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

[Krafty]

Another game, another poor defensive performance and this surely needs to be addressed now?
We should be winning, but our incompetence at the back has costed us yet again - Liverpool have had very few chances.
Hopefully we can comeback with a 3-2 win but, and we keep saying this, the defence hasn't done well.

 

[Seagull58]

Think so. It was a pen, but we wouldn’t have got it we’re the roles reversed

Cast iron penalty, I'm afraid. That's always going to be given, whoever it is.

 

[Littlemo]

We’ve played pretty well but I’m not sure I agree we were totally in control, they had enough of the ball and it’s been pretty equal so far, a bit of a fight in midfield. It’s not yet back to the standard of some of our other performances.

Hopefully come out stronger in the second half as we often do.

 

[shoreham by splash97]

was last season better?

 

[London Irish]

Possibly. I do think it was a pen but if we were playing at Anfield, there is not a chance it would have been given. Fact.

I honestly thought the ref was just about to give a pen for the first challenge and then the second one made his job very easy

 

[Weststander]

We don't seem to be capable of doing basic stuff at the moment. Really poor game management.

Liverpool two shots on target, two goals.

Thank God Steele didn’t play. He’d have got the blame for not saving the first.

 

[Mancgull]

Our game management is so bad, five minutes to half time and Dunk decides to play a ball straight in centre midfield and we lose a goal. Totally brainless.

Sometimes you just need to punt it into the channels. Not often of course but there is a time.

 

[dadams2k11]

Can't keep playing like this, something needs to change as we keep conceding with shit errors at the back.

How many times have we lost the ball because we are firing the pass into Midfield and Liverpool have capitalised.

So frustrating.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Completely controlled the half.
Self destructed.
Anybody know why Dunk takes the free kicks now ? Bizarre.

 

[Reddleman]

I love RDZ and his football but he needs to instil game management into the team. We have just conceded a soft equaliser, there’s a minute till half time and we concede again getting caught on the edge of our box. That’s not brave that’s just stupid.

 

[Indy]

That wasn't a dodgy pen - I'd have been fuming if it wasn't given down our end

Yeah I posted it tongue in cheek, obviously grabbed his shirt. Although how many times are shirts grabbed in games and nothing from the ref.

 

[Mustafa II]

Frustrating end to the first half. We've been the better side, putting aside the two shambolic defensive blunders that resulted in their goals.

Lots of positives in the first half, from an attacking point of view anyway. Joao Pedro and Adringa looking real tricky attacking threats, Adringa with brilliant vision for his goal.

Think Baleba is going to be brilliant. He looks very raw and reminds me of how Bissouma looked before we seasoned him. Clearly got the skill.

Ferguson seems to be struggling today, their defence have put him out of the game.

Can see there being more goals in this fixture. We're playing well. We can do this.

 

[Bodian]

It was two pens and both would have been given by VAR no matter who they were against.

It looked to me as though the ref was indicating that he was awarding the penalty for the second tackle - but surely it was for Gross' shirt-pull. Maybe that's why he didn't book him?

 

[Normandy seagull]

You fecking donkeys- car crash defending again. So predictable- got lucky a few times but it was obvious they would score from a mistake or 2. Getting a massive problem now.

 

[BLOCK F]

If that was steele in goal there would be hell on in this thread.

And if Webbo had been there , he would be being cursed , hanged, drawn and quartered!

 

[SeagullsoverLondon]

Annoying because we have bossed this game, and been pickpocketed through our own stupidity

 

[Si Gull]

Thank God Steele didn’t play. He’d have got the blame for not saving the first.

Was going to say the same but didn't want to be too negative

 

[BevBHA]

Worryingly, Liverpool have been nowhere near their best. In fact, they’ve been quite poor

 

[Bodian]

Cast iron penalty, I'm afraid. That's always going to be given, whoever it is.

Unless we're playing Spurs of course - when defenders can pull shirts without any punishment....

 

[AlexBH]

Very frustrating, we were on top and ahead against a below par Liverpool and two poor bits of defending has given them the lead against the run of play.