Post Match report for the Man City game - Tuesday, 18th May 2021
PREMIER LEAGUE 20/21: Brighton V Manchester City - 18/5/21, P37.
* * * * * ALBION SENSATIONAL VICTORY AGAINST 10 MAN CHAMPS * * * * *
RESULT: 3-2 . (h-t 0-1) . . . . . . SHAPE: 3-5-2
VENUE: the Amex, Falmer - nineteenth home match of thirty-seven fixtures to date.
PRE-MATCH: the league champions arrived at northern city limits, for our very last home game, in front of selected Brighton fans allowed inside to watch live Prem football and soak up a sanitised but refreshed community stadium atmosphere.
The final score had seemed less acute beforehand than actually witnessing social history being made for all sorts of purely practical but also impromptu ethereal reasons.
WEATHER: dry, breezy . . . . GATE: 7,945 limit under current Covid restrictions . Tuesday 7pm.
GRAHAM POTTER was inadvertently satisfied this rescheduled challenge avoided a Monday Prem night but there again, had confidence his days would surely not be numbered for quite a while.
He never has believed in obtuse stats anyway, as realistically blank Thursday evenings hardly ever rebalance league football equations.
Cause and effect would determine what would happen and when anyhow.
BAN: 5 Dunk & 9 Maupay . INJURED: 24 Propper, 34 Veltman . REHAB: 2 Lamptey, 20 March.
TEAM . . . . . . . . . . 26 Sanchez
. . . . . . . . 3 White, 4 Webster, 33 Burn
. 16 Jahanbakhsh, 13 Gross, 8 Bissouma, 17 Alzate, 15 Moder
. . . . 10 Mac Allister . . . . 18 Welbeck
BENCH: 23 Steele, 31 Walton, 6 Karbownik, 7 Connolly, 22 Tau, 25 Caicedo.
11 Trossard (29), 14 Lallana (49), 29 Zeqiri (66).
GOALS: 0-1 - 2 . a simple cross from flank was nodded in unchallenged at Seagulls far post.
0-2 - 48 . an individual effort by an England international provided a quality second for champions.
1-2 - 50 . TROSSARD showed tenacity to drive forward and register a half-decent goal on to his small tally.
2-2 - 72 . WEBSTER heads in from a Gross assist, for his first goal of the season.
3-2 - 76 . BURN nets his first goal, after more involvement by Seagulls hunting in packs.
INCIDENTS: 5 - Gross attempt . 6 - Welbeck chip . 10 - City RED card . 12 - Gross f/k . 30> - steady local attacks . 55> - ebb & flow . 68 - Bissouma shot . 71 - White effort . 80> - hosts attacks . 89 - VAR check BHA area . 90+ - visitors miss.
YELLOWS: 26 - Jahanbakhsh . 93 - Webster . 94 - Sanchez.
SUBS: 29 - Trossard for Welbeck . 49 - Lallana for Jahanbakhsh . 66 - Zeqiri for Alzate.
TIMELINE: the clean sheet disappeared in seconds and merely became a chase the game exercise from that very early moment.
Then visitors were reduced to ten men inside ten minutes and reshaped defensively, so overall dynamics altered slightly.
Hosts were next forced into striker substitution for injury and play continued in predominantly stop-start vein.
But huff & puff took precedence while blue & white shirts toiled to make an impact on or penetrate opponents goalmouth.
Potter reshuffled formation after the interval but further events happened very quickly via subs and two added goals.
This excitement was increasingly ramped up during the last quarter period as the score changed dramatically.
FUNDAMENTALS: poss 63%-37%, on target 6-4, off target 13-4, corners 5-3,
fouls 13-11, yellows 3-3, red 0-1, subs 3-3, shape 352-433 . . . . . . . . gd-4 pt41 po15
REVIEW: Brighton fans got their monies worth in a helter-skelter cauldron of noise that was the Amex at dusk.
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