Brighton & Hove Albion (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

[jimharri]

If Swales was still in charge Pep would be 2 games away from the sack, with Big Sam being lined up too replace him.

He'd already be gone.

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

Clowns like you, thought that was obvious tbh

Sorry mate u thought you had a decent reply but you are too bust basking in out past glories to see the issues going forward. Don't talk to me again prick

 

[awest]

If McAtee can't get a game now with the injuries we have then he should consider his options.

He will be gone. Not a Pep player.

 

[ShaunMCFC]

Not performing as they should. Both Dias and Stones are our best defendersand both Ake and Akanji are good back up players who are not fit.

Exactly, we should be getting more out of them. Walker is an absolute shambles, worst player on the park for me.

 

[roach3]

3 pages in and utter moronic posts. Haaland gone etc. Jesus Christ. M

For the uneducated, this happens. It isn’t always sweetness and light.

Come May we will be trophy laden and those enjoying their current wins will go though their slumps.

Get a grip you utter clowns

Sorry mate but can’t agree we will be trophy laden
That said if we win the league with this lot performing as we are it will be our greatest

 

[youngbob]

Like I said before the game, defeat here was inevitable. Brighton are a good side who are unbeaten at home (have beaten United and Spurs as well) - we're down on confidence and in a shocking place with injuries and fitness. I put £50 on the Seagulls this afternoon and that's a nice £200 I've earned for myself as a result.

We just have to ignore the "FOUR DEFEATS IN A ROW" headlines (which the players will), get everyone (Rodri and Bobb aside) back fit over the next few weeks, and start the season again after the November internationals. Let everyone enjoy our "downfall" and see where we stand in three months. Just have to be patient.

10 players out injured/unfit in the last two weeks. The other 11 players all being asked to play far too much football - Lewis, Gundogan, and Nunes especially, and it shows. Throw any club with an injury list as bad as ours into a rough run of fixtures like Spurs, Bournemouth, Sporting, and Brighton, all away, and the same thing happens to them.

We go through this kind of form every season, it's just being exacerbated by a terrible injury situation (the worst I can remember in all my years following City) and a rough fixture list. It feels worse but it's just like this time last season, and this time in 22/23, and this time the year before that, and so on and so on. We'll be fine.

And it's happened to lots of great teams in recent years. Liverpool completely burnt out in 20/21 after winning the league the year before, then massively burnt out during the 22/23 season - they were two games from a quadruple in May 2022 and they paid the price with fitness problems and injuries throughout the next campaign.

Because come on, there's no way we lose all four of these games if just four of the currently injured lads are fit. Dias, Akanji, Stones, and Ake was our back four the night we won the European Cup. Right now we're relying on a threadbare back four with two teenagers in it - experienced strikers are going to suss them out over 90 minutes.

Simpson-Pusey shouldn't be where he is. He's 19 years old. The same should be said of Lewis, another teenager who clearly needs a break at the moment but can't get one because our entire treble-winning back four (Akanji, Dias, Stones, Ake) is injured. Gundogan and Nunes are also unfortunately being run into the ground right now.

We should have Dias, Stones, Akanji, Ake, and Grealish all back for Spurs, with De Bruyne in as well. Suddenly we can play Ederson, Akanji, Stones, Dias, Gvardiol, Kovacic, De Bruyne, Foden, Grealish, Haaland, Bernardo from the start. That's a much stronger team that looks more like City to me. Let's see what happens in two weeks.

Bigger picture time: we'll get everyone back fit before Christmas, get a couple of players signed in January, and go again. We might not win the league this season (after four-in-a-row, no biggie) but the FA Cup and Champions League will be available to us for sure. There's still loads of time left to make this a special season.

 

[pavelsrnicek]

That was another limp collapse. We’re not winning the league this season, we’re far too soft. Played well first half but like Tuesday didn’t take our chances but this time we stopped playing after 65 minutes. Brighton took control and cut through us repeatedly. Never looked like we were going to get back into it. We’re also back to conceding goals in bursts, 3 in 15 either side of half time Tuesday and 2 in 6 minutes tonight.

Chickens have gone home to roost after consistently poor recruitment, no cover for Rodri in the summer. We’ve kept a clearly past it Walker, we’ve added Gundogan, Philips, Nunes and Kovacic who haven’t added much. Only Gvardiol, Doku or Savinho could be seen as successes. Our midfield options are fading. We sold Alvarez without replacement. Our succession planning has non existent.

This current side is the worst team we’ve had under Pep. Soft defensively, an ageing midfield, limited creativity and, after the last 3 performances, clearly struggling in confidence.

We will need to spend to make the top 4 this season. Our performances have been poor recently but we managed to pull results out of the fire but the damn has broken and we’re starting to look fragile. Now, If we concede we’re falling apart. Bournemouth tore us to shreds for 80 minutes. We conceded against Sporting and fell to pieces and once Brighton equalised we were lost.

I’m starting to think the players know Pep is leaving and it’s had an impact.

We’ve had some amazing amazing seasons but now we need to regroup and rebuild.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

He'd already be gone.

Most likely in his first season.

 

[WallyA]

I'm done with this team

Absolutely disgraceful stuff. Can't even do the basics right. Developed a weak mentality and can't hang onto a lead. Only a few players are doing their job but we've become bottle jobs!!!

Pep is a spent force. In reality, most managers get a good 10-15 year run if they're a top manager and that's their lot. Pep is probably there now.


Without Haalands goals we would be bottom half. And nobody can say we would play differently and players would make up the goals if he didn't play because they wouldn't, they're all performing shite. Haaland should be looking for his move away.

Every dog has its day and we have. We'll be pretty much on the same downward spiral the rags have been for 10 years.

But that's football. You can dominate forever. English football history tells us that.

I've had a great 3 years supporting city, since 2021 because I wanted to support Grealish but I've lost hope.


Well done Brighton. Great spirit. Definitely a team I might align myself with.

Ban this guy and 2 ppl that liked his post.

Ridiculous.

 

[bernard o'silver]

When we get to anfield it will be 5 or 6 in a row?

If we lose to spurs AND Feyenoord 6 in a row