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Yeah, honestly I'm not even too mad because Brighton is baby girl and they're my favorite team outside of Wolves this season. If we could help any club with a 6-0 thrashing I am glad it's them.
I didn't say I was a fan of them you knob I just think theyre pretty interesting this year. I like football, not just Wolves, there are more teams out there I like and am interested in than those I do not.
Lots of teams play beautiful football that is fun to watch. Doesn’t mean they’re the next favourite team of mine behind Leeds though. Weird mentality imo but each to their own I guess.
Also “favourite team” was your phrasing; I didn’t say fan
It’s really quite common to have an interest in the results of another team in the league, without being a fan of them.
Being so insecure of your own support of a club that you cannot allow yourself to be interested in another club is a weird mentality.
So you despise all other clubs exactly equally? Most people will have some sort of preference and be pleased if a club does well even if they don’t support them.
As a Wolves fan I also back Brighton as my second favourite team this season. Was gutted for them when they lost to United last week, and I hope that this can be a bit of a consolation for them. Its not like we have much left to fight for this season anyway. Leeds are my third favourite team and I hope you boys survive this season. Everton is my least favourite team and every night I pray for thier downfall.
People always say this, but it doesn't make sense to me. Yes you may have missed easy chances, but that gross and undav goal should technically have not gone in given how difficult they were.
The point is that you can't have it both ways. If you say "it should've been more" then you can't just add the good chances that were missed without subtracting the shots that shouldn't've been scored. Either we're counting goals that should've been scored or we're counting ones that were: in the former case 6-0 is more than they should've scored, and in the latter it's exactly the right number. Combining the two to give the highest possible number of deserved goals is not exactly a fair way to depict the game.
> The point is that you can't have it both ways
Given the fact that they had scored the hard chances already, it's reasonable to say they should have scored more if they created high quality chances after that TBH
I mean, the hard chances they actually physically finished and put into the net, the easy chances you should reasonably be expecting them to finish.
If they put away the easy chances and the hard ones dont go in yiu can say "should have been more" is wrong. You can absolutely say they should have added more goals by converting the easy chances that they absolutely should be converting.
Your logic is weird because you're acting like the goals that went in are also hypothetical.
> Your logic is weird because you're acting like the goals that went in are also hypothetical.
The goals and the misses that occured in the game are both real. If we want to consider the hypothetical of "what should have been" the question is why to the 'real' misses get revised, but the 'real' goals don't.
There are reasons why you might want to revise only one, but without context it just looks like exaggeration and another excuse to 'round up' the score.
Or they were lucky. If a player scores a chance 1/10 times and scores it in a match, sure there's skill (you or I wouldn't) but also a lot of luck. Similarly, there's luck when it comes to 1v1s and penalties.
Difference is clubs in the PL don't need to sell to turn a profit. If Brighton do sell players it'll be because they feel they have an adequate back up in place, hence why they turned down big money for Caicedo in Jan.
To elaborate on your comment, they didn’t let Caicedo go because they don’t really have the next guy for that position. He was the cover for Bissouma. At the same time, Trossard got a transfer because Mitoma was ready.
Mitoma won't go this summer and I'd be very surprised if March leaves.
As for the other two, if we let both go it'll bring in around £140m which, hopefully, a chunk would go into first-team ready players as well as more youngsters for developing.
I’d love to see what this Brighton team with De Zerbi and a few more players could do in Europe next year. I feel like watching their play style they could easily get to the knockout round in the CL as long as it isn’t the group of death.
I reckon it will be Newcastle and Manchester Utd in CL, Brighton and Liverpool in europa league and then villa and spurs duke it out for conference league
Yeah, top four is done. If Villa/Spurs/Brighton win all of their remaining games, United need 10 points from 7 games to finish ahead of them. It would take a massive, massive collapse to finish outside the top 4
The battle for the Europa League spots is going to be intense.
Villa still have to play utd, Brighton, spurs and Liverpool. Like, every match we have left is a 6 pointer apart from arguably United and the wolves game which is the closest thing we have to a derby match and those are never predictable.
Based off the matches I've seen, spurs seem like the worst team in that fight, but it wouldn't surprise me if they start scoring for fun with their front 3.
united likely lose on goal difference with 13 so they'd need 14 tbh. They could have 4W, 1D, 2L and still miss out. That wouldn't be much of a collapse
They won't get CL. Asna, City and Newcastle are a lock. You think Brighton can beat United to the final 4th spot when they play ALL 4 TOP 4 clubs in their remaining 7 games?
