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

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Zeberdi

“Vorsprung durch Technik”
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Looking increasingly like a once in a lifetime midfield.
Like The Fab Four - not necessarily the 4 best musicians individually but as a line up, they nailed it!
 




Kosh

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Man it got a bit depressing in this thread after 22 mins or so.

I know, “I kind of lost my shit” is an excuse of sorts BUT come on ! We’re not world beaters, try to enjoy the ride… even if, you know… we get lost in France for a bit… ahem.



🎸🎸🎸🎸

“Bonnie, bonnie bonnie… etc. and etc.”
 




Justice

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Jun 21, 2012
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Looking increasingly like a once in a lifetime midfield.
Yes some our fans thought we would just find another one straight away because we’ve had some luck with Caceido and Mac. It was always impossible to keep that up and maybe we tried to sign a ready made midfielder and it didn’t get across the line who knows.
I’m not complaining only idiots will slag off RDZ if we lose a few games. I’m annoyed our midfield duo didn’t give us an extra season in Europe football really is about the money now I guess.
 


Eric the meek

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Shocking first half. Great comeback in the second. What happened? The half-time talk.

The moral? Tape the half-time talk and play it again before every game in the future.
 




Weststander

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Aug 25, 2011
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Without being adequately replaced. Dahood isn't up to it and Baleba isn't being played. And we haven't really replaced Mwepu either and we got nothing for him, poor lad.

Potter had Bissouma, Caicedo, Mwepu and MacAllister available to him and played all four in his big winning streak that everyone suddenly thought made him a genius, RDZ is trying to wring out domestic and European football with worse.

A £20m insurance payout?
 








Icy Gull

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Jul 5, 2003
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Not read the match thread but RDZ really needs to find a plan B for how we start games when players are not drawn into the press. The passing and challenging in the first half was lacklustre League One quality, absolute shite

So much better in the last 15 of the first half and the second
 










Nobby Cybergoat

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Jul 19, 2021
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Agree that we've yet to find the right blend in midfield. Turns out Caicedo is pretty hard to replace. Dahoud and Gross does look a little one paced

Also up front. We're still not holding it that well.
 


zefarelly

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Velt Man according to my stream.
Same . . In SLow motion . . . Hey V e l t . . . . M . a . n . . . . Got any weed.
Looking increasingly like a once in a lifetime midfield.
Was it ever? All good players, mostly yoof/fringe in G pots eyes, although they did get there, they can't have all played together . . . . We didn't play 2-4-2 until Bobtalian arrived.
 






Greenbag50

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Jun 1, 2016
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Not just that, but the way I see it is that our DM is the transition area to the attacking sequences when receiving the ball from passes out out at the back - therefore our DMs require not just good defensive intelligence but be naturally very attack-minded and have excellent spatial and positional awareness this Billy G has in buckets -

- however that alone is not enough, it also requires a thorough understanding of where every other player is, where they will be running into and what their role is - Gilmour finally has that after a patchy last season - without those skills, the double pivot doesn’t work as well and our de Zerbi- specific attacking sequences reach a MF block of opposition forwards who dispossess us ( if not directly on 1:2:1, then in picking up the second ball) - Which happened repeatedly in the first half - OM then counter attacked very high allowing them to take advantage of the De Zerbi ball vulnerability in defence.

Practice practice practice …we’ll get there with most of the newer players but it’s a learning curve and unfortunately rotation into the lineup is the only way they will get there.
Spot on
 




Bodian

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May 3, 2012
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Just watching the highlights back - commentator just before Gross' goal said something along the lines of Marseille being down to 10. Was one of them injured at the time?
 






jordanseagull

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Feb 11, 2009
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I don’t recall MacAllister having the best of starts when he came into the first team ??

I truly believe Dahoud and Baleba will be our MacAllister and Caicedo this season- get the dodgy bedding in performances in early doors and watch them shine when it matters in the business end of things 👍
I think you’re deluded if you think Dahoud is going to be a la Macallister. Baleba, let’s hope.
 


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