[Albion] Wolverhampton Wanderers vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

[BN41Albion]

I'm not going to make any judgements on a couple of kids making up the numbers.
We were much better around the box when Welbeck came on, much more important than people give him credit for.

Yep - load of nonsense on here tonight. We have 9 injuries ffs in what's been a season of injury woes. Amazing we are where we are really. Not sure who some folk on here suddenly seem to think we are.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Why are you blaming just Steele? I saw many errors in that goal.

Clumsy wording. What I meant was that they didn’t have to do anything great to get a goal.

 

[Hometownglory]

Another evening of Potter-ball. Domination, but no goals. I know he's flair and all that, and doesn't speak with a somewhere-in-the-grotty-midlands accent, but is de Zerbi actually that much better than Potter? Goy us to 6th. last season, our highest ever position - fine - but did it thanks to a Potter-ball flying start to the season. At the time of that 5-2 thrashing of Leicester, the team was really cooking ...................................

We sold Mac and Moises and replaced them with Baleba.

 

[tigertim68]

De Zerbi is miles better than Potter.

We would often lose games like that, whilst never taking the sort of risks De zerbi demands of us.

Potter's hot streak happened when he had a midfield of Bissouma, Caicedo, MacAllister, Mwepu

I'd like to have seen what De zerbi could have done with those players at his disposal

We had 3 of those last season and we finished sixth

 

[OzMike]

I just woke up, so that's that then for another season.

 

[Dick Head]

Annoyingly correct, Dear Friend

it was a self refilling prophecy

 

[Greg Bobkin]

I just woke up, so that's that then for another season.

Hope you had a good sleep, at least...

 

[AlbionBro]

Clumsy wording. What I meant was that they didn’t have to do anything great to get a goal.

No worries, I totally agree we gave it to them, but by many players not being switched. I don't get why some only see the keeper to blame.

 

[Beanstalk]

Thought we played pretty well bizarrely. Frustrating to lose that. Ultimately, if you concede in the first minute against an organised and unambitious side like wolves it’s very hard to win.

 

[GT49er]

De Zerbi is miles better than Potter.

We would often lose games like that, whilst never taking the sort of risks De zerbi demands of us.

Potter's hot streak happened when he had a midfield of Bissouma, Caicedo, MacAllister, Mwepu

I'd like to have seen what De zerbi could have done with those players at his disposal

So did de Zerbi (OK, not much of Mwepu) and Bissouma had gone when Potter's team were thrashing the likes of Leicester and looking like world-beaters. id you relly, honestly, watch the Leicester match and think, OK, we need a better manager now to take us forward?
Calling 'liar' if you say you did!

 

[Uh_huh_him]

I’m mystified by this new trope that we don’t have a big enough squad. How many players do people think we should have for each position? Even without Veltman, Milner, March, Lamptey, Mitoma, Gilmour, Pedro, Ferguson and Hinshelwood we can still field a decent side. Cloud cuckoo land.

The truth is that we have one of the smallest squads in the Premier League.
With 4 ( I think) places not taken.

We have a lot of high quality U21s to bolster the numbers, but we did have space to increase the size of the squad to help us come through a difficult Jan - March.

 

[amexer]

I'm not going to make any judgements on a couple of kids making up the numbers.
We were much better around the box when Welbeck came on, much more important than people give him credit for.

Agree. On basis Academy team is to get players to first team I would release both Baker-Boaitey and Peupion. Both had attacking roles and contributed nothing. Have been about a couple of years and a long way off. Watching Peupion I can see why he was rarely selected when on loan.

 

[Bodian]

Positives were the return of Enciso who will get injured again very soon if he keeps getting targeted like he was

Yes - this worries me.

 

[tigertim68]

No worries, I totally agree we gave it to them, but by many players not being switched. I don't get why some only see the keeper to blame.

Because it was Steele who gave away the goal , it was his mistake , always difficult when you go one down so early in a match
then right at the end of the match he could of been a hero , but f—-ed that up as well , our best chance of The match ,
but saying that we never looked like equalising,

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Another evening of Potter-ball. Domination, but no goals. I know he's flair and all that, and doesn't speak with a somewhere-in-the-grotty-midlands accent, but is de Zerbi actually that much better than Potter? Goy us to 6th. last season, our highest ever position - fine - but did it thanks to a Potter-ball flying start to the season. At the time of that 5-2 thrashing of Leicester, the team was really cooking ...................................

I think that RDZ is on the same management path at Brighton as Potter followed - started brightly, change of style, lots of nice football, but becomes susceptible to goals on the counter. Changes things up defensively but in doing so stop scoring at the other end... this is where RDZ is now. Potter eventually got it right at both ends of the pitch and the results were top 4 level, then he left for a big club. If we get to experience the perfect RDZ ball I expect he will do the same...

 

[Cordwainer]

Shame Adingra and Fati didn’t swap sides as Adingra so much better on the left. Baleba whilst a bit rough round the edges at least offers good athleticism in the middle and played some forward passes into the box. Enciso looked good in his 20 mins or so and loved Barcos cameo..has the distinct look of the nutter about him. Goodnight a good game as well.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Yep - load of nonsense on here tonight. We have 9 injuries ffs in what's been a season of injury woes. Amazing we are where we are really. Not sure who some folk on here suddenly seem to think we are.

Yep, no centre forward available, probably rather not have played Becks but he put a shift in anyway, and we play with a load of kids. I mean, at times our final balls were poor, but I still think much of our football is great to watch.

There’s a make shift midfield and then there’s tonight, and they still looked in control for most the night. Yes that final bit of quality was absent, but yeah 9 players out, and many we’re bringing through ahead of schedule.

 

[GT49er]

Agree. On basis Academy team is to get players to first team I would release both Baker-Boaitey and Peupion. Both had attacking roles and contributed nothing. Have been about a couple of years and a long way off. Watching Peupion I can see why he was rarely selected when on loan.

He was rarely selected when on loan because shortly after he joined Cheltenham brought in a new manager who didn't believe in using 'yoof'.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

So did de Zerbi (OK, not much of Mwepu) and Bissouma had gone when Potter's team were thrashing the likes of Leicester and looking like world-beaters. id you relly, honestly, watch the Leicester match and think, OK, we need a better manager now to take us forward?
Calling 'liar' if you say you did!

No I didn't think we needed a better manager, and I'll go one further. I didn't think we' d get one.
But we did.

De Zerbi has consistently had his best performing players taken away from him and has carried on producing results.

It's worth remembering that in amongst Potter's great start, there was a typically woeful performance at Fulham.
There was no guarantees that Potter would have taken us any further than he had the season before.

 

[OzMike]

Got to stop giving sway those early goals somehow. It seems signiture for us now and we are always playing catch up.