[Albion] Brighton & Hove Albion vs Wolverhampton Wanderers *** Official Match Thread ***

[Han Solo]

This Pond is apparently named Alfie. Useless parents.

 

[Seagull58]

This would never have worked with undav !!

I'm not sure if this is fergies game either tbh.

Fergie has always been willing to drop into midfield and link up play. He was nowhere near the penalty area when Fernandino tried to slice his achilles all that time ago.

 

[GT49er]

Yeah like I've mentioned in the thread about Evan, we're using our striker a lot different now than before. Rather than waiting for the team to move up and then find the best space in the penalty box to make the most of our possession, our striker is now supposed to start off from central midfield area and get the ball when running towards their goal. Something he as a big lad probably haven't done too much in his youth football days.

On the other hand, if you've got a natural goal-scorer, big, strong, good at leading the line, why not adapt the play to get the best out of one your (potentially) best assets?

 

[Seagull58]

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Stripes On The Brain…..A Double-Header – Wolves Heroes

Memories Of Tackling The Other Albion Look quickly at the newspaper page on the right and it appears to be previewing a Wolves visit to The Hawthorns, especially as it comes from the Argus. But it relates instead to a trip to Brighton in the third round of the League Cup in the autumn of 1969...

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We lost 3-2, rather unluckily I thought at the time.

 

[GT49er]

Jesus completely forgot about this fixture.

Not surprising - more likely Maccabi Tel Aviv, wasn't he?

 

[Han Solo]

On the other hand, if you've got a natural goal-scorer, big, strong, good at leading the line, why not adapt the play to get the best out of one your (potentially) best assets?

I think we kind of did last season, but its really difficult to play like that these days. You have to complicate things a little for your no 9 to get any sort of space or he'll just disappear as teams are very good at defensive transitions these days. It just becomes too crowded and too fine margins to look for the perfect cross or perfect cutback pass. You kind of wanted players to be moving, not to be stationary in the box.

 

[justcasty]

Extremely excited to see Ferguson get 60+ minutes today

 

[Easy 10]

10 changes for Wolves then. Their fans on twitter are not impressed, and think they're going to get beasted.

 

[WATFORD zero]

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Stripes On The Brain…..A Double-Header – Wolves Heroes

Memories Of Tackling The Other Albion Look quickly at the newspaper page on the right and it appears to be previewing a Wolves visit to The Hawthorns, especially as it comes from the Argus. But it relates instead to a trip to Brighton in the third round of the League Cup in the autumn of 1969...

www.wolvesheroes.com

I have a really poor memory for individual matches (other than the obvious ones), but I remember this as if it was yesterday

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

10 changes for Wolves then. Their fans on twitter are not impressed, and think they're going to get beasted.

I bloody hope so.

 

[jcdenton08]

I think we kind of did last season, but its really difficult to play like that these days. You have to complicate things a little for your no 9 to get any sort of space or he'll just disappear as teams are very good at defensive transitions these days. It just becomes too crowded and too fine margins to look for the perfect cross or perfect cutback pass. You kind of wanted players to be moving, not to be stationary in the box.

This is the big reason why Welbeck is a 6-7 a season man. His link up play is superb - really good. The movement and dropping deep to allow the wingers to overload is top level. But his movement in the box is just so basic. He never seems to deviate his runs, he just sort of stands there. From what I’ve seen of Ferguson so far, his movement in the box is much more threatening, but he can’t do what Welbeck does in holding the ball up and bringing other players forward

 

[The Wookiee]

Strong line up - all will play Premier league matches this season - shows the strength in depth we now have and shows we are taking this competition seriously by not playing a load of PL2 players - big from me

 

[GT49er]

I think we kind of did last season, but its really difficult to play like that these days. You have to complicate things a little for your no 9 to get any sort of space or he'll just disappear as teams are very good at defensive transitions these days. It just becomes too crowded and too fine margins to look for the perfect cross or perfect cutback pass. You kind of wanted players to be moving, not to be stationary in the box.

Did we? Really? I thought it was more switching from wing to wing - or back to the CB or GK, with the aim of eventually walking the ball into the net.

 

[Hendrax]

A goal, any sort of goal from Evan would be great. I think he really needs the boost to his confidence.

 

[Seagull58]

I have a really poor memory for individual matches (other than the obvious ones), but I remember this as if it was yesterday

I remember one chance where the ball was lifted over the keeper and bounced over the bar. Was it John Richards?

 

[doogie004]

Steele gone down tunnel early ?
Rolled ankle in warm up that’s what it looked like

 

[Seagull58]

How on earth are we going to get away with playing Igor AND Julio? Don't the officials count the players any more?

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Big match for Moder.

Hope he smashes it.

 

[jcdenton08]

Big match for Moder.

Hope he smashes it.

He’s a bit of a Jonah though isn’t he? His win/loss record for us was posted a while back and it wasn’t pretty reading - even in games where he played well. And he has Gilmour levels of finishing.

Bloody quick though, deceptively so.

 

[oldboyroy]

No excuses tonight with that line up.