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Episode 63 - REVIEW: Brighton disappoint as they get away with a draw against Southampton
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Daily Brighton – Bless and Jamie give us their reaction to Brighton’s underwhelming 1-1 draw vs Southampton.
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Transcript
Disappointment Over Team's Performance
00:00:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to the Daily Brighton Podcast. It's ya boy, TheBigJG, and I am joined by the man himself. Blessings, Trebamba. Bless. How we doing, brother?
00:00:20
blessings
yeah good um slightly disappointed obviously with the result but overall i think it's been a nice weekend
00:00:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it' it was it was lucky that the game was on Friday because we could actually enjoy our weekend afterwards. And it only ruined the Friday night and the sleeping into Saturday. But yeah, it was not an ideal performance to only come away from were against Southampton with one point against Southampton. They were literally easy pickings for the rest of the league. And yet we go there and we cannot beat them.
00:00:55
blessings
Yeah I think as well I'm looking back to the um preview podcast we did and I do remember you giving it such a big one. So I think ishihan you should hang your head in shame because I said this could be a potential banana skin and you're like nah, nah, no way.
00:01:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
like yeah
00:01:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
There's no way there are going to be a banana skin until we made them a banana skin. Yeah, it was, I was so, I was literally thinking, I won't even need to watch this game. It's going to be an easy three nil. I watched that. Let's just talk about the goals, you know, but no, it was an absolute disastrous performance. It was actually the most underwhelming performance all season. No joke.
00:01:36
blessings
Yeah, I think overall the the whole performance was flat. I think we just lacked um the rhythm that was required to actually create more chances and put those chances away.
00:01:47
blessings
And of course, obviously we missed a few chances, which I'm sure will unpack as well. So overall, very disappointing because if you look at the two teams, I mean, Southampton are 20th rock bottom and we are at home.
00:02:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm. Those were ah the first away points as well.
00:02:06
blessings
Yeah, that's shocking. And we are at home. There has to be three points.
00:02:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:02:10
blessings
Anything less is not good enough.
Midfield Imbalance Due to Key Player's Absence
00:02:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah uh flat was the word that you used to describe and i think that's the perfect way to call it as well it was so lethargic i was watching like and on the on my chair thinking like where is any urgency i was like rocking thinking are we gonna press are we going to actually do something with the ball are we gonna actually be ah Progressive or active?
00:02:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, it just looked like they couldn't be asked. Like, that's actually the first time I've said this this season. It looked like they couldn't be asked. It looked like we were Man United.
00:02:46
blessings
yeah yeah Yeah, I wouldn't say it looked like they couldn't be us. I think it felt like they just kept on banging the same ah yeah so banging the same drum and expecting a different result.
00:02:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
The drum. Hmm.
00:03:00
blessings
um Doing the same thing and and you know thinking something's going to change and it just really wasn't. I think Hertzler might have got the midfield wrong slightly.
00:03:12
blessings
I did say in the in the Friday podcast that I felt like Matt Swiffer would be a better player to start.
Analysis of Missed Scoring Opportunities
00:03:19
blessings
I mean, he came on and he was terrible as well.
00:03:21
blessings
So it's like, yeah, it's hard to sort of think.
00:03:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:03:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
What's new?
00:03:26
blessings
I did think there was a bit of an imbalance in midfield. So it's hard to see what life is like without Belieber. I think Belieber is very important. Not to be able to get over the line without him against Southampton.
00:03:43
blessings
Imagine if we're playing another team without believe, so it's like, yeah, we need him back.
00:03:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, even if it's just to bring him on, he brings something, like we said so many times, something different to the midfield where he can actually be that difference maker like he was against Man City.
00:03:53
blessings
Yeah.
00:03:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
He can be the one to the such a cliche, but look grab the game by the scruff of the neck and like either do powerful runs in the middle or like even now start progressive doing progressive passes.
00:04:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
and finding chances or finding our forwards. ah I've got some stats here because I'm statman Dave and we did have, which was a surprise to me, I did not, I think I said on the Friday podcast, I didn't think we were going to have more possession than them because they are the possession team. they had fifty We had 52% possession, they had 48. We did have more expected goals, we had 1.7 to their one, we had way more shots, 22 to 10. But other than a few chances here and there. I think there were about four chances where I actually thought, oh, we could have scored there. But a lot of it was like long range efforts or kind of headers or kind of nothing chances.
Unexpected Goal by Metoma
00:04:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah I think we'll talk about some of the chances that we did have in a minute. But yeah, what did you make of that? Bless.
