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MATCH DAY: Stoke vs. Albion
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dougdeep
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If Cardiff win 2-0 today then we will be back out of the relegation zone and Palace will drop to 11th. Come on the Bluebirds.
The Laughing Bluebird
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dougdeep said:
Hear hear!
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
fatboy said:
Correct, we lack the ability to score - creating is OK but we don't put them away
Shropshire Seagull
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The team we have now are most effective on the breakaway - hence our away form has been very reasonable this year. The problem we have is breaking sides down when we are the stonger side - which we definately were for at least the first 35-40 mins against Stoke. Then we went a goal down, very much against the run of play (I think Blaney was caught cold literaly). Now the job is so much tougher since a team like Stoke will then defend in numbers, further limiting our breakaway style.
We need a goal scorer, a creative midfielder, and a left back. Sadly, at Stoke none of the strikers on show looked the part.
Case in point; McPhee running at goal with only a defender to beat, just on the edge of the penalty area. What should he do? My answer would be that a striker with confidence would push it past and run on to it, putting the defender at risk of giving away a penalty. What did he do? Pushed to out to his right for Carole to cross - kept posession, yes, but was less of a threat to the direct approach. This is the sort of thing MM must get them working at on the training ground - we must be more positive in front of goal ...
We need a goal scorer, a creative midfielder, and a left back. Sadly, at Stoke none of the strikers on show looked the part.
Case in point; McPhee running at goal with only a defender to beat, just on the edge of the penalty area. What should he do? My answer would be that a striker with confidence would push it past and run on to it, putting the defender at risk of giving away a penalty. What did he do? Pushed to out to his right for Carole to cross - kept posession, yes, but was less of a threat to the direct approach. This is the sort of thing MM must get them working at on the training ground - we must be more positive in front of goal ...
Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
I can't be arsed to read the previous posts, so I'm just going to write what I think.
Stoke is a horrible place for us Brighton fans to go. It's a tricky ground to get to in some respects, it is open to the elements in away that seems to be deliberately designed to freeze us visitors to death, and we never, ever win there.
Yesterday was a case in point, we dominated the first half, and yet with five minutes of the half to go we found ourselves behind to Stoke's first attack. Clearly they'd done their homework, as a pacey attack through the middle of our two centre-halves was all it took.
Maybe things might have been different had the ref actually sent that Stoke player off for elbowing McShane in the face, but the player's subsequent unassisted collapse and fit on the floor was clearly convincing enough for the ref to think that McShane had something to do with it.
But that is beside the point, the second half didn't see the Albion step up to the high-tempo game that we have seen of late, and they eventually capitulated when Stoke attacked for a second and third time.
Plusses for the day for me were seeing my beautiful baby neice before the game, and the fact that I was allowed to park in the South Car Park at the Britannia Stadium for free!
Stoke is a horrible place for us Brighton fans to go. It's a tricky ground to get to in some respects, it is open to the elements in away that seems to be deliberately designed to freeze us visitors to death, and we never, ever win there.
Yesterday was a case in point, we dominated the first half, and yet with five minutes of the half to go we found ourselves behind to Stoke's first attack. Clearly they'd done their homework, as a pacey attack through the middle of our two centre-halves was all it took.
Maybe things might have been different had the ref actually sent that Stoke player off for elbowing McShane in the face, but the player's subsequent unassisted collapse and fit on the floor was clearly convincing enough for the ref to think that McShane had something to do with it.
But that is beside the point, the second half didn't see the Albion step up to the high-tempo game that we have seen of late, and they eventually capitulated when Stoke attacked for a second and third time.
Plusses for the day for me were seeing my beautiful baby neice before the game, and the fact that I was allowed to park in the South Car Park at the Britannia Stadium for free!
Kylies Stunt Arse
What?
fatboy said:
WTF is that supposed to mean? We didn't score? We know that. So is it only scoring that equates to a "meaningful effort"?
I would have said any chance where we've tested the keeper/defence properly means something.