Quote from: olaftab on November 22, 2020, 05:49:35 PMI didn't realise how crap Brighton are but having just looked at the table blimey we made them look good yesterday. They had 6 points from 8. I don’t think the table actually did them justice. I’m not a massive fan of stats like XG but even a mate of mine said it’s amazing how many chances they miss. That said you have to take them and they haven’t most of the season. If you look at the same stat for our game yesterday I’m sure it will show we “should” have won. Should doesn’t ever get you points.
I didn't realise how crap Brighton are but having just looked at the table blimey we made them look good yesterday. They had 6 points from 8.
Haven’t see it, so can’t comment on the match. Couple of things though- Deano in his pre- match said a couple of times they were wary of Brighton, cos their results and league standing didn’t reflect their stats. Also, 3 international matches in a week was always going to take it’s toll. Like the Leeds match, let’s forget it and move on. I got a bit of stick a few weeks back for saying something like ‘if you’re going down the O’Neill route of picking the same team every week...’ Well it looks like we are doing that. Maybe he could’ve made a few changes for Brighton??
Quote from: robbo1874 on November 23, 2020, 07:57:17 AMHaven’t see it, so can’t comment on the match. Couple of things though- Deano in his pre- match said a couple of times they were wary of Brighton, cos their results and league standing didn’t reflect their stats. Also, 3 international matches in a week was always going to take it’s toll. Like the Leeds match, let’s forget it and move on. I got a bit of stick a few weeks back for saying something like ‘if you’re going down the O’Neill route of picking the same team every week...’ Well it looks like we are doing that. Maybe he could’ve made a few changes for Brighton??The trouble is, the first 11 pretty much picks itself. Of the bench of Steer, Elmo, El Ghazi, Traore, Taylor, Hourihane and Nakamba, who could we have started instead? Hourihane for Barkley maybe, but then Ross wasn't away on international duty so should have been fresh as a daisy. Nakamba for Luiz maybe, but that's a serious stepdown in quality the way Luiz had been playing. I don't know where Davis was, stubbed his toe again?I actually thought that El Ghazi looked quite enterprising when he came on, he was certainly better than Traore who was awful, so he could maybe get a run out instead of Trez next match. However hard that Trez works, his quality is dreadful, and one assist and no goals from eight games is a pretty crap return for one of our three forwards.