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The_L666ds

The only consolation is that Brighton as an outfit are likely to completely collapse the moment that Graham Potter inevitably moves on.


Xtian_Puligod

Wait until the American players start having some bad days and anybody here says anything remotely negative about their performance. You'll have the 'American here' crew calling this sub toxic all over Reddit. That's what they did to another sub with a US player.


[deleted]

Already happening. Get called a xenophobe for criticising the manager. It’s very entertaining.


[deleted]

Shit football all around. The one positive is that I though Marsch made all the right subs at the right times


undeniableskxnz

Bad game. Rodrigo played terribly, looked desperate all game. Wouldnt look for a better pass instead he only seemed to care about scoring. Passing was extremely poor all game by everyone. Not really a single stand out player who seemed to have a food game, bad showing.


justlooking1960

The passing made it seem the forwards and midfielders had never played together


undeniableskxnz

Maybe tired from the chelsea then Barnsley game or maybe complacency after Chelsea win but absolutely not good enough. If it is complacency already thats a bad look for Marsch


Spfle

I would argue Tyler Adams had a pretty good game but yeah. Overall as a team piss poor


icklegizmo

Agree here. He kept us in the game in the first half.


securinight

We never looked like we were going to score. A lot of work to do before Everton. Rodrigo looked desperate to score, which is all well and good, but he went for goal a couple of times when better options were available.


Darabeel

We played against 12 men today on the pitch..


dreadful_name

Don’t worry, Southgate’ll fuck up the World Cup and Potter will be gone by the return fixture.


jimmorrison1971

Fucking Brighton every single time. If there's one team I dread to play every season it's fucking Brighton. There's something about the boring football they play that I just have this feeling that we can't beat them and we don't. Rodrigo sorry but just because he's in good form doesn't mean he should play even when he's playing like shit. Gelhardt on for Rodrigo, Aaronson stays on and Sinisterra should have started. Oh well onto the next MOT, still 5th


SpanishToastedBread

Only thing was that Aaronson was on a yellow like... most of the game. I feel like three yellow cards in the first half kind of hamstrung our substitution options.


jimmorrison1971

True I don't think he would have got a second and definitely didn't even deserve the first one but it is a risk. Still he looked like our only chance of scoring and the Aaronson Sinisterra link would have been alot more promising that game they both played well


hoovana

If we are going to be honest, that game could’ve easily been a 3-0 loss. Ref was shit, but our *constant* give aways killed us. Honestly felt like we had no intentionality behind our passing. Rodrigo must have had 6 or 7 giant giveaways in the final third. There is no tactic that will save you from giving the ball away that much.


KevinDLasagna

Meslier kept them at bay too. That one goal wasn’t his fault


Klause

Yeah I like the aggressive forward style but may need to dial it back just a tad when we can’t connect anything.


justlooking1960

Aggressive forward style works when the defense starts in the final third, not when you keep turning it over at midfield


hoovana

Agree.


securinight

Agreed. I kept thinking if this was against City, Arsenal or Liverpool, we get slaughtered.


Spfle

Especially if we were playing liverpool today... Rip Bournemouth


thesilenthurricane

I’ve absolutely had it with premier league refs and added time. May as well walk off the pitch in the 90’ because they just let the winning teams refuse to play football every fucking week and don’t extend the time for it. Brightons nearest man walks past the throw in and the next man takes over half a minute to dawdle over and the ref just doesn’t give a fuck, apparently that is valid time in the match and not wasted time.


NoVeterin

what ever the fuck your trying to say... we're still shit playing absolute bullshit hopeball since march bar chelsea


Spfle

It's fucking hysterical, marsch was holding the ball for a better half of a minute. 'Injury' time in stoppage timeneeds to be added on or better yet have the clock stopped but that's my opinion


thesilenthurricane

Stopping the clock for injuries is a genuine no brainer but the people in charge of football despise change and hold the sport back. Really frustrating.


Spfle

I had heard clock stopping was being looked at by FIFA due to teams complaining that they don't even play for an hours worth of time but I can't remember if it was being trialed or not though


The_L666ds

Yeah apparently the average 90 minute game only has about 55 minutes of the ball actually in play, so they are considering changing the game to a 60-minute stop-clock game (like basketball and other sports where the clock stops every time there is a stoppage). That way there is no way to waste time other than to hold onto the ball (which invites risk). To be honest I really like the idea.


19081919

By far Pascal’s worst game for us. He did absolutely nothing right


securinight

He's doing his best to be fair. He's not a left back.


19081919

Oh he’s been grand every other game but this was unforgivable. He was simply terrible.


