[Albion] Olympique de Marseille vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

[Sea Cider]

If Welbeck had passed...didn't Fati come back from an offside position? Not certain on the rule here.

I thought this too. Fati was miles off when the initial ball was played

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Two, no, three things I've noticed. New blokes haven't got up to speed with the one touch passing, taking two or even three touches before releasing the ball, not had the rub of the green...any ricochets are falling to the french and the third......no, lost my train of thought!
Ok, more like a whinge up rather than an observation. Need to be more fluid. Mitoma and gross heavy touches......no, I'll leave it at that

 

[jcdenton08]

We’ve been poor but so easily could be level. A fantastic save from Fati’s excellent header and a dreadful decision from Welbeck to shoot inside of just roll it square for Fati to score.

Fati and Welbeck have absolutely zero synergy together, and it’s all from Welbeck’s side. Once again, running into channels and losing the ball rather than passing to Fati, the big chance was emblematic of this theme.

Defence looks shaky as is the norm lately. I think they will grab a couple more and this could easily end up 4-5 against.

Need some steel in midfield, far too lightweight in my opinion. Oh and Mitoma has been absolutely toilet again.

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

Mitoma non trier

Needs replacing and read the riot act

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

What a shame even if we somehow scrape a draw it will be a huge moral boost to work with.

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

Dahoud was f***ing terrible for 30 minutes but has grown into the game as he's dropping much deeper.

I fancy us to score a couple tonight though. Not sure if that's enough for a result here.

The way we’re defending lately, we’re going to need to score at least three a game to ever get a result.

 

[andys320]

No, he's not the problem, Pedro for Fati, wee Billy for Fati, beef up the midfield.

 

[pb21]

Would say inside the ground the sound is deafening I can barely here myself think
. It’s the loudest ground I’ve ever been to by a mile. Very intimidating. We look shook. But had a reasonable last 15

This has to be a factor. Atmosphere is VERY different to English games, not sure how you can train for that.

 

[The Wizard]

Where was Lamptey for both their goals?! If he can't play LB, don't play him there...

Can he be blamed for Dunk nutmegging himself and being overlapped with no support from his winger? That first goal is on Mitoma, he has to be tracking that overlapping run Lamptey can’t do both.

 

[SK1NT]

Oh please, shut up!!!

We are so rubbish, we deserve to be bottom with zero points!

don't cry mate. I obviously have a little more faith than you... plus it's 14-1 for a reason... it's a punt

plus yes we have been dog sh1t and yet still could have gone in 2-2

 

[Bridcutt]

I'd throw Pedro and Baleba on. Players like Dahoud, March, Mitoma really need to start throwing themselves into 50-50s. They are pulling out

 

[giveusfalmerplease]

Just seeing the replay if welbs miss, he couldn't have passed to Fati, he was in offside position where welbs got the ball

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Argh. So disappointing again. We appear to have absolutely no ability to defend. Such simple goals we give away time after time. We are non existent as soon as we lose the ball, just acres of space and time for the opposition. We're physically weak and don't play with any intensity.

It's making things very difficult for us - we have to be at our absolute best on the ball if we are to have any chance to overcome our uselessness without the ball.

We're really missing Caicedo and Ally Mac.

 

[BHA Fan93]

Just because a save looks great, doesn't mean it is. Steele made exaggerated motions to make an easy save (straight at him) look difficult.

See the Marseille keeper for some genuinely difficult saves tonight, that should have been goals.

You’ve clearly never played football with one of these balls then, did you see the movement on the ball as it’s travelling to him it’s moved last second away from his body and at that speed he’s done very well to keep it out. It’s fuc*ing ridiculous that steele has been blamed for anything about this performance on this thread.

 

[Husty]

I'm at the game and genuinely didn't realise Dahoud was playing

He looked involved for 5 minutes but as per has faded into anonymity

 

[scooter1]

Almost every second touch seems like it’s a tackle and the random bounces all seem to be going the other way.
im not convinced by Dahoud tonight, and Mitoma looks out of sorts. Our short passes have mostly been too long, and our long passes have been too short

 

[Bridcutt]

Mitoma non trier

Needs replacing and read the riot act

Yep, he is pulling out of 50-50s, passing is way off and looks like he'd rather be at home

 

[WhingForPresident]

Can he be blamed for Dunk nutmegging himself and being overlapped with no support from his winger? That first goal is on Mitoma, he has to be tracking that overlapping run Lamptey can’t do both.

I couldn't even see him in the frame when Dahoud was getting made an absolute mug of on the left side.

 

[Mackenzie]

Bit more aggression second half would be good. Too many pulling out of challenges

 

[The Wizard]

Just seeing the replay if welbs miss, he couldn't have passed to Fati, he was in offside position where welbs got the ball

At the point Welbeck shot Fati was well behind the ball