[Albion] Premier League 18-20/1/25

[Weststander]

I remember some of those keeper performances and there were some incredible saves in there.

From memory: Nick Pope, Ben Foster, David Marshall and probably others.

Let one in and we would have won the game(s).

So you’re saying the multiple people on here were all wrong? Bold.

NSC has been saying this about keepers since August 11. Claiming stacks of saves are worldies. Tide.

 

[VAL1850]

Good game, both managers booked, Arse surrender two goal lead, expect full scale whinging at 90 mins...

 

[WhingForPresident]

Arsenal pissing their pants about Villa timewasting

 

[Seagull58]

I'm enjoying this match now. A red card for the goblin for coming out of his area to scream at an official/player/coach/fan would be lovely.

 

[Flounce]

Good game, both managers booked, Arse surrender two goal lead, expect full scale whinging at 90 mins...

Probably go on to lose, they are very fragile when the pressure is on

 

[WATFORD zero]

I am just dreaming of being in the mix, not ending up in mid to lower table mediocrity

At least a point tomorrow.

One man's mid table mediocrity is another man's top 30 teams in the world

 

[Hugo Rune]

Can't remember the shot on target to off target ratio but we did have loads of shots, presumably why our xg was incredibly good for a couple of seasons. The problem we had was actually scoring.

Indeed.

These are the stats from THAT Sheffield Utd home draw.

Like so many of Potter’s games around that period, we played like a top 6 EPL team but with Sunday League shooting.

The Potter Out Campaign always blamed him but when you looked at the firepower he had at his disposal (Connolly, Maupay, Jahanbakhsh etc) it’s not that surprising that we rarely scored despite creating brilliant chances.

 

[Hendrax]

I am just dreaming of being in the mix, not ending up in mid to lower table mediocrity

At least a point tomorrow.

Not sure its dreaming, being 6 points from 6th with a game in hand, 17 left to play and 51 points to battle for...at least for me its definitely a great chance.

 

[Flounce]

One man's mid table mediocrity is another man's top 30 teams in the world

True but who enjoys the last 10 games of a season being dead rubbers? I don’t and fortunately Albion don’t do it too often

But if it floats your boat to think, hey we are going nowhere but we are one of the top 30 teams in the world, enjoy

 

[tstanbur]

NSC has been saying this about keepers since August 11. Claiming stacks of saves are worldies. Tide.

Maybe if so many people say the same things they might be true?

 

[WATFORD zero]

True but who enjoys the last 10 games of a season being dead rubbers? I don’t and fortunately Albion don’t do it too often

True enough

But if it floats your boat to think, hey we are going nowhere but we are one of the top 30 teams in the world, enjoy

But having spent well over 90% of my time supporting the Albion dreaming of just that, I am quite enjoying it

 

[tstanbur]

NSC has been saying this about keepers since August 11. Claiming stacks of saves are worldies. Tide.

Not just NSC. You mentioned the Cardiff game. Plenty of other examples

Brighton & Hove Albion 1-1 Cardiff City

Cardiff goalkeeper David Marshall frustrates Brighton with a flurry of fine second-half saves in a draw.

www.bbc.com

Here’s the Ben Foster game. It happened.

Brighton 0-0 Watford: Ben Foster makes string of saves to earn Hornets draw

Watford goalkeeper Ben Foster made a string of saves to prevent Brighton from claiming their first league win of 2019.

www.bbc.com

 

[Weststander]

Maybe if so many people say the same things they might be true?

All ten of them. Persil.

 

[Han Solo]

I’m questioning xG. When we were inept up front in more ways than one **, xG became a big nsc and media Albion talking point for about two years. We were apparently churning out these European place numbers up front, a fox in the box away from glory days.

But it really wasn’t like that at games.

** there were some interesting discussions about that here. Imho it’s one thing that cannot be blamed on Potter. When a midfielder/striker wastes a team foray forward with a pathetic daisy-cutter, when it wasn’t even a good opening, that’s 100% down to the player.

But it was like that at games. There's literally videos of it. The whole football world was joking about it. People here were joking about it, daily.

Not a lot of dicussions are interesting when you realise most people don't have a memory with the capacity of correctly recollecting what happened years ago. Emotions sneak in and distort reality. Its very difficult to have interesting discussions with people (not necessarily you) when people constantly alter their world view based on what their hormones are telling them.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

But its very difficult to have interesting discussions with people (not necessarily you) when people constantly alter their world view based on what their hormones are telling them.

You having a pop at females?

 

[Justice]

I am just dreaming of being in the mix, not ending up in mid to lower table mediocrity

At least a point tomorrow.

Rather win one lose one draws are pointless well apart from one obviously

NSC has been saying this about keepers since August 11. Claiming stacks of saves are worldies. Tide.

If our keeper had let in any of those I would have been annoyed, Pope especially all straight at him. March was clean through and ran into him pathetic that was.

 

[oldboyroy]

It's not only us that can throw away 2 goal leads, title challengers do too!

 

[Justice]

Indeed.

These are the stats from THAT Sheffield Utd home draw.


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Like so many of Potter’s games around that period, we played like a top 6 EPL team but with Sunday League shooting.

The Potter Out Campaign always blamed him but when you looked at the firepower he had at his disposal (Connolly, Maupay, Jahanbakhsh etc) it’s not that surprising that we rarely scored despite creating brilliant chances.

Welbeck? People often forget him under Potter.

 

[Justice]

You having a pop at females?

I know what a bitch

 

[Silverhatch]

Depends what you are expecting this season. Personally think it’s to late to be serious about Europe although nothing wrong with dreaming.

How the f*** is it too late about Europe? Honest observation.