Brightonian

If Babis’ overhead kick went in could have been a different outcome. Looked more like ourselves in the second half. But unfortunately undone by a poor first one. No point crying, have to pick ourselves up. 3 more games left, in 7th. still have it all to play for these last few games.

@Slaughts_1 As a toon fan I agree some of the football Brighton play at times is on another level compared to us

To be honest we didn't even play well today, battle was there yes but the quality definitely wasn't. Brighton looked a far superior footballing side and therein lies the issue longer term. Brighton beat themselves today. #nufc

@Brightonian_ You should have been ahead, missed chances Dominated but slipped up Still look too have the quality to push on Unlucky defeats have happy endings Good luck

Exactly.

@WeleSzn It’s been like this for the last couple of seasons We’re not allowed to lose a game. Even a disappointing close loss leads to crying headloss. Or calls for people to be sacked. Is it the same for other PL clubs? I presume it is. Hope so.

Some of the replies to this are so shameless We lost-it happens, Europe not over, no need for headloss

Not sure what else Brighton could have done. Battered Newcastle in that second half, chances missed etc. First half mistakes cost us three points. Off day for a few. Back up to 6th after next weeks matches #BHAFC

Not our day. Three more huge games to go #BHAFC

Fair play - kept at it until the end. Go again. #bhafc

@PaulJSweetman Yeah that’s a different topic and you may be right. I’m more talking about the notion of the players having a poor attitude.

@Brightonian_ But I’m not sure giving them that time off after the Chelsea game was a good move, psychologically speaking (and thought that at the time). Telling people to go and relax is not the best way to prepare for the final run-in imo

I may be alone in this but I don’t think I can personally accuse this squad of having a poor attitude (on the beach). I think it was just a disastrous first half. Call it bad day at the office, or just shocking lapses of concentration, either has the same outcome, just left us too much to do today.

@tex_yankee Maybe so. Still all to play for.

@Brightonian_ Won’t finish the weekend in 7th

If Babis’ overhead kick went in could have been a different outcome. Looked more like ourselves in the second half. But unfortunately undone by a poor first one. No point crying, have to pick ourselves up. 3 more games left, in 7th. still have it all to play for these last few games.

@Brightonian_ If minteh scored the open goal it’s a different result, we hit the woodwork twice. Huge bit of bad luck really

Hinsh! What a lovely goal! Excellent one touch play. Thanks to TEAM brilliance. Game on 💙

Very tough now. We need to switch to a plan B second half. Different approach, different shape. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Georginio on early. Feels to me this is the kind of game where we need a wild card like Babis to come on and shake things up. We have it in our locker to recover, but this is a big ask now.

@contrepied_ I don’t remember you complaining last couple of months when we were winning 😜

Quand on n’a pas l’habitude avec Fabian Hürzeler, faut bien se mouiller la nuque. Le petit génie tactique a un plan super élaboré : donner le ballon à Mitoma ou Minteh et prier pour qu’ils dribblent 4 mecs pour créer le danger. C’est très fort

Annoyingly looks like Howe has got his game plan spot on today. They’re happy for us to have possession. Let’s hope this can be RT’d later and proved wrong.

@richastro1 Oh yeah we’ve been shocking at the back too

@Brightonian_ You make your own luck… 1) stupidity from verbruggen and not for the first time 2) zonal marking requires specific disciplines which we do not have. And especially when burn is left unmarked. Ridiculous!!!

And hit the post… (albeit from a fluke) May not be our day. I hope that’s not true obvs.