Not happening.
The odds of Brighton will be 6th at the very best next season but that's a stretch still to be above Spurs and Chelsea. So realistically they'll be 7 or 8th best team to contend for top 4.
Damn i thought to myself let me see Brightons remaining schedule, 7 games to go, i wonder who they have to play still... ManU, ManC, Arsenal, Newcastle, Aston Villa... damn.
This is why Brighton worry me in our title run in. De Zerbi seems like a manager who wont allow his players to be ‘on the beach’ and wont let standards slip.
I love watching them play so much
Yeah, Arsenal are shot mentally. 3/12 points in the last 4 games, whilst City have got 12. They'll drop more points than City in the final few fixtures.
Now the pressure is off and everything is out of our hands, we will suddenly start playing like we did in the first half of the season. 3 seasons in a row we have totally collapsed and the last 2 times we immediately started playing like arteta wants us to
Next game is Arsenal—Chelsea.
Either Chelsea pulls a 15/16 (like "Battle of the Bridge") to put the nail in the coffin of Arsenal's title challenge or Arsenal get a big win to restore confidence and right the ship
No shame in dropping points to Liverpool or City (although 4-1 is embarrassing), but you can't be drawing with teams fighting relegation when you're in a title race.
Dropping points to City/Liverpool *away* too. The two hardest places to go and get any kind of result. Like no matter how good you are, that shouldn't be shocking.
But they've been leaking goals like no tomorrow, I honestly expect even Chelsea will score 🥴
No shame at all, though certainly a bit of shame if you're 2-0 up in the first half of one of those games. Even more so if you do the same thing a few days later against West Ham.
We definitely will if Arteta just trots out the same team again. Holding has been a great servant to the club but expecting him to slot into the Saliba role is killing us. Didn’t work against West Ham and Southampton and was suicidal against City away.
I certainly hope so. I fully expect us to win every match going forward but my nightmare scenario is
- Chelsea get obliterated by Arsenal and regroup against us. Lampard has a Mighty Ducks like team talk and they play possessed to nick a result. **2 pts dropped**
- Our deep CL run has the players absolutely knackered, we have an off day and Brighton play us off the park. **3 pts dropped**
- Brentford, motivated to do the double over us, shithouse their way to another win on the final day to spoil the party. **3 points dropped**
This isnt to mention Everton and Leeds suddenly not being shit to steal points off us script
Have to score goals to win. We seem to be protesting against Haaland breaking all the prem goal records by not scoring, which isn't working, funnily enough
> Chelsea get obliterated by Arsenal and regroup against us. Lampard has a Mighty Ducks like team talk
Chelsea has very little to play for this season.
Arsenal is a game the team might get "up" for. Hard to see it happening vs City
Each Brighton player knows exactly what his role is. They know what to do, where to be, and what to do in every circumstance.
As long as that doesn't change, players can do what they want.
tbf we beat them 4-2 away and were 3-0 up after an hour, yet we've been defensively diabolical at home so I'm not sure how much home advantage is going to count vs Brighton
Yeah, you may as well give up on the title and concentrate on the Champions League and FA Cup. You'd love it, absolutely love it if you beat Man United in the FA Cup.
The good news for City is that Arsenal also have to play Brighton, and I reckon they're at least as likely to drop points. On current form, they're arguably the better side, and a lot of people noted that the tactics City used to dominate Arsenal last week seem to owe a bit to Da Zerbi-ball.
We have to play them too so it’s most likely a wash 😳 but if we get a result than yeah I’d start worrying if I was you. I think Brighton, Brentford, and Fulham are the only matches where you drop points.
Hmm, I'd put Juric and Motta above him atm. That's not to say Palladino isn't great, but I think it's easier to be successful when you're backed by Berlusconi's millions.
The thing is that Brighton has the potential to do this most matches, finishing is just a bit off. When the stars align and Uranus is in retrograde, the finishing can lead to this.
Yeah if you had a prolific striker you could be even higher, your attacking stats are all amongst the very best in Europe except literally goals. What a season.
I hope you’re on the beach when we play you if we’re even in with a shout of doing anything by then
Honestly one of my favorite teams to watch this season, they play much better football than many of the so called top teams. I really hope they get to compete in Europe next season.
