Post Match report for the Leeds game - Saturday, 1st May 2021
PREMIER LEAGUE 20/21: Brighton V Leeds United - 1/5/21, P34.
* * * * ALBION GET IT DONE * * * * *
RESULT: 2-0 ~ Gross, Welbeck . (h-t 1-0) . SHAPE: 3-4-3
VENUE: the Amex, Falmer - seventeenth home match of thirty-four fixtures to date . Saturday 3pm.
Game played behind closed doors due to current covid protocols.
PRE-MATCH: sports social media was blacked out so renewed season-ticketed Brighton fans networked on whatever platforms gave voice to opinions, even if shouted from socially-distanced restriction-relaxed external situations.
WEATHER: cloudy with showers.
GRAHAM POTTER explained his take on current events, inside and outside the microcosm of football. It all made perfect sense as usual to well behaved supporters conditioned to present lack of democratic freedoms.
Injury to Lallana allowed starting eleven selections to revert to more familiar insertion of round pegs in round holes.
TEAM . . . . . . . . 26 Sanchez
. . . . . . . 3 White, 5 Dunk, 4 Webster
. 34 Veltman, 13 Gross, 8 Bissouma, 33 Burn
. 9 Maupay . . . 11 Trossard . . . 18 Welbeck
BENCH: 23 Steele, 17 Alzate, 19 Izquierdo, 24 Propper, 29 Zeqiri.
16 Jahanbakhsh (81), 15 Moder (90), 10 Mac Allister (92).
GOALS: 1-0 - 14 . GROSS converts a daisy-cutter spot kick following a clear foul committed on Welbeck.
2-0 - 79. WELBECK does very well from skill and guile to beat the keeper all ends up as well.
INCIDENTS: 7 - Trossard on target . 8 - Tossard on target . 10 - Gross blocked . 13 - VAR pen check . 20 - Sanchez catches . 22 - hosts under pressure . 29 - visitors wide . 32 - Trossard miss . 34 - locals block . 39 - Dunk injury . 41 - Trossard miss . 43 - Welbeck wide . 45 - late Whites pressure . 46 - Veltman over . 51 - Welbeck effort . 61 - White header . 66 - Veltman volley . 67 - Maupay wide . 73 - United pen shout . 75 - visitors over . 79 - Bissouma wide . 83 - Whites wide . 88 - Webster over . 92 - Gross effort.
YELLOWS: 75 - Gross.
SUBS: 81 - Jahanbakhsh for Trossard . 90 - Moder for Welbeck . 90+2 - Mac Allister for Welbeck.
TIMELINE: early chances morphed into a free hit for hosts to sit in the driving seat and work further home advantage.
But travellers came forwards to trouble locals, who appeared unable to control direction of play and largely went defensive.
Chances came and went but the set piece remained sole source of a goal.
The away outfit dictated possession after turnaround and homers were often on the back foot, continuing to concede set pieces.
A goal would alter the status quo.
The second score underlined the difference in on and off targets between two fairly average but inefficient teams.
FUNDAMENTALS: poss 43%-57%, on target 5-2, off target 12-9, corners 2-9,
fouls 17-6, yellows 1-1, subs 3-3, shape 3412-4141 . . . . . . . . . gd-4 pt37 po14
CONSEQUENCES: all but safe for a fifth campaign bar confirmation from arithmetic at a later date.
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