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Episode 91 - Brighton match reaction & Man City preview
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On today's episode, Rob & Tom reflect on the underwhelming 2-0 defeat to Brighton last night. The lads share their thoughts on the game, talk through the goals and discuss Omari Hutchinson's role in the current setup. As this is our last episode before the visit of Manchester City on Sunday the boys also look ahead to that game with rose-tinted glasses on!
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Ipswich's Loss to Brighton: Key Takeaways
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Hello and welcome back to the Daily Ipswich, brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network. It's Friday and it's a day after a dismal defeat at Portland Road, 2-0 at the hands of Brighton. Today's episode, we're going to be diving through that game and we'll also have a hybrid episode for you as we're going to jump in with a quick Manchester City preview in the final part of today's show.
00:00:33
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as we look ahead to the next game. no No time to dwell on bad results. We've got to turn around quickly again. We go again Sunday against City. But we will have a quick chat through that game. And joining me, Rob Bins, to go through that game is Tom Crack. How you doing, mate?
00:00:48
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, I'm very good Rob, disappointing game that, wasn't it? I think first half looked pretty good, second half, not so much.
00:00:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. for it's says so You have those sort of games, can't you, as a team down the bottom where the quality just the game gets taken to a quality that you can't match sometimes, and that's what happened in the second half. I thought that it's not happened to us too many times this year, but it's a frustrating result to
Analyzing Ipswich's Performance and Squad Depth
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take, really, isn't it? What were your thoughts on the game? how had like oh Pretty 50-50, isn't it, between if I'd asked you at half-time and full-time, but how do you sort of compare the two halves mainly?
00:01:26
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, I mean, you don't want to be too darn bad because it was aspects of a good performance in there. I thought the first half, it was kind of same formula as usual of what we've seen recently, recently in terms of setup and performance, kind of soaking up a lot of the pressure. I think after 20 minutes, we had about 20% of the ball. Then we gradually started to come into it. Then we had 8% of the ball for a good five minute spell, had some great chances. Excuse me. I mean, if you look at the first half as a whole in terms of chances created, I know Brighton had a bit more of the ball.
00:01:53
Tom Crack - Ipswich
But they really didn't offer much going forward in the final third. And we had some great chances. They sat back a bit and good chance of the lap. Broadhead and and Hutchinson all got a shot on goal. Just shame they didn't deflect to anyone because the keeper didn't really get a decent hand on any of them. And yeah, go into the going into the going into half, fairly confident we could.
00:02:10
Tom Crack - Ipswich
get a goal, we seem to always be playing better towards the end of anywhere in a second. Just wasn't to be. And I think after they took the lead Brighton, you'd like to think we would kind of maybe look for an instant response in terms of going forward, but really wasn't much. And as you said, their quality kind of came through and then capped off of a second. I don't know how much we'll go into the details of individuals, but I know we are an interest town podcast, but I thought router off the bench for Brighton was fantastic. Really, really like creativity just,
00:02:38
Tom Crack - Ipswich
dominated in the middle and I think deservedly got a second goal to see him home but as you said yeah Taylor two halves and the quality was just lacking there wasn't it in the second like what was your take on it similar sort of thing or if you were individuals to poke at yeah
00:02:52
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yeah i'd Like I said, I think the first half performance was good. It was how we sort of expected the game to be, weren't it, with Brian letting Brian have the ball. Like we said on the crossover that almost let them try and walk it in, which they were doing, particularly the first sort of 20 minutes or so of the first half. of It was sort of working how we wanted. We were just missing that bit quality of quality. So those steve drew for a few half-decent saves from the program, but they were all dodgy positions or outside the box or wherever that you've got. You have to catch them really well to to find the back of the net from there, which we just weren't quite we're a yard or two off the perfect shot from there to get ourselves ahead.
00:03:29
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But the first half was good, but we started slow second half.
00:03:30
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:03:34
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It was, you could tell Brighton, it was a bit like going all the way back to the first game of the season, that almost a bit like the Liverpool game where we competed well for 45 minutes, maybe even could have got ourselves in front.
00:03:45
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And then they they' come out with a bit more intensity to their play. the second half's caught us off guard a little bit to start with and then they've got that first goal around the hour mark and then that was might as well that that was game over at that point ah and so you'd be hoping there'd been more a response but it was actually the opposite of that was sort of was bright and played with more confidence knowing they had that lead they couldn't they weren't a lot of teams were sort of would tweak their play slightly and go a bit more defensive and they had a lead to protect especially away from home and when you haven't won in
00:04:18
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nine games, whatever it is for Brighton in the league, but they they pushed the the opposite. They pushed on. they went They went, as soon as they went one, up they were on top, dominating the game, going for a killer second.
00:04:28
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And like we say that it's been one of those times has been few and far between this season, fortunately, but it's one of those times where the pressure has been turned and put on us, chris sustained spell of time by players of of ah good quality.
00:04:44
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And so that can happen to you when you're a team down the bottom of the table.
00:04:45
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yes.
00:04:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
like we are, but yeah, so it's just one of those times where we didn't have enough quality to get back in that game after it went one nil the way they were playing. And and ah so some some unfortunately, you just have to take those in the gym when you are where we are on the table sometimes and hope they don't crop up very often, which in fairness, they haven't. We've not sat here many times this season and gone. We just couldn't compete. and We just couldn't compete with this for this better time, so that last half an hour or so. but And again, how you said,
00:05:18
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return done very well off the bench to me that it's just that it's not an issue we've had all year as well. So when you, when you turn to the bench and you look at what, look at what we've got in the sort of, in that and see the changes they made.
