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

[nickbrighton]

what a very strange game of football that was. Sitting here thinking WTF have I just watched. That first half was just madness. the second half calmed down but I'm left really a bit confused as to what was happening in that first 45. Were we bad?Chelsea brilliant? were both teams on drugs? I really dont know. One best forgotten I feel(at least by me)

 

[maltaseagull]

Have you been watching the game on a live stream ? Have you seen the defensive line ?

I watched it on TV. Was there any defense at all?
Apart from Dunk' and Webster's last gasp blocks our defence was non existent .

 

[Guinness Boy]

Sign a quality CB and he is going to expect to be starting, who are we dropping?

Dunk and we’re selling Webster if anyone will have the useless sack.

 

[jcdenton08]

I still can’t get past the Webster brain fart, it’s quite irrelevant what he did afterwards because it was that mistake which did the real damage.
He makes a major mistake in EVERY match, just sometimes he gets away with it.
As a signing he’s up there with some of our worst in terms value for money.

Again, respectfully this is horseshit. He’s not the best player in the world but we’ve had good use out of him over the seasons as we have steadily improved the squad.

I can think of loads of players who have proven to be worse value for money, Alireza, Locadia, Elvis Manu…

 

[Bozza]

I'm far more worried that we cannot (again!) seem to take our chances against Ipswich and Forest, which would have made today's result a little less meaningful.

Exactly - do the business in those two home games, and we'd be sitting above the Champions League dotted line right now.

 

[jcdenton08]

Rubbish, £200m was to IMPROVE our squad and replace a couple that left last season. And if a c£40m player cannot go straight into our team then why the f*** are we buying them? Rather buy a £20m player for the future than a £40m player!

Which £40m players are you referring to?

 

[London Irish]

Thought we were desperately poor today. Carved up at will, gifted two goals by a terrible player and utterly inert in the second half. Thing is I don’t think Chelsea are all that, if we’d have put them under any pressure they definitely had the ability to crumble, we just did it first and spectacularly. Really raises a lot of questions an awful display like that. Expensive signings not performing and a manager with zero grip of the game, not good

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

We are dreadful, what are they doing in training.

 

[jcdenton08]

Thought we were desperately poor today. Carved up at will, gifted two goals by a terrible player and utterly inert in the second half. Thing is I don’t think Chelsea are all that, if we’d have put them under any pressure they definitely had the ability to crumble, we just did it first and spectacularly. Really raises a lot of questions an awful display like that. Expensive signings not performing and a manager with zero grip of the game, not good

They may not be all that, but they’re unbeaten now in 21 PL games

 

[Guinness Boy]

Wieffer is absolutely shite. Awful against Everton, rubbish when he came on against Wolves, run around for the equaliser against Forest and abysmal today. He’s absolutely miles off being what we need.

Signings on paper are different to signings on grass. Shock for some on NSC. Of the new players so far Minteh has no touch or decision making, Weiffer is a headless chicken, Kadioglu looks exactly like a player who has five different positions instead of one, O’Riley is half dead and Gruder is a ghost.

That just leaves Rutter, the one I was most worried about, who has been improving but is still no Pedro.

I know we need to give them time and FH too, but the starting base is a lot lower than I’d hoped.

 

[birthofanorange]

Exactly - do the business in those two home games, and we'd be sitting above the Champions League dotted line right now.

Indeed, but had we done so, we wouldn't be 'Brighton', would we?
My solace lies in the utmost belief that we have become an established PL team, and I don't enter the season with fears of relegation - something I genuinely thought I would have, every year.
It's all good...could be better....could be far worse.

 

[Bozza]

They may not be all that, but they’re unbeaten now in 21 PL games

Chelsea? They've got a "1" in the L column of this season's Premier League table.

 

[Birdie Boy]

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Which £40m players are you referring to?

I said c£40m but Rutter was £40m. Then £25-30m was minteh, weiffer, gruda, kadioglu, O'Reilly. For our level they should all be up to speed and starting. Tbh, I was also thinking Pedro but that was last season.

 

[Happy Exile]

I find it hard to say anything positive about Chelsea as a club, but credit where it’s due: the players and their expressions in the videos during the team announcement very cleverly channel and mirror the passion and enthusiasm of their almost silent fans

 

[Eddie Bee]

Yes, we were beaten today, badly by the sounds of it, BUT is this our First defeat of the Season, I think it might be.

 

[jcdenton08]

Chelsea? They've got a "1" in the L column of this season's Premier League table.

You’re quite right, apologies I got my stats wrong. They’ve lost 2 in 21 games.

 

[trueblue]

Again, respectfully this is horseshit. He’s not the best player in the world but we’ve had good use out of him over the seasons as we have steadily improved the squad.

I can think of loads of players who have proven to be worse value for money, Alireza, Locadia, Elvis Manu…

Indeed. At around the time he got his first long injury, he was playing so well he was being touted for an England cap and nobody thought it was outrageous. Then we started asking him to bring the ball out from the back, plus more injuries, plus rarer starts, reduced sharpness and confidence…

 

[jcdenton08]

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I said c£40m but Rutter was £40. Then £25-30m was minteh, weiffer, gruda, kadioglu, O'Reilly. For our level they should all be up to speed and starting. Tbh, I was also thinking Pedro but that was last season.

Rutter, Weiffer and Kadioğlu started. Minteh came off the bench after some poor performances when he started, O’Riley (not O’Reilly) and Gruda are injured. The others were loaned out.

Rubbish, £200m was to IMPROVE our squad and replace a couple that left last season. And if a c£40m player cannot go straight into our team then why the f*** are we buying them? Rather buy a £20m player for the future than a £40m player!

So which c£40m player didn’t go into our first team?

 

[boik]

Signings on paper are different to signings on grass. Shock for some on NSC. Of the new players so far Minteh has no touch or decision making, Weiffer is a headless chicken, Kadioglu looks exactly like a player who has five different positions instead of one, O’Riley is half dead and Gruder is a ghost.

That just leaves Rutter, the one I was most worried about, who has been improving but is still no Pedro.

I know we need to give them time and FH too, but the starting base is a lot lower than I’d hoped.

Well, I was prepared to give them all 3 months or so, so I'm not panicking yet.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Chelsea? They've got a "1" in the L column of this season's Premier League table.

I think he means home games (although it's only 13 games in all competitions so not sure where the 21 comes from). Their last loss at Stamford Bridge was back in Feb when they lost 4-2 to Wolves.