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Episode 73 - REVIEW: Brighton suffer "embarrassing" home loss to Crystal Palace
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Daily Brighton - Joe, Jamie and Bless react to the "flat" and "shameful" 3-1 loss to Crystal Palace.
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Transcript
Podcast Introduction and Match Overview
00:00:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to the Daily Brighton Podcast. It's your boy, Jamie G. And I'm joined by the trio on this very, very sad and devastating afternoon, Joe Richardson and blessings to Bamba. But before we speak to them, I've just got a few things to say. Obviously we're coming off this 3-1 loss at home to our biggest rivals, Crystal Palace. And quite frankly,
00:00:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
A short message from me. This performance was unacceptable before I get either of your thoughts. It was a convincing win by Crystal Palace, quite frankly, and losing convincingly to your biggest rivals is potentially the worst thing in football to concede three goals and could have been five, six, who knows, to the league's second worst attack. Embarrassing. To watch our fans at the end of the game with 10 minutes left walk up the steps while the other team in the away end start singing and chanting about how bad we are and how good they are.
00:01:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Shameful. Fear factor, gone. The faith I have in this squad, the faith I have in the manager, the faith I have in individual individual players, gone. Absolute shameful performance.
Game Analysis: Defensive Lapses
00:01:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Joe, we'll start with you. What did you think?
00:01:44
Joe
ah yeah Yeah, to be honest, it was that it was actually a shocking performance. um Some of I said to bless in the preview on Friday, I said to him, I said, we're expecting to see the best, probably you're going to expect to see the best Crystal Palace.
00:02:02
Joe
Apparently we saw that.
00:02:03
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no
00:02:04
Joe
If they cook that one up for us, I'm not going to lie.
00:02:05
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Mmm.
00:02:06
Joe
Is Marla Saar listening to the pod? um He's walked away with three goals of assists in that game. so um Also, never will happen again, by the way.
00:02:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:02:15
Joe
He won't perform like that for the rest of the season. um But the performance was shocking. um We never really looked that dangerous. There was like maybe a couple of minutes here and there. We never looked like we had any control. um And some defensively, like the goals were such... they were such poor clip pieces of play like in terms of maturity which I always talk about because obviously the team is very young um and then even the ones that aren't young I mean Lewis Dunk honestly mate it's time to go blood you need to chill out and just go
00:02:52
Joe
I can think of plenty of you know lit even need to learn how to speak Arabic or you need to um or you need to be cutting out to MLS or something mate because it's a bit long for you at the moment to read Lamptey position himself as if he's a six foot two um full back when in reality he's literally five foot three jump trying to jump out of the stadium right ends up stacking it
00:03:15
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you know
00:03:16
Joe
turn behind them. My man's in Tariq Mitchell as well. like yeah it actually is just It's just so poor.
00:03:22
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hoping
00:03:23
Joe
Everything about it was poor. I didn't like anyone's performance really.
00:03:29
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no
00:03:29
Joe
Ja Pejo done a nice flick. Decent. Matoma bottled the finish. Mintay. yeah sound mate what are you even doing there lad you might as well just i don't even know mate i don't even know what he's supposed to be doing just running around just looking like he's busy um yeah you know not great not great at all
00:03:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
it yeah Yeah, not not great at all. um You mentioned we didn't ever look like scoring 0.8 on xg bless not good enough
00:03:57
blessings
Yeah, not good enough. I mean, there was moments in the game where I had to double take. I sat there thinking, is that actually Jefferson Nirma? Because we made, we made Pallas look good. um And I just, it's disappointing because
Brighton's Attacking Struggles
00:04:12
blessings
we are at home. I think we are the better in terms of actually playing football, we are better. um But they, yeah, they, I don't know where they got that performance from, but they've pulled out the bag out the fire, to be honest, because they've been poor in recent games.
00:04:26
blessings
And yeah, we weren't good enough, to be honest, especially up front. We just didn't really have a presence. um We made their back three their backf free look like Maldini, Beckenbach, and the Donny.
00:04:37
blessings
Who's the other Donny Joe?
00:04:38
Joe
very soon.
00:04:39
blessings
Yeah, him. Yeah, we made them look like that. ah
00:04:45
blessings
And at the end of the day, it's just not good enough. It's not good enough. It's poor. I don't know where we go from here, to be honest. I don't know what to expect. I don't know what Brighton team is going to turn up because today's one was, might as well have got the under 16s up.
