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

[Bridcutt]

Jesus Christ the expectations of some of our fans has become astronomically high.

We're not quite up there with Man City yet...

It's not that? We clearly could have and did play so much better. West Ham were absolutely awful and it shows

 

[hart's shirt]

68% possession, 20 shots, 9 on target, 4 goals.

We're back.

 

[Eeyore]

In times past we would have been hoping for Tottenham to have beaten Wolves...

 

[oldboyroy]

THAT performance tells me we really are the real deal

 

[Swansman]

Warren was saying Ferguson was as good as MOM. Did he have a really good game ?

He was great but MOM... no. Have to give that to Solly, the only one performing for the entire game (him being subbed quite late aside)

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

We won't have many easier halves than that but need to work out a way through the massed ranks of the West Ham defence.

Apart from the second half!

 

[Bodian]

Warren was saying Ferguson was as good as MOM. Did he have a really good game ?

Shooting a bit awry - but he was one of the main reasons their defence was being pulled out of shape so often.

 

[GingerBeerMan]

Warren was saying Ferguson was as good as MOM. Did he have a really good game ?

Played well, but probably not MOTM. He's a quality forward, so impressed with him every time he plays, he's just what we've needed since Murray left.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Fantastico.......

 

[Bodian]

He was great but MOM... no. Have to give that to Solly, the only one performing for the entire game (him being subbed quite late aside)

76 minutes....

 

[Mustafa II]

Not a bad second half that.

In all seriousness, we were brilliant. First half we were good, second half we were leagues apart.

So confident and impressive, against an admittedly very poor WHU.

We have three incredibly exciting statlets in Enciso, Sarmiento and Buonanotte... Definitely a glimmer of things to come from them.

And Ferguson, f*** me, what a player at just 18.

Exciting times.

 

[Yoda]

The only gutting thing was I was hoping for either Sarmiento, Enciso or Buonanotte to score their first PL goal for the club

 

[fruitnveg]

Warren was saying Ferguson was as good as MOM. Did he have a really good game ?

Cannot think of a fault in his game today. Strong, busy and unselfish with flashes of top level skill.

 

[Zeberdi]

Thank you all for the company - very relieved after the last few league games that we haven’t lost the season’s momentum - a great afternoon of football and thrilled at the growing young talent in the squad

 

[Swansman]

Great win.
First half was a bit dire but second half made up for it. David Moyes decision to not have a midfield in second half helped a lot tbf, but still great.

 

[jcdenton08]

Frustrating. We play nice football always, but we really do need to get more shots away. It becomes endemic looking for one more pass, and suddenly nobody is taking responsibility.

West Ham have been absolutely shocking yet still have had some clear cut chances, which is a worry. We really need to kill this game early on in the half.

First half thoughts above.

Absolutely superb second half - we did everything right! More urgency, more shots (19 second half efforts compared to 4 in the first half, one of which was the penalty).

Taking nothing away from what was a supreme second half performance, I must say that’s probably the poorest team I’ve ever seen us play in the PL era. They were absolutely hopeless and we were elite in that second half.

Superb scenes.

Oh, and my BOY scored to add a cherry on top.

 

[AlbionBro]

Well, it was due, the three M's make us purr, Mac, March, Mitoma.

Can't see anyone else making it that easy this year, but we grasped that opportunity and made them suffer big style.

 

[Weststander]

Johnson had a mare. Even when he got the ball he invariably passed it to an Albion player.

One of many funny West Ham anecdotes, about 20 mins to go and 3-0 down, they spent 5 minutes in passing triangles with the Cat Torturer. 70 yards from our goal.

Literally pummelled to a standstill by Caicedo, MacA, Ferguson and Gross.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Local radio god tier ... 'a rare win for Graham Potter's Chelsea'

 

[jcdenton08]

Johnson had a mare. Even when he got the ball he invariably passed it to an Albion player.

One of the worst individual opposition performances I’ve seen at the Amex, alongside Cucurella for Chelsea earlier this season. The guy didn’t look professional level, let alone PL. It was actually embarrassing at times.

My favourite bit was when Mitoma got the ball in the second half on the half way line. Literally stopped, looked at him and then just ran down his outside, almost leading to a goal. It was like playground defending.