[Albion] Brighton & Hove Albion vs Nottingham Forest *** Official Match Thread ***

[doogie004]

What a brilliant post.

Potter is our best manager ever (by a margin) and is only equaled or matched by Pep and Klopp. If you can’t recognise that, you really need a lot of help with your football analysis.

But he is gone. He is dead to us.

There is no way in the world that Bloom could have got us a manager on Potter’s level. It’s just not possible. But, what we do have in De Zerbi is astonishing potential. It’s time for the club to back him in the transfer market this winter. We are still stuffed full of players who are wonderful at passing, who have outstanding tactical awareness but can’t hit a barn with a banjo when shooting (March & Lallana etc).

It’s time for the club to invest in some proper goal scorers in January. Yes, I don’t want to spend more than £20m on a player but we simply need to replenish our squad with players who know how to score. Currently, it’s only Trossard who seems to have the ability to get a shot on target. It’s the players fault and this needs to change!

Not the players fault it’s blooms for not reinvesting !

 

[Reddleman]

Ok, can you buy the player we need?

Will your investment allow it?

Goodness me the rant at Tony Bloom, how much should he spend? And what will you contribute?

Assuming the poster goes to games, spends money at the catering, buys club merchandise then he is investing. He/she is totally entitled to the opinion that after receiving £130/140 million this calendar year in transfers we are allowed to question our lack of striker options.

We are ten games in and our strikers haven’t scored a single league goal. Our top scorer from the last three seasons was a top end championship signing. I have no doubts at all that had we signed similar in the summer they would have managed at least one goal given the chances we create.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Comments like this are ridiculous, I’m sure

it guarantees more goals than our current strikers have managed. Literally no goals in ten games.

I can't believe people still think it's the strikers that are the problem.

You always assume that the chances we make will fall to this striker, who will then always convert them.

I think Welbeck had two chances yesterday.
Neither of them clear cut.

If you want to play with an out and out striker, that the rest of the team are working to make chances for, then you have to change the way we play.
It isn't as simple as just sign a striker and then we can suddenly beat a low block.
In fact it's probably less likely.

 

[dazzer6666]

I can't believe people still think it's the strikers that are the problem.

You always assume that the chances we make will fall to this striker, who will then always convert them.

I think Welbeck had two chances yesterday.
Neither of them clear cut.

If you want to play with an out and out striker, that the rest of the team are working to make chances for, then you have to change the way we play.
It isn't as simple as just sign a striker and then we can suddenly beat a low block.
In fact it's probably less likely.

Yep…….very few clear cut chances are falling to Welbeck atm. Best ones yesterday fell to Veltman, Webster and Groß. The first two weren’t gilt-edged either. Our xg from the number of shots we had was actually low - like or loathe the xg stat, this at least shows we created not much in the way of really good chances - so having a new striker wouldn’t necessarily change the outcome. The approach play and final ball (think about the 2-3 times March did well getting into the box but then fluffed his final pass or took the wrong option for example) is where the work is needed IMO.

 

[Weststander]

It's also worth noting that our problem is with creating presentable chances for our striker,

Pretty sure most of our xg was attributed to pull backs for our midfileders/centrebacks to blaze over the bar/hit the keeper.

No point having a 50* goal a season striker if he doesn't get the opportunities presented to him.

*Haaland has iincreased the going rate of the fantasy striker.

But several corners and crosses pumped into the 6 yard box, some inviting a finish.

 

[RandyWanger]

Wonder if we're allowed to say that we need a striker yet?

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

The teams below us now essentially have two games in hand and, on current form, we are unlikely to get anything from Wolves away.

Villa at home could be quite a pressurised game. We are likely to need to average a point a game by then and they may have a new manager.

It was quite funny watching a side we once begged for a pre-season friendly celebrating winning a throw-in against us.

Best of it was they never even won the throw in.

 

[maltaseagull]

Comments like this are ridiculous, I’m sure

it guarantees more goals than our current strikers have managed. Literally no goals in ten games.

But does it?

There were several times yesterday when the final ball was poor. Agreed they all missed sitters but you cannot judge Undav by the paltry amount of time on the pitch. I think we should see what happens in January. Perhaps we will go for a proven striker.


Who will then get injured and be out for the rest of the season !!

 

[Thunder Bolt]

If Potter hadn’t of gone- we’d have won that game fact

I can remember Brighton not beating Norwich 3 times under Potter. We couldn't beat Burnley either, both teams in the relegation zone.
Brighton play better against the top teams.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

But several corners and crosses pumped into the 6 yard box, some inviting a finish.

The goals from corner stat is often quoted on here.
I'd wager of that small percentage, a high ratio are scored by defenders not strikers.

 

[dazzer6666]

I can remember Brighton not beating Norwich 3 times under Potter. We couldn't beat Burnley either, both teams in the relegation zone.
Brighton play better against the top teams.

Yep - we saw DOZENS of performances like last night under Potter, including one against Fulham just before he left

 

[Thunder Bolt]

My FB memories have just reminded me, we lost to Yeovil 9 years ago today.

 

[LamieRobertson]

If Potter hadn’t of gone- we’d have won that game fact

It’s not a fact at all ..it’s a guess lol…We’ve struggled against lower teams before….for example failed to beat Norwich twice last year lol

 

[Justice]

Yep - we saw DOZENS of performances like last night under Potter, including one against Fulham just before he left

Interesting that now Potter has a striker that scores from that one chance or makes something happen for himself he’s winning every game. Utter nonsense that a decent striker wouldn’t make any difference.
The Aubameyang goal against Palace we could have that chance ten times Maupay/Welbeck aren’t finishing it and that has been our problem.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Interesting that now Potter has a striker that scores from that one chance or makes something happen for himself he’s winning every game. Utter nonsense that a decent striker wouldn’t make any difference.
The Aubameyang goal against Palace we could have that chance ten times Maupay/Welbeck aren’t finishing it and that has been our problem.

It's interesting that now Potter is managing a squad that cost approximately £1bn and individually earn over £150k pw each, that he's winning more games?
Is that really interesting?

 

[jessiejames]

Yeah, really, did you even watch the game ? It was like watching paint dry, all huff and no puff…..just like under potter last season

Yes i did, thought some of the passing and movement was outstanding yes sometimes it was slow but then again is Brighton and Hove Albion Not Your Man City's Liverpool's Arsenal's

 

[Icy Gull]

Wonder if we're allowed to say that we need a striker yet?

Only if you can name one that won’t break our wage structure, has a record at this level and costs 30 million or less

“not my job” won’t cut it

 

[Icy Gull]

Yes i did, thought some of the passing and movement was outstanding yes sometimes it was slow but then again is Brighton and Hove Albion Not Your Man City's Liverpool's Arsenal's

There were moments in the first half where our passing and movement were as good as I have ever seen from an Albion team. The movement and passing for Solly’s f*** up when through on goal with two players waiting for the ball being one of them.

 

[dazzer6666]

Interesting that now Potter has a striker that scores from that one chance or makes something happen for himself he’s winning every game. Utter nonsense that a decent striker wouldn’t make any difference.
The Aubameyang goal against Palace we could have that chance ten times Maupay/Welbeck aren’t finishing it and that has been our problem.

Memo to Tony - sign a 33 year old on nearly 200k per week. That'll sort it.

 

[Icy Gull]

Memo to Tony - sign a 33 year old with history of dick head behaviour on nearly 200k per week. That'll sort it.

Corrected for you