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

[Grassman]

Pretty sure FatI would have been offside if Welbeck had passed to him….

 

[cheesy77]

Mitoma cannot defend. Every time he's letting his runner go and not tracking him. Was the same at villa

 

[The Fifth Column]

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.

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

 

[Simster]

He's not wrong is he?

 

[Mancgull]

We are so weak in midfield without Caicedo. Need some physicality. Gilmour will be better than Dahoud. Baleba will at least get stuck in.
March looked ok for the last 15 minutes.
We have to understand that teams are going to get stuck into us and compete. When we finally woke up we created chances. Need to take them.

 

[Sheebo]

All the goals we concede are the same, ball played down the side and squared back to players, Villa was the same, so much space down the sides.

Mitoma is not good defensively. Been off colour the last few games he’s started.

 

[Mackenzie]

Which bit of not passing to an unmarked player 4 yards to your left was unlucky

The not hitting the net bit

 

[cheesy77]

Pretty sure FatI would have been offside if Welbeck had passed to him….

He wouldn't,he was behind the ball

 

[The Grockle]

They look vulnerable in defence but we spent the first 30 minutes fancying about from the back. The few times we've gone forward we've created some good chances.

As much as I have faith in our approach, we need to learn how to mix it up, if we played a bit more direct and with some urgency we'd be causing more problems and probably have scored.

A tactical mess in the first half IMO

 

[Bald Head]

Where is a Just Stop Oil protest when you need one, get the game abandoned.

 

[Soton Seagull]

Whilst the chances at the end were encouraging we've given the ball away all game and lost the physical battle.

We've not played well since beating Man U and continued that form in to today.

Need a tempo increase 2nd half and somehow get the passing confidence back or we'll lose by 3 or 4.

 

[Billy in Bristol]

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

 

[SK1NT]

14-1 to win... we did look better 2nd half and their defence looks ropey

 

[Bridcutt]

Absolutely crazy.

Facts, sooner you realise the better

 

[Simster]

He has, is and always will be a below PL standard shot stopper. The stats show it, watching him shows it and multiple goals he concedes show it.

Fair enough, but why are people whinging about him on this thread? He's really not been the issue has he?

 

[The Wizard]

He's not wrong is he?

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Figuring out that our midfield is 20x weaker than last season, doesn’t take much working out.

 

[maltaseagull]

Poor at the back, no middle, poor up front. Shit set pieces as per usual.

I am sure teams playing us say phew, they have a corner, good chance for us.
Even when are first to the ball it goes sailing over the bar.
We need a corner coach with some imagination rather than right hand up and thump it anywhere on the area. 90% win by defence.

 

[The Fits]

I can't work out what is wrong. I hope RDZ can at half time.

It's confidence isn't it? Footballers are mostly so fragile mentally. Everyone has gone from an 8 out of ten to a 4 and we don't have the overall quality to paper over the cracks.

 

[Krafty]

14-1 to win... we did look better 2nd half and their defence looks ropey

Oh please, shut up!!!

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

 

[dwayne]

I can't work out what is wrong. I hope RDZ can at half time.

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