Post Match report for the Brentford game - Wednesday, 3rd April 2024
PREMIER LEAGUE 23/24: Brentford V Brighton - 3/4/24 P30
* * * * * APPARENTLY MONEY CANNOT BUY EVERYTHING * * * * *
RESULT: 0-0
VENUE: the Gtec Stad, London - sixteenth away match of 30 fixtures to date . Wed 7:30pm.
BEFORE KICKOFF: we were back in SW of the capital city as the run-in began in earnest for Prem clubs thus situated;
an elite few in sight of the podium, those like us in the middle mass and several strugglers at the bottom.
But in the financial league BHA headed all comers with a 123m profit on 204m turnover in last accredited accounts.
So Tony Bloom & Paul Barber readily signed up for forthcoming attractions.
WEATHER: mild . GATE: 17,024 . KIT: green & black . ATMOSPHERE: metropolitan oral & aural.
ROBERTO de ZERBI had many things on his mind but only one active competition to think about during April & May.
Currently employed as Brighton head coach he was tasked with finally reaching seventh place or better.
RdZ looked at the remaining fixture list, noted his injury & availability lists and produced a pragmatic team-sheet.
INJURED: 7 March 11 Gilmour 22 Mitoma 41 Hinshelwood
SQUAD: 4 Webster 6 Milner 19 Barco 28 Ferguson 31 Fati 38 McGill (gk)
STARTING SHAPE: 4-2-3-1
TEAM . . . . . . . . . 1 Verbruggen
. 34 Veltman 29 van Hecke 5 Dunk 3 Julio
. 40 Buonanotte 13 Gross 20 Baleba 24 Adingra
. . . . . 14 Lallana . . . 9 Pedro
SUBS: 10 Enciso (64), 18 Welbeck (74), 2 Lamptey (74), 15 Moder (86)
BENCH: 23 Steele (gk) 30 Estupinan 42 Offiah 44 Peupion 55 OMahony
GOALS: none
YELLOWS: Buonanotte
CHANGES: 64 Enciso for Lallana . 74 Welbeck & Lamptey for Adingra & Buonanotte
86 Moder for Veltman.
FIRST HALF: at half an hour gone it was goalless with little significant goalmouth action at either end.
And so it remained nil-nil at the interval despite very late pitch-side monitoring via VAR.
SECOND HALF: going into final quarter of this dour contest little had changed bar spurious away attempts.
Late attacking alterations to the away line-up occurred as travellers toiled to score.
IN THE END: failure to score against a weaker opponent was more disappointing than an easy clean sheet.
NUMBERS: poss 33%-67%, on target 2-6, off target 3-18, corners 1-5,
fouls 9-12, yellows 1-1, subs 4-4, shape 352-4231 . . . . . gd5 pt43 po9
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