Brighton (A) - Sat 23 Oct 17:30 | Pre-Match Thread

[Leeky]

Last season's game there was odd. As you say they were dirty bastards and for some reason we're booing Foden, who shut them up by scoring, unfortunately we ended up losing. It will be another tough game

It was the first game with a crowd, referee heavily swayed by them and Joao got sent off

 

[Gray]

Flooked an equaliser against Palace in the dying seconds and have not scored in their next 2 games.

We should be able to win this match with the right team selection and proper application.

 

[Father Paul]

Brighton are organised & tight defensively - only City & Chelsea have conceded fewer this season. The fact that Brighton are 4th while averaging just one goal a game underlines this.

So 0-0 wouldn't be a shock ... except this is City, so could just as easily be 0-5.
(May depend on how many of the chances fall to Sterling !)

Very few if he is sat on the bench were on current form he deserves to be. That said I have a feeling he might score.

 

[Father Paul]

I think it's more to do with the last game against them.

We played them a week or two before the champions league final and they literally kicked fuck out of us.

Their players knew they were able to get away with it so kept doing it.

Well I actually did not see this game but a lot of people seem to be upset that these Brighton Brutes gave our boys a good going over. Well if we had of got up off our asses and got stuck back into them we might of won the game and might of actually turned up for the CL Final afterwards. It wasn't all Pep's fault you know.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Very few if he is sat on the bench were on current form he deserves to be. That said I have a feeling he might score.

Only if the keeper saves the ball and it bounces off his head again ;-)

 

[Trickyblues]

Wasn't training the other day, is he still in Belgium COVID rules?

Looks like him and gabby are back now. Hopefully in training today

 

[youngbob]

Well I actually did not see this game but a lot of people seem to be upset that these Brighton Brutes gave our boys a good going over. Well if we had of got up off our asses and got stuck back into them we might of won the game and might of actually turned up for the CL Final afterwards. It wasn't all Pep's fault you know.

I think missing the game might have coloured your view on this so it might be best to take a seat. Brighton weren't exactly out to get us in the game - we're a big side, they're not, so they roughed us up a bit to try and get in our faces and disrupt our rhythm. Fair enough, I say. Plus, it was the first game they'd had fans back in the ground for over a year, so they were a bit fired up. Again, from a footballing perspective, you use what you've got to make things hostile for the opposition and try to nick a win.

But god, the refereeing. Attwell was the man on the pitch, Moss on VAR. I'm convinced they were trying to turn it into a "proper scrap" for some reason. Cancelo was sent off very early on for being pulled to ground by Welbeck and it got worse from there. It was Attwell's job to get on top of Brighton's roughhousing but he allowed them to get away with increasingly dangerous tackles until Gundogan nearly had his leg broken. A week before the Champions League final, City fans were obviously on high alert for this stuff, but the anger wasn't unwarranted.

Nothing against Brighton themselves, or their fans. As I said, City were the champions rolling into town a week before a big European showpiece final - the fans (who even applauded Foden's goal in that game, to be fair) wanted a good atmosphere because they were finally back in the ground, and their players wanted to respond by looking committed and fierce. But Attwell and Moss allowed them to cross a line that could have very easily resulted in Gundogan going off on a stretcher. They refereed the game very irresponsibly.

 

[JamesMCFC]

Well I actually did not see this game but a lot of people seem to be upset that these Brighton Brutes gave our boys a good going over. Well if we had of got up off our asses and got stuck back into them we might of won the game and might of actually turned up for the CL Final afterwards. It wasn't all Pep's fault you know.

The difference is we gave it back to them but got yellow carded for it

 

[foggy1974]

I don’t mind the fact you can’t f***ing stand us, that goes with the territory, but to say our first team is Liverpool or United you’re having a giraffe. Wash your mouth out.

The Brighton fans on the train to Wembley were class, been there since the travelling to Gillingham days

 

[chaddblue]

Looks like him and gabby are back now. Hopefully in training today

I reckon they were both just given an extra day off as neither had been home with their families for about a week and half