[Albion] Southampton vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

[the right footed denilson]

Horseshite. We were 5/1 with the bookies tonight for a reason. Away wins at established PL clubs do not come easy.

We are still building the quality of our squad buying off the 3rd or 4th shelf.

That is a good point tonight.

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Okay, so same question put differently- where are we getting the points?

 

[kevo]

I know exactly how you feel. Same old performances/tactics week after week

Except the tactics were completely different against Chelsea. No-one can accuse us of being defensive in that game! Oh, and we lost 4-0 btw.

 

[portslade seagull]

That is symptomatic of the "we must stay in the Premier League at all costs" culture at the moment. I feel that those fans who think it'd be utter disaster for us to go down can't criticise the reserved tactics of Chris. He's putting an 11 out there who are hard to beat, similar to Southampton. At the end of the day we only have to outlast three teams. When we've gone more attacking (like against Chelsea) in a 3-5-2 we've conceded easily, even if we've played more positively. If this style gives us 1-1 instead of 0-1, it's the right way for us to stay up. Add Southampton to the list of Newcastle, West Brom, Swansea and Watford who haven't/can't beat us overall in the two games this year.

But they've all taken points of the top 6, something we can't do

 

[clarkey]

I'll be honest I'm a bit depressed - Saints I think are the worst team in the league and will probably sack their manager but they played us off the park. Hoping we can turn things round but the passing isn't good enough and we are not as good defensively as we thought early on in the season

Think our defending is excellent, given we essentially let teams attack us for 90 minutes every week. Ryan did not have a lot to do tonight, despite them having 65% of the ball.

 

[erkan]

Okay, so same question put differently- where are we getting the points?

Home to West Ham.

Will be like the West Brom game at The Amex.

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[Cheeky Monkey]

West Ham a must win.

 

[Driver8]

I’m beginning think Norwich were right about CH. Southampton were there for the taking (like Newcastle were) but we just sit back and sit back and then the inevitable happens.

 

[Justice]

Its a very rare treat winning away in the PL for the lower half of the table, don't think Burnley managed it once last season some deluded peeps on here

 

[djentist]

We are officially last season's Middlesbrough

 

[clippedgull]

No away League Goals (from open play) since November 4th @ Swansea.

 

[the right footed denilson]

Home to West Ham.

Will be like the West Brom game at The Amex.

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That's alright then. Fingers crossed.

 

[Kneon Light]

Horseshite. We were 5/1 with the bookies tonight for a reason. Away wins at established PL clubs do not come easy.

We are still building the quality of our squad buying off the 3rd or 4th shelf.

That is a good point tonight.

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People seem to forget we are in our first ever season in the premier league and playing against established teams.
We were 2nd favourites for relegation at the start of the season but have not been in the drop zone all season.
Every point we get will be well earned - especially away from home.
People calling 2 points from 4 games embarrassing should go support Manchester City as far as I'm concerned. Much better teams than us have had worse runs.

 

[Withdean]

Ten teams within ten points of bottom WBA.
NOTHING is settled.

 

[Justice]

But they've all taken points of the top 6, something we can't do

Did you really think we would?

 

[withdeanwombat]

West Ham 3, Swansea 3 Huddersfield 3 Leicester 3 Stoke 1 Burnley 1 Everton1.......would help.

 

[AZ Gull]

Add Southampton to the list of Newcastle, West Brom, Swansea and Watford who haven't/can't beat us overall in the two games this year.

I thought I saw us lose 2-0 to WBA in an abject performance, but hey ho.

 

[neilbard]

Moderate championship game tonight. We showed flourishes, but our attack was underpopulated.

....Premier League, you say? Well, blow me down.

A Poll man, where is the Poll? Moderate Championship game, for god sake man you need to produce a poll, attack underpopulated where is the poll?

 

[BN41Albion]

Its a very rare treat winning away in the PL for the lower half of the table, don't think Burnley managed it once last season some deluded peeps on here

But we're not winning at home either...

For the first time, im losing a bit of faith in hughton. His negativity and lack of substitutions until it's pretty much pointless is becoming increasingly frustrating...

 

[Shooting Star]

I thought I saw us lose 2-0 to WBA in an abject performance, but hey ho.

Yeah but we beat them 3-1 at home, meaning over the two matches they haven't gained anything over us head-to-head, if you see what I mean.

 

[sir albion]

Ten teams within ten points of bottom WBA.
NOTHING is settled.

We don't look like winning and barely look like scoring from open play....Got 2-0 hammers written all over it.