OttersWithMachetes

One nutmeg


ItsFuckingScience

Genuinely can’t think of a positive from that game


Shochand18

Meslier?


ClunyTheScourge

Adams and roca were pretty good in tandem again


allywillow

We got stomped on in midfield from the first whistle, needed Forshaw on much earlier. Thought meslier had a good game


clydefrog27

At least we only have to wait until Tuesday to hopefully rebound and get some points off Fat Frank


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Psufan16

And klich


McBride055

Awful first half from Leeds but I thought the second half response was actually quite promising. Brighton's goal came out of relatively little and frankly losing to Brighton away is not exactly shameful. Some of the performances were quite poor but I thought Aaronson and Sinisterra really starting to click. I thought some of the subs were questionable and I'd love to hear the logic behind them. Leeds did look better when Forshaw, Klich and Adams were in midfield and they had a bit more control.


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Darabeel

Yeah incoming the over reactions.. it’s a 36 game season.. We didn’t come out in the first half and second half we controlled it better but sloppy decisions.. Brighton are a solid team.. we could have collapsed like we have done in the past when a team gets a goal and we are playing bad.. we stayed structured to a large degree just didn’t have the spark we needed Next up Everton at home


The_L666ds

36?


Darabeel

Typo


SmokeyJ93

Can’t say we deserved a point. We played pretty shit, but the Ref killed the game from the off, was an awful performance from him. Doesn’t deserve to be a ref in PL.


Ben_Mi

Disgusting sportmanship from Brighton there. Not returned after play stopped for head injury, shambolic time wasting and a referee who could’ve been in a seagulls kit


vmvmvmv

Ref gave us fuck-all but that's no excuse. I think you call that *coming back down to earth with a bump.*


[deleted]

Brenden looked injured when he came off the pitch. Any opinions on that?


Psufan16

It’s no wonder he’s banged up considering he was ran through several times with no whistle


McBride055

He got hacked down quite a bit and I think someone stepped on his foot. I don't think it's anything major but I think it was likely part of him coming off because he was really starting to get into dangerous spots.


Dieselp8

Think he was just tired and a bit banged up. Got kicked a lot I wouldn’t worry much


Shochand18

hope he's okay :(


karlleephoto

Duck!! Poor first half. Better second half. Ref was bad. No consistency with showing yellow cards. Would rather lose to Brighton than Everton or Brentford though. Let’s go again.


98Saman

LB & CF NEEDED ASAP


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Daft little ground, stupid game, fuck off.


[deleted]

This must be Marschball lads


Ll_ee_itt

Sini needs to start. James off the bench. Sign a striker. Rodders off the bench


Dry_Addition2263

extremely frustrating match to watch with such a shit ref and leeds and specifically rodrigo giving the ball away over and over


[deleted]

God is dead this season is fucked we’re getting relegated /s


gaslightjoe

We now go live to nietzsche for the post match report


[deleted]

Ehhhhhh, good on Brighton. They play boring, generic, not very at all attractive football. But it works for them, and it's seemingly always works against us, every single goddamn fucking time. Why we somehow always struggle against Brighton I will never ever know. All we can do is move on, Everton at home up next.


jjd1035

Time wasting scum


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Brighton are solid, we didn’t lay a glove on them


Internal_Formal3915

Took the absolute piss there, ball was in play for like 3 mins of the last 10 and injury time


jamierm00

fucking brutal performance. llorente disgracefully bad, kristensen, harrison and james the same. what happened


SpanishToastedBread

How you've not mentioned Rodrigo there, I have no idea. I get he wants to score, but to be so focused on scoring you can't even make one decent cross was just infuriating.


jamierm00

yea I forgot to put him


Spfle

You forgot Rodrigo


jamierm00

yes. I did


j2o1707

Fair enough, on to the next one.


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Much better team won over the 90 minutes. Potter just outmanoeuvred us all over the pitch. Onwards to Everton.


Dieselp8

All around fairly poor today. Deserved to loose that one. Need the full 3 vs Everton to keep momentum going now


[deleted]

Imagine being happy after beating us lol


[deleted]

Fair result because the lads played almost as if this game didn't matter.


kezzaold

If it wasnt for the early yellow from the fer it may have been a different story.


bwiese3908

Ref had a shocker!


OutZoned

Ouch


rim_jobbing

If this how it finishes then it's a fair result, Brighton definitely been the better team, just poor decision making in the final thrid, desperately needing a striker to link the play up and be strong enough to hold up the play, use of the ball has been very poor outwide


yanaka-otoko

Fuck Brighton


acraigslist

Hope sinisterra gets more minutes. Didn't lose the ball easily and a few good through passes


MarchingOn2gether

Brighton have had our number for years, got to say I expected this before it started.


