Middlesbrough Vs Brighton & Hove Albion *****Official Match Thread*****

[TomandJerry]

I hope CH goes nuts in the dressing room

 

[royceyboy]

Who the hell have I been watching? No one is playing well. We look nervous and overwhelmed

 

[Robinjakarta]

Murphy and Baldock instead of Skalak and Wilson is looking too conservative a selection.

This.

 

[GoingUp]

CH needs to give the mother of all half time speeches to get our boys up the second half, no heads down, come out firing.

 

[Mr deez]

Not lua lua. He will get nowhere. Skalak and hope.

 

[SUIYHP]

Very shaky first half lads, time to put some sense into our boys and crawl the goals back

 

[royceyboy]

Not to mention, Knockeart is making some really poor decisions...

I agree. He is not playing well at all. And he is the one player who we needed to play well. I wonder if it was his booking that has thrown him.

 

[Icy Gull]

If we don't come out very differently 2nd half then we are ****ED. Created absolutely nothing, if Boro weren't shit they would be 3/0 up by now. We've been unlucky 1st half

I'd say we've been incredibly LUCKY

 

[GreersElbow]

Skalak for Murphy and Wilson for Baldock. My only worry is that with Skalak, he plays narrower, so needs overlap from Rosenior, but their threats have come down the left side and would expose us. Tough decisions need to be made.

 

[Fungus]

There's a wonker here in a Cardiff shirt, erupting every time Boro attack. Aaaaargh.

 

[symyjym]

Such a shame that we are playing so shit in such a big game

I would rather be feeling cheated by the offside goal but I'm not.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

The good news is that they can't play as poorly in the second half. I can't believe how many times we have given the ball away and put ourselves under pressure. We have made Boro look far better than they are. 2nd half let's pulverise them!

 

[FamilyGuy]

I hope CH goes nuts in the dressing room

The second half will be as much down to CH as anything else now.
We're stilli In this

 

[Ray Dante]

It's both a total tactical and psychological collapse. I simply don't see Hughton turning it around with a halftime talk.

 

[FamilyGuy]

CH needs to give the mother of all half time speeches to get our boy up the second half, no heads down, come out firing.

What he said!

 

[dingodan]

I would give it 10 minutes then bring on Kaz and Wilson.

 

[Chips]

I'd say we've been incredibly LUCKY

Absolutely. Im thankful it's not worse. Hopefully an attacking sub at half time will help turn things around.

 

[Dick Head]

When that goal went in my nerves disappeared.

 

[Stato]

That was like a repeat of the first half against Cardiff with some of the goals edited out. Passes are being over-hit, choices have been wrong, defending has been disorganised and too many unnecessary fouls.

 

[sdmartin1]

I don't think we've played that badly, couple of misplaced passes, Boro have just shut us out, onto the playoffs