00:05:31
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Like obviously I know they're, they aren't they're only really on the bench because they've been coming back from injuries, but you see mint a well back router players like that to come on.
00:05:39
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:05:40
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And then you look at our, but we just don't have those options off the bench. Like again, we sort of, I think with Hurst coming back now, there's a bit more threat when Dilap goes off.
Player Performances and Substitution Concerns
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But say you've got Dilap, who doesn't get through 90 minutes. There's obviously something with Kyuste that means he doesn't get through 90 minutes. because it's no How many talent games in a row now that I've been surprised to see his name as the one coming off in the midfield, too. And then the energy's just dropped in the midfield as a result of that. There's obviously a reason he he can't get through 90 minutes. So we haven't got any. You look at the options there again.
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ah ah sometimes so that's It's starting to hurt us and least a lot as we were playing better to getting ourselves in these tight positions. And then we're sort of getting hurt by the options off the bench. You feel the same with Fulham bringing the people like a Dharma trial area on. And then we had the same issues off the bench where we almost, we have to play for 70 minutes and then we slowly start winding ourselves down until full time when the changes come on. And another incident of that today, I thought, but it's a disappointing result really, weren't it? But so just positive for taking that first half. and as anyone Who sort stood out for you in a good or bad way?
00:06:56
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Good or bad way. I think, like I said, kind of going from if I try and do a whole night in it performance apart from a 45-minute performance because we have to look at it that way. I did like the performance put in. Rich is going to kill me for saying this but I'd like to performance from O'Shea. I thought he had the armband tonight until Mausie came on and I thought he, I think in terms of clearances out the out of the three at the back there, he put in the most. A few good tackles up fair with the pitch as well.
00:07:22
Tom Crack - Ipswich
really strong communicator as well. I mean, you know, it's a kind of a pitch poor evening when he's picking, I'm kind of picking him out as my sort of star man, to be honest. yeah, I probably, I probably say Shay Walton was good at the start, but very much flaky at the end as well.
00:07:36
Tom Crack - Ipswich
that kind When he passed it straight for a corner led to the Brighton fans charting one of our own. And I had to Google that he was at their academy at the start of their career. So that was a really, yeah, well, there you go.
00:07:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, that's where we signed him from.
00:07:47
Tom Crack - Ipswich
So that was a bit like, oh, that's what the evenings come to. I don't want to completely be a negative on it, but I think just in terms of performances that I thought just kind of drifted, especially in the latter stage of the game, just not in terms of on the ball and off the ball. I thought Hutchinson had a good, there's a few good runs there, but when he kind of just has to sort of charge forward and there's really not much help going up there.
00:08:09
Tom Crack - Ipswich
just becomes a bit aimless and he can kind of kind of dribbles himself into like a bit of a head loss moment like I think it was latter stage of the game when he tried to dribble the ball and just backheeled it by accident and then put in a few crosses and didn't come of it and he's kind of f throwing his hands in the air looking exasperated that was one point when O'Shea came up to him to kind of console him saying mate come on we need you kind of thing and his head was already kind of down to be honest and it's not really wanting to see especially in his return after some really good performances prior to that little knock he had Yeah. So very, very few, very far and few between good performances from the 90 consistently. I thought the score was pretty good in the first half, as we said, but I think overall there wasn't a player who really had a great performance from the first whistle to the last with the exception of maybe O'Shea. I don't know if you can pick out anywhere anywhere we are anyone else out as well.
00:08:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, I agree. I thought O'Shea played well in a and again a game where we were put under a lot of pressure defensively. He'd done his job throughout the whole game, really.
00:09:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's he's grown he's grown into the team after a few dodgy games at the start, hasn't he? And he's become, like you say, he's been given the armband now, not for the first time as well, that for points in games that he is.
00:09:02
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:09:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's obviously proved himself as a trusted member of the squad, and he's putting some good shifts now for a while. and Broughton had a decent game again, obviously his of the three sort of half chances from the from distance we had in the first half, I thought his was the best strike, but because the way it's so almost bounced in front of Broughton to catch him out maybe, like I say, is literally a yards difference if that further towards the corner.
00:09:29
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yep.
00:09:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think that does find the back of the net. I think that the way it was moving might have caught him out, but wasn't quite far enough in the corner.
00:09:45
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:09:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
But say again, since he's come in the team, he hasn't done anything to see himself be taken out of it, which I was quite impressed again. And I agree with what you said about Hutchinson as well. almost so I almost don't want to say it because it feel it feels like we dig him out what quite often on here, but it's obviously not the intention of what we're trying ah trying to do when we make these points. But it does feel like we pick him out fairly often because of obviously the price tag that he's come with now as ah ah and the expectations some last season. But again, I just thought in these so
00:10:21
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someone who plays such a key role in the in the system that we play that you see how like you look at games like chelsea rare it all works brilliantly and the and that said like it's a key role in the game plan of getting the ball forward but again i thought it was a bit like arsenal today when i said about it after then i just thought hanging on to the ball for too long you said it was getting frustrated as the game went on that
00:10:47
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah
00:10:47
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And so, like, he just, I don't know, he just hasn't, sometimes it clicks and sometimes it doesn't. And like I say, he has been out, hasn't he? He's been for a week or two with an injury. So you can't expect him to be as sharp as to today, but he always, because of the role he plays and in this five-back setup in terms of being the one to get us forward, when he has a bad game, it really stands out. Like I said, like Arsenal, when I thought today, I thought he was, a lot of times he was part of the reason why the, why a potential counter broke down for hanging on for it for too long or a little bit of hero balls, which is the phrase Richard used to coin it a few weeks ago that a bit like that. I don't know. I ah feel feel like it's harsh to pick on him, especially when he's just come back from injury, but he, the the role, like I say, the role he has to play in this system, he gets, like he get picks out quite clearly when, when he, if he has a bad game,
00:11:43
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you can see because it affects how we counterattack within the same way of like like Chelsea when he has a really good game he walks away as one of the standout players because even when it all goes well so it's the sort of when you have that much emphasis on your role it can go either way for you but again i thought i sort of questioned whether i don't know i still wondering what his best role is really because he has had some good performances but again i don't know is I'm still stuck really, because so we've done this, he's played three games in this since we switched to this setup, because obviously he missed Fulham, and I thought Arsenal he was quite poor, I thought tonight he was quite poor, but then Chelsea he was brilliant, so it's clearly that it has potential to work, I'm just still, like I feel like I've been waiting all season for him to just click into one certain role and get back to where he was last year, and we're still waiting for that consistency from him really, which is
00:12:18
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm. Hmm.
