So frustrating isn’t it. He’s so good, but he’s almost a counter tactician. The players at his disposal today were far better than Newcastle’s. I have great respect for them, but we should have beaten them given their start to the season.
Brilliant manager, coach and technician, the best we’ve ever had. So good at analysing top opposition who will play their own style to try and beat us.
Whenever we’re the underdog we seem to out perform expectation, always in performance and often with results. However, as soon as the onus is on us to dictate a game we should win we largely fail. He can’t instil a game plan that gets results.
He talks a lot about ‘personality’, but the next step in our evolution has to be to find a way to put sides we should be beating to the sword. We need our own ‘personality’. It’s his biggest failing and he’s not ready for a ‘big club’ until he can master it. Good news for us I guess.
Selecting Veltman was a mistake, he was off the pace and offered nothing going forward....
Selecting March was a mistake, he offered nothing other than being a body on the pitch.
Not Potters fault, but Mwepu going off lost us the midfield and in my view the win.
Moder should have replaced Mwepu in my view, Potter was responsible for that of course.
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Got as far as 'would of'.......................I’m confident Lewandowski would of put away at least one of the Lamptey cross the Lamptey chance and the perfect ball from Trossard that Cucurella got all wrong. Shame we didn’t show any ambition in the summer Arsenal could of bought us a decent striker if you look at it differently with the BW transfer.
So frustrating isn’t it. He’s so good, but he’s almost a counter tactician. The players at his disposal today were far better than Newcastle’s. I have great respect for them, but we should have beaten them given their start to the season.
Graham has to realise that you can't play the same way against the bottom team at home that has just been successful against the top team away.
Passing the ball around the pitch at the back to create space and player overloads has proved to work against a top side but was completely pointless yesterday because they were making sure they didn't get moved out of their defensive shape. The gameplan is now widely known amongst the bottom teams in the league.
Maybe we need to be more direct against this approach, play two upfront and wingers. We would have been better off giving them the ball more so they committed players forward and then try and exploit the gaps. Trouble is we are so slow at breaking now which has to be addressed. I've lost count of the number of times Lallana gets the ball to feet, unmarked, with acres of space and automatically passes the ball back to where it came from. What is the point of that?
It's been going on a long time now and is realised by the crowd pretty early on hence the poor atmosphere at these games.
The negative tenor of this thread is bizzare. Unless I am mistaken we are currently 6th in the premier League a position we could only have dreamed of last season. Football is a game of incidents, accidents and mistakes and we've seen them all this season. No team wins all the matches it is "supposed to" otherwise city would have beaten Palace and Liverpool would have beaten us. It's a the unpredictability of the game that makes it good to watch.
Of course we can always be better, the game was poor but for goodness sake if we are going to beat all the"teams we should" and a lot of better teams we shouldn't we would be top of the league. I don't think many of us expect that.
If you expect to beat a team, you dont know shit about football - simple.
The issue is more technical than "can't win games we should win".
The problem is this:
Big teams who are confident against us = They come out and play, we have space to attack, we can play our game.
Lesser teams who are not so confident against us = 10/11 behind the ball, we have space to play infront of them, but we can't break through the crowd and struggle to score.
The challenge we have is to improve our work in very tight spaces in the forward areas. Give us space for a counter and we are deadly. But park the bus and we struggle find a way through it.
All ball playing sides have this problem, but they are usually able to solve it because they are usually very rich sides, they play this way because they have amazing players and they often find a way in key moments to break through.
The truth is we are probably playing a level / style of football which is a little on the bold side for the players we have. But they can work on it, they can improve. Over time the players we have will get better (most are young), Potter will try to help them, we will strengthen the squad over time etc. I'm not saying this squad can't play this way. Just that we are coming up against an inevitable problem when you do. If we manage to solve this problem permanently it will probably be after a combination of 1) our best players reaching their full potential, and b) further strengthening over coming windows.
Not really, just gave you an invitation to planet Earth where we live and Brighton are in no way in a "should beat team X" situation. Every game is a battle for points. If you expect to beat a team, you dont know shit about football - simple.
Pep Guardiolas Man City lost to Palace a week or two ago. Might not be ready for a big club.
About "teams we should beat" there is a collision of reality and fantasy:
The reality is that there are no such teams. There are no teams like that, not for Manchester City and certainly not for Brighton.
Obviously, the record against bottom teams involves Grahams tactics and choices. He makes mistakes. And when the team plays well, its also partly because of him. But the players on the pitch is, in success and failure, always the most important part in determining the outcome of a game. There is an almost frightening correlation between wages and where you end up in the league. Because player quality is the number one determining factor - and while we are saying "this and this guy, look how great they are" others are saying "look at the nice results GP is getting with such a shit squad". The truth is somewhere in between. Its a decent team with decent players and could overachieve compared to wage budget, but there are no "should" beat teams.