[Albion] The goal against Liverpool - liquid football

[chaileyjem]

Johnny Cantor on Radio Sussex called it "Rock n' roll football" in his commentary.

 

[origigull]

I remember thinking as we were passing the ball around that if we score here it would be tremendous team goal. Strange how MoTD didn't pick up on this. Any other top 6 team scoring that goal would have had a propper analysis.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I logged onto NSC this evening expecting there to already be a thread about this...

The match was at 1:15pm my time today, and I was working; I watched it in the office, delayed, but even then I was somewhat distracted. So when I got home this evening I watched the whole thing again (well, you would, wouldn't you?).

The commentator on NBC make a comment about the move (that ultimately produced the goal) while it was still in progress, so I went back and analysed the whole thing. It started with a loose Liverpool pass deflecting off another Red and into the path of Bissouma. This was then the sequence of "possessions", with the number indicating the number of touches by each player:-

Bissouma - 2
Trossard - 3
Alzate - 2
Webster - 1
Burn -1
Maupay - 2
Burn - 1
Trossard - 1
Bissouma - 1
Gross - 4
March - 4
Burn - 1
Trossard - 1
Alzate - 1

So, a move that stretched three-quarters of the pitch, with 14 different possessions. 8 different Albion players were involved, there were 25 touches in total, and there were 8 one-touch involvements (including all 3 by Burn).

And all this against the Premier League Champions.

Away from home.

Is this the highest-quality, team goal that Brighton and Hove Albion have ever scored?

I think it was. I was watching the game with my scouse pal, Bob, and we were talking, and after about the fourth pass I realised something was brewing and said 'hang on, watch this'. In silence we watched my team slice his team apart. Then my pal sort of slumped, head in hands. I had to go in the other room momentarily.

Fantastic reportage, as always, AZ

For old timers, this has been preserved on the interweb and shows how we sliced Villa apart during their brief tenure in the lower leagues (this was first game up on MOTD at the time - incredible for tier 3):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7yrZUds3_A