00:05:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, yeah, you say you don't know where that Crystal Palace performance came from, but realistically, they knew it was a rivalry and a bit of a derby. Apparently, the Brighton players had no clue because the intensity they came out with in that first half was...
00:05:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Honestly, I've seen my nan run quicker and do better pressing than any of our players did in that first half.
00:05:26
Joe
Who's your non-pressing?
00:05:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's what the most... Mate, she's pressing everyone. She's pressing everybody. h she's trying to find hubby but anyway yeah ah but ah well there we go
00:05:36
Joe
Oh, wow. No, it's not, mate.
00:05:37
blessings
what
00:05:38
Joe
Oh, my God.
00:05:42
Joe
Bless you, single.
00:05:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:05:48
blessings
not today
00:05:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah Yeah, not today. Come on. We've had a tough afternoon watching.
00:05:54
Joe
We have had a tough afternoon.
00:05:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
wait We don't need to keep dwelling and piling on the sadness and misery. But we only have to do that for another 27 minutes or however long this podcast goes on for.
00:06:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, that's what really annoyed me was the flatness that they came out with. They came out of the gates or in that first half looking so unbothered. And that's so disappointing. I know a lot of them are foreign players they probably don't and they're young players so they're probably not up for the occasion as much potentially they haven't been at the club for a very long time but you need to see better intensity than that
00:06:31
Joe
Absolutely shocking, mate. You talk about flat. I'm talking flatbread, flatjack. That's not even a thing, but flatjack, mate. All of it. It was peak. It was so bad, mate.
00:06:41
Joe
like so So many of the... like so many individual performances that were terrible and then even the individuals who did sort of like they understand what was going on they still weren't even at their best like belabing was decent in spells but he was at his best, Matoma had okay moments, Japajo had okay moments but then at the other end it's just like well you got Tariq Lamptey just running around he don't even know what he's doing mate he can't believe that he's started to go back to back he has actually had to do any work at work
00:07:15
blessings
You scored a goal though.
00:07:16
Joe
the time. Yeah he scored a he scored a goal with his what with his left foot kind of into the top bits. He'll never do that ever again mate.
00:07:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, he actually tried redoing that.
00:07:23
Joe
He's probably never done that before.
00:07:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
He actually tried redoing that this game as well. Did you see him in that first half? He got went on a little adventure, found himself in the exact same position as he did in last week's game, scuffed it so far wide, I think it ended up as a throw.
00:07:37
Joe
Of course, yeah. Yeah, I'm not surprised at all, man. I'm not surprised. won't lie. It's a curse on this pod to talk badly about players and then they just do the unthinkable.
00:07:50
Joe
Is Marla Saad done it today?
00:07:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:07:52
Joe
What is he on? Someone test him immediately because we're not seeing that again.
00:07:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
which
00:07:58
Joe
like To read Lamptey, turn it top bins.
00:07:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, next time we do it, we...
00:08:00
Joe
You're not Iron Robin, mate.
00:08:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah Next time we start cussing out players from the opposition team or even our own team, should we just start an hacker?
00:08:01
Joe
What is going on?
00:08:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then we yeah we can make money off it.
00:08:08
Joe
Yeah, it might actually have to be an Acre, yeah. Yeah, it might have to be a mad Acre, to be fair. Yeah, shocking.
00:08:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, like we I think we'll go to an ad break and if you guys at home want to carry on listening, we're going to be talking about all the goals that they put into on it and all the chances, many more chances they actually could have put the ball on it.
00:08:27
blessings
We'll see you.
00:08:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah
Corner Setbacks and Defensive Critique
00:08:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
We are back with the Daily Brighton podcast. So I guess we'll just work through one by one. Let's start with the corner. What's Van Hecke doing, mate? And Joe, I know you've got other problems with this goal, but my biggest problem is Van Hecke doing a back heel or doing something to try and clear that ball at the front post.
00:09:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
wassey player now and also while while i'm at it chalaba in the six yard box completely unmarked by himself the closest person to him was is melissar what the hell how's that happened
00:09:34
Joe
oh Honestly, mate, it's such a, and do you know what? It's actually been a little bit of a trend this season. We've seen so many poor defensive set piece sort of lineups, whatever.
