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

[mrjon1976]

Mass brawl in North stand after the game

Given what we saw today im guessing 23 punches were thrown but only 1 connected

 

[Is it PotG?]

Well it started badly, it tailed off a little in the middle & the less said about the end the better! But apart from that, excellent!

© Blackadder

 

[jimhigham]

After a period of sober reflection… I’m still really bloody cheesed off.

 

[mrjon1976]

Pretty poor from start to finish really. Everton by a country mile the worse team I have seen at the Amex in many a year......but counts for nothing when we move the ball forward at the pace of a sloth and adopt the sideways tactics of a crab.
Think the players felt like they thought they would stroll past Everton today. Attitude was wrong for me

 

[SkirlieWirlie]

Veltman both pulled back and tripped before he foolishly handles it. We'd probably have won without that decision as surely Everton wouldn't have tried to anti football their way to a draw?

They were time wasting before the penalty.

 

[brighton_tom]

We come out and praise the team when doing well. What's the harm in stating the obvious. Do you not think that was woeful? How many saves did Pickford make.
You don't always need to be defending the team fella. They were shockingly bad. How many times did the crowd get on their feet. It was a crap performance, simple as. I'm not sure I've ever seen us play a match where the opposition keeper had not been made to work.
Let's not talk set pieces either...
Apologise for stating the obvious... it was crap.

I wasn’t defending them, I said it wasn’t good today. But that doesn’t change that some of comments are strangely exaggerated. Always the way.

 

[Hometownglory]

Pretty poor from start to finish really. Everton by a country mile the worse team I have seen at the Amex in many a year......but counts for nothing when we move the ball forward at the pace of a sloth and adopt the sideways tactics of a crab.
Think the players felt like they thought they would stroll past Everton today. Attitude was wrong for me

Think Fab felt like that too. Hence not starting his best team available.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Why did Everton see out the last 10 plus mins with only 10 players on the pitch? They only used 4 subs, did I miss something?

They ran out of sub windows

 

[BN41Albion]

Not really, it’s an opinion

i came away totally deflated
The result was clear when they won the penalty, it was game over, I should have gone home then.

i do actually miss the Albion of old in the lower leagues to an extent, promotion, relegation, the drama
Games like these, bore me, the VAR, the low block, the entitlement….

Possibly we reached our ceiling the night we beat Marseille at home…..


having said that, it’s very Brighton to beat Forest and Chelsea….

Just Fkn infuriating

Opinions can still be an overreaction?
I was deflated too, still annoyed now, but FH has been in the job half a season, we're 9th and had some very good results amongst some shitty ones. There's no need to throw all the toys out of the pram about him just yet ffs

 

[SkirlieWirlie]

I wouldn't want to play for the german prick either!

 

[Ike and Tina Burner]

Mass brawl in North stand after the game

Nothing happened really, I was right next to it. Some bloke had accidentally hit someone's kid in the head or something. The dad and Grandad of the kid were getting very aggro at the bloke but then the stewards broke it up. No punches, just some shoving and grabbing.

 

[SkirlieWirlie]

We are allowed to be annoyed and frustrated ffs.

As the cock behind me at old trafford last week said after they were awarded the penalty and I confronted him for repeatedly calling Verbruggen a c*** , Ayari a c*** and every other Brighton player a c*** preceding the penalty for every mistake made.

F*** me, I'm thankful I don't live my life through the lense some on here do.

 

[Bodian]

Veltman both pulled back and tripped before he foolishly handles it. We'd probably have won without that decision as surely Everton wouldn't have tried to anti football their way to a draw?

Yes, they would.

Not good today, but some of the reactions on here are so over the top. The previous 5 good results/performances to today are conveniently forgotten when it comes to all this negative analysis.

It's the regularity of this type of performance. And also the 'we were great....why are we then so poor?'

The only criticism I do have of the club is this: Every manager new to the PL comes across this, and seemingly has to learn the hard way that no matter how good their team’s passing game, a determined low block is insanely difficult to beat.

Why the hell aren’t the club employing someone whose job it is to ensure that each time a new manager comes in, they’re told straight out, first day on the job, that however good we are, we’re not going to beat a low block with slow determined build-up, and remind them of this when games against Everton and other opponents who play the same way fall due.

The only way to play against a low block in the PL is to invite the opposition forward and then counter at pace. Have them out of position up the pitch and chasing back toward their own goal. Once they’ve set themselves in their 6-4-0, we’re on a hiding to nothing even if we played all week.

I am bored of each new manager being left to work it out for themselves, this is a failure at club level, not a failure of FH personally, he’s been left to suss it out for himself, and he shouldn’t have been.

I was thinking this - and surely this is where someone like Dunk should be advising?

 

[A1X]

Who won?

Mr Rogers in a blood-stained sweater

 

[GT49er]

Potter had to learn to overcome this,

Did he? When did that happen?

RDZ had to learn to overcome this,

Did he manage it either? When?

and now Hürzeler will have to learn to overcome this.
Every time we change manager and select someone without Premier League experience, we accept that they’re going to come up against this as a style of play, and that it will take them time to learn to overcome it.

Sadly, we don't need to change the manager to experience this level of frustration!

I see it’s all gone handbags after the final whistle, I’m afraid FH and team are going to have to learn to battle this without losing their tempers.

With OR without would do!

 

[Jackthelad]

Everton are a horrendous team to watch! They were highly organised at the back today and full of dirty tricks! They absolutely suck the life out of the game.

 

[oneillco]

Two things:

1. constantly dinking balls into the area was clealry a waste of time today as Everton deployed a land of the giants back 6. Anyone who could dribble should have been running directly at their defence, and

2. do they actually practice set-pieces at Lancing?

 

[drew]

Tepid start to the game, tepid response to the goal and pretty much tepid everything else.

 

[London Irish]

Post of the thread.

We really can’t play that much football with Everton players dropping to the ground every few minutes. It’s anti-football and it can be an incredibly successful tactic. Thank Tony we don’t EVER play it.

Really? I’d say our players hitting the deck way too monotonously easy has been one of the things that has detracted from the ok-ish results this season. And it’s definitely got worse this season

 

[LamieRobertson]

I'm not sure they're quite at peak Emeri/VIlla levels but its mightily close

Good point