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Happy with that team!

 

 

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Boufal central, and Tadic left, that team will work.

Quite excited by that three behind Gabbiadini, particularly if it’s Tadic or Boufal in the middle.

Time to try & break the Tadic / Boufal curse of not playing well with them both in the team.

Feel for Yoshi! Interested to see VVD and Hoot together though.

JWP needs to step up with something creative today.

Forster. Wait for the errors

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Never thought I would say this but that is so harsh on Maya Yoshida.

Yep, very. This manager seems to take forever to drop players who are bang out of form, but is happy to drop those who are performing at a moments notice.

Back to one striker as well...I hope i'm wrong but I predict Gabbiadini to do nothing today. He doesn't link up well enough to play on his own up top and the rest of them don't get close enough to him.

Having said that, he scored V United in the cup from JWP crosses from the right and Boufal should be more creative than anyone he's played with so far.

Feel for Yoshi! Interested to see VVD and Hoot together though.

 

JWP needs to step up with something creative today.

He has had 3 years to practise!

Maybe at home against the non top 6 teams and even away at some places we should play Boufal Tadic and Redmond/Sims etc behind Gabbiadini. Instead of two holding mids that keep us solid when there is little need to against teams that just sit back. The last ten minutes last night and second half against United we actually looked like we could attack when taking one of the holding midfielders off.

 

That said I'd go with this team to start as Redmond still needs to earn his place back.

 

-----------McCarthy----------

Cedric--Yoshida--VVD---Bertrand

---------Lemina-Davis--------

JWP--------Boufal--------Tadic

---------Gabbiadini---------

Pretty much spot on with Lemina injury bar Hoedt for Yoshida.

We play Yoshida against fast strikers... Glenn Murray is not fast at all. So a good tactical change from MP in my opinion.

Got to have a chance of scoring from a set piece with JWP swinging it towards our centre-backs.

Davis + Mr Plod === borefest. Fingers crossed Gabbi or Boufal score an individual goal or two.

Brighton fans seem to think Dunk is the best centre back in the country. Unless he's significantly improved in the 6 years since we played them, I very much doubt that is the case.

Yep, very. This manager seems to take forever to drop players who are bang out of form, but is happy to drop those who are performing at a moments notice.

Back to one striker as well...I hope i'm wrong but I predict Gabbiadini to do nothing today. He doesn't link up well enough to play on his own up top and the rest of them don't get close enough to him.

Having said that, he scored V United in the cup from JWP crosses from the right and Boufal should be more creative than anyone he's played with so far.

Ridiculous comment.

Very harsh on Yoshida VVD has been the weak link in defence since he came back.

Struggle to ever get excited about JWP in the team...but hey maybe this will be the game when he fills his potential.

Very harsh on Yoshida VVD has been the weak link in defence since he came back.

van Dijk looked significantly better vs. West Brom. Unlike previous games this season he was more willing to step out of defence and dribble with the ball as he did so well in the past 2 seasons.

I’m pretty sure that Pellegrino just said in his pre-match comments that Austin is injured.

Very random selections. Not starting Yoshida, starting JWP, no Austin on the bench. These just seem out of nowhere.

Very random selections. Not starting Yoshida, starting JWP, no Austin on the bench. These just seem out of nowhere.

Oh FFS

Hoedt's in to counter the threat of Murray. JWP is in because Lemina is injured, as is Austin. They're careful decisions, not random at all.

Get over not starting yoshi, Brighton are dangerous in the air so he brings in Hoedt to deal with that, yoshi is not as good in the air, I'm not a fan of mp but give him a break

Ridiculous comment.

How so? Redmond was only dropped for the last game despite being completely ineffective all season. Hoedt played well early season, was dropped. Yoshida came in, played well, was dropped.

VVD and JWP need to have big games today.

Ffs. Why the **** is Boufal being shunted out wide again? Switch him and Tadic around!

Want to see jwp on right, tadic left, Boufal 10

for some reason mp sees Boufal & Redmond best on left, tadic 10 or right and same for jwp.

Jwp and tadic cannot shoot from open play from distance so will never be decent 10's

Ffs. Why the **** is Boufal being shunted out wide again? Switch him and Tadic around!

Frustrating especially considering Tadic always looks at his best out wide on the left.

How so? Redmond was only dropped for the last game despite being completely ineffective all season. Hoedt played well early season, was dropped. Yoshida came in, played well, was dropped.

it's a squad game, it hasn't been just about the first 11 men for about 30 years now.

he got it spot on last week, I'm sure he has a plan, let's see if it works...

Hard on Yoshi. Assume it's politics. Big new signing expressing unhappiness at lack of starts & suddenly he's in the team.

Glad to see Boufal starting, hope he's operating more centrally though.

Still think Long should be starting away.

Austin injured according to MP.

I do not understand the love in with Austin , even if he was not injured I would not play him if anyone else was available , he is well past his sell by date with too many distractions outside the game . Time to say thank you and good - bye I feel .

It is, really out of the blue too.

Don't Brighton tend to lump balls into the box? A bit of extra height for this game makes sense to me.

Don't Brighton tend to lump balls into the box? A bit of extra height for this game makes sense to me.

They're much better than that

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Oh FFS

 

Hoedt's in to counter the threat of Murray. JWP is in because Lemina is injured, as is Austin. They're careful decisions, not random at all.

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We play Yoshida against fast strikers... Glenn Murray is not fast at all. So a good tactical change from MP in my opinion.

Hadn't considered this.

Perhaps some considered planning here afterall.

How so? Redmond was only dropped for the last game despite being completely ineffective all season. Hoedt played well early season, was dropped. Yoshida came in, played well, was dropped.

I hear the frustration, I wanted Redmond dropped too *But* it was only 8 games. You have to give players a reasonable stint at times, and Redmond did score a few last year. At worst, I think he was given 1 or 2 games more than he 'deserved'/warranted, but it's hardly the worst transgression. As for Honest/Yoshida, VVD is our best defender (at his core), he had to be reintroduced at some juncture (otherwise why keep him). Reintroducing a rusty VVD with Yoshida made more sense because of their familiarity (plus Yoshida = captain status) Dropping Yoshida today could just be a case of squad management, i doubt it'll be long term exclusion. Anyway, I personally think Pellegrino has shown a willingness to change personnel, whilst balancing the need for some persistence. Certainly not faultless (Forster), but hardly egregious decision making. IMO, obvs (and so I shouldn't have used the word "ridiculous". Bit melodramatic. Apologies)

Frustrating especially considering Tadic always looks at his best out wide on the left.

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