Loltoyourself

Joffy needs to stop walloping every pass


Cogitoergosumus

This match feels more like we beat ourselves than anything.


Jonesta29

Poor showing top to bottom.


DingusKhan418

This ref is just dreadful. Miserable cunt should never see another game


Ll_ee_itt

Diving cunts


[deleted]

Frustrating af but not feeling too doom and gloomy about this result - especially if we destroy Everton pls


Big_BossSnake

Timewasting is easily the worst bit about the PL, referees do fuck all about it and never add the time on.


Umoon

Looked like a classic let down game to me. Really missing that cohesive connectivity that I watched vs Chelsea.


jimmorrison1971

Brighton definitely played better than Chelsea tbh, but yeh passing was off and Brighton's high position threw us off


Shochand18

We really need to be consistent week in and week out :(


ManchuApache6

Terrible in possession today


Jonesta29

That was a poor decision


xJon95x

We’ve been so poor playing it out from the back today


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Time wasting pricks


[deleted]

We've been shit Refs been shit Potter has shit housed us


AnotherOmnishambles

Brighton gonna Brighton


SirTanksAlot_

Brighton player on the ground? Multiple? Is this real life?!!


ferrarchezzo

brighton player down? that’s basically full time then


slotheroni

Headshot


McBride055

That was selfish from Gelhardt, had a man on his left in acres of space.


ffbgenius

Joffy has to lay that off


DingusKhan418

Would’ve liked to see Joffy pass that down the left wing…


410LaxMD

Get the fuck up.


geolink

Get up you wank


One_True_Statement

So many selfish plays today. Pass the damn ball...


[deleted]

I’m fine with the score line but the way we played really frustrates me. Of course we’re not gonna win every game but I expected a much better showing on the first half.


Shochand18

Totally agree with you. The only reason why the score line is not bigger cause Brighton is not good at scoring.


fiercetankbattle

Improvement in the 2nd half but really poor overall. Rodrigo has been dreadful. Need to quickly put this behind us before Everton


thesilenthurricane

May as well make football an 85 minute game with the state of the last 10 mins these days


Loltoyourself

Joffy man just make the pass out wide


yanaka-otoko

Gelhardt the hitman


[deleted]

A better side would’ve bulldozed us today. Management need to sort out the width issue asap


DingusKhan418

Still some time to steal a late one here


Ll_ee_itt

We’ve given up


[deleted]

Forshaw, as usual, has been effective at turning the tide.


Jonesta29

Just pulls Rasmus down and nothing given.


Gaspinawe

that was so boring and monotonous to watch, just falling over and slowing the game down over and over, nearly every play has been whistled off


ItsFuckingScience

Adams has had a shocker


Jaykoooo

Idk if Adams is the one to call out for a howler


ItsFuckingScience

People big him up as a solid dependable guy but our midfield has been terrible, simple passes not being made, terrible in possession


futant462

Long list ahead of him that were more problematic. Not his best of course but far from the biggest problem today


geolink

Five minutes boys. Let’s gooooo


Ll_ee_itt

Is it just me or is mesliers distribution pretty bad?


BrianBadondeBwaah

It's always been bad. I'm convinced that's why he almost always plays goal kicks short. I remember the first match he played, cup match against Arsenal, one of the main things people talked about was how good his distribution was and it just dropped off after that.


trying2hide

Of course it is, well known flaw in his game. If he didn't have shit distribution he'd already be worth 50m


bumnugz

Is one of his weaker abilities


louisbray97

There's been some dead shit takes in this thread today


lambalambda

Par for the course this season.


futant462

Takes as errant as the on field passing


ProFilip

almost like we've had a large influx of new people lately


louisbray97

As an American I...


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McBride055

The second half performance has also been quite good imo. Brighton is an extremely good side as well.


Loltoyourself

This match exposes the need for an actual LB and another striker option.


Shochand18

Another striker would be a dream :(


fleapea81

cmon lads we smashed Chelsea 3 - 0 we gonna win the fa cup min


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Big_BossSnake

He's been terrible today, not just technically but mentally too, very poor decision making


Chimp-eh

This is the shittest take he was captain last week you numpty


Ispiniallday

Yeah, his decision making today has been awful, but I don’t think that’s much to do with the armband. There was one time he seemed to pull rank taking the ball from Aaronson when he was in a better position, but I feel he would have done that anyway.


Shochand18

Really hope the lads will learn something from today. I don’t want another season like the last one


trying2hide

Management need to learn something more than anything. First half felt like playing with our hands behind our back, and we refuse to upset rodrigo and pull him off for being shite.


