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









Stato

Well-known member
Dec 21, 2011
7,271
Please let's nip this 'bottlers' tripe in the bud. We're all gutted about this and Wolves, but these things happen in football matches. We held on against Newcastle, we did the same at Arsenal, we won late against United and came from two down to beat Spurs. It works both ways for every team. The label is an absolute f'ng nonsense.
 




BrickTamland

Well-known member
Mar 2, 2010
2,224
Brighton
Please let's nip this 'bottlers' tripe in the bud. We're all gutted about this and Wolves, but these things happen in football matches. We held on against Newcastle, we did the same at Arsenal, we won late against United and came from two down to beat Spurs. It works both ways for every team. The label is an absolute f'ng nonsense.
100%. Lots of people on that board lacking any sense of perspective.
 






Questions

Habitual User
Oct 18, 2006
25,451
Worthing
Please let's nip this 'bottlers' tripe in the bud. We're all gutted about this and Wolves, but these things happen in football matches. We held on against Newcastle, we did the same at Arsenal, we won late against United and came from two down to beat Spurs. It works both ways for every team. The label is an absolute f'ng nonsense.
I’ve been everywhere looking for a scapegoat since the end of the game. Can’t find any but I’m still looking hard.
 


Justice

Dangerous Idiot
Jun 21, 2012
20,523
Born In Shoreham
Presume this is trolling but we played them off the park for 45 minutes!
Unfortunately a game is for 90 mins plus injury time. Same thing last time out collapsed in the second half against Wolves. When the opposition manager makes a formation change second half FH can’t or won’t adapt to it.
 




Birdie Boy

Well-known member
Jun 17, 2011
4,335
Please let's nip this 'bottlers' tripe in the bud. We're all gutted about this and Wolves, but these things happen in football matches. We held on against Newcastle, we did the same at Arsenal, we won late against United and came from two down to beat Spurs. It works both ways for every team. The label is an absolute f'ng nonsense.
We are not bottlers just not quite there yet. I think O'Riley will make a difference and March and Pedro and Gomez and Dunk...
 


PlayMoran

Active member
May 19, 2023
79
The inexperience showed in the 2nd half. Brighton needed to show some of the composure that came at 2-1 down when Liverpool equalised. It was a fortunate goal by Gakpo, but then Estupiñán made a terrible mistake when he allowed Salah to cut inside onto his left foot.

Rutter is raw. He needs to learn when to release it quicker. He's very talented though. He can dribble past players and shield the ball well. He just need to mature a bit. Pick his battles. He could be transformed a year from now.

Ayari was brilliant. Hinshelwood was solid.

Mitoma could genuinely be a top LW if he had an extra yard or two in terms of pace. He isn't slow, he caused them a lot of problems. TAA was able to recover at times. That extra speed would take him all the way. Still a good player regardless.
 


nsclurker

Well-known member
Apr 3, 2018
405
I enjoyed that game overall. Fairly evenly matched, but we ran out of puff midway through the second half and were punished for it. But there's no way we threw it away like against Wolves - Liverpool are top for a reason. I'm just enjoying the football - some of our moves in the first half were outstanding. And Gruda looked good again when he came on.
Spot on. We needed some fresh legs on before they scored but it was too late by the time we did.
 






SkirlieWirlie

Active member
Jan 6, 2024
105
Gary O'Neil's point about ref's 'unconsiously' favouring the big clubs was so true. I often wonder how many points it earns clubs like Liverpool every season.

Yep, we deserved something from the game, but any momentum we were building in the second half was disrupted by favouring Liverpool. Great example was Mitoma being manhandled to the ground by "Trent" in the penalty box. Would have been a soft penalty, but Pervis was following up to cross and the ref blows for a foul to Liverpool.... Fine margins.
 
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TugWilson

I gotta admit that I`m a little bit confused
Dec 8, 2020
1,699
Dorset
Don't get the criticism of Hurzeler's lack of subs today. Liverpool could bring on quality attackers after an hour. Ideally, our response would have been to bring on defenders (we had only Lamptey), or someone to regain midfield control (Baleba obviously not fit enough to be risked). Had we had the wise old heads on the bench that he didn't use, you could blame him, but he didn't. Defensively, his options were fairly thin.
Disagree - Lamptey could have come on in the higher position on the right that he did in the last two games , Kadioglu could have joined the defence in a CDM role and Enciso and Adingra could have given us speed and potential chances up the pitch in place of Ayari and a tired looking Georginio and Hinshelwood .
 










Beanstalk

Well-known member
Apr 5, 2017
3,012
London
Pretty much how I saw it, thought we were great.
I thought the ref was fine btw, especially when we were winning.
He was fine in the first half, very inconsistent in the second when the atmosphere ramped up.

I’m not putting the loss on him at all, but I’ve seen a couple of people on Twitter argue that FH should’ve made subs earlier to defend the lead. I just think it was an incredibly difficult task for the Albion to withstand that storm and get control of the game when every 50/50 went to Liverpool. Obviously, nothing huge that turned the game, but it stopped us from getting a grip on a frantic game.
 






LamieRobertson

Not awoke
Feb 3, 2008
48,263
SHOREHAM BY SEA
Sticking with this until Monday ..not ruining my wkd

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