00:09:46
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a
00:09:48
Joe
Dave, do you know that thing when you're a U, yeah, when you're a kid, sorry, and you're playing footy with, and there's a coach there. And he goes, stop, stop, stop, stop. Look at you.
00:10:00
Joe
I can put a blanket over all of you.
00:10:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah,
00:10:02
Joe
They've all ran to the front post. They're all just at the front post. There's not even enough Palace players there to have all of you lot at the front post. So Trevor Chandler was twerking in the six yard box.
00:10:15
Joe
It's Marla Starr doing between, between, between crossover dribbles with the ball. He slows it down with his hand. It's not even a hand ball. I don't even care. I actually don't care. It's not a hand ball.
00:10:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
I was gonna say...
00:10:24
Joe
because why is he able to do that anyway?
00:10:27
blessings
Okay.
00:10:27
Joe
And then Trevor Chaliper's slipped over and he's almost cleared the crossbar and he's scored.
00:10:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay.
00:10:32
Joe
And then they've all gone over to the post to celebrate and they're taking a knee like, is Wakanda forever going on? or What's happening, mate? What's going on?
00:10:43
Joe
Trevor Chaliper is ass. He's ass. He's actually ass. That's why he's a palace. He's ass. What is happening?
00:10:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, today he was very, very, very good. We made him look and ah we made him look incredible.
00:10:54
Joe
He actually was, yeah, he was very good, yeah.
00:10:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
black Bless. What did you make of the Trevor Chaliber goal and I guess just the corner in general?
00:11:04
blessings
Yeah, just ah today ah I'm racking my brains here because I'm not even forgetting some of the goals but I remember this one because this was horrible. They're all obsessed with Mateta at the front post. I don't know i don't i don't know why they think you know four players need to mark him because and he's like all right in the a he's not good in the air is he like all right surely's not a fret but they were there and it' yeah that is is cleared the first man i think it was one of those corners as well the first man should really be dealing with that i think
00:11:39
blessings
um but as soon as it's gone past it
00:11:41
Joe
Shocking today by the way, Ritter was shocking to Pete.
00:11:43
blessings
yeah no you' stay in the gaffa today properly you
00:11:47
Joe
He was pony today mate.
00:11:48
blessings
Humming But as as soon as it's bouncing your six-yard box is chaos anything can happen and yeah, I'll know where Calabas spanning and scored unlike Joe that I did I did ah Not enjoy their celebration bars like oh, that's something different. Do I mean?
00:12:08
Joe
and i butund them
00:12:12
Joe
have Not having that, mate.
00:12:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
One thing I've got to say is the Van Hecke, you mentioned that Roos had a shocker and Van Hecke had a shocker today.
00:12:20
Joe
Yeah, he wasn't good today
00:12:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
on We've been so high on him all season but he gave the ball away so often. There were so many passes where he kicked out of play or got tackled before he got like got a chance to release the ball or the ball that he played got blocked or deflected There was like, don't go wrong. He had about four or five passes where he there a did his usual thing where he zips it through the lines and into the midfielders or into the attackers. But more often than not, those were getting cut out. The long balls that he was trying, getting going basically absolutely nowhere other than out of play. And then even defensively, Lewis Dunk needed a babysitter today like he always does. And Van Hecker did not oblige.
00:13:07
Joe
No van heckle it and poo his pants mate.
00:13:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:13:11
Joe
He actually did mate. The whole game Lewis Duck was playing with poo in his nappies mate. It's Pete's. Don't go lie.
00:13:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
let's talk about um well Let's talk about your favourite player though, Jo. I know you're really high on him and this is where we come on to the second goal. Tariq Lamptey, you know, absolutely world-class performance last week. ah yes Massive stretch, massive stretch.
00:13:37
Joe
and
00:13:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
But it would he was actually decent last week.
00:13:39
Joe
Oh.
00:13:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know, me and Bless you, we came on this pod last week saying, you know what? Three Lamb team might be turning a corner. I might actually start rating him now. Yeah, I spoke to way too soon because he was terrible.
00:13:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Got subbed off at halftime. I wish it was any sooner. But that header Honestly, he's jumped in the air, nowhere near the ball. Like, the ball sailed over his head, and then Tyreek Mitchell's in, and he's on his arse.