00:12:38
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They rule away in the middle of January now and we're still waiting for it. It's slightly concerning when you've smashed the money to bring him in on a permanent. But at the same time, he's still young.
00:12:47
Tom Crack - Ipswich
and
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He's learned in first proper
Goals and Key Moments Breakdown
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season in the league. I don't want to dig him out too much. But I did think he was off the pace today. where we are So I think you're probably less harsh than I said it, but you're on the same lines as me either.
00:13:02
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah. Yeah, very much so.
00:13:04
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Right there. We've gone so i've gone on for a while there. We've picked we sort of picked the bones out of the game. ah We're going to go in more detail now, particularly the goals and some of the other chances, once we've got a short message from one of our sponsors.
00:13:50
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We are back for the second part of today's Friday edition of the daily up switch. So we talked for our general thoughts on the game. So we'll start with the goals, Tom, and sort of the key moments of the game. So Brighton's first. So what are your thoughts on that? or Was it is it good from them or should we have done better?
00:14:12
Tom Crack - Ipswich
I think it's a mixture of both. They're pressing really well for the entire game when we did have it at the back there. And you know up until the 60th, obviously we did start to flag a bit before that in terms of any chance of really going forward. but In terms of how the goal came about, it was a mistake on our end, which was the first one we really made or gained that they were allowed to pounce on it. And it was very, again, it was an instant in terms of going for goal. It was kind of a slow buildup with, I think it was O'Reilly who eventually had it on the six and then he passed it to Matoma and he
00:14:44
Tom Crack - Ipswich
went in and people were, I think the comms were saying how it could have potentially, Walton could have been still slightly dazed from his massive crash. He had a gel Pedro five or 10 minutes earlier as well. I'm not sure how much validity is now only Walton would know if he's, his head was a hundred percent. Yeah, I think with that one, it's so it's a mixture of both. I think predominantly more our mistake that led to it really, and then just you kind of felt it was coming the second they got through the back there. I'm not sure who assisted it across the face, but you kind of sensed that goal was coming, unfortunately. And then from then on, you know, when, when you go down one nil, regardless of your home or where you'd like to see an interesting response as a fan. And there really, really wasn't to be honest. I can't think of a single chance we had after that for the rest of the game, to be honest. And we were very much on the back foot, but yeah, just really,
00:15:30
Tom Crack - Ipswich
I think he just kind of put the nail on the head. I think going into the game as well with Matoma, I kind of did say it's it's typical, isn't it? I kind of said how, you know, he hasn't been the sort of player he's been in recent seasons in terms of the numbers and the way people have been speaking about him as a potential, another big, huge sell for them. And then he goes and scores the opener, doesn't it? It's just the way way it goes. But yeah, shame we had a mistake and then but well played to Brighton count capitalizing on it, to get my words out there.
00:15:58
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Yeah, it was sloppy from our end, wasn't it? I'd like to say it's well, it's good play from then once they get the ball, but we shouldn't have let them get that point in the first place. And it was so from as the half played out, it was coming, wasn't it? the Like I say, they, they up the intensity of the press a bit.
00:16:14
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And what I say is it feels really similar to that Liverpool game. Like I said, right on the opening day, not just in the fact, obviously it was sort of nil, nil.
00:16:21
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:16:22
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You could even edge that we had the better chances in the first half ah to then lose two nil and like go after going one nil down at roughly the same point in the game is, it was fairly similar how, it all played
00:16:35
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and I say that was just the difference. I say, I don't know, it's just, again, we seem to play well for, we played all right for 60 minutes and then we make one slip up and we're one nil down.
00:16:49
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Again, this feels like we, it's good and like I say, they worked it well.
00:16:51
Tom Crack - Ipswich
ye Yeah.
00:16:54
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It was not like we handed it over to Mattone, we're inside the box to finish. They still had work to do from when they picked the ball up, but how many times do we sat here saying that,
00:17:05
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a half decent performance or better is we end up with one nil down from the first the first mistake we make at the back. And it's ah ah it's a worrying threat. And again, you can add this game into the obviously not to the same extent as some of the other ones in this category, but you can add this game into the extent into their group of where we've sort of sensed the results on the cars. And it was almost maybe not expectation because like we said in the build up all week now they're still bright and still a good team and they're very hard to beat.
00:17:37
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They've only lost four times all season. So you kind't of kind of can't expect to walk them over because they're on there ah ah struggling for wins at the moment. But it was that sort of sense of because of our form coming into the game and Brighton's have not won since November, there was a bit of a but there certainly a a bit of confidence around the game.