00:05:01
blessings
um Yeah, in terms of possession, I think I would have gone with what your thoughts as well. I thought Southampton would have more of the ball. Even though we are the home side, I felt like, yeah, they would probably have more of the ball.
00:05:16
blessings
What I did notice though, they did mix it up a bit more. um They went long sometimes and they did play on the break a lot for a lot of the games. So it but it might be Russell Martin actually waking up and realizing that ah football isn't a one-dimensional sport.
00:05:32
blessings
um
00:05:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah Yeah, 100%.
00:05:33
blessings
but
00:05:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
I wanna actually park that thought and I was gonna come onto it in the second segment of like how they did switch it up. But yeah, that you are so right. they did They did change it and I think that was a bit of a shock to us.
00:05:48
blessings
Yeah, 100%. And I think um it was weird because at times they were just sitting in ah and a low block as well. um So I think that perhaps like played its part in terms of Brighton struggling to find their rhythm as well ah within the game.
00:06:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hey, but we started off quite brightly. I thought it was going to be an easy win from like the first 15 minutes because we started off on the front foot. ah We had three chances in the first 15 minutes, if you remember, although it was on Friday and we are recording this on Sunday now. So it's a very long time ago from what we were thinking. But yeah, we had the massive let off for Southampton with Metoma kind of missing the open goal from far out. It was a ah Yari played it.
00:06:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
a kind of a a hopeful ball trying to play through Metoma through. Sugawara took a heavy touch and Metoma pounced on that heavy touch and then the keeper was out of his goal. That was one chance where if we took a lead not that early that would have been I think we would have kicked on way like much more than we did from that point. Yeah what did you think of that chance? Do you think Metoma, because I wrote it, do you think Metoma should be doing better?
00:06:59
blessings
100% I'm a massive Materma fan and I said after that got born I really wanted to see him kick on um and that was a great opportunity to sort of just you know show everyone he's he's there he's about um especially with some of the other boys still finding fitness like Jean Pedro he's not going to score every every week he's still sort of finding his feet at the moment um so we needed someone to just hit a bit of form and he's got he's just got to put that away I think
00:07:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mmhmm. Yeah.
00:07:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:07:28
blessings
get a bit closer and just put it away um obviously he did end up getting on the score sheet but yeah it would have been better to start off on the right foot nice and early put it away
00:07:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, that's ah it it. It was far out. But yeah, like you say, you could he had the time to take a touch and then even bury it from there. But yeah, he did score later on. And we'll talk about the goal, because the goal came from a did not have it on my bingo card.
00:07:56
blessings
yeah
00:07:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
It it was a Tariq Lamptey cross into a Matoma head.
Southampton's Defensive Errors and New Challenges
00:08:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
That is something you don't see every day. What a goal. What a different kind of goal.
00:08:05
blessings
Jay what a lot of ah I'm gonna say you and Joe need to do some apologizing. I think you can go first Jay's not hate of you've said some things as well
00:08:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Not me. I don't mind Terry Clamity. Joe needs to do some apologizing.
00:08:19
blessings
oh
00:08:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've joined.
00:08:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, what did you make of the goal, bless? Good finish?
00:08:25
blessings
one First he walked stunning cross, what a cross with Lamptey. I don't know what it was, I ah did check the line up nice and early. But I must have not just, you know when you yeah you're expecting development, you're expecting the usual.
00:08:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah Yeah, yep.
00:08:41
blessings
I just didn't clock it and then too he's whipped it in, I was like, oh, Lamptey's playing. um But yeah, it was quality cross and it was nice to see my timer running in getting in front of the defender It's a beautiful for finish as well.
00:08:53
blessings
So like all really good stuff we want to see but again, we want to see it more consistently, please
00:08:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, yeah. Paul defending from them, like Taylor Harwood-Bellis, I don't know what he was, because he's actually a good centre-back, but he just left the ball, like, ah started to try and clear the ball, went over his head, and then there was just a massive gaping hole in the middle where, and that was, I guess, Metoma just anticipated it again ah ahead of Suguara once again.
00:09:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah That was twice where he's predicted where it was going to land, and that's kind of the IQ that Metoma has, I guess. ah There were a few chances as well with Ruta. I thought he was our danger man. ah I thought he actually played class. He hit the post and he also had a ah chance early on where he cut in, cut in like fake shot, fake shot and then there was committed a couple of defenders and then ah put it put a shot back on himself and it that narrowly missed as well. And then he also had the bicycle kick in the second half. So he was the one where I was actually thinking if there anything's going to come from this game, it was going to be him.