00:14:10
Joe
the may i' I'm just going to, Joe, I'm actually going to give this the best first, but are you two idiots for saying that you hear think Harit Lambs has turned the corner?
00:14:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
like
00:14:18
Joe
I was about to swear to them. What corner are you not seeing, mate?
00:14:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Bless defend yourself.
00:14:24
Joe
I've seen more corners in a barbershop, honestly.
00:14:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, bless made me say it. Bless made me say it.
00:14:28
blessings
well to be honest i think he blessed made me say it's great anyway um
00:14:38
blessings
he um his assess for i think it was the southampton game and then yeah you just felt like maybe he's actually going to put some performances together but today was horrible i think I mean like, Tyrant Mitchell was ah defense is's like ah is very defensive, he he's not known for his attacking prowess and for him not to just keep an eye out on him and just make sure you you sort of cut it out and then to misjudge the jump is absolute schoolboy football. like
00:15:12
blessings
you can't do in the Premier League, you can't do that. And the way he fell as well didn't didn't help like he just stacked it like if you didn't fall like that, it wouldn't look as bad.
00:15:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:22
blessings
But he's yeah, it's all absolutely bamboozled. You know, it's it's one of those balls of fallback has to deal with maybe three or four times in a game. Like you've it's the Premier League.
00:15:33
blessings
You've got to deal with that. It's nothing special. It's on your head. You just misjudged the jump.
00:15:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, they say don't dive in, but also in this case, don't jump in and don't jump when you're five foot three, having no chance to win ahead of that's about 18 feet in the air. So that'd probably be a shout.
00:15:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Speaking from experience, that's a shout for me. Joe, question to you.
00:15:56
Joe
Yeah.
00:15:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
The goal, once the cross does go in, lucky cross or does Tyreke Mitchell, the very defensive Tyreke Mitchell actually mean to put it slap bang on his Melissa's head.
00:16:09
Joe
um I mean he's probably thinking to himself if I put it somewhere the boss someone could head it maybe don't know about the accuracy in terms of but how is he allowed to run in between two man and actually win the header as well also just back on Tariq are you not Tariq back on um well I can't remember his name Tariq Lamptey that's it no no no no no yeah here so just a quick one on him again he's also in so at the start of that phase of play
00:16:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
bo
00:16:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Sorry, Mitchell. Oh, it's really empty.
00:16:38
Joe
Um, to read Mitchell's offside. So before the ball's played, he goes, oh, you obviously can't see this. If you're listening on an audio, he turns around to look, he goes, Oh, he's offside.
00:16:49
Joe
Let me just go play him on quick.
Key Defensive Errors Leading to Goals
00:16:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
he peter Yeah.
00:16:52
Joe
He does half ass job, runs back and then thinks I'm so tall. I can head this. And then he jumped honestly, and he's just nowhere near it.
00:17:02
Joe
He's on his ass. And then he's, and then Tariq Mitchell's whipped in this cross. And it's Marla Salz running between, I'm pretty sure he's run in between a Stupiyan and Dunk. But obviously Dunk's still got poo in his boxes, right? So, and a Stupiyan, I don't even know what a Stupiyan is even on anymore. Is a Stupiyan even good anymore? I don't even know. I don't think so. And then it's Marla Salz doing headers at the back post, mate. We were talking on the podcast on Friday saying that he's a, um he's what happens when you order Ny Cares off Teemu.
00:17:33
Joe
And he's he's he's got two goals of it a and And the assist that he got was with his hand.
00:17:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
and
00:17:37
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isn it
00:17:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:17:43
Joe
so
00:17:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm not gonna lie, yeah ah that's my I had a massive issue with that. like It's so easy for him to actually just run straight past everyone. Lewis Dunk, his vertical jump is like minus five centimetres because I swear to god, the guy doesn't jump, he just puts his body there and heads it.
00:18:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Ismaelsaar should not be winning that header. Lewis Dunk should have that all day and just doesn't. And then that's just the easiest goal for Ismaelsaar.
00:18:12
Joe
No.
00:18:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's probably shocked. His eyes probably lit up as soon as he saw that ball just come into that perfect spot and just heads it in. Yeah. ah And we'll go on to the third one and talk about another Lewis Dunk calamity at the back.
