Match Thread | Brighton vs. Manchester City (31/08/25)

[RobinHood]

RAN , marmoush , Bobb and Reijnders have been poor

Ait- Nouri has had a mare there, Bernardo invisible. Bobb been our best player so far

Which one is it? Thought Bobb was OK.

 

[geek24601]

What a difference Rodri makes. Can play better but happy with that half.

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Not sure of his best position but Bobb looks supremely talented to me. He has extremely quick feet and a good football IQ.

 

[Akiva]

Grew into that well, very encouraging

 

[alexmcity]

 

[thebiglug]

Where did you send this from?

Asus iPad 10.1.

 

[Dazzle84]

Think Bernardo needs to come off for O'Reilly or Gonzalez he's not offering anything

He's doing an understated job - dropping to give Trafford another option, moving the ball & plugging gaps.

He was mince last week, but having a decent game today

 

[bluethai]

Overall okayish, but Ait Nouri and Marmoush should have made more quick, simple passes instead of holding the ball too long and making unnecessary trick passes.

 

[uwerosler28]

Nope - lightweight and losing possession too often.

Bollocks Bobb has been absolutely class on the ball, also the goal doesn't happen if it wasn't for his driving run.

 

[Betterdeedthan red]

Where did you send this from?

Might be from his asus iPad.
What ever that is

 

[remember arthur mann]

Haaland ploughing a lonely furrow.

 

[Gordyola]

I thought that. The extra time was over by a few seconds so why not blow for the end of the half.

Because in the main the type of people who become refs are those who would say “it’s the rules”
He’s allowing Brighton players to pull shirts and go in late without doing anything about it

 

[Macca77macca]

JOHNNY JOHNNY STONES

just because

 

[jamielowndes]

Yeah the defenders are doing it as well, so as to not put him under pressure

Even saw Stones telling Trafford to hoof it

Makes sense. A couple of times he has put a defender under pressure perhaps unnecessarily. He's doing OK for now though from what I've seen.

 

[CPPSC]

Where did you send this from?

His anus no sorry Asus

 

[jimharri]

Good to see the match thread on form.

 

[HorlocksWalk]

Asus iPad 10.1.

No one uses tap a talk any more

 

[ninjamonkey]

Eh?!

He's got one assist and would have another if Haaland hadn't scuffed a one on one right at the keeper.

Assist but it was pure luck, poor first touch and was about to lose it until haaland pounced, got lucky it went in our favour.

 

[samuelyeboah]

Need to figure out how to get the best out of ait nouri

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

I think structurally this season so far we look a lot more solid. Even the goals last week came from a Stones slip and giving possession away rather than anything structural.

I see a solid foundation for this team and think it’s just a matter of the new players bedding in which will take a bit of time. Think it’s really promising considering we did much worse overall in these three fixtures last year no matter what happens in the rest of this game.