00:10:01
blessings
Yeah, so I think it's disappointing that the one that hit the post um would have been a really nice finish. I think, yeah, I agree with you, he was very dangerous. And again, we just, we need to share the load a bit more and not just expect whoever's on form.
00:10:18
blessings
Cause we normally have at least one person who just keeps scoring. Like it was Danny Welbeck for a bit.
00:10:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm.
00:10:23
blessings
um Recently, for I say for a bit, I'll brush over that like it's nothing big up Danny Welbeck, the legend.
00:10:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:10:29
blessings
um Recently it's been Jean Pedro, he's come back, we're excited. He's got got a couple of goals, but we need the goals to be shared out a bit more um across the board so that we can actually you know keep that those performance levels higher.
00:10:43
blessings
um But I thought, he yeah, his all-round game, I think, was really good. He worked really hard. I remember talking about four interceptions. I'm not sure how many he got, but he definitely got one um because Southampton would just give you that chance.
00:10:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
they Yeah, yeah, yeah, 100%. But yeah, that that was all of our kind of chance. There'll probably a couple more later on second half, but we'll we'll come to after the break. And we'll also analyze the Southampton goal and their style of play as well.
00:11:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we are back with the Daily Brighton podcast. ah We're going to talk about, I guess, their goal. That kind of needs to be spoken about. It came on the 56th minute? 58th minute. I've dropped it down here. ah And it's crazy.
00:11:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
That was their like first real chance, I felt. like I felt like in the first half, they didn't really do much. They had a Cameron Archer one like towards the very end. I think it was like one of the last kicks in the first half. But then they didn't really do anything. oh That's why I kind of thought, we're kind of comfortable here. We're not playing great. We're missing a fair few chances. But then this kind of came out of the boot, really. But yeah.
00:12:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Tell me about the go and what you kind of made of it.
00:12:03
blessings
Yeah, I thought, um, yeah, throughout the game, I felt like we just couldn't sort of sustain and maintain our attacks. And they did, they they kept on getting a couple of breaks where it might look a bit dangerous and then whipping it in.
00:12:16
blessings
Nothing really happens.
00:12:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm hmm.
00:12:17
blessings
Um, I think what ah the type of game I was expecting is us at least maintaining our attacks. Like, you know, we, if we, if an attack sort of ends, we can recycle the ball, get the ball back quickly.
00:12:30
blessings
ah and go again but it wasn't like that they they were having a lot of breaks and then yeah in terms of the goal I think yeah really sloppy defending um desperate desperate desperate blocks everyone was putting their lives in the line but um which is nice but you are you are going to get punished if you keep um inviting teams to to break you are going to get punished at one point and yeah Flynn Downs has
00:12:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
Critique of Player Performances
00:12:55
blessings
smashed it in no chance for the keeper what are your thoughts
00:12:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah it kind of all started as well from like a bad I think it was a bad press that started them like the move because I think they they they played it out from the back like they have been trying to do for weeks now and like they're kind of playing in their philosophy. ah But I think the break was just kind of nowhere to be seen. Everyone seemed to be like a couple seconds off or so ah a couple second or steps off their man. And it kind of just allowed Flynn Downs and ah whoever it was, like Carl Walker Peters or whoever it might have been, to just play those one twos. Flynn Downs basically just walked into the middle of the park to begin the move, ah unmarked, uncontested, and they just kept on popping it about.
00:13:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
um And then yeah, like you say, the the goal. it was if If it doesn't go in, we're calling it heroic defending. Everyone's throwing their bodies on the line. Obviously it has gone in and it's so such a tough like such tough luck. But also, I want to say, um I also blame Igor a bit for that goal because right when they pop it to dibbling who was in like the cam position and Igor fully commits just charges at him and then he's completely out of position where ah along not in the back four and he dibbling rides the challenge
00:14:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I feel like you if you're going to commit that high and you're going to press onto them, you need to be winning that ball. But yeah, Dibbling rides a channel challenge and then he plays out wide. And that's kind of where Adam Armstrong was able then to pop up into that space and then the shots galore. He did come back later and do one of those blocks. But yeah, that's ah kind of put him slightly at fault or partly a fault. But I guess it's ah it's also a team thing and it started from the attack. So the press was also the fault.