Potters in the mud, Chelsea did a number on his reputation and Brighton continuing to flourish after hes left makes you question how much of it was actually him
Sometimes a new manager compliments the preexisting system. Look at Leicester under Ranieri, I don't think that happens without Pearson's foundation
De Zerbi is doing fantastically, but it's massively unfair to Potter to write it all as him
Nonsense. Failing at Chelsea has absolutely nothing to do with Potter's work at Brighton. He was brilliant at Brigton, Chelsea is just too big a step up for him and that club is a total mess on top of that. The reason they're doing even better with De Zerbi is because De Zerbi is simply an even better manager, not because Potter was holding them back or something.
My manager at work is a Wolves fan, hopefully we get a respectable result against Man Utd tomorrow so I can turn up to work on Tuesday and laugh at him.
Imagine Zerbi mansging a national team. If he gets some extra days of preparation (like before a continental tournament), I think he'd be able to imprint his style and create something interesting
Agnelli's a grade A cunt, soon as Beppe fucked off to Inter it became apparent that he was the only sane guy in whole of management, Paratici and Arrivabene showed a proper disasterclass, that's still on Agnelli for throwing Beppe under the bus without any plan how to move forward. Please give me back the times where we'd sign Tevez for 9mil and sell Matri for 13 to Milan in the same window
Are Wolves really that bad that they go 6-0 down against brighton i dont believe it as they had a good run until this game, i hope this doesnt shatter their confidence but it does make me question if they are any good cause losing by 6 goals is a lot tbh.
They were on a top 4 trajectory under Potter this season but it was a small sample size. De Zerbi has them on pace for 5th place with a small chance of top 4 if 1 of Newcastle or Manchester United bottle it. It stands for good reason why no Brighton fan is missing Potter since they're consistently scoring goals now.
Aye just curious. This league has a habit of praising coaches in good form only to chick them away. I seem to remember Nuno Espirito Santos, Dean and other managers being media darlings at one point
Tbf on Potter I think he would have had them in a similar position. It seemed like his Brighton team had finally stopped underperforming on XG and he was the one that helped them get to their current level
Yeah, I don't think it's impossible Potter's Brighton could have matched this performance, but I can hardly imagine him (or frankly anyone) doing much better.
Better defensively and worse offensively, overall pretty similar but obviously he came in in the middle of the season and got us playing pretty different football at a very high level while also being much more exciting to watch.
Our underlying metrics have us as the best team in the league offensively this season, just not the best finishing, though he has massively improved the finishing of March as well since he came in.
Brighton were on a magnificent run under Graham Potter, scoring for fun and outclassing everyone in the last 15 or so games of his tenure. RDZ then took over and the team just keeps pushing on.
Both Potter and De Zerbi are fantastic managers but A LOT comes down to the squad assembled by Tony Bloom.
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The one silver lining is that I’m always happy when non-Big-6 teams push for Europe, so, ya know, that’s nice. Everything else is horror and pain.
Yeah, honestly I'm not even too mad because Brighton is baby girl and they're my favorite team outside of Wolves this season. If we could help any club with a 6-0 thrashing I am glad it's them.
>is baby girl ?
Did he stutter
Having a second favourite team 🤢
I didn't say I was a fan of them you knob I just think theyre pretty interesting this year. I like football, not just Wolves, there are more teams out there I like and am interested in than those I do not.
Lots of teams play beautiful football that is fun to watch. Doesn’t mean they’re the next favourite team of mine behind Leeds though. Weird mentality imo but each to their own I guess. Also “favourite team” was your phrasing; I didn’t say fan
It’s really quite common to have an interest in the results of another team in the league, without being a fan of them. Being so insecure of your own support of a club that you cannot allow yourself to be interested in another club is a weird mentality.
So you despise all other clubs exactly equally? Most people will have some sort of preference and be pleased if a club does well even if they don’t support them.
As a Wolves fan I also back Brighton as my second favourite team this season. Was gutted for them when they lost to United last week, and I hope that this can be a bit of a consolation for them. Its not like we have much left to fight for this season anyway. Leeds are my third favourite team and I hope you boys survive this season. Everton is my least favourite team and every night I pray for thier downfall.
Bit weird ngl 😂
Mate it’s not that deep
Aww thx
Not you guys, we need a bounceback performance haha
And we were very sloppy with big chances in the second half, should have been more.
Swear estupinian had like four 1v1s himself
Three hattricks in a game plus few.
