Brighton 1-2 Aston Villa post match thread

[LeeB]

Hey, where’s @Flin5tone?

I don't know but I bet he's "fuming"!

Still no sign of him?

Amazing isn't it? I reckon he's actually some Russian bot , bored as fuck, sat in a warehouse in Lithuania. And rather than defending Jacob Rees Mogg whilst pretending to be a 57 year dog loving housewife from Mansfield like he's paid to do, he shitposts on here instead.

[pauliewalnuts]

Once we've shithoused our way to dominating the English game and winning back to back European competitions, I'll be happy to campaign to end this cynical blight on the game, as it will be tiresome watching teams come and put 10 men behind the ball and play for a point.

Until then though, they can all piss off.

The thing I like about it is it is an indication we are FINALLY showing a bit of fucking nous. Watch Newcastle, btw, they're probably even 'worse' at it than we are. And as someone else said, Man United too.

I can't stand teams like Brighton, out of the wilderness after decades, a few years in the top flight and they're lecturing people on how they play.

They can fuck off. I preferred them when they were penniless and playing on some school playing field.

[Risso]

We've had some disgraceful decisions against us over the years (Kevin Friend at Palace and Ratboy getting a penalty for stamping on Konsa to name but two) so forgive me if I don't start blarting when we start using the dark arts to see out a win. As Lee says, when we've establised a team of Galacticos we can then start playing like Corinthians and refuse to take penalties if you like.

[brontebilly]

Coming from a goal behind to win away is very un-Villa. I felt we were much the more dangerous side and you can see the belief starting to resonate in the squad. Sometimes you don't always fix things by declaring players are shit all the time "Bailey is shit, Young is shit"". Mostly you need good management.

A lot of professional footballers have remarkable self belief and resilience. Young had a lot of injury problems at Old Trafford as a wiry winger, he could have played out the last few seasons of his career but instead bulks up and becomes a full back. Wins a league title at Inter and playing very well for us still at 37. To be honest, Southgate really should have picked him as you know he would have been a decent option in either fullback spot.

Bailey's performance at Fulham was a new low. For some that would have devastated whatever confidence you had left but only a few days later he is scoring and creating goals. You read about the early part of his career and all the graft he put into making it was remarkable.

[LeeB]

Once we've shithoused our way to dominating the English game and winning back to back European competitions, I'll be happy to campaign to end this cynical blight on the game, as it will be tiresome watching teams come and put 10 men behind the ball and play for a point.

Until then though, they can all piss off.

The thing I like about it is it is an indication we are FINALLY showing a bit of fucking nous. Watch Newcastle, btw, they're probably even 'worse' at it than we are. And as someone else said, Man United too.

I can't stand teams like Brighton, out of the wilderness after decades, a few years in the top flight and they're lecturing people on how they play.

They can fuck off. I preferred them when they were penniless and playing on some school playing field.

We had quite a lot of this in the Championship, Brentford, Norwich and this lot telling us what we should be doing because they'd had some measure of success and now they were guardians of some special knowledge to bestow upon us.

Get fucked.

I ended up barrelling on the Cardiff lad who's actually turned out to be sound and still posts on here because of that, but it really pissed me off.

[paul_e]

Once we've shithoused our way to dominating the English game and winning back to back European competitions, I'll be happy to campaign to end this cynical blight on the game, as it will be tiresome watching teams come and put 10 men behind the ball and play for a point.

Until then though, they can all piss off.

The thing I like about it is it is an indication we are FINALLY showing a bit of fucking nous. Watch Newcastle, btw, they're probably even 'worse' at it than we are. And as someone else said, Man United too.

I can't stand teams like Brighton, out of the wilderness after decades, a few years in the top flight and they're lecturing people on how they play.

They can fuck off. I preferred them when they were penniless and playing on some school playing field.

It's not even since they came up, They were ugly and functional at best under Hughton so all this cocky bullshit is on the back of 3 years under Potter, and for most of that time they were utterly toothless, playing pretty football in midfield but susceptible to giving away soft goals and timid in the oposition penalty area. It was barely a step up from Mowbray at the Baggies so they can wind their necks in a bit, especially given they commited more fouls than we did and there was a handball shout which was about as good a call for the penalty as the one by Digne that they've now all decided was the most stonewall pen in history.

Also taking moral high ground bullshit from a team that employed Maupay is a fucking joke, they got some short memories down there.

[martyn ellis]

MOTD2 last night and some very complimentary comments by Jermaine 'Genius' on how we played out the last 20 minutes. he didn;t call it shithousery; he called it filling the gaps, keeping our defensive shape and speculating that Brighton could have played another hour and not found a way through. Also other Jermaine (Defoe variety) highlighting what a good game Ings had with some very insightful analysis. Normally I think a lot of the post-match analysis is something to be put on fast forward if you record the programme, but this I thought was spot on.

[rob_bridge]

We've had some disgraceful decisions against us over the years (Kevin Friend at Palace and Ratboy getting a penalty for stamping on Konsa to name but two) so forgive me if I don't start blarting when we start using the dark arts to see out a win. As Lee says, when we've establised a team of Galacticos we can then start playing like Corinthians and refuse to take penalties if you like.

The one that grates on me is the play off final when the bloke stamped on Grealish. Stamped on him and got booked. Obviously with Bruce in charge we may not have won but a better chance for sure

[cdbearsfan]

It's probably for the best that we lost that playoff final, mind.

[LeeB]

It's probably for the best that we lost that playoff final, mind.

Didn't feel like that on the way home though, especially as the toilet was bost and stinking up the coach

[Legion]

Most definitely.

[rob_bridge]

It's probably for the best that we lost that playoff final, mind.

In hindsight but a disgraceful decision

[olaftab]

The win yesterday had nothing to do with any general  gamesmanship, which is always welcomed when required, it was as analysed on MotD due to tactical game plan. As Jenas said Brighton could have had another 30 mins and they wouldn't have got through.

[London Villan]

I said that watching the match - at no point did Brighton start thumping long balls into the box to put us under pressure. They just kept on with their same, pretty ineffective, game plan of pass pass pass pass pass - which we coped with easily.

[LeeB]

I said that watching the match - at no point did Brighton start thumping long balls into the box to put us under pressure. They just kept on with their same, pretty ineffective, game plan of pass pass pass pass pass - which we coped with easily.

We got behind them a good few times in the first half, and for the winner, with intricate passing and balls over the top of them. Can't remember them doing that to us once.