Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Passing game seems to be coming together nicely, considering the number of players out at the moment. Encouraging.
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Thoughts so far on our football this season?
- Thread starter Icy Gull
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Think it will be a long season. The back to back away matches at Reading and QPR next month will give us something to benchmark against. Anything more than a point from those two would be an excellent return.
I've not enjoyed it as much so far, I think there is still plenty of room for improvement, but I'm confident we're getting there based on the improvement yesterday over the derby game.
I think there's not enough movement off the ball, if our opponents put it in the air we seem more inclined to keep it in the air than last season and I don't think heading is a strength of this brighton side (except when it gets to Ulloa). I'm not sure I feel as if we control games as much as we did last season. Yesterday it seemed like Burnley were poor when they didn't have the ball, but when they had it they threatened, even when down to ten men it didn't feel like we controlled things. Late in the game we were passing it around our defence with very little pressure from burnley, so it felt more like burnley surrendering the game than us controlling it.
But with injuries, Agustien and Lopez still gaining match fitness after missing out on pre-season with us I'm hopeful of our football improving to the point it surpasses the last couple of seasons.
I think there's not enough movement off the ball, if our opponents put it in the air we seem more inclined to keep it in the air than last season and I don't think heading is a strength of this brighton side (except when it gets to Ulloa). I'm not sure I feel as if we control games as much as we did last season. Yesterday it seemed like Burnley were poor when they didn't have the ball, but when they had it they threatened, even when down to ten men it didn't feel like we controlled things. Late in the game we were passing it around our defence with very little pressure from burnley, so it felt more like burnley surrendering the game than us controlling it.
But with injuries, Agustien and Lopez still gaining match fitness after missing out on pre-season with us I'm hopeful of our football improving to the point it surpasses the last couple of seasons.
Lord Bracknell
On fire
Yes, but ... Burnley looked particularly vulnerable at times, particularly early on, to an attack from our right.