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[Albion] Manchester City vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***
- Thread starter Dick Head
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sydney
tinky ****in winky
team talk ....." ok lads , citeh , 11 blokes 22 arms , 22 legs , 11 hearts , 22 kidneys , 11 livers ........if we score more goals than them we get 3 points and every **** on the planet will be taliking about us .......i'd just as well lose 4-2 and have a go than lose 1-0 and play like a bunch of dexied up architects ....so go on , get out there and have a go , if not for me for the fans and even more so for yourselves."
I reckon an inverted 5-3-2. We'll play all our defenders up front, Alzate will be a no. 10, Gross and Jahnabaksh as DCMs. Maupay and Zequiri at the back.
Makes no tactical sense and won't work but would be Peak Potter and would probably get a glowing post-match response from Pep (which is about the best we can hope for tonight).
Official Old Man
Uckfield Seagull
We're playing Man City in the EPL. That is all that matters. More importantly, we need to be playing Man City again next season.
blue-shifted
Banned
West Brom got a draw there not very long ago.
Leicester thrashed them at the Etihad
I can feel a statement coming. It's one of the most stupid statements football fans use (amid strong competition). It's the "I have absolutely no concept of how probability works" statement ......... nnnnnngggggghhhhh .........I can't help myself I can't stop it coming out ......
"we're due a win there"
Leicester thrashed them at the Etihad
I can feel a statement coming. It's one of the most stupid statements football fans use (amid strong competition). It's the "I have absolutely no concept of how probability works" statement ......... nnnnnngggggghhhhh .........I can't help myself I can't stop it coming out ......
"we're due a win there"
Eddiespearritt
Well-known member
Reading the posts so far it's not going to be a fun day is it ?
However, for those who believe we cannot possibly even get a point you can get a 14.25% return on your money within two hours with the odds currently offered.
Compare that to about 0.1% in a year for most regular savings accounts. So tempting.
And it'll make watching the regular close ups of Potter with the bemused scarecrow look, sucking his pen, and catching flies with his open mouth, much more bearable.
(By the way I also dislike the close-ups of Guardiola rolling a little bit of spit on his tongue and gobbing it out, especially in coronavirus times).
Alternatively, maybe De Bruyne, Sterling, Foden, Jesus, Gundogan, Mahrez etc etc will have an off night.........
However, for those who believe we cannot possibly even get a point you can get a 14.25% return on your money within two hours with the odds currently offered.
Compare that to about 0.1% in a year for most regular savings accounts. So tempting.
And it'll make watching the regular close ups of Potter with the bemused scarecrow look, sucking his pen, and catching flies with his open mouth, much more bearable.
(By the way I also dislike the close-ups of Guardiola rolling a little bit of spit on his tongue and gobbing it out, especially in coronavirus times).
Alternatively, maybe De Bruyne, Sterling, Foden, Jesus, Gundogan, Mahrez etc etc will have an off night.........
neilbard
Hedging up
- Oct 8, 2013
- 6,280
17/18 3-1
18/19 2-0
19/20 4-0
A lot better than our home performances against them.
Billy the Fish
Technocrat
If we sack Potter this afternoon we might get away with a 4-0. If not 5-0 city, 50% possession, no shots on target.
Are you suggesting he might learn from his mistakes? Seems a bit of a stretch.
Peter Grummit
Well-known member
Perusing the odds for a chuckle...
Sterling is 8/11 to score tonight with Bet365. Much more likely to score than not. That is just embarrassing.
It would be great to get something tonight but I don’t think it’s fair to expect much.
The big games are obviously the Leeds and Fulham ones. If we were to get 4pts from those two games we would be on 18pts, have deprived rivals of some points and pulled our own points per game to 0.9 for the season. For reference, our points per game rate since promotion have been:
2017/18: 1.05 points per game
2018/19: 0.95 points per game
2019/20: 1.08 points per game
2020/21: 0.70 points per game
At 0.9 points per game we would be on course for 34 points over the course of the season. We’d still need to improve but it wouldn’t feel insurmountable. If we don’t get something at Leeds we’re going to have to hope that we can put a run together, the likes of which, we’ve never produced in the Premier League.
Losses to both City and Leeds would leave us with 14pts at the half way stage of the season. If we need, say, 38 points for safety we’d need to start averaging nearly 1.3 points a game over the final 19 games. That is 24pts from 19 games. The best we’ve ever produced over a 19-game run is 22 points. We’ve done this twice, both times under Chris Hughton, once in 2017/18 and then again in 2018/19. Under Graham Potter, our best 19-game total is, I believe, 21 points.
Obviously, this hopefully won’t be the scenario and, at the end of the Fulham game we will be reflecting on the 9pts we have taken from them, Leeds and Man City. However, if we were to get nothing from both City and Leeds, we will likely either be in for relegation or the greatest run in our, albeit short, Premier League history. We’d need 8 wins or something like 5 wins and 9 draws from 19 games just to reach 38 points. That would be solid mid-table form, equating to a 48 point season and while it would be wonderful, I can’t see it happening.
The big games are obviously the Leeds and Fulham ones. If we were to get 4pts from those two games we would be on 18pts, have deprived rivals of some points and pulled our own points per game to 0.9 for the season. For reference, our points per game rate since promotion have been:
2017/18: 1.05 points per game
2018/19: 0.95 points per game
2019/20: 1.08 points per game
2020/21: 0.70 points per game
At 0.9 points per game we would be on course for 34 points over the course of the season. We’d still need to improve but it wouldn’t feel insurmountable. If we don’t get something at Leeds we’re going to have to hope that we can put a run together, the likes of which, we’ve never produced in the Premier League.
Losses to both City and Leeds would leave us with 14pts at the half way stage of the season. If we need, say, 38 points for safety we’d need to start averaging nearly 1.3 points a game over the final 19 games. That is 24pts from 19 games. The best we’ve ever produced over a 19-game run is 22 points. We’ve done this twice, both times under Chris Hughton, once in 2017/18 and then again in 2018/19. Under Graham Potter, our best 19-game total is, I believe, 21 points.
Obviously, this hopefully won’t be the scenario and, at the end of the Fulham game we will be reflecting on the 9pts we have taken from them, Leeds and Man City. However, if we were to get nothing from both City and Leeds, we will likely either be in for relegation or the greatest run in our, albeit short, Premier League history. We’d need 8 wins or something like 5 wins and 9 draws from 19 games just to reach 38 points. That would be solid mid-table form, equating to a 48 point season and while it would be wonderful, I can’t see it happening.
Having seen the way City dismantled Chelsea, I'm not tempted....
I think the bookies are over-rating our chances.
Coldeanseagull
Opinionated
I only got 14-1
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Whale Oil Beef Hooked
"Brighton played some really nice football, brilliant passing and a really spirited performance, but defensive errors and failure to produce in the final 3rd really let them down this evening and in this division you get punished for that, that's why they lost 6-0 tonight".
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- May 8, 2018
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Here’s hoping some of that team on this basis are rested tonight!
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