00:17:57
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there There was a result there to be had and then
00:17:59
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:18:00
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Again, we haven't we've dropped a sub-par performance in a game like that again, whereas so we we beat Chelsea unexpectedly, that meant it would have been underdogs for the Fulham game. We led twice, and now we say a game that you sort of thought, there's a result on the cards here, that compared Formula 2 teams, that finally we got the hurt first home win off our backs, and now now we kick on, and we've dropped the level again.
00:18:26
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and And I'd say that for again, it was they're of a bit of a mistake to lose the first guy. I do think Walton should save it as well. I don ah think i don't think you can, like you said, only he'll know if it's any sort of overlap from the Jau Pedro Challenge before.
00:18:41
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I don't think there will be, but I think it's more the fact that Davis gets across and the ball goes through his legs.
00:18:45
Tom Crack - Ipswich
No.
00:18:49
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But I think that's where he sort of, as soon as it goes past and he sort of gives the look over towards Davis of like, you should have blocked that. But atin I'll say, we compare it, like I said, a broad head finish, that we're going to say, well, and I know this is obviously not the different chances for in terms of where they're from and how they're a hit and everything.
00:19:08
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But like I said, that was almost a yard or so away off being right in the corner and not being savable. The tone was shot was in pretty much the same place and it went in. And that's my concern.
00:19:18
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I think that I say, ending well, we've spoke a lot about goalkeeper situation this year.
00:19:19
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:19:24
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Obviously we've given Muric a fair bit of stick, which has been deserved a lot of the time. So yeah, I can't, I can't hide. We pushed for Walton to be in goal. So, but I can't hide behind that. And I think he should have saved it. And like I said, I don't know how the game plays out. If he does, if he part of he does manage to palm that away that you never know how, how the rest of the game would have played out. But I do think he, he should have dealt with that one as well in there. But talk us through the second goal then from, so a bit of,
00:19:53
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but I think they've said on the commentary it was a bit of ingenuity even from Brighton from the free kick. Would you go along with that or is it poor defending again?
00:20:02
Tom Crack - Ipswich
You mean in terms of the build, it's the free kick or the free kick in general?
00:20:05
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Sorry.
00:20:05
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the Once it had the free kicks in the box, could it zips about? don it like true is that Was it put in a good area and that caused problems or should we be clearing our
00:20:09
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:20:14
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:20:15
Tom Crack - Ipswich
I think, to I think it's kind of been put in a difficult spot because with that sort of free kick in terms of where it was taken, I think as a goalkeeper and as a defense, you're kind of expecting one or two things to happen, whether it sort of floats towards the back and a player gets the end of it to potentially head her in, or it zips to the near post from the free kick taker and tries to go for goal himself. And neither happened. It kind of went to the front of that crowd.
00:20:36
Tom Crack - Ipswich
And it kind of caught everyone in an area where they expect the ball to come and sort of have to quickly rush to it. Ruta was obviously, I think maybe expecting it to an extent and was able to really get on it well and poke it through. I think that's really what kind of what happened there. I think defensive disarray definitely played a factor, but it was, I think it was good, smart play from Brighton sort of recognize what people expect to happen from, cause I didn't expect the ball to end up there. Like I said, I thought it was either far post or near post and neither happened. It went right in the middle. And then yeah, good hold up play from Ruta, as I said, for me, I think,
00:21:05
Tom Crack - Ipswich
even though the brief camera you had off the bench, I think probably the best pair on the pitch tonight, and put away the goal really well. There was that sort of, I don't know what your opinion was of it, but the, uh, they are shout with dunk, maybe slightly impeding
Brighton's Dominance and Ipswich's Struggles
00:21:19
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Walton's vision.
00:21:20
Tom Crack - Ipswich
I didn't necessarily buy it. I think Wolfie kept on regardless, but there was that brief moment where, when it goes on for too long, sorry, I go.
00:21:24
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Yeah, that's, yeah, I don't really know what the decision was. i think I think they said, I think they whacked the lines out and said he was onside. So in that case, obviously, the debate doesn't even come into it.
00:21:36
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But I do, I'm of the opinion that if he was offside, he's interfered.
00:21:37
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:21:42
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Because we talked about, what I talked about Walton for the first goal that, I say he's there maybe that, because he's, because of Davis going across, maybe if I say,
00:21:43
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, definitely.
00:21:51
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ah ah still he just on that one I still think should have saved it, but I'd go the opposite way, that even though it's a fairly similar situation, but I think Dunk is blocking his view there, and I think he would have, again, because it's not right in the corner, as good as as impressive as it was from Ruta, to hold it and swivel and on it and hit it like that.
00:22:09
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so It's a well-taken goal, but again, I think he saves it if he gets a clean view of it, and Dunk is though i think he's fortunate that he is onside, because
00:22:16
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yep.
00:22:19
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He is just trying to, he's trying to, I'll tell you, he's not purposely impeding, but he's just trying to get out of the way of the shot, but he has inadvertently blocked, he's inadvertently stopped Walton from saving that, and so I think, I think had they gone the other way, and had we gone into that argument of, is he interfering, is he not, I think he would have been, so, slightly fortunate for Duncan, for Brighton, and that from, that he was being just, he wasn't slightly being played onside, but,
00:22:48
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It's like I said, it's a well-taken goal from Ruta. We're giving him the praise. so we We'll see a player that he sort of hoped that we'd we'd have been learning how to deal with by now because he caused us a fair few problems in both games against Leeds last year as well.
