Brighton & Hove Albion (A) - Sun 31st Aug, 14:00 | Pre-Match Thread

[Eric Hitchmough]

Hopefully the kick up the arse Dias needs

Yep, he needs it

 

[Bluearmy]

No Foden, Cherki,

Injured

 

[paulchapo]

4-2-3-1 I reckon. But who knows with Pep!

Akanji and Gundogan on the bench. Those guys aren't going anywhere.

Given our injuries we probably need them, Akanji in particular.

 

[City Raider]

Last weeks team was a bit too attacking. Love this line up. Pace at both ends, Rodri back.

 

[Vienna_70]

Nunes plays.

Yeah, I saw it as soon as I posted.

 

[ufo]

Brighton will get some smoke of kush today

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Think his ankle issue is worse than we think. He got a heavy knock on it last week and he’s missed weeks of training with it.

Hope it heals soon.

 

[HypnoticBlue]

Need to win it before any subs basically.

 

[wattle]

Pace at the back is the main thing with our high line tactics. Worried to death about Trafford playing out but hopefully we’ll go a bit longer to Haaland and Marmoush over the top occasionally. Rodri and Bernardo will also help with their constant and confident offers to Trafford. That was massively missed last week. More optimistic than I was half an hour ago :)

 

[dadnlad]

Happy Khusanov is getting a start, but I will be putting money on him to be carded in the 1st half. Please let me down

hi Paqueta odds on villa ?

 

[Bluearmy]

Is he though? He's better than Trafford atm and suits our game better. While he's still here he should play.

Its a shit show the keeper situation currently

 

[mosssideblue]

Happy with the line up. No excuses

 

[wattle]

Need to win it before any subs basically.

Doku is brilliant off the bench. Just shit when he starts

 

[blue b4 the moon]

We may have a bloated squad, but that bench is pretty awful

I'd have liked to have seen the bench a little more youthful, last thing we need is someone getting injured who is on the we'd like to move on list.

 

[ancoats]

You’ve totally described today’s game ..

City have become predictable

Even in the Pep pre-match interveiw ? He's wants to pass and pass and then pass more

 

[NptonBlue89!]

don’t mind that line up, feels balanced compared to last week

 

[ufo]

1-3 city

 

[Djibrilshairdo]

We’ll score from a corner today. Khus, Rodri or Stones.

 

[wattle]

Its a shit show the keeper situation currently

It certainly is. It’ll be well and truly sorted by our next game though

 

[Tomblue]

You could argue 6 of our 9 substitutes are defensive options including the keeper. We don’t really have anything on there aside from Doku who can be an alternative going forward.

A pretty sad indictment of our transfer strategy.