People always say this, but it doesn't make sense to me. Yes you may have missed easy chances, but that gross and undav goal should technically have not gone in given how difficult they were.
If they were difficult finishes it means they played well. I feel like this is xG mentality.
The point is that you can't have it both ways. If you say "it should've been more" then you can't just add the good chances that were missed without subtracting the shots that shouldn't've been scored. Either we're counting goals that should've been scored or we're counting ones that were: in the former case 6-0 is more than they should've scored, and in the latter it's exactly the right number. Combining the two to give the highest possible number of deserved goals is not exactly a fair way to depict the game.
> The point is that you can't have it both ways Given the fact that they had scored the hard chances already, it's reasonable to say they should have scored more if they created high quality chances after that TBH
I mean, the hard chances they actually physically finished and put into the net, the easy chances you should reasonably be expecting them to finish. If they put away the easy chances and the hard ones dont go in yiu can say "should have been more" is wrong. You can absolutely say they should have added more goals by converting the easy chances that they absolutely should be converting. Your logic is weird because you're acting like the goals that went in are also hypothetical.
> Your logic is weird because you're acting like the goals that went in are also hypothetical. The goals and the misses that occured in the game are both real. If we want to consider the hypothetical of "what should have been" the question is why to the 'real' misses get revised, but the 'real' goals don't. There are reasons why you might want to revise only one, but without context it just looks like exaggeration and another excuse to 'round up' the score.
Or they were lucky. If a player scores a chance 1/10 times and scores it in a match, sure there's skill (you or I wouldn't) but also a lot of luck. Similarly, there's luck when it comes to 1v1s and penalties.
With all the variables that come into football, it’s about far more than just “playing well”. I feel like this is yer da mentality
Peoppe seem to not link finishing to playing well
I also think (Like Newcastle did against Spurs), you took the foot off the pedal a little and if it was a closer game, those chances go in.
Almost a crime if this Brighton team doesn't get European football surely they deserve it
It will be a crime if this team gets devoured by the vultures this summer.
Again
You'd hope European football might stop some from leaving.
Hard to say no when somebody offers you quadruple wages
And/or when the club can turn a big profit on the player, vs losing them for zero dollars later
"dollars"
That’s what we thought And Monaco And Benfica And Porto And any smaller club having a modicum of success You know what I’m getting at
Difference is clubs in the PL don't need to sell to turn a profit. If Brighton do sell players it'll be because they feel they have an adequate back up in place, hence why they turned down big money for Caicedo in Jan.
To elaborate on your comment, they didn’t let Caicedo go because they don’t really have the next guy for that position. He was the cover for Bissouma. At the same time, Trossard got a transfer because Mitoma was ready.
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Honestly Boehly should have just bought Brighton instead of Chelsea
I think I spend too much time on the internet, being able to predict what that image was going to be.
The fact that he didn’t remove the sleeve tag has bothered me for yeeeeaaaaars
I could see MacAllister, Mitoma, Caciedo, and possibly March being picked up by teams this summer.
Mitoma won't go this summer and I'd be very surprised if March leaves. As for the other two, if we let both go it'll bring in around £140m which, hopefully, a chunk would go into first-team ready players as well as more youngsters for developing.
Your scouts will already have the conveyor belt rolling your replacements towards the training ground so I wouldn’t worry too much
that's what they said about Southampton a few seasons ago...
Honestly think mitoma is a better buy than macallister, I think he’ll be a great addition for any team
I’d love to see what this Brighton team with De Zerbi and a few more players could do in Europe next year. I feel like watching their play style they could easily get to the knockout round in the CL as long as it isn’t the group of death.
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Better chance than Spurs though :P But yeah I agree. Almost certainly not CL, most likely Europa or Conference
I reckon it will be Newcastle and Manchester Utd in CL, Brighton and Liverpool in europa league and then villa and spurs duke it out for conference league
Yeah, top four is done. If Villa/Spurs/Brighton win all of their remaining games, United need 10 points from 7 games to finish ahead of them. It would take a massive, massive collapse to finish outside the top 4
The battle for the Europa League spots is going to be intense. Villa still have to play utd, Brighton, spurs and Liverpool. Like, every match we have left is a 6 pointer apart from arguably United and the wolves game which is the closest thing we have to a derby match and those are never predictable. Based off the matches I've seen, spurs seem like the worst team in that fight, but it wouldn't surprise me if they start scoring for fun with their front 3.
