Match Thread | Brighton vs. Man City (24/05/23)

[Sky Blue]

Their fans are knobheads.

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

This is the perfect game to show why our midfield needs reinforcement.The trio out there tonight are getting annihilated by power,mobility,and pace.
A Rice or Belligham offers us that missing energy.

On a plus,Foden has been great.

I'd be very tempted to bring on Charles .

I’d say Bellingham would…Rice only really brings power for me.

 

[Mancity1980]

I know it doesn't technically matter, but I'd still rather go into two important finals with our winning run intact. I remember the games against Chelsea in the run up to the CL final and everyone was saying it didn't matter because we never played our best team, but psychologically, I can't help but think it ended up mattering in the final. That and the stupid lineup, obviously.

Nah, that final was down to Pep’s selection, however his selection in the Chelsea games leading to the final weren’t the best either.

 

[AshtonBlueMooner]

What’s with Ortegas’ shimmying dance before he kicks the ball?

Clocked this. Defo they will try and capitalise on this in second half. He’s taking a step back every time, dangerous play.

In other news, looks like the lads had a good night out on Sunday, yard off the pace, reminiscent of Sunday morning pub football on Blocksages or the long gone Broadoak playing fields.

 

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

Kolo toure, legend.

 

[SamBlue]

Sorry to lewis fans but I don't think he's playing that well

He doesn't play bad either, everything bad for us is coming from their left side where they are managing overloading 5 vs 2, we would need to clone Kyle twice to plug the hole on that side. Habibi is not defending for dome reason, Kev also doing little. Hope Pep change formation. That goal was beautiful, but that was unexpectable defending.

 

[Sparkys-Army]

Brighton look fantastic again. Winning the 50/50s and making it very hard for us to play it out hence why Ortega is looking more suspect. Just minimal options to play it out from his feet.

If Rodri is in DM and we get our balance back, we can start taking back control.

Great game either way.

 

[bluemoon32]

Thank fuck Brighton wimped out in the semi final

 

[Citizen in Pakistan]

What a great match between two teams that play beautiful football, hopefully they'd give a serious top 4 challenge next season

 

[Trickyblues]

Wow the overreaction on here is something else. You wouldn’t think we just won the league and are missing 4 key players…