00:18:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, this one's actually annoying. This one out of actually living. They've just hoofed the ball up. Estepinian with all the time in the world could chest it down, take it down. Nah, nah, just head it straight back to them. We'll use, no composure, no real ability. Head it straight back to us.
00:18:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then Lewis Dunk then misses a header, lets it bounce and then his mother soars through. And then to try and make up for that little error. ah Lewis Dunk has his feet stuck in concrete and can't run back. So who's pounced on the ball and then that's the easiest one-on-one heel poly score. Apps on, I could not believe it. I was screaming at the TV thinking, Lewis Dunk, what have you done?
00:19:20
Joe
Bless. This is you, mate.
00:19:22
blessings
Yeah, i've I've defended Lewis Dunk a lot on this podcast.
00:19:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
is not yeah
00:19:26
Joe
Nah.
00:19:27
blessings
um But yeah, today I can't do that. I think him and his stupid young together were absolutely woeful.
00:19:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:19:36
blessings
Like it's, again, I said it earlier, schoolboy defending, like you've just got to deal with the ball. You cannot be you know letting letting it bounce at least as well.
00:19:47
blessings
Like you've just got to deal with it. um ah I've no words to be honest and I think the real problem we had is normally if a team's going through you know patches or form you still have either the defense doing okay or the forwards doing okay today both weren't good enough but then obviously if the defense is um not up to scratch you're going to concede goals like we say it's crystal palace and yeah we're having a laugh about it but it's the premier league like they're going to score if you keep if you give them chances like that
00:20:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Nah, you would.
00:20:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:20:23
blessings
they're going to school. So I'd like to to see us be a little bit better today at the back, but not to be.
00:20:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, Lewis Dunk also had a and a similar situation eight minutes later where he nods it straight to them, then watches the ball, and then the ball gets played through straight. And then that that should have been their fourth as well, like a very easy fourth. They missed a one-on-one. So, Joe, is it time? And I say, is it time? and Just bring back Eagle, right?
00:20:54
Joe
ah May bring back Eagle and then in the January market, Tony Bloom, you put your hand in your pocket, son. I want to see like, I want to see like, like three 18 year old technographs come in who you used use your little computer to like, find dude, I like wonder kids and just whack them in May, honestly, because ah the chances are like,
00:21:00
blessings
Yeah, 50 mil.
00:21:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:21:19
Joe
at this At the level that he's playing at, the confidence will go down and the performances will just get worse and worse. And then, what, come the start of next season, he's, what, 34, 35? So, like, he's just bow out gracefully, mate.
00:21:34
Joe
Leave the football before football leaves you, mate.
00:21:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
there
00:21:36
Joe
The football left him time ago, mate. He's still here.
00:21:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:21:39
Joe
Like, that that did he he went to the Euros, didn't he, but he didn't play.
00:21:43
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Yeah, he went for vibes.
00:21:43
blessings
Yeah.
00:21:43
Joe
Yeah, that should have been that that should have been your retirement holiday, mate.
00:21:48
Joe
You should have just had bare Steinys in Berlin or whatever, and then just cut back to retirement. Do you know what I mean? You should have just gone. But now, the performances, when the ball bounces after he misses the header, he tries to head it again, and it's at the smaller star's toe, and he's trying to head it.
00:22:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yeah
00:22:06
blessings
thats
00:22:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:06
Joe
He's an idiot.
00:22:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
good and that was that ah funny no
00:22:07
Joe
He's an actual idiot. Why is he trying to head it? Are you Phil Jones? No, you're not. What are you doing? And then, go on, bless, sorry, go on.
00:22:14
blessings
I will just add like I think Obviously today was horrible, but I don't think Other than today. I don't think he's made that many high-profile mistakes apart from Arsenal as well So only two I don't think that's that bad.
00:22:31
Joe
Yeah, but he hasn't played that much either.
00:22:31
blessings
I think Do not think that he could turn form because he has been decent at times this year and
00:22:32
Joe
So it's quite a high percentage of big, like they literally have like led directly to a goal.