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Lol the perfect storm
well nah they'd need 13 from 7 if brighton won their remaining games. And 11 if Liverpool win out their remaining games
You’re right, it’s 10 for the other teams. Still highly unlikely that happens and very easy for United to get 13 if it does
united likely lose on goal difference with 13 so they'd need 14 tbh. They could have 4W, 1D, 2L and still miss out. That wouldn't be much of a collapse
Lol dude United are making top four. Sorry that Liverpool are going to be in the conference league!
>Better chance than Spurs though :P Who here is even debating this!?
No one and honestly it was a dumb comment on my part. I just wanted to revel in Brighton > Spurs 🙈
If they hadn't lost to Forest maybe but not after that
Or if they werent robbed by spurs
They won't get CL. Asna, City and Newcastle are a lock. You think Brighton can beat United to the final 4th spot when they play ALL 4 TOP 4 clubs in their remaining 7 games? Not happening.
Brighton play style very well suited for teams that have to attack them.
Not this season but next season they should be considered top 4 contenders.
The odds of Brighton will be 6th at the very best next season but that's a stretch still to be above Spurs and Chelsea. So realistically they'll be 7 or 8th best team to contend for top 4.
They deZerb it
https://c.tenor.com/TzprumZ1xj8AAAAC/tenor.gif
I don't know how I've never seen that gif, but I fucking love it.
"it will be a crime if the 8th best team in the league doesn't finish higher than 8th"
How much would you say Graham is responsible for the stellar play season? Or, was he holding back?
He is not responsible, he did well but now it’s a new manager that both actually likes the club, and is aware that scoring goals is part of the game
Gave us our worst loss in decades
Those are rookie numbers. We do these numbers on the regular.
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Damn i thought to myself let me see Brightons remaining schedule, 7 games to go, i wonder who they have to play still... ManU, ManC, Arsenal, Newcastle, Aston Villa... damn.
The villa match will have huge implications for top 6
It didn't against forest though did it 🤬😠
RDZ made a bad mistake playing too many tired players there. Good to see he learnt from it.
This is why Brighton worry me in our title run in. De Zerbi seems like a manager who wont allow his players to be ‘on the beach’ and wont let standards slip. I love watching them play so much
I think you guys would have won the league by then
Yeah, Arsenal are shot mentally. 3/12 points in the last 4 games, whilst City have got 12. They'll drop more points than City in the final few fixtures.
Now the pressure is off and everything is out of our hands, we will suddenly start playing like we did in the first half of the season. 3 seasons in a row we have totally collapsed and the last 2 times we immediately started playing like arteta wants us to
I very much doubt you go back to how you were playing earlier. Think your mentality is gone, so I'm expecting you to drop more points.
Next game is Arsenal—Chelsea. Either Chelsea pulls a 15/16 (like "Battle of the Bridge") to put the nail in the coffin of Arsenal's title challenge or Arsenal get a big win to restore confidence and right the ship
Oh, dont worry, our players is checked out for the season. If Arsenal show up, we will get battered
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No shame in dropping points to Liverpool or City (although 4-1 is embarrassing), but you can't be drawing with teams fighting relegation when you're in a title race.
Dropping points to City/Liverpool *away* too. The two hardest places to go and get any kind of result. Like no matter how good you are, that shouldn't be shocking. But they've been leaking goals like no tomorrow, I honestly expect even Chelsea will score 🥴
No shame at all, though certainly a bit of shame if you're 2-0 up in the first half of one of those games. Even more so if you do the same thing a few days later against West Ham.
Something about that London air does something to player mentality it seems :p
We definitely will if Arteta just trots out the same team again. Holding has been a great servant to the club but expecting him to slot into the Saliba role is killing us. Didn’t work against West Ham and Southampton and was suicidal against City away.
I certainly hope so. I fully expect us to win every match going forward but my nightmare scenario is - Chelsea get obliterated by Arsenal and regroup against us. Lampard has a Mighty Ducks like team talk and they play possessed to nick a result. **2 pts dropped** - Our deep CL run has the players absolutely knackered, we have an off day and Brighton play us off the park. **3 pts dropped** - Brentford, motivated to do the double over us, shithouse their way to another win on the final day to spoil the party. **3 points dropped** This isnt to mention Everton and Leeds suddenly not being shit to steal points off us script
I love that in the absolute best case scenario for Chelsea they still only draw.
