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Match Brighton & Hove Albion vs Tottenham Hotspur - Sunday 6th October - 16:30KO

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Brighton have been much more aggressive this half and we fell to pieces for long enough to concede 3 goals.

All teams, no matter how good, have to be able to cope with spells of pressure at some point in a game. We don't seem to be able to play unless we are totally dominating, we are like a boxer with no punch resistance.
 
Great first half. Shocking second half. That’s what this club is. At times, brilliant. But spineless at other times with a distinct lack of character. It’s the Spurs roller coaster and we’re all on it.

And to do it to us before an international break is just so Spurs.
 
We’ve not laid a glove on them this half. I can’t believe the contrast between the two halves. Brighton have been brilliant it has to be said
 
We got until the 19th to sort ourselves out ..... hopefully AP will have the team work more on defending.
Pathetic second half ... what a horrible evening.
meh ....
 
We also stopped doing what worked in the first half going forward. We slowed down and stopped playing the quick vertical passes that put us behind their defensive line. We tried to sit on the lead which we cannot do
I don't think we do. Ange wouldn't. They suddenly hit us in quick succession and have two strong forwards pressing the hesitant Romero and VdV into mistakes but Udogie was the one keep being caught out. Newcastle used the same tactic of having strong and quick forward to press us into losing balls and win back the 2nd balls. We have no answer to such brute presses for long. At times like this we need to not play out from the back abit.
 
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