Brighton fan's view

[Langston]

Always interesting to see how high Maddison's stock is outside of anybody who's watched him for the past 18 months. Bloke looks like he'd struggle at ****ing Soccer Aid. 

[Dahnsouff]

7 hours ago, 5waller5 said:

We don’t.

Like yesterday?   All this showboating hate for Perez is pathetic

[dayday]

10 hours ago, JeffreyDiddum said:

Was at the game. You're a very good side, despite how you're feeling now. Always liked Leicester and was delighted when the Foxes won the PL. Remember when we beat you once at the Goldstone in the League Cup! That was a claim to fame for us, with our situation back then. Since then we've struggled against you!

 

Right, my personal opinion on the key decisions. Our goal shouldn't have stood, was a clear foul on Vestegaard by Maupay. Your first goal was a bit harshly ruled out, but I can see why he gave it. It was a 50/50 type judgement call. Unluckily for you it went our way. Your second goal was perfectly valid, clear as day. The reverse angle summed it up, Sanchez had no blocked line-of-sight or obstruction. Should've stood.

 

I normally really rate Maddison, but he was absolutely dreadful today (doesn't he normally play in the middle, like Trossard did for us?). Harvey Barnes on the other wing looks very sharp and I like him a lot - he seems to "get" your need for urgency in the final third. Cucarella had Maddison in his pocket - I scarcely remember him touching the ball, as all your more threatening stuff came from beating our four man press and slipping into to Ndidi, then attacking through the middle. Unfortunately, Vardy (who always seems to score against us) looked isolated.

 

Our second goal was extremely poor from your point of view. Truth is though, I felt we might score from the few corners and crossing dead ball situations we had in the game. Your set piece defending is decidedly dodgy. Ours was today too, which was unusual. One of those days?

 

Lookman changed the game for you. He looked different class to everything else you had (today, based on what I saw) and one thing Dunk and Duffy don't like is pacy tricksters running towards (and often past) them. 

 

We dropped far too deep after we went 0-2 up in an attempt at "game management" and relied on ref's decisions to keep us ahead and ultimately win it. Nobody here will be interested, and I'm sure every fan of every club, including yours, will say that they feel the same, but last season we had some absolute humdingers go against us (VAR approved, natch).

 

You're very good, but not great. I imagine missing Perez today was a big blow. You are a lot closer to Europe than relegation, I'll put it that way, but personally I think you'll end up be in-between or skirting Europa again. You were robbed by decisions today, but that doesn't explain how lethargic they played in the first half, or the defending of the second goal.

 

One last thing, and forgive me for seeming preachy, you have very recently experienced something hundreds of established clubs in the football pyramid could ever dream of. You won the top league in the country, and get to play in European competition. How amazing is that? You have an excellent team of world class players. The results will come very quickly for you.

 

Good luck for the rest of the season (except against us) and thanks for reading.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I had a little peep on your forum and a lot of your posters was saying the decisions was correct, it’s a strange world we live in!

[deep blue]

It's always good to get contributions on this forum from balanced rival supporters.  Stay with us, Jeffrey.

[st albans fox]

26 minutes ago, dayday said:

I had a little peep on your forum and a lot of your posters was saying the decisions was correct, it’s a strange world we live in!

had the whole thing been reversed, we would have plenty doing the same on here …….

[murphy]

13 hours ago, JeffreyDiddum said:

Was at the game. You're a very good side, despite how you're feeling now. Always liked Leicester and was delighted when the Foxes won the PL. Remember when we beat you once at the Goldstone in the League Cup! That was a claim to fame for us, with our situation back then. Since then we've struggled against you!

 

Right, my personal opinion on the key decisions. Our goal shouldn't have stood, was a clear foul on Vestegaard by Maupay. Your first goal was a bit harshly ruled out, but I can see why he gave it. It was a 50/50 type judgement call. Unluckily for you it went our way. Your second goal was perfectly valid, clear as day. The reverse angle summed it up, Sanchez had no blocked line-of-sight or obstruction. Should've stood.

 

I normally really rate Maddison, but he was absolutely dreadful today (doesn't he normally play in the middle, like Trossard did for us?). Harvey Barnes on the other wing looks very sharp and I like him a lot - he seems to "get" your need for urgency in the final third. Cucarella had Maddison in his pocket - I scarcely remember him touching the ball, as all your more threatening stuff came from beating our four man press and slipping into to Ndidi, then attacking through the middle. Unfortunately, Vardy (who always seems to score against us) looked isolated.

