Brighton (A) | Post-Match Thread

[mick10]

I just don't have the vocabulary to adequately relay my feelings about this specimen with the whistle. I can't call him a referee because he exhibited not one ounce of the comprehension nor skill of the two refs we had in the CL semi legs. Mike Riley should be wholly embarrassed at sending such an ill-equipped person to do a job he is manifestly incapable of handling.

How civil

 

[The perfect fumble]

 

[Stoned Rose]

I think you get impressed by pass completion stat percentages from a conservative passer of the ball in the most dominant possession side in Europe, and don't understand what you're watching. There we have it.

There isn't a single attribute Rodri has over Fernandinho besides height and strength, and even then he regularly gets done shoulder to shoulder, and put on his arse, in a way you don't see happen to Fernandinho, even at the ripe old age of 36.

Rodri is a glaring weakness in this side. In a key area of the pitch.

Fern is 5x the player Rodri is.

Literally, night and day.

 

[birchwoodgingerste]

It wasn’t. They drew the lines after the match. It wasn’t even close.

Yeh with a paint roller!:))

 

[paulsimpson]

Ref was a twat and the commentary was appalling. But we didn’t play well - the defence lacked composure not helped by Garcia who was gash. We must have had someone better than Garcia to bring on
Foden was good but Mahrez did very little. When we scored the second goal I thought we’d go on to win but as soon as they scored we seemed to lack belief. Dead rubber so who gives a fuck - just hope Gundog is ok

Well Mahrez must cover that right side - he didnt and we suffered quite a lot.

 

[laserblue]

Atwell was demoted from the Premier League list of referees in 2012 for being shit. Looks like we now know how shit.

 

[blue12]

BT haven’t even gone over the penalty decision ffs. Horrendous by the officials that and they got pretty much everything wrong.
Pep needs to call this bullshit out just to put more pressure on the useless fuckers.
Pep thankfully didn’t look overly concerned about Gundogan so hopefully he will be fine.

 

[Manc in London]

Jon Moss as VAR at a club owned by Tony Bloom. Nobody should be in the least bit surprised at any of that especially the last penalty incident with Lalana. I’d wager there was a slightly better angle that he didn’t look at........

There have been rumours in the Football is Fixed blog for a while that claims Mr Bloom is big in match fixing. Of course, I am not saying that is the case.

 

[coolcity]

I know it probably wasnt even a foul but smart players read the situation; your away at tin pot brighton, the ref’s a total gullible clean shirt just looking to jump on the bandwagon and theres a bunch of overexcited southern wankers giving it the full force of bias.

Dont even touch the opposition player and give the ref a chance to send you off - and its welbeck on his left foot with the ball bouncing high. The XG in that situation is almost negative

The way it went tonight, Welbeck would have probably fallen over and got the pen even if there had been nobody anywhere near him. The annoying thing is we never get those.

 

[willipp]

Boiled my piss watching that tonight, would quite happily stamp on that **** of a refs head. The challenge on gundo was a disgrace and end to end he utterly shafted us.
Only positive is it was a real good workout and maybe what a few of them needed. Foden looked fucked at the end and his goal was pure class. Other than that a fucking shit night and easily forgotten.

 

[FAManCity]

I very much liked the game today. And no i'm not crazy, but this is to turn on the players a bit and not have them relaxed. And it helped as we realised we need to try and be focused all the time or else we can lose.
A nice wake up call! I liked it.
I hope everything is ok with Gundo.

Of course fuck @ff referees and the whole PL system that is against us.


I hope for a
Ederson
Walker Dias Stones Zin
Silva Fernandinho Gundo
Mahrez KDB Foden
60 minutes game in the final PL game in order to get some CL final warmup, and then 5 changes of some midfield players to give them some rest.

We can only do three changes. Sorry to correct you. Maybe bring on Agüero for KDB , Torres for Gundo and Sterling for Bernardo.

 

[bluwes]

Brighton has an owner involved in far east betting

Tony Bloom, people need to read about him

 

[carlosthejackal]

Can someone point me to the rule that you can’t commit a dangerous tackle if you’ve got a bent leg ? Or the rule that connecting with a players ankle before the ball is not a penalty?

 

[OntarioBlue]

Exactly why they need to get rid of the old boys club, and get independents to run it. No coincidence that the versions they have in Cricket/Rugby run like a dream, and the fans are in the loop. Mic the fuckers up as well.

VAR will only work when the whole review process is transparent, just as it is in cricket. When the VAR knows their decisions are being scrutinised they will start getting it right. The officials have to be miked up.

 

[birchwoodgingerste]

Can't catch up on the whole thread but are you talking about the offside given from our throw ?

Yeh they give a push by bernardo

 

[der bomber28]

Brighton has an owner involved in far east betting

There was something on the football is fixed website on this. Concerning Brighton, certain refs, and odd betting patterns/results.

 

[creditunionhero]

Foul throw

It was a foul throw, but they were awarded a free kick, so the decision made was not for a foul throw.

 

[oddfellows]

Sounds encouraging

 

[bluemoonste]

At the end of the day all that matters is the Gundogan injury

it was 12 v 9 for 80 minutes

the twelve were well up for it. The 9 just wanted the game over and get on the coach in one piece

I'd go with 13 v 9

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

At least they can retire the Norwich 3-2 loss now.