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

[loco61]

much better than Saturday..you should travel ...good performance so far

 

[origigull]

A couple of half chances in the 1st half for Brighton but I think the first 3 attacks we were let down by again being offside.

 

[maltaseagull]

Are you watching a different game to me?

They always come out when we are losing.

CH Tactics next. Should really have a go at top 6 teams..............

We tried that before Liverpool and Chelsea 1-5 & 0-4

I agree that we aren't playing too badly.

 

[stss30]

We've defended quite well, but our ball retention is quite frankly embarrassing, you can't just keep kicking the ball back to them, unsurprising that they eventually broke through.

 

[loco61]

this is a different game to Saturday ..move on! we were doing very well and are only one Nil down .. can still ibe n this if we believe … not in it for sure if we dont!

 

[spence]

No gameplan other than to defend for the total 90. How many times does that work?

Weak links have been the wingers, March and Ali J lose the ball too easily. Could AK have done more to block the cross. Been hard on Stephens of late but he’s done ok this evening

Thought Knocky was poor for there goal. You can see why Hughton prefers March to keep things tighter.

 

[loco61]

Thought Knocky was poor for there goal. You can see why Hughton prefers March to keep things tighter.

agree Knocky was poor for the goal and Solly had down well defending … but we aren't out of this yet!

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Losing faith in AJ coming good

Seems to do the odd thing, like the deep cross to March but then he is careless for the vast majority of the time

Hopefully next season, just looks out of his depth.


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[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Thought Knocky was poor for there goal. You can see why Hughton prefers March to keep things tighter.

Their

 

[jimhigham]

Exactly. Same at Spurs v Palace. Spurs have 14 shots to Palace's 2, only a matter of time there too.

...but Palace have yet to get their penalty.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Why was Knockaert left isolated one on one against Hudson Odoi? Where was Bong?

Exactly


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[BRIGHT ON Q]

We've defended quite well, but our ball retention is quite frankly embarrassing, you can't just keep kicking the ball back to them, unsurprising that they eventually broke through.

That is our no 1 problem, been like it all season , we rarely string 3 passes together before it all breaks down.

 

[BensGrandad]

This is down to CH and team selection making the cup a priority

 

[Weststander]

Seems to do the odd thing, like the deep cross to March but then he is careless for the vast majority of the time

Hopefully next season, just looks out of his depth.


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It might take a few seasons before he has the strength and where-with-all to function in PL. We need to be patient with AJ.

 

[PoG]

Is AJ capable of retaining the ball? Actually can anyone in the squad?

 

[PoG]

We need to be patient with AJ.

Like we were with big Jurgs?

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

It might take a few seasons before he has the strength and where-with-all to function in PL. We need to be patient with AJ.

That appears to be the problem with our signings, with the exception of Propper and Gross they have all been ‘work in progress’.


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[Weststander]

Like we were with big Jurgs?

CH was, proven right, with Locadia banging in PL winners.

 

[Billy the Fish]

We've defended quite well, but our ball retention is quite frankly embarrassing, you can't just keep kicking the ball back to them, unsurprising that they eventually broke through.

This is the story of the last two seasons. Only Bissouma and Andone look remotely like hanging onto the ball tonight. Wingers have been particularly wasteful

 

[Weststander]

That appears to be the problem with our signings, with the exception of Propper and Gross they have all been ‘work in progress’.


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Plus Ryan, Bernardo and Montoya?