00:23:02
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So you think we'd sort of maybe be a bit more prepared for him at this point.
00:23:05
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Very much so.
00:23:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because clearly someone who can find those pockets of space in There hasn't been many p players that can consistently play well against Kieran McKenna teams in the last couple of seasons.
00:23:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
He is one of those that seems to...
00:23:18
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah. Three goals in three goals in East Anglia for in the past week as well, isn't it?
00:23:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. So every time.
00:23:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, well, exactly, yeah.
00:23:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
but He just seems to pop up in those sort of... So the the one he sort of... ah The sort of role he plays both at Leeds and now at Brighton is that he just seems to know where all the all the right gaps are in ah ah against us so it's one of the irritate and he just causes problems and so it's a well taken goal from him but again obviously they pinballed about on the box I don't think there's too much we really could have done like when you slow it down you see Taylor gets a touch but he's like he's lunging out on it skims off the top of his thigh on his way through it's not like it's not like he's gone to clear it and sliced it he's just he's stuck her leg out in
00:23:27
Tom Crack - Ipswich
We like two of those goals.
00:23:46
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:23:57
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:24:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
out of hope and it just took the wrong bounce that he wanted that they they didn't want off it. i don't It was, like I say, a so clever little work on Brighton, really, but so I think there is ah there's a a touch of fortune that Dunk was onside, because I do think that had been chalked off, and maybe that might have been the one.
00:24:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
We needed something to give us a boost and try and push us on to go for an equaliser, so maybe Brighton, having a gamekiller ruled out by VAR, you never know, might have sparked us together.
00:24:22
Tom Crack - Ipswich
and
00:24:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
but wasn't we were they the wrong side of the luck on that occasion, but say it's overall two goals. So there's a mixture of both in the goals that you say there's some elements we could have done better.
00:24:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
And some like to say Brighton, they turned the quality on in the second half, didn't they? That caused a few problems.
00:24:51
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:24:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Some of the other say the other chance we want to talk through quickly that obviously, we I've said I'm not particularly I'm impressed with Walton for the first goal, but what did impress me from him to cancel that out was that save from Jel Pedro. He just he brought it down on the turn, he smashed it right towards the top corner and fantastic save from Walton, wasn't it?
00:25:12
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, absolutely. I was hoping we'd mentioned it as well. It's one of the few like bright sparks really for us in the whole second half, wasn't it? And really great turn from Pedro because he kind of like completely shifted his body against Wolfenden and den then and fantastic from Walton to get on it. Yeah. I mean, you know, there's, there was definitely some low points for him in that game. Like I said, they have a lot of stages when he did actually just kick it straight out for a corner. But these are the sort of things you can offer as a goalkeeper and was really calm under pressure in certain moments when it kind came to distribution when Brighton were pressing smartly, either hoofed it or was able to find the right pass near a few hairy moments when he almost gave it away as well. But yeah, that save like really does encapsulate him as a goalkeeper and the sort of quality he can bring. So it was good. It's good for him to get that. And, you know, we've said how we've wanted to see a change in goal keeper because Muric really just wasn't working. And yes, we've lost the game tonight and maybe he could have done a few more of the saves. But, you know, he's only human. He's going to make errors. And I'm still very much on the Walton train in terms of being our number one goalkeeper for sure.
00:26:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, agreed. Well, get your closing and thoughts on tonight's game, Tom, before we move, before we start looking ahead to Man City. Obviously, the second goal was a, well not only was a killer in the game, it has sent us back down into the bottom three. We said we came out of it. We said there was a chance that we could lose this week this this round of games and still be at the bottom three. We got what we asked for in terms of the result yesterday.
00:26:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
And so that second goal was knocked us back down there on goal scored. So so is the area is there an element of disappointment there that obviously, as much particularly as we weren't, we didn't seem to look like any pressure of going to nick in an equalizer.
00:26:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Should we have tightened it up a bit better at the back? Or than' I don't know, just any closing thoughts you have before we move on to Man City?
00:26:58
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:27:01
Tom Crack - Ipswich
I think on Wednesday night when all the sort of right relegation rivals were playing before us, with the exception of Staff Hampton, who was absolutely unlucky against United last night. I don't know at the time of recording what you've seen the result there, but they've been very hard done by from Amadiello Hatrick. But yeah, just seeing those results go our way with Wolves getting battered at St James's and Leicester losing to Palace and Everton losing to Villa. You're like, this is the perfect night for the G announcement happened. It was like,
00:27:27
Tom Crack - Ipswich
we haven't kicked a ball and it's been a fantastic night for Ipswich Town so you really hoped coming into tonight it would have been been able to press on from there but you know and yeah we lost and we got we're now back in the bottom three but it shows how tight this is going to be I think of Palace's win now it is going to be for us Everton awards who joined Leicester and Ipswich excuse me sorry Leicester Southampton going down and it's going to be a free horse race between us and we're very much in that I don't think you know There's, there's, there's narratives behind Southampton and slightly less to where they're gone, but we've definitely got the most praise from people who are around the leagues that we've been the best promoted side, I think in terms of the football played. So there's reason to believe we can do it. And, you know, we've got, we've got to welcome wolves to Portland row. We've got to go to Goodison park. They're going to be two massive games. Southampton have got to come to us as well. There's games that, you know, we'd like so we can get something.
Crucial Upcoming Matches for Ipswich
00:28:16
Tom Crack - Ipswich
In those in those pictures, we've really got to take them. So they're gonna be massive games. I'm really looking forward to them But disappoints me back in the bottom three, but it's a game-by-game basis, isn't it? You know city is coming up, which we're gonna talk about after a break and maybe difficult for us But all those things have got a claim as well. So yeah, it's game by game, isn't it?