00:14:50
blessings
Yeah I think, I'm glad you brought that up because it it does make the um Eagle Dunk conversation a bit more interesting I'd say as well because I i think that Eagle's got that in him, just a bit of rashness, a bit just you know just misreading the game a bit sometimes, I think he's got that and nothing whereas I don't think Dunk would have charged out like that, I think he would have been a bit more um
00:14:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:15:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:15
blessings
wary of you know leaving that space in behind and wary of the the type of player actually you're actually going out to if he spins you you've left a massive hole and you know you're in trouble so yeah it'd be interesting who starts next time because obviously dunk is back now but yeah that's I think that's one thing we can look at although like obviously defending on the halfway line I think Eagles quicker
00:15:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:15:38
blessings
um is strong as well so it does that brilliantly but it's also that game intelligence I think that's really important and yeah it's disappointing to see him just charge up run out like that to be honest.
00:15:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, and I think we got a show of love to Tyler Dibbling as well. I know we're not the Southampton podcast, but he was the man of the match and he was class, to be honest. i I've written at the end of our podcast notes here, our man of the match. I don't think we had a man of the match. Well, maybe Ruta, but Dibbling stood head and shoulders, in my opinion, above everyone, really. He was class. I think he gave Esther Pinney an a really tough time.
00:16:19
blessings
yeah Yeah, I thought he was um really good. I think when he starts drifting infield, Estebanha didn't have a clue clue what to do. Does he follow him?
00:16:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:28
blessings
Does he just leave him? If you leave him, you know what he can do. um one One thing I was really impressed, is is very he looks quite strong. like I thought he'd be a bit more flimsy, but he he does shield the ball quite well and win three kicks here and there.
00:16:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:43
blessings
um Yeah, he looks quality. I think teams will be sniffing around him. um hopefully they're not sniffing around brine players go and get him sorry wow
00:16:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I think he won a nine, I think he won nine fouls that game, which I think is one of the most in the prem, like, ah perhaps all time. I think I've read a stat. I think it comes Bruno G has won the most, um unless it's just this season. But yeah, I think he's now fourth most.
00:17:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah won the fourth most fouls after that game which was nine and yeah i mean he of his strength shocked me as well he rides challenges the amount of times i wrote that like he just skips away or i think it's his balance as well as like not being shrugged off the ball yeah he was very good and like you say if they can not raid like manc and whoever don't raid brighten we've got We've got poor players.
00:17:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Please don't take them. then They're not very good. you know They're just being really good and hurts the system. Go take daler Tyler Dibbling, because he's the truth, mate.
00:17:49
blessings
Do you reckon he can keep them up?
00:17:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's all I've got to say. ah draw so I reckon he can keep him up. I mean, it would be some miracle. Some miracle.
00:17:56
blessings
Absolutely miracle work if he can do that.
00:17:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:17:59
blessings
Give him the Ballon d'Or.
00:18:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah it's actually 18 years old imagine that's uh 18 years old and they're relying on an 18 year old to basically be their their shining light on the season and provide everything for them uh there's other things as well bless um i wanted to talk about in terms of Yeah, what we were talking about earlier in terms of they did look like they changed the way that they were playing and Russell Martin might have adapted this game. I noticed that kind of early on when we were having so much of the possession in the first half.
00:18:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
They looked like they were actually going for the long ball, which I hadn't seen in Southampton all season. But they they if there wasn't a person to play out for, there weren't them the bad mistakes that they so that we saw against Liverpool. They were actually looking to hoof it long sometimes.
00:18:54
blessings
Yeah I think they they um they've looked at it like all the other teams I have and realised Brighton's high line is something you can get at. Obviously they haven't got the quality to punish Brighton like.
00:19:06
blessings
um some of the other teams have but um yeah they they did switch it up they went a bit longer a bit more direct um at times sat deep to invite the the high line to step up even more so that there is that space in behind but um yeah I think with a few better more better players I think they could have got a couple of goals but it's tough isn't it yeah
00:19:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mmhmm.
00:19:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. yeah that's some unlucky for them but there was also of um I don't think we won the ball obviously then I think that the stack came up on sky sports where it was they were 20th in errors leading to goals they were 20th in lost possession in their own third and I think I only jotted down four times where they actually lost the ball to us or in in their third which was for them but not too bad because I'm pretty sure in other games it would be like eight or ten especially against like Southampton or what was the other game I watched them play ah Man City
00:20:05
blessings
Liverpool.