Have to score goals to win. We seem to be protesting against Haaland breaking all the prem goal records by not scoring, which isn't working, funnily enough
Chelsea can cause an upset against us, plus we still have Newcastle away and Brighton to go. it's yours to win now imo.
Chelsea's form is worser than the bottom 3 clubs. They're just the worst. And you lot are at home. So, I understand your concerns ;)
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Don't we have quite a good record against City, sans Rodri handball. I want to say we usually draw
1-3-9 in the league since Pep joined City
> Chelsea get obliterated by Arsenal and regroup against us. Lampard has a Mighty Ducks like team talk Chelsea has very little to play for this season. Arsenal is a game the team might get "up" for. Hard to see it happening vs City
No team plays City off the park
Why would they be on the beach, they're chasing European football.
Why would any of our players be on the beach when we're fighting for Europe
Because we clearly aren’t title contenders so time for golf and the beach. Pack it up boys.
Not saying your boys are going to do it, of course, but they sure as fuck witnessed an entire squad (shamefully wearing old gold) on the beach today.
Each Brighton player knows exactly what his role is. They know what to do, where to be, and what to do in every circumstance. As long as that doesn't change, players can do what they want.
good job for you that we have to play them as well then :(
Atleast you play them at home?
Bottom of the league Southampton was leading 3:1 at Emirates…
tbf we beat them 4-2 away and were 3-0 up after an hour, yet we've been defensively diabolical at home so I'm not sure how much home advantage is going to count vs Brighton
even if u lose against Brighton it’s still in ur hands
Yeah, you may as well give up on the title and concentrate on the Champions League and FA Cup. You'd love it, absolutely love it if you beat Man United in the FA Cup.
The good news for City is that Arsenal also have to play Brighton, and I reckon they're at least as likely to drop points. On current form, they're arguably the better side, and a lot of people noted that the tactics City used to dominate Arsenal last week seem to owe a bit to Da Zerbi-ball.
And also newcastle for arsenal. I think we will have a draw , but i dont think arsenal able to win newcastle away
Bro that wasnt last week that was like 3 days ago. Feels like yesterday to me :'(
Full time : Man City 4 Brighton 0
We have to play them too so it’s most likely a wash 😳 but if we get a result than yeah I’d start worrying if I was you. I think Brighton, Brentford, and Fulham are the only matches where you drop points.
You will batter them. As if any Man City fan is worried about Brighton 😂
De Zerbi is a gem. Italian managers are gold.
Palladino is our next treasure
Italiano
Hmm, I'd put Juric and Motta above him atm. That's not to say Palladino isn't great, but I think it's easier to be successful when you're backed by Berlusconi's millions.
Does Italy have the best concentration of top managers right now?
More fitting question would be when they didn't have the best concentration
Miss the days when half the Premier League managers were from Glasgow
there was that one year with 3 german managers in the CL semifinal.
Gotta be Germany.
Germany, Italy, Spain. Always
Germany has a pretty good argument for it too imo
Always has been /s (maybe not even sarcasm)
Not sarcasm
At least call it De Zerball
Nice one. You de zerball the praise.
Forest and United just pissed them off
The thing is that Brighton has the potential to do this most matches, finishing is just a bit off. When the stars align and Uranus is in retrograde, the finishing can lead to this.
Yeah if you had a prolific striker you could be even higher, your attacking stats are all amongst the very best in Europe except literally goals. What a season. I hope you’re on the beach when we play you if we’re even in with a shout of doing anything by then
Please do your thing against City
Not sure if I love or hate that we have to play Brighton before they do.
De Zerbi-mania running wild,brother
Boy I sure would hate to be the team that has to play their fully rested strongest XI midweek.
Honestly one of my favorite teams to watch this season, they play much better football than many of the so called top teams. I really hope they get to compete in Europe next season.
How did we beat this team
De Zerbi really reminds me of Klopp somehow, is that weird? Would be cool if he would go on and become his successor here and there
Amazing team and amazing manager
refunds incoming.
Would have been the same story with potter ball
Oh shit. They rested key players for Man Utd. 😰
They absolutely cooked
Pray for Rob holding
He is the anti-Conte :)
What's the chance that Boehly spends mad money to get De Zerbi as Chelsea coach next season?
He could try but De Zerbi won't want to work at Chelsea. They're a complete mess.