00:28:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it it feels like the with that with this round of midweek results, it feels like West Ham and Palace have finally dug themselves out of the race. to sort of we've seen i I mean, I was saying that when Palace were in the bottom three, that when when we were sitting just above Palace and it was and they were eight when that that little spell for a week or two where we were 17 when they were 18, well, I said to them that in my head, we're in the bottom three, because I know Palace won't stay down here.
00:28:46
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:29:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
that's That's always going to be a temporary thing. And so I think this is fine. They've been both been on the fence of it for a while, and I think these results this week have finally dragged them officially out of it now, which makes it bit more difficult makes our job a bit more difficult. But like I say, it's disappointing result tonight, but there's too quick of a turnaround for us to dwell on that. So we're going to have a quick message from one of our sponsors, and then we will jump in for a quick preview of Sunday's visit of Manchester City.
00:29:53
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and we are back for the final part of today's show. So we're moving away from that Brighton result. We're looking ahead now, because the way these games turn around so fast, we haven't got another episode before the Manchester City game to dedicate a full episode to a preview.
Facing Manchester City: Challenges and Opportunities
00:30:09
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So we're going to jump in now, and I'm going to ask you, Tom, that ultimately this game, had it been played three or four three or four games ago,
00:30:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
might there have been a little bit element of confidence there, but they started to turn it. I mean, but like yes, they threw the game away against Brentford on Tuesday night from being two and a lot, but it is still, say it was seven points from the last three games now.
00:30:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
And yes, you'd expect their games, you you probably expected them to take nine regardless of the as as a form they were in, but they do just seem to
00:30:46
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:30:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
start to be clicking again, city so how's this come a terrible time for us?
00:30:53
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yes and no. I mean, you know, when whenever these sort of games happen on paper, I feel in the Premier League, there's always a chance for a wee shock here and there of a big, a giant coming to a renegade.
00:31:05
Tom Crack - Ipswich
battling team. So there's that sort of narrative towards it. But yeah, it's, you know, you would have liked to have played city when they were having that terrible run in November, early December time, but they seem to have found their feet. They usually always, to be fair, I think January onwards, they always just go on a ah run and just an unbeaten run and make a charge towards the title. I don't see that happening this year. Cause I've that capitulation, I think was even for them too much to come back from.
00:31:30
Tom Crack - Ipswich
But you've got to be realistic when you're playing a team such as this of what we can actually take from it. A draw would be fantastic against them. you know We obviously took the lead at the Etihad in the early stages of the season. So we know how it is to go ahead against Man City. But I think going into these games, you've just got to have a level head. you know that The formation is a great way in which we can potentially get something from it.
00:31:52
Tom Crack - Ipswich
But it's going to be a real, real tough ask and any, any anything shy of a good performance. I think, you know, if it's a good performance and a loss, you know, I don't think any of us are going to be that disappointed really, because it's a game we really don't expect to get anything from given the opponent. So as long as there's a good performance in there.
00:32:07
Tom Crack - Ipswich
from the whole squad and from minute one to 90, I'll be really proud of them. But who knows, stranger things have happened. where Where's your head with City coming to Portland Road? it's It's definitely one of those sort of like Hollywood fixtures, so to speak. I don't know your opinion on City as a club, but you know it's one of the big six and the Pep Guardiola's coming to Suffolk, isn't he?
00:32:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, so obviously it's on that list of games that you look forward to and say, you think two years ago when it was, you know, Morkham and Fleetwood, and now it's Manchester City and coming up and I think Liverpool the game after, isn't it, at Anfield that, like I say, I like how we started the season that, I don't know, it's just sort of games, but
00:32:45
Tom Crack - Ipswich
yeah no Yeah.
00:32:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's again, it's one, but if one has no expectation, which apparently is when we're better, it doesn't make any sense to me that that's the way this season's played out, but it has.
00:33:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
So it's almost like I say, you on paper, this Brighton game tonight would have been one to get at least a point in and then city is a right off at now. So the way we play is almost the one that should be a right off.
00:33:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
We might turn up and get a result in. And so they're they're starting to find their form again.
00:33:15
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:33:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Now, as I can say, it's a bit unfortunate for us. Timing wise and I don't know that, but then it's still a bit of a stumble. I'd say that that's clearly something's not right because obviously yeah, they threw the game. They win. I had to clear one off the lines. We didn't lose after being two in the lap on the 80th minute against Brentford. And then obviously the scenes after the game, the pep seems to be almost screaming in the face of Ortega and Gavardio because he wasn't happy with their, their involvements in the, in how, how the goals were conceded. So it's clearly not all right there that
00:33:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
So there's a lot of players lacking confidence there. I mean, you look at the FA Cup, I mean, they're 1-8-0, but great and it gave Jack Grealish had to be given a pity penalty against the lead two side, because he's on that he's on that much of a goal drought and lacking confidence. that there There's a lot of players out of form there, and the big one would have been Phil Foden, who typically, again, when he said about our luck with some of these things,
00:34:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
even having a poor season after being player of the year last year, he hasn't got up to speed at all. Then he scores two goals just in time for coming to play us. So we said up about Newcastle that some of their key men just happened to hit their stride two games before playing Ipswich.
00:34:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it seems like it might have happened again with Phil Foden.
00:34:29
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:34:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
So that adds an extra threat there. But it's almost that it's a bit like you always the argument of it's just it's not going to happen.
