Brighton (A) | Post-Match Thread

[Withnail]

The officiating tonight was beyond a joke. How did the Brighton player that took Gundogan only get a yellow and that was a penalty for the challenge on Jesus. Just pray that Ilkay is OK for the CL.

 

[bballchinaski]

hadnt watch such a bent refereeing for a while. glad city didnt need the game cause tha was a scam of a match

 

[Gabriel]

Surprised by Brighton. We were obviously going through the motions and using that as a training game ahead of the CL, but they were putting in some serious challenges even before the sending off. Football people know when the opponent is stepping over the mark, and that was the case tonight. That might bite them next season.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Celebrating like they’ve won the champions league when they’ve basically had it handed to them by the referee

No offence mate, but I absolutely hate it when our fans give other sets of fans shit for celebrating beating us. They’ve just beaten the team that’s just won the title, if they didn’t celebrate like that, especially after not attending for 15 months and it being their last home game of the season, there’s something bleedin wrong with them!

When we beat Chelsea in 2004-05 I went on the piss for two days.

 

[Paulpowersleftfoot]

It’s very difficult to really get a handle on it
It’s either corrupt or utterly incompetent
Too hard to judge

 

[LesBleuMiserable]

Potter shoukd be fucking embarrassed shaking peps hand

Why what happened? What was the handbags about at the end?

 

[vmsuhail]

Don't understand why many are complaining against Brighton, or want them relegated. They play good football. It's the job of the refs to handle strong tackles and penalize them.

 

[jimmymozz]

Well done Brighton, but without stating the obvious (sending off, Gundogan injury), I thought Rodri was very lazy, few poor refereeing decisions. Had it been more to play for, then the team would of put a bit more effort in. And why is Garcia still playing?, he’s decided to leave, if we wasn’t gonna take Walker, give an academy player a spot on the bench.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

All in all good practice to stress our defense, let's be honest it would have been a much easier game for us without the red card.

We would have cruised it

 

[ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN]

No problem with the performance

No problem with Brighton winning

But BT not once mentioned they beat 10 men over 80min

Ref and Var were fucking awful

So fuck off BT you biased bunch of fuckers, VAR and the ref

 

[Phoenix900000]

Disgrace. No other word

 

[Phil Mitchell Foden]

Does anyone rate Rodri? He's not fit to lace Fernandinho's boots, and the man is 36 years old for fuck's sake.

 

[paulsimpson]

The result doesn’t matter. The farcical refereeing does. When is someone with balls going to call this out.
Thought Brighton played well. Bossouma looks a good player. I can see why would be linked.
not like Pep to go nuts at Potter. they are pals. If brighton were more robust than usual then that’s on the referee.
Hope Gundo is fine.
chill blues and just savour Phil’s goal.

Well he said something like " no respect " to him.

 

[SWPISHOME]

But the two things are linked. We've seen it before. Referee allows our opponents to get away with fouls that we get punished for, and before long, they've injured one of our players.

The bias from the commentary was ridiculous. You can have an opinion either way about the potential Jesus penalty, but they literally didn't even mention the possibility that it could be a penalty until it was confirmed that VAR were checking it. I honestly thought when they stopped the game that they were going to try and claim a penalty in our box for Dias(?) being dragged back.

Agree with all that. Stone wall foul on Gundogan and nothing given and to make matters worse he picks up an injury from the foul.
The foul on Jesus in the area and nothing given...We could go on all night about the officials it was that bad. Genuinely up their with the worst I've ever seen tonight it was horrendous.

BT Sport were a fucking joke too, Shit station along with their shit commentators.

 

[WestGorton]

One of the most bent games of football I’ve seen in a very very long time

after what I’ve seen so far in tonight’s matches.. I’m convinced the PL have instructed the officials in the matches that have nothing riding on them to look after the home teams as a reward to the fans

even so it was 12 v 9 for 80 minutes and we were playing 1970 Brazil in front of 80,000 rabid ultras if you believe the two cocks commentating

4 decisions ...

Our red card
Their non red card
Their offside goal
Our non given pen

and they were just the major bent decisions.. there were probably about a dozen more shake your head decisions that didn’t lead to anything

It was for the masses to bring us down. However we should have killed the same game after Fodens goal

 

[Platt Lane veteran]

This is what frightens me to death for the Final. An unjust red card, or some other VAR farce. 11 v 11, a level playing field and we’re good. There’s other things we just can’t control though.

 

[5 Hit Gibbon]

Bent as fuck. It was 5 yards in front of him.

 

[Manc in London]

Never had a problem with Brighton , but after that, I hope Pep and the players remember that, I certainly will as a fan, and I hope next season we absolutely fuckin smash these cunts !

We seem to play them at the season's end. We may get the pleasure of sending them down :)

 

[m7mcfc]

Dead Rubber but shocking after Cancello got sent off. Garcia will do well to get any game time with Barcelona after that performance. Rodri makes too many mistakes in the middle. Defence was too shaky without Walker. Just hope Kev and Gundo are ok for the big one.

Barcelona B player if he is lucky. Will be at a Segunda side within a year.

 

[the old abbey]

Garcia at the end. Professional footballer can't hit the target from about 12 yds. Shame on you. Good riddance, and your pal rodri won't be playing in the final either.