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

[maltaseagull]

Nice to see Mac Allister getting a bit of love after the final whistle.

And giving it too.

 

[Blues Guitarist]

I thought RDZ was going to just kick the screen instead of arguing with the ref? Anyways - it clearly came off his knee onto his hand, and not a penalty.

Earlier in the season Dunks came off his back onto his elbow, that was given. Have the rules changed?

 

[Munchkin]

More positives than negatives.

A sense of disappointment we didn’t beat Liverpool sums up how far we’ve come as a club.

Baleba excellent. Excited about his potential.

If you had offered me 6th place going into the October international break before the season started I would have snapped your hand off!

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

He’s also only 21 so I would say not worrying but more par for the course with the way we play.

Yes and no, i think. Mistakes are part and parcel of being a goalkeeper and being a young player for sure. A goalkeeper's mistakes are nearly always more costly by the nature of the position too so I don't want to come across as being overly critical of him.

However, two in two games is worrying from a first team perspective. We can't afford to keep giving soft goals away(which is obviously true for the rest of the team too). It puts us under a lot of pressure and stops us getting the points and rewards the rest of our play deserves.

If Ver Bruggen is not consistent enough yet then he needs time out of the team. I realise the counter of that is you can't get consistency without playing. In this case I don't think that's true, the kind of mistakes he's made are correctable with training.

It could of course just be a blip that looks worse because it's the start of his time with us so he doesn't have a large body of work to fall back on. I don't know which it is so will go with what the pro's decide. It just concerns me a little at the moment.

 

[US Seagull]

We seem to be making a bad habit of giving up quick fire goals. Not sure what that's about, but we need to knock it off.

 

[hampshirebrightonboy]

Pedro should have definitely put it away, but a mention for the free kick he won us in our half after chasing back over the length of the pitch.
How did Mac not get booked for the foul near the box and Baleba gets booked for a less of a foul just in our half?

Incredible

 

[rogersix]

Pedro should have definitely put it away, but a mention for the free kick he won us in our half after chasing back over the length of the pitch.
How did Mac not get booked for the foul near the box and Baleba gets booked for a less of a foul just in our half?

he's got a medal!

 

[southstandandy]

Disappointing not to beat a little club like Liverpool especially if we want top 4 this season!

 

[giveusfalmerplease]

Btw great to see Welbeck fitness holding up. Longest spell of availability he's had since he joined..with Lallana and Milner both injured and eating a large chunk of the wage bill no doubt at least one of the 30 somethings is earning his salt

 

[Reddleman]

Genuine question, but why ? (every time I think I understand the handball rule it turns out I don’t and yet when I was growing up it all seemed straightforward).

Because the ball deflected off his own leg onto the arm. That means it can’t be a penalty under the laws of the game.

 

[zeemeeuw]

We're seeing almost 5 goals a game, on average, watching Brighton this season ... mental!

(Palace Fans, not so much).

 

[origigull]

We could have won, we could have lost but overall a fair result. On another day we could have been given that pen but its liverpool and what happened last week we would not have been given that today.

 

[Brok]

Strength in depth except Igor was off before the end and Baleba looked dead on his feet.

Lucky it's an international break.

Bollocks to the international break, just when we're getting our act together again.

 

[The Optimist]

Earlier in the season Dunks came off his back onto his elbow, that was given. Have the rules changed?

No. The penalty against Dunk was a joke.

 

[peterward]

Nice to see Mac Allister getting a bit of love after the final whistle.

That's possible the worst I've seen him play at the Amex.

Did coming back and playing against us get to him. He's much better than today's performance

 

[trueblue]

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We seem to be making a bad habit of giving up quick fire goals. Not sure what that's about, but we need to knock it off.

Possibly something that happens when you’ve got a lot of inexperienced players.

 

[chrisg]

Hope Pedro is not the new Maupay. That's the third sitter from 6 yards he's missed in 8 games. However with 100% penalty record so far can't be too critical yet

Yep. Open play not his style it seems

 

[London Irish]

Boy doesn't that game sum up the extremes of our football. Made enough rank mistakes to lose two games of football yet we outclassed an in form Liverpool team in the first half. Delighted with a point - I want to see that Gross Baleba midfield stuck with now, feck rotation

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Because the ball deflected off his own leg onto the arm. That means it can’t be a penalty under the laws of the game.

Ok, fair enough.

 

[nicko31]

Fair result, very entertaining