00:34:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
So it might, in a way like, it's just such a, there's no pressure on it the that that you almost like, it's a it seems such a city result on paper that it just you just kind of feel like it won't be there.
00:34:44
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:34:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know. Certainly far from confident. But say, you know, you never noticed the the showpiece game of the week as well, isn't it? So we've been given the big 430 Sunday TV slot. We've only had that for the last time we had people from Manchester come down. So it's a slot we won't get many times this season. So so it's like I say, it's a game to enjoy, but like you said, there's got to be a performance there to sort of to celebrate. Obviously i obviously there's got to be a performance there if you're going to get a result because look,
00:35:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
regardless of their form they're in, and they've shown last few get the last few games they've had that when they're turned on can save for lessster than Leicester. Leicester, don't get me wrong, Leicester had opportunities at 1-0, they could have got themselves back in but overall City were quite good, they were very good against West Ham and then for 80 minutes against Brentford they were quite good as well and then just sort of capitulated at the end that they have these spells that They can't necessarily last them 90 minutes, maybe, but they do have these spells where they do just control games and make it really difficult.
00:35:57
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:36:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
So it's a bit like that Newcastle game, which me and Richard sat here and said that you never know.
00:36:02
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:36:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
But if they turn it on, we're in trouble.
00:36:09
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:36:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then we went one little down in 30 seconds. if If they turn up and they're on and they're on form, we're in for a tough afternoon. But if they turn up and they're not on form, which certainly isn't out of the realms of the possibility, there maybe is a bit of hope there.
00:36:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
What do you think?
00:36:26
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, yeah, ah ah very much so. it's it's it's ah It's a flip of a coin with what you're going to get from Man City this season, isn't it? Obviously, yeah, they've come into form recently, but there's been a lot of games and obviously they could pitch late in the latter stages on Tuesday night. They've got a few more days ahead of us in terms of to recover. But, you know, you've got to go into these games really just with a why not us attitude, really. And I think there's slightly less No, it's going on to go like this because we're really not expecting to get much from it. It'll be interesting to see who we're going to field. Do you think maybe just, I was just thinking now, obviously we're just playing on a Thursday, going into a Sunday, but there's not that much room for recovery. Do you think that was why someone like Phillips started so Mausie wouldn't have immediate starts? Do you think maybe the big question mark for me is, I don't know about you, do you think we're going to see Phillips even come straight into the, because obviously
00:37:11
Tom Crack - Ipswich
he has He has now officially signed. he He signed just after me and James recorded saying, when's he going to sign? And as the gods do, he signed after the podcast came out on Thursday morning, but.
00:37:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know i can i cu you i please think had a clip scheduled of you two talking about that.
00:37:22
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:37:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
I I ah i got ahead of the game for the first time in ages with scheduling clips and I thought, there you go, but it's really good filler gene clip out and then I got that and then I saw the announcement last night and I had to get up this morning and they delete those clips and find a different one.
00:37:34
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Get rid of it.
00:37:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's what I get for trying to be ahead of the game.
00:37:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
So luton' the last minute but yeah so that's something I was
00:37:39
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Can't predict it.
00:37:40
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Do you think you'll play?
00:37:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think he will, yeah. I think probably off the bench, but just because i say I'd assume Hutchinson and Broadhead, that if we're going to blow this out, he's not going to come straight in for either of them two or Dalap, is he?
00:37:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
so And he's not going to play in the middle of the park.
00:37:58
Tom Crack - Ipswich
and
00:37:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
And so the only thing would be, is there an outside shower right wing back? Because he played there against Bayern for Villa and looked very good there. But so obviously, it's not his natural position. So I'm not sure he would come straight in over Burns or Johnson there, but yeah, I don't know.
00:38:10
Tom Crack - Ipswich
There's a lot to ask and stay as well.
00:38:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
I imagine he, I think he'd be off the bench and then he'd probably be looking to to come in for maybe Liverpool or the games after that, I don't know. But I just, suck so I think there's, what you said about Morsy being on the bench today and Phillips coming in.
Strategic Insights and Player Roles Against City
00:38:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think that was that Morsy can't be expected to, So the games at this level, teams like Brighton and City, you can knock the ball around like that. I don't think you can expect him to do 70, 80 minutes to go twice in three days against teams like that.
00:38:42
Tom Crack - Ipswich
and Phillips can't play, right?
00:38:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, exactly.
00:38:45
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Phillips can't play anyway, yeah.
00:38:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
sort of stuff I think, yeah, it's going to be one of Morsy and Phillips in each game and obviously Phillips is ineligible on Sunday. So I think that's why we've seen him today because the kind of new Morsy could only be able to start one and obviously you need him to start City because you haven't got Phillips as an option in that game.
00:38:55
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, makes sense, doesn't it? Yeah.
00:39:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
but
00:39:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think it's interesting as well from the other side of things when obviously City have had a couple extra days, but what they have as an extra element is they're travelling to Paris on Wednesday night to play PSG in the Champions League, which obviously if somebody was to lose that game, either one of them, they're staring the elimination in the face in the Champions League.
00:39:03
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:39:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
So they have to go there with and have that game.
00:39:24
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:39:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Obviously, I think I think they are one position above PSG. I think PSG, the first team at the top of the elimination eight, and then city at the bottom of the playoff eight at the moment, but say hey if they lose that game on Wednesday, they are though they're in serious trouble of getting knocked right out of the Champions League.
00:39:36
Tom Crack - Ipswich
They all.
