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

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Destiny got absolutely cooked. Worst game I have seen from him in a Spurs shirt.
Romero you should be ashamed. How many times did you lunge at the ball and completely fuck the rest of your teammates.
Ange...you got outclassed mate
 
It’s alright lads.

Ange always wins a trophy in his second year.

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Worst defense trophy???

GIF by Australian Open


I´m fucking furious right now, we are embarrassing!!

I´ve said for almost two years now we need three new defenders. Romero and Porro are probably world class going forward and in possession. Udogie would probably be really good at wingback. But all three of them are absolutely fucking awful defending, and when put under pressure! Either that, or our system are totally failing these players?!

I would be extremely surprised if we get top4 with this defense/system. and I would be slightly surprised if we get top6.

The first two games this season showed what we were in for this season sadly!

And Ange can´t keep playing Udogie now, he's been awful all season, and his confidence are probably shot to pieces, he's costing us points time and time again. The only thing is, I don´t see Spence as a solution there either. He is as bad defensively as the others.

I would probably go for a back4 with Porro - Romero - Dragusin - VdV from now on.

Wingers are NOT our biggest problem.
 
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Really..your happy so far this season..we are a mess at the back and don't have any control in midfield ?? This is pathetic, but if your happy with these performances then Good luck to you, because this is frankly not acceptable, we are always so easy to play against and so open it's actually terrifying to watch...
That second half takes some beating, in control at the break, but decide to stop doing anything second half.
This is why this club will never be successful, just hasn't got the stomach for it.
No point being upset, everyone needs to learn to accept it.
 
I like Ange and I enjoy the way we attack on most days. But getting absolutely dicked within 20 minute of halftime tells me he was totally out-coached. They changed their tactics and we did absolutely nothing to change it.

That’s worrying.
By a man 27 years his junior and who's never coached in an elite division prior to this season (unless I'm mistaken)
 
This is not simply about defensive lapses in my honest opinion there is a systematic lack of game management. I think it stems from how we are coached to approach games. It's like basketball under Ange, that requires way better natural defenders than Romero and Udogie will ever be. It requires defensive perfection. I saw it at Old Trafford and we kicked united ass.
I already mentioned in a post on how we always struggle against big and pacy forwards. Add a tricky Mitoma and Minteh we were not winning those 2nd balls. The defensive shape is not coping with these energetic presses as our FBs are programmed to attack more than defend. We need more than 100% concentration from all defenders to withstand the pressure and see how the lapses from Udogie and Romero leaked us goals today. Understandably defenders will fold with such relentless pressure, but I really expected more from fucking Romero. Fucking captain but he could never escaped being culpable for our goals conceded.

This will be a big weakness of us if we don't address this ASAP. Newcastle and Brighton showed the blueprint to play against us.

We won't die by playing a back 3 some times ffs Ange. If Dragusin was subbed in early after we conceded the first goal for Udogie, we can still play the usual system with VdV playing like Udogie as the inverting FB. Another hiccup hopefully for Ange to learn.
 
But who were those games against?

The worst United side in years

A couple of farmers league sides

A league cup win against Coventry

Brentford were arguably the hardest ...but we should be expecting to beat them.


At the end of the day, 10 points from 7 games is shit no matter how you spin it - it's only 2 points more than United who are in 'crisis'

Fucking bang on. The amount of absolute bollocks chatted on here about a run including 3 championship calibre teams and two mid table PL sides was insane.

We are fucking mid. And we actually have some really good players these days, we just play like fucking morons. Never feel in control of matches with any consistency.
 
He was probably shell shocked watching all 11 of his players go from world beaters to pub players in the space of 5 minutes

This result has nothing to do with Ange and everything to do with the players
It's particularly bad because who do you trust as a manager after that capitulation and lack of response? All the players I trusted were the ones who didn't deliver.

So disappointing
 
It’s back to the 90/00s now, mid table shite.

Unfortunately it costs a fucking fortune to watch this shit now, used to be a laugh back then, fuck paying top dollar and 8pound a pint for this shit
 
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