 

Our second goal was extremely poor from your point of view. Truth is though, I felt we might score from the few corners and crossing dead ball situations we had in the game. Your set piece defending is decidedly dodgy. Ours was today too, which was unusual. One of those days?

 

Lookman changed the game for you. He looked different class to everything else you had (today, based on what I saw) and one thing Dunk and Duffy don't like is pacy tricksters running towards (and often past) them. 

 

We dropped far too deep after we went 0-2 up in an attempt at "game management" and relied on ref's decisions to keep us ahead and ultimately win it. Nobody here will be interested, and I'm sure every fan of every club, including yours, will say that they feel the same, but last season we had some absolute humdingers go against us (VAR approved, natch).

 

You're very good, but not great. I imagine missing Perez today was a big blow. You are a lot closer to Europe than relegation, I'll put it that way, but personally I think you'll end up be in-between or skirting Europa again. You were robbed by decisions today, but that doesn't explain how lethargic they played in the first half, or the defending of the second goal.

 

One last thing, and forgive me for seeming preachy, you have very recently experienced something hundreds of established clubs in the football pyramid could ever dream of. You won the top league in the country, and get to play in European competition. How amazing is that? You have an excellent team of world class players. The results will come very quickly for you.

 

Good luck for the rest of the season (except against us) and thanks for reading.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to FT.  I always appreciate hearing the opposition fan's view.

 

I've always had a soft spot for Brighton, having spent a good few weekends down there visiting uni mates (Volk's Tavern was a favourite in those days) and who could forget the '83 cup final, relegation, Kenny Everett style big hands "...and Smith must score".

 

Pleasantries aside I think it would be a mistake to judge us on yesterday's performance.  I'm very proud of the fact that we have become a force in the PL for the last two years, rather than 'skirting around Europa' we have missed out on Champion's League twice by a hair's breadth despite occupying the third or fourth spot for 90% of both seasons.  It's astonishing really, a small to middling provincial club that has won the league, played in Europe three times and won the FA Cup and Charity Shield (yes, that counts) all in the space of five years.  If we can do it, anyone can.

 

Something is wrong this year though.  It feels as though there are clouds gathering.  I hope I'm wrong but it feels a little like the beginning of the end of Rodgers' team.  I've enjoyed the ride and I'm not ready to go back to being 'Leicester City' again.

 

You mention Maddison,a big player for us but something of an enigma,  He was injured last year and has never recovered.  Either his head's not straight after recent transfer speculation, he is bang out of form or his injury is chronic and still affecting him.  I suspect the latter.  

 

Youri Tielemans.  A real coup signing for us, our cup final winner and a thoroughbred player.  Again he is  out of form.  After twice missing out on CL, I fear he is casting his eyes elsewhere and is refusing to sign a contract.  I can't blame him and I will always love the guy whatever happens, but his form has dipped this year along with Soyuncu who has inexplicably lost his way.

 

You might not be aware but during our pre season curtain-raiser against Villareal, Wes Fofana suffered a horror injury.  A deliberate and cynical assault on him left him with a broken leg and our defence in tatters.  A player many of us expect to go on to greatness but his injury has left us exposed in defence with Jonny Evans, (another on the chronic list) and Justin (another long termer) all out.  I think that Fofana's injury, along with the timing dealt the team a real psychological blow.

 

As for Perez, he is much maligned (but not by me, oh no).  I think all he needs is a change of scene, some sea air perhaps?  You should put in a bid.   Please.

 

All of this is not intended to read as a list of excuses, more that I'm trying to get a handle on why we are under-performing this year.  Brighton played well yesterday and bossed the game until you decided to retreat and protect your 2-1 lead.  I am not sure whether our resurgence in the game was down to us or just that fact that you invited us on.

 

Brighton and Leicester have a couple of things in common.  We have both endured spells under Peter Taylor and prior to 2016 Leicester and Brighton were the only two clubs to have won The Charity Shield despite never having won the league or FA Cup.  That record is yours alone now.  You're welcome.

 

Good luck for the rest of the season.

 

 

Edited 20 September 2021 by murphy