.

Like I posted earlier, we set up camp around the 18 box and no creative player drops back to try to find a way through. They all line up with the Everton defenders and Veltman or Van Hecke were trying to thread the needle. Someone like Enciso, when he was here, or Ayari, Rutter, Pedro needs to drop back and take that job on.

 

[macbeth]

people keep saying that everton made it a tough game but playing turgid, dark arts football and working to their strengths, which is true, but it’s really unimpressive how we’re incapable of turning in a good performance unless the conditions are absolutely perfect. zero bottle in face of adversity.

 

[Hamilton]

That was abject.

 

[Sussexscots]

Pish. Another wearisome Amex performance. Dull game. Stupid penalty. Lots of huff and puff in the second half but little else. Everton offered next to nothing and didn't have to. Unfortunately, Moyes will keep them up.


Three points from the last five home games.

 

[albionalba]

That was a difficult listen on the radio

It was - but I'm now kind of glad the bad weather stopped me coming down for it. Very frustrating that we can't make any impact on boring teams playing those tactics.

 

[jimhigham]

The Three Wins Hoodoo strikes again. Slate wiped clean for the next mini run.

 

[Balders]

...... and let the scapegoating begin, let's fixate on FH, because it's all his fault, even though that's only the 5th game we've lost in 23.

I find it fascinating that the forum is all sweetness and light following 3 wins on the bounce, but we get a result we don't like, the knives come out!

Everton were excellent today, game plan worked and we'd had got a draw if it wasn't for a hopeful ball over the top causing Joel's brain fart - but of course that's down to FH's coaching ;-)

It's not easy playing against a brick wall when the other side has no intention of attacking - it's the tried and tested way of getting a point or nicking 3 - great teams sometimes struggle to break them down, we're just a good team imho....

Anyway, got to love the PL - Nuno is obviously a cack manager, how can he get NF to 3rd in the PL and then get spanked 5-0 at Muff?

 

[Justice]

Enciso doesn’t want to play for us.

Well he did he just wasn’t selected.