[Albion] Manchester City vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

[Birdie Boy]

That was a yellow to city, ffs

 

[RandyWanger]

JPVH down, looks like he's holding his hammie.

 

[Ethelwulf]

Poor first half from us. Giving the ball away and also giving away 2 simple goals.

Poor ?? I think we have played well

 

[Motogull]

Paul Merson has been pretty complimentary about us on SSN.

 

[Si Gull]

JP under pressure from two defenders, did what he could, and was close.

 

[Zeberdi]

Ffs Pedro, had to score there

Not sure it was as easy as it looked - He didn’t have time to get behind the ball and line up the shot - both defenders converging on his line of sight too quickly - so he was all off balance when he took the shot.

 

[Gazwag]

Hooper been threatened with a stoning after the game

 

[fruitnveg]

Not unhappy with that half, gave as good as we got. Fab will get into them during the break on where to tighten up.

 

[US Seagull]

Frustrating half.

Too much faffing about and failing to get the ball out from our half.

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

Not unhappy with that half, gave as good as we got. Fab will get into them during the break on where to tighten up.

Agreed.

 

[Flounce]

Hooper being a biased wanker in this game

Bookings for anything from us, not for City though.

Mitoma’s goal should have stood too imo

 

[Hove Seagull]

What can you do when Hooper is the ref and you’re playing one of the “big” clubs?

 

[Si Gull]

On another day we'd be comfortably level after that first half. Cut out the defensive lapses and there's no reason we can't get back into this.

 

[Bridcutt]

We were good in the first 20 mins. Struggled after that and got overran.

Ref is terrible. Yellow carding us freely but letting theirs go

 

[borat]

Playing ok. Were getting closed down in numbers from defence and giving the ball away cheaply. Webster gave it away 3 times in quick succession. Baleba also needs to wake up and Rutter be more involved.

 

[oldboyroy]

We can get something from this. Played quite well and created chances. Need to stop dicking about at the back and handing them goals.

 

[Oh_aye]

Decent in attack. Very frustrating at the back. Slow passing that gets nowhere and putting ourselves in trouble in our own half.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

We shouldn't be behind.

We seemed nervous and slightly off our game in the first half.

Doku is worryingly good for them.

 

[MTSeagulls]

Thought it was an absorbing first half, it flew by.

 

[Gazwag]

Poor ?? I think we have played well

We have played well but gifted them two goals