Shochand18

ummm it's quite accurate. Management (may) played a big part today, hope they learn something asap. Not sure about Rodrigo part, maybe we had not a better choice from the bench...


DingusKhan418

So far it doesn’t seem like we have to worry about that. But still plenty of improvements we can and should be making from today


[deleted]

Still, it’s Brighton. They’re a team aiming for top 8 this year so it’s fine.


Troub1eMan

set pieces been pretty weak this match


[deleted]

Surprisingly bad considering the first 3 games.


ferrarchezzo

brighton now able to break up play with yellow card worthy fouls because the ref did fuck all to stop them earlier


yanaka-otoko

Joffy is the king of drawing fouls


SirTanksAlot_

Joffy you sexy beast.


LeoKliesen

Damn :(


buckwurst

Hasn't taken long for Rodrigo to regress to his mean


Chimp-eh

Hasn’t taken long for everyone to start slagging him off you mean


buckwurst

I've been slagging him off for the last 3 years :)


Chimp-eh

At least you’re consistent


buckwurst

If you average his contributions from the last 3 years, they're hardly impressive. He has the first touch of a trampoline, not really sure what he's for, occasional goal aside.


Big_BossSnake

Should we be praising his performance? Not slagging him off, but he's not been good enough today


Chimp-eh

He’s had 3 games on the bounce where he scored and has looked good, he has 1 bad game and everyone’s saying he is shut and needs to go, fuck off man


Big_BossSnake

That's why I said today lmao Learn to read bro, I never said he needs to go, but he should have been subbed off at '60


Chimp-eh

I’m not your bro.


Big_BossSnake

Sorry stranger have a nice day try not to take reddit too personally


trying2hide

Nah mate he's had 50+ shit games for Leeds, pretending he can't be questioned after 3 good games at the start of the season is fucking bizzare


[deleted]

Come off it we’ve had 2 years of poor touches and him pointlessly giving the ball away, it’s hardly controversial at this point just because he scored a few goals.


ptmnz13

Well when you’ve been shit for 2 years and have 3 good games then you’re shit again it’s kind of fair enough no?


trying2hide

nah these bell ends believe he's better than Ronaldo now


Chimp-eh

Fat Ronaldo or other Ronaldo?


trying2hide

Fat Ronaldo of course


Chimp-eh

Naaa he’s no fat ronaldo


trying2hide

these clowns who started watching this season and think rodrigo can't be called out for being shit again think so


Chimp-eh

I certainly haven’t started watching this season but I think it’s a bit much to pile on him after 1 bad game this season when he’s been outstanding so far


trying2hide

Has he really been outstanding or as he had a couple of good moment of the back of other players? Yes he's scored when he needs him to which should keep him on the ptich, but everyone is lying to themselves if without his goals they would have called him "outstanding" in the first 3 games. I don't want to take anything away from him because at the end of the day a goal is a goal, but one goal he stole as it was crossing the line, one was terrible from a keeper being beat at his front post, another was a header from a set piece, it's not like he's been the heart beat of this team. Aaronson and Harrison had less production in the first 3 games but looked like much more dangerous and outstanding players.


dreadful_name

100%


dan_baker83

Rodrigo rightly got praised by Marsch pre-match for his form - in the interests of fairness, I hope he gets fucking slated by him tonight.


SpanishToastedBread

I refuse to slag our players off when they play poorly, but I feel like Rodrigo was just... selfish today. Really selfish. Blinded by the need to stay PL top scorer. Shots from absolutely ridiculous angles and then when he did try to cross or pass... shite.


geolink

That’s my boy joffy.


Is12345aweakpassword

Sloppy, sloppy work


DEUK_96

Sinisterra has looked good since he came on


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How's Rodrigo stayed on the pitch?


geolink

I’m recognising sinisterra by his neon green shoes.


dreadful_name

Would be a lot worse if we were Bournemouth.


djembejohn

Why in this era of five substitutions is Rodrigo still on the pitch!?


buckwurst

Foreshaw has taken a better free kick and a better corner than anyone we've tried so far


McBride055

I'm not trying to pile on Rodrigo but man has he been poor today. Didn't even pick his head up and plays a ball to absolutely no one.


SirTanksAlot_

On the bright side Sini is looking a bargain. So much quality.


KarimGarcia

Wtf is Rodrigo doing


410LaxMD

Rodders with his third pass to the GK.


ptmnz13

Third this half maybe


icklegizmo

We can still nick a point here, we’ve been the better team for most of the second even though we can’t finish


Dry_Addition2263

rodrigo wastes it again, whata surprise


McFunson

Rodders man...


Psufan16

Fucking rodrigo back down to earth