Post Match report for the Aston Villa game - Saturday, 26th February 2022
PREMIER LEAGUE 21/22: Brighton V Aston Villa - 26/2/22 P26.
* * * * * ALBION CRACKS WIDEN INTO VAST FAULT LINES * * * * *
RESULT: 0-2 . (h-t 0-1) . . . SHAPE: 3-1-4-2
VENUE: the Amex, Falmer - thirteenth home match of twenty-six fixtures to date . Sat 3:00pm - delayed.
PRE-MATCH: Brighton fans reassembled at the community stadium exactly a week after witnessing our most recent domestic debacle.
At least it was not raining today.
At best we hoped for a much improved display or by way of compensation some value for money with breaking even by default.
WEATHER: sunny but chilly . . GATE: 31,475 - many spaces . . ATMOSPHERE: flat from early moments.
GRAHAM POTTER sang praises of home support as part of a positive spin on where we once were, how we are situated right now and intend to be placed over coming weeks.
It was pretty basic psychology to us great unwashed.
GP chose to tweak his starting eleven from that fielded in above aforesaid below par performance.
INJURY: 4 Webster, 12 Mwepu . . SQUAD: 14 Lallana, 28 Roberts.
TEAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sanchez
. . . . . . . . 34 Veltman . . 5 Dunk . . 3 Cucurella
. 2 Lamptey, 15 Moder, 8 Bissouma, 10 Mac Allister, 20 March
. . . . . . . . . . . 9 Maupay . . . . . . . . 11 Trossard
SUBS: 18 Welbeck (63).
BENCH: 23 Steele (gk), 24 Duffy, 13 Gross, 17 Alzate, 25 Caicedo, 42 Leonard, 57 Offiah, 58 Ferguson.
GOALS: 0-1 - 17 . a snap shot from edge of the area by an unmarked away opportunist beat Sanchez to the post.
0-2 - 68 . route one up to their ace striker pushing on saw his gamble payoff in spades and dealt hosts a death card.
NOTED: one home shot on target . almost countless off targets, skyed, air shots, miss-directed, scuffs, non-headers, schoolboy lack of control & errors, lost balls, fifty-fifty negatives, professional fouls, handbags... and one trick ponies.
YELLOWS: Cucurella, Bissouma, Trossard, Veltman.
CHANGES: 63 Welbeck for Moder.
FIRST HALF: the first goal counts for adhesion to or alteration from game plan and locals were caught cold by travellers rare excursion.
Cliches like; chasing the game, applied simultaneously with; gotta get two to win now.
SECOND HALF: possession is not conducive to goal scoring, as demonstrated twice by opposition - who made best of their efforts.
Old failings moving into the final third were an obvious visual replay of many previous home fixtures.
Potter pottered with possible changes but did not radically alter modus operandi of side, side, slow, slower, back, side, slow.
A creative source was missing and front runners were mainly static while Seagulls hopped up and down wings.
A second straight home defeat, third loss running, no goals scored but 7 conceded after this trio of reversals. Those stark figures speak for themselves.
Potter may not admit to analyse in depth but that accumulation is not rocket science to regard with disdain. There is a cause and effect that he must fix.
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NUMBERS: poss 66%-34%, on target 1-4, off target 11-5, corners 7-2,
fouls 17-11, yellows 4-5, subs 1-3, shape 352-433 . . . . . gd-5 pt33 po10
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