[Albion] Dale Stephens

[Nixonator]

We are crying out for a player like Maddison at Leicester who gets the ball and picks out intelligent positive passes that help Leicester attack with real pace and pull teams all over the place.

Thats not saying Stephens is not giving his all or is doing his job to the best of his ability just for me a key position we need to be looking at to improve

Maddison? Is that the guy who plays in front of the midfield and not behind it?

 

[Weststander]

Maddison? Is that the guy who plays in front of the midfield and not behind it?

This. They play in totally different positions, Maddison the 'floating' creator just behind Vardy.

 

[Seasider78]

Maddison? Is that the guy who plays in front of the midfield and not behind it?

Thats the one and I was referring to securing someone with his passing ability and vision not suggesting Stephens is a number 10! We are too slow moving the ball from back to front so would like to see our midfield equipped with players who have the technical ability to move the ball more quickly and intelligently and not constantly slowing down play. Happy to have someone sitting and ticking things over just without 3 touches to control the ball and with a greater range of passing

 

[Machiavelli]

Stats stats stats.

How about we look at all the Brighton midfielders?

Tackles won/lost
Stephens 35/16
Propper 25/20
Kayal 14/6
Bissouma 17/24
Gross 9/15

Interceptions
Propper 43
Stephens 25
Bissouma 20
Kayal 13
Gross 9

Blocks
Propper 28
Stephens 26
Kayal 21
Gross 13
Bissouma 13

Headed Clearances
Stephens 20
Kayal 15
Propper 10
Bissouma 4
Gross 3

Aerial Battles won/lost
Propper 35/17
Stephens 20/16
Gross 15/32
Kayal 14/23
Bissouma 12/19

Fouls
Stephens 35
Bissouma 26
Propper 26
Kayal 15
Gross 7

Dispossesed
Bissouma 21
Propper 19
Gross 13
Stephens 8
Kayal 7

Pass completion
Bissouma 83.3%
Stephens 83.1%
Propper 80.5%
Gross 76.2%
Kayal 70.4%

Chances created
Gross 42
Propper 13
Stephens 11
Bissouma 7
Kayal 4

Shots on/off target
Kayal 2/1
Gross 8/6
Stephens 1/4
Bissouma 3/15
Propper 2/11

Crosses succesful/not succesful
Stephens 1/1
Gross 14/38
Kayal 1/5
Propper 2/11
Bissouma 0/2

Assists
Gross 2
Propper 1
Kayal 1
Stephens 0
Bissouma 0

Goals
Gross 2
Stephens 1
Propper 1
Kayal 1
Bissouma 0

Through balls
Gross 2
Propper 2
Bissouma 2
Stephens 1
Kayal 0

Big chances missed
Bissouma 2
Gross 2
Propper 1
Stephens 0
Kayal 0

Sift your way through that. Seems to me if Stephens is as poor as you think then so are the rest of our midfield.

Now that interesting, thanks for that.
I do love Kayal, and all he's done for us, but from watching him I've felt his passing just isn't up to this level, so glad to see that verified. That's not to say that he doesn't have other qualities, but passing ability becomes all the more important the higher the level in my view.

 

[TSB]

Man of the match, today.

 

[theboybilly]

Superb today. We made Palace look so, so poor

 

[sagaman]

Immense performance by Dale today

 

[Hugo Rune]

Man of the match, today.

Dunk was better.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Immense performance by Dale today

Absolutely. If you don’t see he was crucial in that win, then I give up for some people.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Dunk was better.

I tell you what, for Dunk to pip Stephens to motm today tells you how good Dunk was.

Lovely forward diagonal ball to set Knocky up too.

 

[dazzer6666]

Dale was brilliant. Thought Bernardo was fantastic as well, especially first half. And Dunk. And Duffy. Oh, and..... [emoji23] [emoji23]

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[Surrey Phil]

Dunky was Motm but that was Dale’s best game in the PL for me.

 

[Stat Brother]

I tell you what, for Dunk to pip Stephens to motm today tells you how good Dunk was.

Lovely forward diagonal ball to set Knocky up too.

I think he was playing the ball back to Dunk only for it to take a deflection to Knockaert.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Dale was brilliant. Thought Bernardo was fantastic as well, especially first half. And Dunk. And Duffy. Oh, and..... [emoji23] [emoji23]

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Quite - Montoya was brilliant


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[Bold Seagull]

I’m starting to feel my happy clapping is vindicated!

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

He was brilliant today, no doubt about it. Best performance in the last 2 seasons by a distance.

A few more of these and he’ll make it as a Premier League player! [emoji12]

Dunk’s best game of the season too.

 

[Wozza]

Stephens made more passes, clearances and tackles than any other Albion player.

And released AK for the winner.

BBC Sport's MOTM.

However, the Albion 'fan' behind me thought he was - and I quote - "a c**t".

 

[Icy Gull]

Stephens made more passes, clearances and tackles than any other Albion player.

And released AK for the winner.

BBC Sport's MOTM.

However, the Albion 'fan' behind me thought he was - and I quote - "a c**t".

Far too many clueless Albion fans think the same and they will not be changing their opinion. It’s Barnes all over again.

 

[HAILSHAM SEAGULL]

Definately his best performance this season

 

[Weststander]

Agree but his lack on pace now is starting to show.

There’s plenty of PL life left in Dale Stephens yet. A key contributor to the 6 points gained over the last 8 days, which are keeping us in the PL.