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

[chickens]

De Zerbi: I don’t do defending.
Hürzeler: Hold my beer.

 

[Robinjakarta]

I have no idea what's going on. I have no idea what the final score is going to be. But it is highly entertaining.

I can think of a lot of adjectives to describe it. That wouldn't be one of them.

 

[Littlemo]

Wonder what Bloom is thinking after blowing 200 million for no improvement?

Probably “This is why I don’t f***ing spend £200m in a transfer window”

 

[Zeberdi]

It’s weird that everybody can see what the problem is bar the head coach.

It was an interesting first half.

As I was thinking earlier- the one advantage of a high line against Chelsea is they struggle with that in defence - they are so quick on the breaks though we just don’t have the speed to get back.

I am not sure there’s much merit in sitting deeper now at 4-2 we are already bedded in to this and while our high line is working against the Chelsea defence we stand a chance of pulling some goals back.

Webster, Dunker and Verbruggen need to do much better -

I’d replace Webster with Hinshelwood and bring on Ensico.

we need to maximise the chances at the other end. Both Welbeck and Mitoma have missed some good chances.

 

[razer]

Ferk me what a first half

 

[US Seagull]

Disappointed with the result. Thought we could have come away with at least a point.

... what?!?

That's only half time

f*** me.

 

[Seagull58]

No foul for Mitoma being sandwiched. But a penalty for Sancho for the same thing.

He's been a homer without doubt. We would almost certainly still be losing though.

 

[Ethelwulf]

Shocking . Just shocking . Chelsea are not a great team and under 1st season RDZ or Potter we would be leading
Like others have said it reminds me of us under Hypia totally clueless

 

[peterward]

Surely Hurzeler will change this at half time, it’s pretty stupid tactically. The media have been asking him all week about the high line and chelsea‘s quick forwards.
Anyway hopefully he’ll have a rethinkm because this really isn’t working.

He said he listens to his senior players.

Dunk, Welbeck, Milner need to go to Fab and have an intervention about the high line.

If he sticks with it, with these defenders, he won't last the season.

 

[Eeyore]

Theyre both cluless

I'll listen to you instead then

 

[Gully Forever]

Theyre both cluless

I really can't stand cantor, He never criticises anything or anyone when it is this bad.

 

[elwheelio]

Pervis is a concern. He's had lots of injuries, and that great first season, but he has been consistently awful for quite a while now.

 

[slimes]

First on motd... for all the wrong reasons.. Webster is his normal self.. needs to be subbed

 

[pocketseagull]

Wonder what Bloom is thinking after blowing 200 million for no improvement?

It's weird, I know it was a case of use it or lose it but looks like we've massively overpaid on players our algorithm is supposed to able to spot much cheaper.

 

[A1X]

£200m spent and our defence is WORSE than last season

Only us FFS

 

[Bridcutt]

I'm fine with Hurzeler having to learn that certain things won't work in the PL at times, it's his first season coaching in a major league

Problem is it took 20 minutes for him to alter things and he watched Chelsea rip us apart so many times before doing anything

 

[Swegulls]

BBC says 60% possession to the Albion

I would rather have 20, back home and hoof it at the moment. We got the players for it.

 

[Mustafa II]

Well, that was a pretty sensational first half...

Lots of positives, despite the scoreline, bizarrely.

We look incredible going forward. Baleba, Ferdi, Georgino all absolute quality. Mitoma making some superb runs. We look so quality, oozing skill, playing sharp positive football.

But there is one, very major, negative. Our defense has been shocking, worst defensive half I can remember us playing in the Premier League. Webster is not good enough. Dunk is too slow. The high line does not work against such a pacy attacking team. They could have had 6+ today so far.

Still, I'm enjoying this. Get an early goal in the 2nd half and let's see what happens. We do need to tighten it up at the back somehow, but at the same time we really need to go for the draw/win.

Prediction - more of the same, 8-5 Chelsea.

 

[Seagull58]

He's need time but I'd take Ayari or Hinsh in DM over Wieffer right now.

Wieffer has been awful.

 

[WhingForPresident]

Final score predictions?

I'm going 8-3.