Brighton & Hove Albion (A) - Wed 24th May, 20:00 | Pre-Match Thread

[Haaland94]

How was Kalvin Phillips today. Missed the game?

Obviously a little rusty, but for starters he was statistically our 2nd best player, had 7 recoveries, which was the most of any player, a 93,5% passing rate (gold standard), and a few of his forward passes were mighty impressive, almost got an assist and almost scored a goal (post). For me, that constitutes an encouraging performance, so I am currently willing to wait and see how he does against Brighton :).

 

[FantasyIreland]

Similar approach to yesterday,give the bench warmers an hour then introduce the main men to keep them ticking over.

 

[Delphinho]

Brentford at the weekend can be the warmup for the final. Would like to see more fringe players, like Phillips and Gomez. Oscar Bobb and maybe even Mebude definitely deserves a chance in this one, especially the former

 

[Claytop]

Phillips has to play again right, must be his first consecutive games of starts since he joined?

 

[cibaman]

Similar to yesterday, Walker and Akanji dropping to the bench. Perhaps leave De Bruyne and Haaland at home and bring in a couple of juniors on the bench for the experience

 

[MellowJoe]

Brighton and Hove? City'll beat em both 1-0

 

[Pollocks OG]

I was chuffed for Kalvin Phillips yesterday. Solid performance I thought and deserves to start again in this one.

 

[paulchapo]

Like Chelsea yesterday and Brentford on Sunday nobody cares. Yesterday most people were chatting and going through the chants, rarely watching the game, which after the first thirty minutes was pretty pedestrian. Everybody wanted it over to get to the celebrations.

 

[neel]

Ake is the one player I wouldn’t risk just yet given the nature of his injury and it hitting him in his first match back. Maybe 30 mins v Brentford for Nathan?

Nor stones

 

[JGL07]

Phillips has to play again right, must be his first consecutive games of starts since he joined?

It must be. He’s only started one game.