[Albion] Brighton & Hove Albion vs Sheffield United *** Official Match Thread ***

[The Fits]

Nothing to do with De Zerbi is it, he set us up well. You don't take a red card on a needless challenge when we're only 1 up, Dahoud and only Dahoud put us in that position

It's football. These things happen. It was a mistimed tackle.
We should have been well ahead by that point.

 

[peterward]

And there it is, 1 point at home to one of the worst teams in PL history and 3 points from Fulham, Everton and Sheff Utd is just crap.

We love the plaudits for RDZ and the club but he definitely deserves some criticism at the moment. Today was incredibly poor but oh so predictable.

Sheffield United parked the bus and literally did nothing in first 45 except cling on and hoof it away.

Not 1 point on the road before today, and you can see why Newcastle put 8 past them.

But turn up at the Amex against a team allegedly fighting for Europe again and it was just entirely predictable.

As we've seen this pattern so many times. Totally dominate, don't take chances or over complicate in final 1/3 to be hit with sucker punch.

Sheffield United 1 shot on target 1 goal.

We've come a long way, and playing well against top teams is great, but there can be no excuses for this consistent pattern of failing to beat shit teams at home in games we absolutely dominate.

 

[Albion my Albion]

Does anyone actually care

The ladies do.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Frustrating.

 

[HeaviestTed]

I’m not upset with RDZ, you can’t win them all and we were a man down, whatever.

The thing is about this “exhaustion” stuff - it’s a game of football, they get enough rest - it’s nonsense, it is like when they roll about on the floor pretending to be hurt - they should just get the f*** on with it. They are paid enough for gods sake.

 

[aolstudios]

Disagree . We looked spent

Absolutely. & could've easily been 3 up before then with more urgency at 1.0. The amount of 1 hour 1.0 thrashings we dish out before caving in needs to be dealt with

 

[brighton_tom]

Think some are forgetting what an advantage an extra man is, game completely changed after the red. Impossible to blame RDZ or others for that.

 

[Mustafa II]

Stop making so many changes. Why can't they play 2 games a week when they are Professional Athletes.

Had to stop reading your comment at the first sentence.

Professional athleticism is exactly that. It is well understood that professional footballers will see their levels of performance decline if they are not allowed sufficient recovery periods, especially taking into account international travel.

 

[SI 4 BHA]

Absolutely this.

We still had the best 3 attacking players on the pitch but never got the ball to them. Sheffield were hopeless, playing with 10 should have just evened it up, but we went to pieces.

 

[Whitechapel]

Careful!

You might get called entitled by someone who knows better.

The arrogance to see a comment that said ‘some’ and assume it simply has to be about you says a lot more about you then it does about anything else.

 

[Albion my Albion]

Sheffield United parked the bus and literally did nothing in first 45 except cling on and hoof it away.

Not 1 point on the road before today, and you can see why Newcastle put 8 past them.

But turn up at the Amex against a team allegedly fighting for Europe again and it was just entirely predictable.

As we've seen this pattern so many times. Totally dominate, don't take chances or over complicate in final 1/3 to be hit with sucker punch.

Sheffield United 1 shot on target 1 goal.

We've come a long way, and playing well against top teams is great, but there can be no excuses for this consistent pattern of failing to beat shit teams at home in games we absolutely dominate.

I believe that our opponents figure to weather the dominating storm that the Albion bring on and then put in a sneaker of a goal. Especially after your opponent goes down to 10 men.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

This squad rotation thing...we seem to be the worst team off for injuries and our players look knackered. Is it working?!

I guess it is, we probably lose otherwise with our injuries and knackered players. At least the rotation is getting minutes in everyone's legs

 

[Seagull58]

Disagree . We looked spent

There was no evidence of that until the red. We were comfortable and about to bring on Veltman and Baleba to stay solid.

 

[dwayne]

We've come a long way, and playing well against top teams is great, but there can be no excuses for this consistent pattern of failing to beat shit teams at home in games we absolutely dominate.

We've won 3 games at home this season. Bmuff, Luton and castle. 2 of those against shite teams so not sure this is the problem.

 

[7dialssouthpaw]

I thought their goal may have been offside, specifically the armpit of the no.10 who ran in behind Webster

 

[Originunknown]

It's football. These things happen. It was a mistimed tackle.
We should have been well ahead by that point.

I meant to quote the others who are trying to apportion blame on RDZ for that but train was too packed to hit the buttons.. 11 men and we should have finished the job there, very disappointing as it wasn't a challenge he needed to make and frankly should have known far better.

 

[Krafty]

Webster is gone by next summer, mark my words.

 

[maltaseagull]

Absolutely this.

I disagree. We had every right to expect that line up to win the game after a brilliant start and first 20 minutes.

Appreciate that we have some key injuries and some poor players playing three games in 8 days but that was a pathetic 2nd half.
I am not questioning RDZ but am very concerned about that performance.

 

[slimes]

2 weeks break and rest..
I've moved on

Thought bonuenette played well before the yellow and subsequent substitution

 

[brighton_tom]

We still had the best 3 attacking players on the pitch but never got the ball to them. Sheffield were hopeless, playing with 10 should have just evened it up, but we went to pieces.

Sheff United also werent playing Ajax 3 days ago. Going to pieces = tired players.