Post Match report for the Notts Forest game - Sunday, 10th March 2024
PREMIER LEAGUE 23/24: Brighton V Nottingham Forest - 10/3/24 P28
* * * * * CLEAN SHEET & OWN GOAL * * * * *
RESULT: 1-0 ~ og . (h-t 1-0)
VENUE: the Amex, Falmer - fourteenth home match of 28 fixtures to date . Sun 2:00pm.
BEFORE KICKOFF: Brighton fans had been to Rome last week and returned home to face a travellers bleak reality check.
We had come a long way and from initial baby steps have learnt you gotta walk before you can run.
WEATHER: damp . GATE: 31,505 . ATMOSPHERE: nervous nineties.
ROBERTO de ZERBI tried not to sound like he was making excuses for three straight goalless away defeats in all competitions.
This season was in danger of tailing off into mid table mediocrity and was becoming as much a test of mental endurance.
RdZ consulted runes prior to ides of march and availed of a pragmatic team-sheet in this moment.
INJURED: 6 Milner 7 March 9 Pedro 22 Mitoma 41 Hinshelwood
SQUAD: 38 McGill (gk) 47 Baker-Boaitey . BAN: 11 Gilmour
STARTING SHAPE: 4-2-3-1
TEAM . . . . . . . . . 1 Verbruggen
. 34 Veltman 29 van Hecke 5 Dunk 30 Estupinan
. . . . . . 20 Baleba 13 Gross 15 Moder
. . . 24 Adingra . . 28 Ferguson . . 31 Fati
SUBS: 2 Lamptey (60), 18 Welbeck (60), 10 Enciso (76), 3 Julio (76), 14 Lallana (80)
BENCH: 23 Steele (gk) 4 Webster 19 Barco 40 Buonanotte
GOALS:
1-0 - 29 . visitors defend resolutely against a wave of attacks from kickoff but put the ball into their own net.
YELLOWS: 41 Fati . 67 Moder . 78 Veltman . 96 Lallana
CHANGES: 60 Lamptey & Welbeck for Fati & Ferguson
76 Enciso & Julio for Moder & Estupinan . 80 Lallana for Adingra
FIRST HALF: hosts led just before the half hour following one way traffic but failure to convert attempts on goal.
Then visitors probed for an opening as Seagulls alighted and strolled around at low speed.
SECOND HALF: on the hour mark De Zerbi made an attacking double change.
Later two more arrived to bolster play.
The clock ticked down while locals tried to control ailing visitors death throes.
IN THE END: fortune favoured the team who kept a clean sheet and somehow edged a single goal score.
NUMBERS: poss 64%-36%, on target 3-4, off target 7-5, corners 6-3,
fouls 14-14, yellows 4-4, subs 5-5, shape 4231-433 . . . . . gd6 pt42 po8
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