Brighton's Missed Opportunities and VAR Controversy
00:20:08
blessings
Yeah, no, I thought that was what I'm, what I don't, it's obviously they've changed the goalkeeper. I was pretty gutted about that because McCarthy, he had a tough, tough day against Liverpool.
00:20:21
blessings
And yeah, and the people still shaky. I think there was one moment where he did pass it to, I think it was, was it Sharpeggio?
00:20:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was a in the first half or second, because there was one in the second half where he kicked it straight to Metoma. And then there was one in the yeah second half as well.
00:20:37
blessings
yeah see that's the thing that that's it yeah they they are going to give you these chances you've got to take them we we knew this going in that there are going to be opportunities where the keeper just passes you the ball in the box you've got to be switched on to take that chance because you know that's the best chance of the game and i'm not going to lie if the keeper passes it to you
00:20:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
He passed it to Ruta in the box or just on the edge of the box.
00:20:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:21:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:21:05
blessings
That's a great chance, but I obviously couldn't capitalise on them.
00:21:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, I think the problem with the reason we couldn't capitalize on them is, I thought this in the game, we were looked really hesitant to either just shoot first time or ah just be just make the decision. Whether so that that time where ah Metoma wins it, he kicks it straight to Metoma. Metoma plays it straight to Ruta who was then on the edge of the box. All the Southampton players are trying to recover.
00:21:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
like pressing to the ball rushing to the box to try and put a block in and Ruta there needs to decide do I shoot like ASAP and I think the shot was probably the better option there he lays it off to a Yari who then a Yari then takes another two seconds to go or do I shoot and then he lays it off to a dinger it's like guys we just need to get shots off as soon as it comes to you just unleash a shot and that's what we were saying in the preview podcast wasn't it we were saying the counter press is where we're gonna
00:22:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
win some or where we thought we were going to get some goals from, just the counter press. They're going to give us the ball and we then need to be reactionary, take those moments and pounce on them. And yeah, we just didn't do that because we looked so hesitant or so off it.
00:22:25
blessings
Yeah, and and that's it. and Once you hesitate, it just allows time for them to actually recover and actually get get get people beyond the board.
00:22:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Recover, yeah.
00:22:34
blessings
So you've got to, you know, I think if Hurst is planning for this game, surely he's told them that, you know, they are going to make a mistake, be ready, tap it in as soon as you can, because
00:22:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Be ready. Yeah.
00:22:48
blessings
It's going to happen. it so It was so obvious um that there's going to be mistakes. like it's I'm actually a bit disappointed.
00:22:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:56
blessings
We haven't scored from Southampton mistakes.
00:22:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know, yeah, yeah.
00:22:58
blessings
Do you know what I mean?
00:22:59
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We might be the only team this season to not have scored for a Southampton mistake.
00:22:59
blessings
It's one of them things.
00:23:07
blessings
yeah
00:23:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
And yeah, well, on that note, there is some controversy to talk about and we will be getting to that in the second or in the next segment.
00:23:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
So stick around because we know everyone wants to hear our thoughts on the that disallowed goal.
00:23:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we are back with the Daily Brighton podcast. It's time. It's time. Everyone's been waiting for. It's probably it's gone all over social media. Everyone's put their two pennies in.
00:23:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
And now it's time we put our two pennies in.
00:23:39
blessings
Here we go.
00:23:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Bless. What did you think of the disallowed girl?
00:23:44
blessings
Firstly, um, vah. Vah, vah, vah. I'm just going to say thank you, vah.
00:23:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:23:55
blessings
um Yeah, it's it's harsh. It is really harsh. I think one thing that just struck me so it struck me straight away is they um Looked at one of the instance and said onside and then they said go and then Two seconds later.
00:24:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah that's no checking yeah yeah shambolot
00:24:13
blessings
He's still checking something like they've got to sort it out it's been in the game for for a while now it's been in there for a while it's got to be better like I think we need it I think it's like it's good to have on you know it's good to have that clarity but the way they're running it is surely surely can it can be done better I don't want to be them
00:24:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, we we sound like ah Alan Shearer and Gary Lineker on Match of the Day right now, every single episode. They are talking about VAR. but this we have got away with one so bad and I've got to thank my lucky stars and I don't know what what hurts I was doing like praying to the gods that or he has some good luck about him because how that wasn't given he's a bad decision there's no way he's playing the ball I've actually got a
00:25:01
blessings
No.
00:25:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've got a tweet here from what the Premier League put out and they've said the referee's call of no goal was checked and confirmed by VAR as Adam Armstrong was in an offside position and deemed to be impacting the Brogan's ability to play the ball.
