Brighton vs Aston Villa pre-match thread - Saturday, Feb 13th - 8pm

[ADVILLAFAN]

March and Lamptey should be out against us. Seems to be a mix of 1st team and reserves tonight for them.

Leicester have put a strong team out.

[Jon Crofts]

Another nasty niggly shithouse team.

I dont see that at all. If anything, they're far too nice. They try to play football on the floor, and command plenty of possession. The opposite to fcuking Burnley.

Maupay is the one nasty outlier. Wouldn't surprise me if he bullies his poor, placid manager Mr Potter into starting him every game.

No I'm with Jon, they've got a few other snidey pricks in their team. The lad that went down clutching his face when Trez caught him the neck with a trailing arm for one.

Exactly who I was thinking of when I posted this + Maupay.

[RamboandBruno]

Don’t think we should take this too lightly. Since they lost to Leicester away in mid December, they’ve won 4 drawn 6 and lost only 2 in the league, and 3 of the wins came against Spurs at home and Liverpool and Leeds away. They might be nearer the bottom than top, but they have no chance of going down and are completely in form.
Considering west ham have turned us over twice, we’ve taken one point off Burnley and already lost to this lot, it seems the sort of game we could we’ll lose.
They’ve been tight defensively lately, so an early goal for us potentially essential. 2-1 villa (Watkins, Grealish)

[WALTERS WARRIORS]

Sounds sad but i was hoping for extra time in their game tonight. To extend there playing time :-(( We need to go full out from the start after a weeks rest. Hoping to see more or even a debut for Sanson 0-2

[rob_bridge]

A rare draw 2-2

They are 2nd on current form behind Cit-eh

[kippaxvilla2]

Darren England is the referee with Martin Atkinson on VAR duty. 

You may remember Darren friendly sort.  Allows Albion players to equalise with their hands.

[eamonn]

That berk, he didn't even need VAR for it.

[Mister E]

We need a good solid win; I think we'll get a 1-1 draw.
BHA is a really well-drilled team, difficult to beat. Perhaps we can tough out a sourhampton-esque 1-0 victory but I feel it's likely to be 1-1 draw.

[ChicagoLion]

Darren England is the referee with Martin Atkinson on VAR duty. 

You may remember Darren friendly sort.  Allows Albion players to equalise with their hands.

He is a complete twat.

[Des Little]

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Brighton 0
Villa 2

[lovejoy]

It's a local one for me, please win.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

We need a good solid win; I think we'll get a 1-1 draw.
BHA is a really well-drilled team, difficult to beat. Perhaps we can tough out a sourhampton-esque 1-0 victory but I feel it's likely to be 1-1 draw.

Brighton have drawn 10 of their 23 games this season.

Edit.
And their last 3 home victories have come in 3 different years.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

... their last 3 home victories have come in 3 different years.

Wow I checked that.
Never been to their new stadium only the old Goldstone. By all accounts it's a nice place to visit, I can see why.
Their last 23 home league games.
P 23  W 3  D 11  L 9  F 21   A 34

[Smithy]

Brighton are one of those sides that seems to play better, and put in better performances, than their results show.  Which is a bit of a worry.  If you're into stats, their league position on expected goals (which is really just a measure of the quality of the chances they create and concede) is 7th - we are 6th.   I think this just means either their finishing has been terrible, or the finishing of the opposition has been particularly good against them.

Either way, we should not be taking this game lightly.  I'd settle for another nervy 1-0!

[OCD]

... their last 3 home victories have come in 3 different years.

Wow I checked that.
Never been to their new stadium only the old Goldstone. By all accounts it's a nice place to visit, I can see why.
Their last 23 home league games.
P 23  W 3  D 11  L 9  F 21   A 34

This season their home record is

P 11 W 1 D 6 L 4 GF 11 GA 15 GD -4 Pts 9

Unfortunately for us their one win was in their last home game, against Spurs, so that might be out the window now.

Interestingly, we're 7th in both the home and away tables with 16 and 19 points respectively. Both our postponed games are home games.