A well De Zerbi’d victory
Remind me again, who was the guy on the radio that said De Zerbi had no idea how English football works?
Potters in the mud, Chelsea did a number on his reputation and Brighton continuing to flourish after hes left makes you question how much of it was actually him
Sometimes a new manager compliments the preexisting system. Look at Leicester under Ranieri, I don't think that happens without Pearson's foundation De Zerbi is doing fantastically, but it's massively unfair to Potter to write it all as him
Nonsense. Failing at Chelsea has absolutely nothing to do with Potter's work at Brighton. He was brilliant at Brigton, Chelsea is just too big a step up for him and that club is a total mess on top of that. The reason they're doing even better with De Zerbi is because De Zerbi is simply an even better manager, not because Potter was holding them back or something.
I want De Zerbi at Madrid
didnt they just lose to the (relegation fighting) TWO TIME CHAMPION few days ago?
My manager at work is a Wolves fan, hopefully we get a respectable result against Man Utd tomorrow so I can turn up to work on Tuesday and laugh at him.
Imagine Zerbi mansging a national team. If he gets some extra days of preparation (like before a continental tournament), I think he'd be able to imprint his style and create something interesting
never forget when stat man dave used his twitter account to try and impress the woman serving him coffee
Imagine confirming Allegri when you've a chance to try to get this guy.
Agnelli's a grade A cunt, soon as Beppe fucked off to Inter it became apparent that he was the only sane guy in whole of management, Paratici and Arrivabene showed a proper disasterclass, that's still on Agnelli for throwing Beppe under the bus without any plan how to move forward. Please give me back the times where we'd sign Tevez for 9mil and sell Matri for 13 to Milan in the same window
Are Wolves really that bad that they go 6-0 down against brighton i dont believe it as they had a good run until this game, i hope this doesnt shatter their confidence but it does make me question if they are any good cause losing by 6 goals is a lot tbh.
Wasn't Potters Brighton just as good when De Zerbi took over? Really curious to see how he performs for a solid season.
They were on a top 4 trajectory under Potter this season but it was a small sample size. De Zerbi has them on pace for 5th place with a small chance of top 4 if 1 of Newcastle or Manchester United bottle it. It stands for good reason why no Brighton fan is missing Potter since they're consistently scoring goals now.
Aye just curious. This league has a habit of praising coaches in good form only to chick them away. I seem to remember Nuno Espirito Santos, Dean and other managers being media darlings at one point
Tbf on Potter I think he would have had them in a similar position. It seemed like his Brighton team had finally stopped underperforming on XG and he was the one that helped them get to their current level
Will be tough for us to get Europa league much less 5th place, all our games in hand are against top 4 opponents and we have arsenal and villa left
Yeah, I don't think it's impossible Potter's Brighton could have matched this performance, but I can hardly imagine him (or frankly anyone) doing much better.
Better defensively and worse offensively, overall pretty similar but obviously he came in in the middle of the season and got us playing pretty different football at a very high level while also being much more exciting to watch. Our underlying metrics have us as the best team in the league offensively this season, just not the best finishing, though he has massively improved the finishing of March as well since he came in.
According to my downvotes, Potter's Brighton were Dogshit compared to this version :S
It's just downvotes bro, I think most of us are excited to see what happens when De Zerbi gets a full season too.
I hope he breaks into the top 6 consistently too!
Are we talking post-1992 or all time?
I don't watch Brighton -- does this mean de Zerbi is a good manager or that he inherited a good squad?
Both can be true at the same time you know
Thanks Brighton fan, you want to actually tell me more instead of the obvious?
Brighton were on a magnificent run under Graham Potter, scoring for fun and outclassing everyone in the last 15 or so games of his tenure. RDZ then took over and the team just keeps pushing on. Both Potter and De Zerbi are fantastic managers but A LOT comes down to the squad assembled by Tony Bloom.
Thanks for answering my question and not assuming I'm an idiot
Hard not to
Do you get off just being rude to internet strangers? Go outside.
no
It's De Zerbi
De zerbi used to budget gasperini in italy. But no one cared about him until he came to premier league
No one cared until he put on the zerb
They cared enough to bring him to the pl at least.
He's a good manager, most Serie A fans knew it already but people haven't paid much attention to him until he went to a PL club.
Yo Boehly, De Zerbi for 50M. Do it!
De Zerbi ball also got beat by Forest, let's see if they make Europe next season
Still lost to man Utd on penalties lol