Brighton & Hove Albion (A) | Post Match Thread

[supercity88]

We won the league. We've got 10 days before the fa cup. I'm ok with that performance and that fact that some guys had a better time than others!

I think we've all got some kind of syndrome (china, stockholm, munchausens?!) where we remember how bad we were against chelsea those games before the UCL final and we're fearing the worst again. I think we'll be fine - that was a complete tactical brain fuck by pep. This time round i think we're playing our best 11 twice - and we'll live with the results.

Definitely.

There was no prior warning of that CL lineup. He handled it in a similar fashion. But he had played Tuchel before and was expecting Chelsea to play a certain way so set us up to dominate the ball and have more opportunities to create chances as we had lost 2-1 in the league and 1-0 in the cup.

This is different. The FA Cup he may well do something different but we haven't played United with this system yet. But for a bad call we have dominated both games against them and I think Pep recognises this team is his best in terms of balance and character so will trust them to play the way he thinks we need to in order to win the treble and won't worry too much about what they can do to us.

At the moment it is about getting the whole squad rested physically and mentally whilst building fitness in the wider squad. And on Tuesday the hard work will begin. Not a chance they lose focus for the two finals. What more motivation could they possibly need. They are on the brink of history, that's all you need to say.

 

[coolcity]

Who said they were too pissed to travel?

Nobody but him, he's just jumping to conclusions. People are focusing on the "drunk all the beer in Manchester" bit in the video but nobody has mentioned the part at the end where he said they discussed how he wanted everybody ready for the match at Brighton. He also said at the end that players were injured, slight knocks to recover from, that sort of thing.

It's perfectly obvious, they had a night celebrating 3 days ago, he rested a few, gave some of the others a chance and had we gone 2 or 3 up, looking at the bench I'm sure he would have given some of the kids a chance too, as many teams do at the end of season in meaningless matches. If they had been that pissed the media would have been all over it like a rash. People putting 2+2 together and coming up with 7.

 

[Dribble]

Were you there or are you just jumping to conclusions. The players that really matter aren't needed until June 3, don't understand why some are losing the plot because some players may have had one piss up.

Were you there? No! BUT as a matter of fact our manager said some of the players went out to continue the celebrations, AFTER the celebrations at the Etihad & they drank Manchester dry!

Three days before a penultimate PL match. Two weeks before the FA Cup final & three weeks before the CL Final.

Are you telling me the mother of all title piss ups couldn't wait 23 days? If we lose the next three match, whatcha gonna say then fella?

 

[coolcity]

Definitely.

There was no prior warning of that CL lineup. He handled it in a similar fashion. But he had played Tuchel before and was expecting Chelsea to play a certain way so set us up to dominate the ball and have more opportunities to create chances as we had lost 2-1 in the league and 1-0 in the cup.

This is different. The FA Cup he may well do something different but we haven't played United with this system yet. But for a bad call we have dominated both games against them and I think Pep recognises this team is his best in terms of balance and character so will trust them to play the way he thinks we need to in order to win the treble and won't worry too much about what they can do to us.

At the moment it is about getting the whole squad rested physically and mentally whilst building fitness in the wider squad. And on Tuesday the hard work will begin. Not a chance they lose focus for the two finals. What more motivation could they possibly need. They are on the brink of history, that's all you need to say.

Excellent post, probably the best of the night. That's me for tonight anyway, nothing like ending on a high.

 

[supercity88]

Don't like what i have seen the last two games. Very reminiscent of two years ago when we won the league and then fell of a cliff. full team out at Brentford and intensity back. two games from immortality, don't screw up again.

How did we fall off a cliff exactly. Rotated for Newcastle and won. Lost at Brighton through a dodgy red card.

Pep tends to learn from his errors. Look at the two away games in Madrid to see a prime example.

If you can't find focus for the FA Cup and CL final you may as well quit. The reason we lost the CL final was in the lineup and subsequent assault on De Bruyne.

 

[Axel Freed]

Typical end of season game, we weren’t anywhere near full pelt but kept our unbeaten run going. Hopefully Phil and Stonesy are fine.

Sky comms were fucking unbelievable, have they never seen a goal scored from outside the box before ? Good strike from the lad but you see 30 or 40 goals a season like that throughout the league. The usually morose Alan Smith was actually laughing out loud he was so happy Brighton had scored. Very odd.

 

[Burtonblue]

Tonight highlited the importance of Rodri in the middle.
Without him there we had no control and struggled to establish any tempo.
He is absolutely essential to how we play.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Explain why so many corners are NOT also scrutinised in the same manner with shirt pulling ???

Because they haven’t led directly to a goal, I just said that.

 

[Brewster's millions]

That's what the real issue is here, Colwill had a massive hold of Haaland just as the ball left Palmers foot. So surely if the goal isn't given, It must be a penalty.

Plus if he's given that a foul then surely a foul from Caicedo on Bernardo when he pulled him back.

It was a genuinely shocking decision and it neatly highlighted how VAR can be manipulated by only focusing on a single element or phase of a run of play.

If the audio had been available it would have shown the discussion to have centred solely on Haaland’s alleged shirt pull, and not the identical action from Colwill a few seconds earlier. Whereas, in real time, the referee would have subconsciously allowed for both players pulling each others’ shirt when deciding whether to blow for a foul.

Focussing on a single action naturally gives a distorted picture of whether a clear and obvious error has occurred.

 

[coolcity]

Were you there? No! BUT as a matter of fact our manager said some of the players went out to continue the celebrations, AFTER the celebrations at the Etihad & they drank Manchester dry!

Three days before a penultimate PL match. Two weeks before the FA Cup final & three weeks before the CL Final.

Are you telling me the mother of all title piss ups couldn't wait 23 days? If we lose the next three match, whatcha gonna say then fella?

First of all you're clearly missing the point about drinking Manchester dry - it's a missive, an exaggeration to say they had a celebration. You and only you are assuming it was "the mother of all piss ups".

Second, it's 3 days before a meaningless end of season match, a match in which most clubs would play a few of the players on the sidelines like Rico. A piss up 2 weeks before a match isn't going to affect anybody, but it's only you that is assuming they were all completely rendered. There are a hundred reason why we could lose a final, a few drinks a fortnight before won't be one of them.