00:25:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm not gonna lie, the picture they've used for that just eradicates everything they've just said because the Brogan is nowhere near the ball and I think Russell Martin said it actually after the game, he said that the Bruggins not even if it was going to the front post or like in front of Adam Armstrong that's completely fair play like that would then definitely be offside it's gone behind Adam Armstrong the Bruggins not anticipating Armstrong to get the ball he's already committing to Archer finishing it like he's already starting to move across and dive to Archer so yeah
00:26:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
How they've come to that decision is a howler. The only reason the only way I thought potentially they were going to give it is like, he's impacted Van Hecker, I guess, in some way.
00:26:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's the only way I thought. And then the explanation just didn't say that. I was thinking, because he's impacted Van Hecker slightly because Van Hecker's had to follow that run.
00:26:18
blessings
Yeah.
00:26:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
But even then, that would be very harsh.
00:26:24
blessings
know ah yeah that wouldn't That wouldn't be offside because like ah so i mean like the players there, it's your choice whether to follow him offside or not, like if he's offside.
00:26:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
That just happens, yeah. Exactly, yeah.
00:26:38
blessings
um But yeah, it is bizarre again. like So they're essentially they're saying that there is a possibility that Rebragan could have dived forwards and stopped the ball when, yeah, no keepers actually jumped that far forwards to stop across like
00:26:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Gets the ball.
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00:26:55
blessings
that.
00:26:56
blessings
it And it's not, it wasn't that kind of scenario where keeper comes out and stops across.
00:26:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:27:00
blessings
So it, yeah, it's terrible. I think initially I thought maybe it's clipped Adam Armstrong's heel.
00:27:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
I thought that.
00:27:07
blessings
Um, but ah is that not a thing?
00:27:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, no, it did not clip him. No, he just went past him. He did raise his foot.
00:27:13
blessings
ah
00:27:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
That was the other one. I kind of thought maybe they're checking for like, does he touch it?
00:27:17
blessings
yeah
00:27:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because he tries to play the ball, I guess. But yeah, they didn't mention that either.
00:27:21
blessings
Yeah Yeah, I think I think if you attempt to play the ball um Then it's offside but but the fact that it's behind him I just think Do not I mean it's not like he's actually stepped forward and trying to fit tap it home, but it's behind him So it's harsh
00:27:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
So then maybe you're outside. Yeah.
00:27:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
and Trying to put, yeah.
00:27:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, but hey, we are very thankful to VAR. The thing with VAR, it's like a gift and a curse because you know you'll get one for you. But later in the season, we're going to be bashing VAR going, it's the worst thing in the world.
00:27:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
It costs us this win.
00:27:52
blessings
yeah
00:27:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
It costs us this result. And that's just, I guess, how it evens out. like At one point, you will get screwed by VAR.
00:27:57
blessings
yeah
00:27:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
At another point, you will be absolutely gifted by the gods of VAR.
00:28:03
blessings
yeah yeah I mean this week I've said oh yeah we need VAR they just need to sort out next week I could be like we don't need it we don't need to get it out kick it out
00:28:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Get it out. Yeah. Well, we are now after the game week has finished. We are fourth and above Man City, which is crazy to think. I know it was only a point, but the silver lining is that we are fourth. We're two points behind Arsenal and Chelsea still. And we've got a like we're saying, an easy run of games to come. But the problem is, we think they're easy and then they could be Southampton's.
00:28:45
blessings
ah don't I don't think they're going to be easy, because we just don't know what's going to turn up.
00:28:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, i I think yeah. I've now, I'm not gonna lie, I've lost a bit of hope of this easy run that we've got. And I'm actually thinking, we could be just dropping points left, right and centre at this rate.
00:28:56
blessings
yeah
00:29:00
blessings
yeah Honestly, is it's tough.
00:29:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
and
00:29:02
blessings
I'm full of work inside, so I'll be interested.
00:29:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Full of Mara, good side. They just drew against Tottenham as well. so no not But we beat Tottenham, so we're better than them. And we'll we'll see how this goes.
00:29:11
blessings
It does not work like that.
00:29:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
It definitely works like that, man.
00:29:16
blessings
oh wow thanks for listening
00:29:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Have some belief. but But yeah, on that note, that is your boy Jamie G speaking to Bless about Brighton vs Southampton. um We hope you all enjoyed and tune in for tomorrow's episode where we take a deeper dive into this and into our draw and probably look ahead to the film game. Thank you and see you later.