00:22:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:22:43
Joe
Yeah, I think he's been decent with the ball at his feet, but like defensively, I think he's been shaky the whole time. Like, bar the mistakes. I think he's just been a bit, he hasn't looked the same defensively than like he has previously with the ball playing. The ball playing is still going to be there anyway, because it's not really gonna, it's not really gonna leave you, is it? Like it's not gonna, that's one, but whereas like your sort of like strength and your pace and all that stuff leaves you over time.
00:23:10
Joe
I feel like now he's got to a point where like he's solely relying on his ability to pass the ball. and then But then when you make these high profile errors, um your confidence goes and then you the passing starts to go and then everything's going to start to go. Yes, he could he's probably going to have a couple of games here and there where he's going to be decent. but like you can't keep in Against Arsenal,
00:23:34
Joe
We could have won that game because at 10 men, we could have won that game. Right. And then in this game, like we still it, like we could have snapped after we got the first goal, which was literally so lucky.
00:23:47
Joe
Well, we could have maybe we were a lot more in it at two than we were at three. We were never in it by the way. But like we were at least at least as a chance. I mean, I just yeah, I just feel like I don't know who you'd get in in center because that plan will have to come in and start immediately.
00:23:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah, let's hope. Yeah.
00:24:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, that's a conversation for a future podcast.
00:24:04
Joe
but yeah
00:24:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Stick around for our Wildcard Wednesdays where we can talk about which centre-backs we can actually start bringing in. But I guess we'll end the podcast on a bit of a high and talk about the changes and the start of the second half at least ah in this next se next segment.
00:24:26
Joe
But, yeah.
00:25:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we are back with the final segment of the Daily Brighton podcast, reviewing the Crystal Palace and Brighton game. Well, we had a bad first half, 2-0 down at half-time, Hertzler makes changes, he brings on in CSO for Lamptey, which, thank God for that. And I'm not gonna lie, in CSO
In CSO: A Glimmer of Hope?
00:25:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
was the only bright spark I thought of this whole game. He actually looked very very good like he was confident on the ball he wanted the ball a lot he was actually beating his man whenever he got a chance and something I've realised that Brighton don't do enough of and I don't know whether you two have realised as well
00:25:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
I feel like we just never shoot. We always try and pass the ball into the box. And I think I've said on podcasts before and in other games where we're always, if we do shoot, it's always too late, like a half a second too late and then the shot gets blocked all the time.
00:25:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Whereas I think in CSO today, he was the only one that was confident enough and wanting to actually have the shot. like He forced Henderson to make a good save ah down to his bottom left.
00:26:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
There was also So in the dying dying embers of the game, ah he had ah shot another shot box in the box saved by Henderson where he parried it away. He looked like the only one that was wanting to get on the ball and good enough to actually take it on, take their players on.
00:26:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
I thought he was a big difference maker and a big reason why we started the second half so well.
00:26:30
Joe
Mm hmm.
00:26:35
Joe
I think that out of all of the players that are in the squad who haven't really got many minutes, he's definitely playing with like a chip on his shoulder.
00:26:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:26:45
Joe
We were literally saying he was in prison the other day when we get her.
00:26:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:26:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:26:48
Joe
And like to the thing about him is that if I'm him and I'm seeing that root of stinker, I'm seeing Matt O'Reilly not playing that great in a couple of games.
00:26:59
Joe
I probably think I'm better than A.R.I. as well, no disrespect to A.R.I. I think A.R.I.'s actually He actually gets it, do you know what I mean?
00:27:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:27:06
Joe
I like A.I.R.I. a lot. But like, even like Minthe Edingro, I'm looking and I'm just thinking, I'm better than these man, why am I not playing?
00:27:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:27:15
Joe
And like, he played like that was what he was thinking. And that's exactly the sort of like, you don't want a player to complain about not playing, but when they do get the opportunity, you want them to act like they're angry that they're not playing and play like they're angry that they're not playing.
00:27:31
Joe
um in in the most positive way possible and hopefully that has given Herzl a little bit of a head shake because he is very positive, he is very creative, he isn't scared to shoot, to take a player on, all that stuff so I would like to see a bit more of him.
00:27:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:27:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mmhmm.
00:27:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, and there were so many times as well where he was leading the press. He brought a lot of like, he injected a lot of energy into the game, like around everyone else as well. I think we were on the front foot for the first 15 minutes. Brighton had 80 of that second half. Brighton had 87% possession, eight shots to pass is zero. And he was obviously the big reason for that, a creatively, but also winning the ball up high up the pitch. Like he was leading the press a lot of the times.
