Post Match report for the Man City game - Wednesday, 20th April 2022
PREMIER LEAGUE 21/22: Manchester City V Brighton - 20/4/22 P34.
* * * * * ALBION ON A HARSH LEARNING CURVE * * * * *
RESULT: 3-0 . (h-t 0-0) . . . SHAPE: 3-5-2
VENUE: the Etihad, Manchester - seventeenth away match of thirty-four fixtures to date . Wed 8:00pm.
PRE-MATCH: this rescheduled game made it three trips in a row but travelling Brighton fans certainly had gotten value for money recently as our campaign already bettered previous Prem away seasons.
There were no triple expectations, although hope springs eternal.
WEATHER: dry & mild . GATE: tba . KIT: yellow & blue.
GRAHAM POTTER spoke of things changing quickly and espoused how mistakes, failure, suffering and pain were required on any path to improvement.
He realised what an unbelievable challenge it would be tonight.
GP thought through options and started Welbeck & March after losing Bissouma & Trossard.
Tertiary keeper McGill sat on the bench with four other youngsters.
INJURED: 15 Moder . BAN: 8 Bissouma . ILL: Trossard . SQUAD: 17 Alzate, 24 Duffy.
TEAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sanchez
. . . . . . . . . . 34 Veltman, 5 Dunk, 3 Cucurella
. 2 Lamptey 12 Mwepu 10 Mac Allister 25 Caicedo 20 March
. . . . . . . . . . . 13 Gross . . . . . . . . . 18 Welbeck
SUBS: 4 Webster (61), 60 Sarmiento (73), 9 Maupay (77).
BENCH: 23 Steele (gk), 38 McGill (gk), 14 Lallana, 42 Leonard, 57 Offiah, 58 Ferguson.
GOALS: 1-0 - 53 . hosts counter attack continues after an initial pause but the final dig deflects over Sanchez.
2-0 - 65 . another deflection gets past Sanchez at a routine on target attempt to give hosts a comfy cushion.
3-0 - 82 . quality from hosts and errors from visitors confirm the game is well and truly up.
INCIDENTS: 3 hosts miss, 12 hosts header, 16 Caicedo tackle, 20 Sanchez punch, 24 locals punt, 26 locals drive, 28 Sanchez parries, 33 visitors block, 38 Dunk blocks,
51 hosts pop, 52 hosts blocked, 59 Welbeck header, 60 hosts blocked, 61 Sanchez takes, 68 March blocks, 69 Sanchez takes, 90+ Mac A f-k.
YELLOWS: 79 Mac Allister, 81 Webster, 89 Dunk.
CHANGES: 61 Webster for Lamptey . 73 Sarmiento for Caicedo . 77 Maupay for Welbeck.
FIRST HALF: Seagulls made several forays up field that City contained without worry and quickly countered at pace.
Hosts dominated possession but visitors defended well as a cohesive unit and kept a clean sheet prior to the interval.
SECOND HALF: City took the lead early into the half and the result appeared a foregone conclusion.
This was underlined within a further quarter of an hour.
Travellers plugged away but the third goal arrived ten minutes from time and it was all effectively done & dusted.
The difference in class was obvious and the challenge for Seagulls is to take this performance forwards as part of elite education.
NUMBERS: poss 65%-35%, on target 5-1, off target 12-1, corners 7-4,
fouls 12-7, yellows 0-3, subs 3-3, shape 433-352 . . . . . . gd-11 pt40 po10
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