Post Match report for the Chelsea game - Saturday, 29th October 2022
PREMIER LEAGUE 22/23: Brighton V Chelsea - 29/10/22 P12.
* * * * * HEY PRESTO - THE BALL BREAKS AT SPEED * * * * *
RESULT: 4-1 ~ Trossard, og 2, Gross . (h-t 3-0)
VENUE: the Amex, Falmer - 6th home match of 12 fixtures to date . Sat 3:00pm.
BEFORE KICKOFF: entertaining Blues completed a busy October, not only for games played but in establishing a new regime based at Lancing.
Intermezzo Italian influences on the training pitch during that fixture glut were gathering accelerando and could reach vivace levels with this last encounter of the month.
WEATHER: like summer temps . . . GATE: 31,746 . . . ATMOSPHERE: staccato start, then crescendo.
ROBERTO de ZERBI greeted Graham Potter like an old friend.
Historically the Roman Empire would keep enemies close and integrate them into society.
We assume these modern-day centurions conversed about pitfalls of invading Europe.
RdZ broke with tradition and selected a tactically changed line-up.
Flexibility in the squad was put into use.
INJURED: 34 Veltman . ILL: 18 Welbeck . REHAB: 15 Moder.
STARTING SHAPE: 4-4-1-1
TEAM . . . . . . . . . 1 Sanchez
. . . 13 Gross 4 Webster 5 Dunk 30 Estupinan
. 7 March 10 Mac Allister 25 Caicedo 22 Mitoma
. . . . . 14 Lallana . . . 11 Trossard
SUBS: 20 Enciso (65), 2 Lamptey (73), 19 Sarmiento (87)
BENCH: 23 Steele (gk) 21 Undav 27 Gilmour 43 Turns 47 Furlong 49 Moran
SQUAD: 6 Colwill (on loan from Chelsea)
GOALS:
1-0 - 05 . TROSSARD converted a pass by Mitoma after a cut & thrust counter foray deep into Blues box.
2-0 - 14 . Marsh curled over a corner kick to middle of the six yard box as Seagulls big men stood off defenders - og 1.
3-0 - 42 . Estupinan bounded down the left and took a pass from Caicedo before unleashing a low centre for og 2.
3-1 - 48 . locals defence was not stopping crosses and this one landed smack on the strikers head with Sanchez stymied.
4-1 - 92 . GROSS put away the final score at the death following an effort by Enciso that the keeper parried.
YELLOWS: Enciso - youthful exuberance.
CHANGES: 65 Enciso for Lallana . 73 Lamptey for Mitoma . 87 Sarmiento for Trossard.
FIRST HALF: hosts went two up inside 15 minutes and onus was on visitors to counter attack and show their class.
Going in three behind made it additionally difficult for Blues to get something from being steamrollered.
SECOND HALF: travellers pegged one back quickly and locals defended their box for a while until past the hour mark.
Substitutions were enacted and variability of hosts multi-positional personnel counted as a positive.
OF NOTE: a method of forward motion using flanks without an orthodox no.9 role but plenty of support from defenders, plus extra movement of midfielders.
IN THE END: taking advantage of initial attacking intent paid dividends and solid defending, including Prem grade goal-keeping, made it difficult for opposition to reduce self-inflicted deficit the longer this entertaining contest lasted.
NUMBERS: poss 41%-59%, on target 9-7, off target 10-8, corners 8-7,
fouls 16-6, yellows 1-2, subs 3-5, shape 4231-3421 . . . . . gd4 pt18 po8
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