Post Match report for the Man City game - Saturday, 9th November 2024
PREMIER LEAGUE 24/25: Brighton V Man City - 9/11/24 P11
* * * * * BRIGHTON HOME WIN * * * * *
RESULT: 2-1 ~ Pedro ORiley . (h-t 0-1)
VENUE: the Amex, Falmer - 6th home match of 11 fixtures to date . Sat 5:30pm.
BEFORE KICKOFF: first quarter of the Prem campaign was completed last week and following this weekends meetings the third international break would then begin.
Title-holding visitors had a very good record at Brighton and even after a week of three rare reversals in a row (from all competitions) City were still anticipated to give a good account of themselves here.
WEATHER: settled . GATE: tba . ATMOSPHERE: more than shouts in the wind.
FABIAN HURZELER had registered a 40% Prem win record at Q1 and was up against it to improve that tally today.
FH devised a team-sheet based on who we are, where we are and what we are facing.
INJURED: 4 Webster 5 Dunk 17 Minteh 24 Kadioglu
SQUAD: 2 Lamptey 6 Milner 7 March
STARTING SHAPE: 4-2-3-1
TEAM . . . . . . . . . 1 Verbruggen
. 34 Veltman 29 van Hecke 3 Julio 30 Estupinan
. 11 Adingra 41 Hinshelwood 26 Ayari 22 Mitoma
. . . . . 14 Rutter . . . 18 Welbeck (C)
SUBS: 20 Baleba (46), 33 ORiley (57), 8 Gruda (66), 9 Pedro (66), 15 Moder (90)
BENCH: 23 Steele (gk) 10 Enciso 27 Wieffer 28 Ferguson
GOALS:
0-1 - 23 . deadlock was broken when visitors striker followed up his first effort, parried by Verbruggen.
1-1 - 78 . PEDRO prods an equaliser after pressure on visitors goal and a mistake in their defence.
2-1 - 83 . ORILEY opens his account when finding the net soon after more attacking forays. Assist Pedro.
YELLOWS: Ayari 19, Julio 44, van Hecke 99
CHANGES: 46 Baleba for Ayari . 57 ORiley for Hinshelwood
66 Gruda & Pedro for Rutter & Adingra . 90 Moder for Mitoma
FIRST HALF: City dominated possession and steadily racked up stats.
Midway thru they led.
Hosts struggled and were second best in all departments,
recording: box touches 4, shots 3, corners 0.
SECOND HALF: Hurzeler made four in-play alterations by just after the hour mark.
Approaching late stages Albion level scores and then lead, while City backpedal.
IN THE END: home substitutions turned fortunes around by attacking with much more intent.
NUMBERS: poss 40%-60%, on target 4-6, off target 6-9, corners 0-4,
fouls 12-10, yellows 3-3, subs 5-2, shape 442-4141 . . . . . gd4 pt19 po4
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