00:28:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
uh bless what did you make of his performance and did you actually see or notice the fact that we were more energetic had did you have more hope that we were actually going to get back into the game especially in in the early parts of the second half at least
00:28:32
blessings
Yeah, I think he definitely added a bit more life to the attack. um And I think, yeah, 100% agree with you, Joe. I think he's definitely in contention to start the next games because we need to find the solution. We need to freshen it up and look a bit different um going forward. I think we've said in previous podcasts, tactically, he just doesn't fit in into what Herzl was doing. But at the moment,
00:29:01
blessings
hurts to keep changing things anyway. So we might see a tactical shift where NCSO is main the the fo focus in that midfield. But I think one thing I will add, I think if Matt Swiffer, I'm blaming Matt Swiffer, which is crazy, but if Matt Swiffer was in better form and was showing the things that we um were expecting to see, I think that NCSO has a position because Matt Swiffer would add a bit more balance into like a double pivot with Belieber.
00:29:30
blessings
um But it just hasn't been that case that way.
00:29:33
Joe
No.
00:29:33
blessings
um But yeah, it would be good to see him get back into some more form.
00:29:34
Joe
he's been
00:29:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah and one one thing I actually do want to ask you both is we've obviously struggled so much against teams that do like play a low block and kind of park the bus and defend well or resolutely ah in the past and that's kind of what Palace came out in the second half and did. Did you ever feel that we were actually going to school because I'm not going to lie I had zero faith. I was like, I've seen this script before. I've literally watched this movie on five other occasions just this season where we've been unable to break a team down. And I was like, yeah, we're not going to score. No, I was just thinking it's going to end 2-0 and we have no hope. And if anything, it'll probably be 3 or 4-0 to them. But yeah, I just never had any faith that we were going to score. And even our goal,
00:30:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
We didn't even score it. They had to literally kick it at their own man to go in the net. That's peak.
00:30:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
the
00:30:38
blessings
for
00:30:39
Joe
I didn't think we were scoring to be fair, not at all. Just to be blunt, I don't think we were.
00:30:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, blessed.
00:30:44
Joe
We we didn't look.
00:30:44
blessings
Yeah.
00:30:45
Joe
yeah
00:30:47
blessings
Unlike I alluded to earlier, I think we're missing a focal point. we just didn't mean It just looked like the Palace defenders were stronger than ours and you you know you'd see players getting barged off the ball so easily.
00:30:58
blessings
like It couldn't really stick in a good position. so yeah I didn't see it to be honest.
00:31:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
One thing I noticed about the Palace players and defenders, what they were doing is like, they were marking our players so tightly. So like every ball into, let's say Zhao Pedro's feet, he had a man like Lacroix straight on him and just couldn't wriggle him off or every time it went to his feet, got tackled immediately. Mitoma didn't have much luck as well against... um Munoz and uh Chalaba I think he played on the right hand side didn't he uh so like every time let's say even if he did which was very rare try and beat Munoz uh Chalaba was right there and took it took him out or tackled him straight away like there was just no flow to any attack that we had and it got it got broken up
00:31:28
Joe
may lost.
00:31:33
blessings
Yeah.
00:31:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
so easily and so quickly as well as like the powers players like you said earlier playing like prime AC Milan and just blocking every shot, clear getting clearances away and limiting the the actual good chances we're able to create.
00:32:05
blessings
Yeah, I think we definitely missed Danny Welbeck. um I know, of course, I'd say that to Danny Welbeck and Joya.
00:32:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
hate
00:32:10
blessings
But I've always felt like Jean Pedro as a focal point doesn't really work. And I think today it sort of highlights that. Danny Welbeck has a focal point. Jean Pedro picking up ah pockets around him is how it should be.
00:32:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
the way forward, yeah.
00:32:24
blessings
um But yeah, now we got punished for that today.
00:32:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, ah and that's it. So hopefully... i'm actually oh was also i'm I'm drained of any optimism of speaking about Brian anymore, but I guess we've got to do that again tomorrow about our in-depth analysis of this terrible, terrible watch, which of that'll be fun as well. So I guess, yeah. On to the next one and see you guys soon.
00:32:55
Joe
Thanks for listening.