Let’s hope we aren’t talking about VAR at the end of the game.
Liverpool:
The Good: Everyone played their part. I haven’t watched it back…I couldn’t bring myself to do it.
The Bad: Tierney - what an awful display.
The Ugly: Our reaction afterwards. Yes, we deserved to be angry, but we need to focus on getting results.
Special Mention(s): Williams our best player again. Sels proving his worth!
The Last Time we played Brighton (H). A 3-2 loss (From 1-0 up, to 3-1 down. We couldn’t get a result despite Dunk’s sending off!)
Vlachula
Aina Niakhate Murillo Toffolo
Mangala
MGW Danilo Dominguez Elanga
Wood
Cooper unable to find a solution, despite another change in formation.
Proposed Line-up: Boly and Wood back in training.
Sels
Williams Omobamidele Murillo Toffolo
Danilo Yates
MGW
Origi Awoniyi Elanga
Subs: Turner, Felipe, Niakhate, Montiel, Dominguez, Sangare, CHO, Reyna, Wood
Injuries: Aina & Tavares.
Laughing @ Derby: Not Leicester!
Form:
Brighton (H) - W3 D3 L0 GF12 GA6 - 9th (6th in the Home Form table)
Forest (A) - W1 D2 L3 GF9 GA15 - 17th (15th in the Away Form table)
Brighton haven’t won in 4.
Prediction:
With Brighton seemingly out of Europe, following a 4-0 Thursday night loss to Roma, cementing a top EPL finish is their best hope of Europe next year.
Struggling with injuries and tired from the trip to Italy.
….a 2-1 Forest win.
Final Words: COYR!!! Beat these, Luton lose the next two (they play mid-week) and we could head into the International break ten points clear (if we beat Luton of course.
A season defining two games potentially. Let’s take this out of PSR hands.
Brighton v Forest - Match Thread
posted on 10/3/24
El B, it was never going to happen, purely because we simply aren’t good enough, £200m+ spent, and its like watching a pub/Sunday league team.
posted on 10/3/24
comment by reddave (U8660)
posted less than a minute ago
El B, it was never going to happen, purely because we simply aren’t good enough, £200m+ spent, and its like watching a pub/Sunday league team.
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Agreed, the first half was dreadful. The second half was totally different. I can't remember a single shot that Brighton had in the second half.
posted on 10/3/24
Should have started with the strongest team.
Not looking good now !
posted on 10/3/24
Nuno went off on one in the post-match interview about the red card incident, quite rightly IMHO.
posted on 10/3/24
comment by El Bosque [Basoa in Euskara] (U1617)
posted 2 minutes ago
Nuno went off on one in the post-match interview about the red card incident, quite rightly IMHO.
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I've wondered about this for some time; if we're already in the bottom 3 getting a points deduction will seem OK, to everybody else apart from us?
posted on 10/3/24
Some people call it ‘second season syndrome’, whereby you survive the first season, but get relegated second season, this feels pretty much correct to me.
The VAR decisions going against us certainly don’t help, but it can’t all be coincidence, it feels more like a conspiracy.
Tbh i won’t miss this awful division one bit, it’s there purely for the top six clubs, nobody else counts.
It’s not an even playing field, and i don’t think it ever will be. It’s basically a ‘cash cow’, and unless you are absolutely minted you are not going to be allowed to break in. It will be interesting to see over the coming few seasons to see if Newcastle are allowed to enter, or will be kept at arms length.
posted on 10/3/24
Let down by VAR again. Zero flocking consistency!
I’m not confident we would have got anything (we were very poor), but another game where we will now never know.
Beat Luton and it will all be forgotten, but we have to be so much better.
posted on 10/3/24
Yet again, not a single pundit has said that VAR has got the call right. ‘Out of control’ definite Red, were MOTD pundits assessment, how on Earth can VAR get so many crucial decisions wrong ?? That tackle from Moder looks worse every time you see it, far worse than the McGinn red was Murphys call.
In the end though it wasn’t VAR that cost us this game, it was our own ineptitude to either defend a set play, or convert chances which came our way.
posted on 11/3/24
Having watched their goal again its clear that the free kick that led to the goal was a good tackle and OBD gets the ball and the Brighton player then catches him.
posted on 11/3/24
The only answer to VAR officials stubbornly refusing to overrule clear bad decisions by the ref, is to separate the two groups. That would stop the back scratching!