Post Match report for the Man City game - Wednesday, 13th January 2021
PREMIER LEAGUE 20/21: Manchester City v Brighton - 13/1/21, P18.
ALBION ON THE ROAD TO NOWHERE
RESULT: 1-0 . (h-t 1-0) . SHAPE: 4-3-3
VENUE: the Etihad, Manchester - ninth away match of eighteen fixtures to date . Wednesday 6pm k-o.
Game played under lockdown 3 covid restrictions with no fans allowed.
PRE-MATCH: after FA Cup extra time and penalty shootout excitement on Sunday Albion were back on the road for resumption of concentrated weekly Prem contests.
Brighton fans were worried about dropping into the relegation zone but on paper at least, tonight would not be an occasion to anticipate adding to points tally.
WEATHER: northern wet winter evening.
GRAHAM POTTER selected from those fit enough a squad to represent Brighton & Hove in the greater meaning of our catchment area.
2021 was here and all things football were moving on, as is the nature of wider life.
Tau made elite debut, while allocation of nine substitutes was partially made up from senior U23 players.
TEAM . . . . . . . . . 26 Sanchez
. 34 Veltman, 4 Webster, 5 Dunk, 33 Burn
. . . . . 3 White, 24 Propper, 30 Bernardo
. 22 Tau . . . . 10 Mac Allister . . . . 11 Trossard
BENCH: 31 Walton, 47 Jenks, 41 Sanders, 54 Weir, 13 Gross, 29 Zeqiri.
9 Maupay (68), 20 March (68), 67 Khadra (86).
GOALS: 1-0 - 44 . poor game management gives hosts a goalscoring opportunity to negate stalemate.
INCIDENTS: 14 - Sanchez saves . 18 - Trossard misses . 28 - Sanchez handles a backpass . 40 - Sanchez saves at a counterattack . 59 - City hit an upright . 60 - Mac A shoots over . 90 - hosts miss a pen.
YELLOWS: 63 - Veltman . 77 - Webster .
SUBS: 68 - Maupay & March for Tau & Propper . 86 - Khadra for Trossard.
SYNOPSIS: good work and effort during the opening forty-five minutes amounted in sum to zero return when visitors conceded just prior to halftime.
Lack of southern footballing intelligence was cruelly exposed by smart local thinking.
After turnaround Seagulls plodded about to beyond the hour mark and next made two personnel alterations.
Travellers were still in the game going into final stages.
The final score did not reflect home superiority in stats.
NUMBERS: poss 65%-35%, on target 6-1, off target 10-4, corners 8-4,
fouls 4-12, yellows 0-2, subs 2-3, shape 433-433.
REVIEW: approaching halfway through this campaign, Albion are in deep trouble because each eleven fielded per game are still trying to reach required levels from a squad that collectively does not score a sufficient number of goals.
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