Normally write my post match contribution within 24 hours of a match, but after Saturdays display, I would have been unable to keep the tears from eyes, until now!
Brighton were much better than us in every department, it would have been total injustice if we had got anything out of that game.
Marcus made the best two chances we had, but he also wasted them, one by trying to beat one man to many before crossing (run the ball out) and not crossing on the second one.
Danny Welbeck showed him how it should be done, arriving just that bit late in the box, with a space he fashioned for himself and positioned right between the posts so he had the full goal width to aim for.... are you watching Marcus?
Back to the drawing board for ETH, in my mind he gets a 'bye' on taking the blame for this, simply because of the injury situation, and with players who have other problems, unavailable.
We might be marginally better at playing out from the back now, but we are still taken-in 'hook line and sinker' in trying to press the opposition when they play out.
In the first half Brighton played out from the back the same way, for 10 times on the trot, go wide on the left, pass in 'triangles' until our players get sucked in then lift the ball straight over to right side and off goes their two wide men full back and winger attacking our newest recruit... not really a master plan but we didn't start to comprehend until nearly halftime.