00:39:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
So there's almost a question, is is that their priority? Because you sort of, I don't know what the feeling is inside their camp of what they think they're fighting for in the Premier League now, but you'd have to assume it's,
00:39:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
aiming for top four over title at the moment. But like you say, they do just put these runs on out of nowhere and climb themselves right back up. So you never know. But I almost wonder if you look at the, because then they've also got Chelsea next weekend. and If you look at that, I'm like, this is almost their least important game in their next five, because they've got, after us, I'd say they've got that PSG game, and then they've got Chelsea, which, and then they've got Club Bruges, which obviously, depending on that PSG result, could be and like there could be, I could be the biggest game of the season, if there's and then they've got Arsenal at the Emirates. So this is sort of in their run in their run of games between now and the next round the FA Cup. This is the sort of one they could almost sacrifice if they had to sacrifice one but look you you mean know the quality of their squad that they put a B team out and i still get results but there is almost that element of hope that might might they turn up heavily rotated because of those next four games I've got coming up that
00:40:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
well could say they won't have a run a games like that with a bigger impact on their season probably. You look at the last two Champions League games that they realistically need to win both to finish anywhere half decent and then Chelsea at home Arsenal way in the Premier League. That's a really significant run of games they've got in the next sort of week or two after. So there is maybe that hope that ah ah they rotate and then that stops the a play being a sharp because there's been a few changes in there, but you never know.
00:41:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I'm going to ask you the impossible question for a game like that, that and everything we've just considered in about 10 minutes of talking in a rushed preview.
00:41:22
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, that's a good point.
00:41:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Have you got a prediction for me?
00:41:34
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Ah, mate. Especially, is this is is even harder to, I'm usually very confident in these predictions, but especially after coming, what, with half an hour of move from, or an hour of move now from the Brighton game at time of recording, so optimism is slightly dwindled. I'll remain optimistic, you kind of,
00:41:51
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Got me a bit excited about of there of their sort of games after us as well. Maybe they'll look past this like, let's go one or why not? it's it's ah A A draw will be fantastic. I think given the level of opposition, a draw is as good as a win in a game like this, in my opinion. So if you can get anything out of it, I'll be chuffed. To be honest, my main, as I said, my main hope for this game is just a great performance so and desire from minute zero to 90, whether that's losing one nil, we put in a great shift. I'm totally fine with that.
00:42:21
Tom Crack - Ipswich
loud crowd and just a good performance. That's what I really want to see because it's a tough get a tough team. You really can't expect much and getting anything out of this game, unfortunately, but who knows? Who knows? But yeah, one all why not? What about you?
00:42:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
You never he never know, so but like I say, we've sort of, we've rushed through, we've we've just decided to pick out all the potential bits of hope and positives we can in this short, in this hot and damn preview, maybe if we had a full episode.
00:42:39
Tom Crack - Ipswich
you know
00:42:45
Tom Crack - Ipswich
We got to lap against his old team as well. I mentioned that.
00:42:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, you never know, point to prove maybe that, say, they let all these players go from the academy who do really well, without barely giving them a sniff, so there is always that, when they come back against them, there's that point to try and prove that,
00:42:52
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:43:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
even even to the point of Cole Palmer and he netted that penalty in the last minute when they played Chelsea last year. That was almost that was his chance to prove himself almost to City after very limited minutes despite being comfortably the top performer in the 21s. I'm sure Dilat would love to make an impression but So we were focusing on the pot.
00:43:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Maybe if we'd done a full length episode, we would have sat there and then actually remembered how much quality city have and how good the players are. But we didn't have time to go into all of that. We'll just focus on the reasons why we might beat them. You never know.
00:43:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I don't think we will. I wish I could be a positive as you. It's just not my thing. This optimism. I tried it for that Newcastle game. and We lost 4-0. So not my thing being optimistic.
00:43:46
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah, like what happened.
00:43:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
I do think good i think i don't think it will be ah don't think it will be a turnover. I don't think it will be either like the game was at the Ettie had where it just got swept away from us quickly and we done well to almost keep it to four in the end the way the game played out.
00:43:58
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Yeah.
00:44:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't think it'll be like that. I think it'll be more close, but I'll be shocked if
Importance of Earning Points and Future Outlook
00:44:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
we come away with it. But I'd absolutely take a one. or draw you like I mean, To be fair, that's always the mindset. wouldn't that It's this tight down the bottom. I'll take a point in every game that we're we've not hit. them We've always, we dropped to that point where draws weren't good enough. And now it's all got really close again. And now someone's gone the other way that every point feels important because four weeks and not every team down there is going to lose because that gap is building between the bottom and five and everyone else. So any points you can pick up almost now that, I mean, you look at the full online last week.
00:44:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
That could have been two points thrown away with those penalties, but everybody else lost. So we actually make rounds.
00:44:41
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:44:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
It'll be a fantastic result for a multitude of reasons if we got anything off City.
00:44:42
Tom Crack - Ipswich
Hmm.
00:44:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
But we can go in with hope maybe more than expectation, but we will see how that plays out. And we will say next time we see you, we'll be on Monday's episode when we are reacting to that game.
00:45:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
And so that is the close of today's episode. Thank you for joining me for this Brighton reaction slash preview Man City hybrid show. Tom has been a bit different to our normal normal set up for a post game recording.
00:45:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I can say we'll be back Monday with a Manchester City reaction, a lot more bog standard in detail than we've and we had time for on the Brighton one today. And hopefully there's some famous old result we can we can talk about for years to come, to start. But until then, I can say, keep up to date with us on our socials. And if not, we will catch you on Monday.