[Albion] Luton Town vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

[A1X]

Jesus wept

 

[fruitnveg]

4-0 Luton

You jest?

Edit: You don't jest... Just end it now.

 

[US Seagull]

Offside. Maybe.

 

[raymondo]

He's been outstanding at CB. Why have we moved him? Why now? We haven't had wingers for ages. Wheretf has this three at the back thing come from!?

Exactly, we've been without wingers for a number of games.

 

[Steve in Japan]

This is partly on Bloom and the board. We scored for 32 games in a row, we lose all our wingers and are now facing fourth league game without a goal in 5. We knew Adringa and Mitoma would be away when March got injured we should have brought in a winger even on loan at the start of January. Our whole formation is based on having width.

Partly? Generous IMO.

 

[BBassic]

I think when we play this poorly and come up against a team who've got a plan and are executing it superbly I just kind of shut down and become numb to it

 

[oldboyroy]

Offside

 

[BrickTamland]

Looked on

 

[portslade seagull]

RDZ hasn’t been backed and this evening is the consequence. Reality is we are significantly weaker than we were last season and we’ve been punching above our weight.

That said, I really do question RDZ at times, the constant changing of keepers isn’t working, his personnel changes are questionable and you’ve got a young player in Ferguson that is quite obviously disillusioned at the moment playing second fiddle to Danny Welbeck.

Let’s not take away the deserved credit for Luton and the way they’ve set up, but as I’ve said im afraid this has been coming.

RDZ will be gone in the summer and if we keep failing to replace these quality players we are losing and not reinvesting that into the squad then we are seriously in the shit.

The Southampton model just doesn't work

 

[Bodian]

Not much different to the first half yet!

 

[Ethelwulf]

More chance of Luton scoring more then us scoring one

 

[BevBHA]

Even that was awful from Steele!

 

[WhingForPresident]

Steele doing his best to hand them another.

 

[Weststander]

Its exactly where it’s won and lost and the reason we’re far behind where we were last season IMO. Let’s be honest, Gross and Gilmour are miles and miles off Caicedo and Mac Allister.

Exactly. A football expert here states that Gilmour is a defensive midfielder, utter tosh. He hasn’t the power and bite to be a 4 or 6.

No one’s fault …. MacAllister is world class, Caicedo excellent as a destroyer. Dahoud and Baleba are patently several levels below that. Even the Starlizard algorithm couldn’t replace the irreplaceable.

Hence the stack of goals conceded this season and rare PL wins. Little wonder RDZ the perfectionist seems increasingly and uncharacteristically quiet.

 

[fruitnveg]

Don't think it matters to be honest, if they can do that so quickly after RDZ has had his time to adjust, then they will get the fourth at some point since no one is stripes seems to care enough to do anything about it.

 

[Pavilionaire]

That 'Sarmiento to Ipswich' loan is not looking too clever at the minute.

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

Please play better than this on Saturday ffs.

Afraid we won’t.

 

[The Fits]

That 'Sarmiento to Ipswich' loan is not looking too clever at the minute.

Cannot get my head around that one.

 

[Mancgull]

Half time ratings just in.

RDZ - 0. Has his possible frustration at transfer budget impacted on the players? System and preparation all wrong. Sends them out with the wrong attitude.
Steele - How easy was the third? Massive gap near post embarrassing. Hardly covered himself in glory for the otehr two fapping around and weak.
JPVH - 1 Fouling and mouthing off
Dunk - 1
Igor - 1
Estupinian - 1 Possibly generous that
Gilmor - 1 So many poor balls
Gross - 1 Not at the races at all
Hinshelwood - 3
JP - 1 Wrong decision every time
Bunonotte - 0. One of the worse halves I have ever seen from a Brighton player in the last 10 years. Won a foul but gave the ball away at least 5 times
Welbeck - 4 Some good runs and actually looks like he could get in Luton's team which says it all.

Can't quite believe how soft we are. Not getting a strong centre midfielder when we have a chance in Europe and the FA cup is such a gutting shame.

I also wonder whether this performance is a reaction to De Zerbi’s reaction to the Jan window.
Doesn’t show the greatest faith in the current squad.

 

[oldboyroy]

Looked on

Too tight to call so should of been given