Can we never play Brighton on a Friday again, please?
Beaten by a bunch of mediocre journeymen yet again
Nothing to do with them, we were plain shitpunkrockhammer wrote:Can we never play Brighton on a Friday again, please?
Beaten by a bunch of mediocre journeymen on a bad run, yet again
Totally disagreeHildreth_1101 wrote:Sort of half expected this but was hopeful we'd see a new West Ham, ie one who were confident but also still willing to put the commitment into the full game.
1st half they out work us, some sloppy Midfield play they capitalize, too much complacency in the team there. Second half we played a lot better, weird change by MP to change the shape when we were on top, but we still pressured them and created a few openings. Balbuena should have scored, Arnie should have scored at the end.
But it's all down to how we apply ourselves, we let ourselves down massively first half and just assumed "It's Brighton they aren't good enough to punish us if we're sloppy" but not only did they work hard to close us down, they had enough quality to threaten and got a deserved lead. Then they sat in defence, held a good shape, kept working hard until the end. Yes sometimes they lacked a bit of quality on the ball, had to defend a lot but they did the job to get the results, all through application throughout the full 90 minutes. And one period where someone rolls around on the floor when we're pressing doesn't take away from the fact they worked harder than us today and deserved the win.
It's disappointing and shows we got a LONG way to go before we can think about getting into the top 8.
