FA CUP SEMI-FINAL - Brighton v Manchester United - Official match thread - KO 4:30pm 23/04/2023

Originally Posted by jem

there were two ridiculously late challenges on de gea. of course a striker has a right to go for the ball, but not after the keeper has it. mitoma's challenge was almost in the final.

Nothing wrong with Mitoma going for that....

Maybe if de gear wasn't ROOTED too his line as per....

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

Nothing wrong with Mitoma going for that....

Maybe if de gear wasn't ROOTED too his line as per....

nothing wrong with him going for it but it's a clear booking

Originally Posted by Whip Hubley

nothing wrong with him going for it but it's a clear booking

Would have been v v harsh....

Ball was there too be won, with strikers 50/50 tax.

The worst was the full back practically ripping wan bissakas shirt off , the ref played advantage which was good but didnt go back and book him the @#%&! .. And anyone saying thats wasnt a booking on dave can £#%&! off

Originally Posted by puressence

The worst was the full back practically ripping wan bissakas shirt off , the ref played advantage which was good but didnt go back and book him the @#%&! .. And anyone saying thats wasnt a booking on dave can £#%&! off

shots fired at bunks

Originally Posted by Whip Hubley

shots fired at bunks

Originally Posted by puressence

The worst was the full back practically ripping wan bissakas shirt off , the ref played advantage which was good but didnt go back and book him the @#%&! .. And anyone saying thats wasnt a booking on dave can £#%&! off

Deffo was. Of course any goalkeeper that wasn’t a £#%&!ing @#%&! would’ve taken charge and gone at the ball with their body, dropped on the ball and picked it up.

Fred made a difference and if we could, one day, get a forward interested in getting his arse in the box, he’d have got on the end of that run and cross that Fred made. Martial, Cas and Eriksen also put crosses through their 6 yd box that should’ve been put away

Originally Posted by Big Norm

Casemeiro and Lindelof were both booked for their first foul. Didn't book a single Brighton player until the 92nd minute despite repeated offences ( one of their CB alone had about 5). The non booking for the foul on Martial stopping the counter was scandalous tbh.

Was this the ref that allowed our winner vs city?

Amazing how less jittery we look without slab

Originally Posted by Jethro

Seeing Erik lose his cool at the officiating spoke volumes. Absolutely rancid display.

As bad as I've seen. He set the bar with Casemiro's yellow and then forgot all about it. That period where Brighton made 3-4 tackles in a row that were the same or worse.

Speaking of Brighton, for all the media love in they were right snide @#%&!s with all the little (and big) fouls.

Considering the injuries we are dealing with, and the fact that 3-4 of the starting 11 were not match fit, didn't think they were all that. Would take Caicedo in a heartbeat though.

Originally Posted by Denis Irwell

Fred made a difference and if we could, one day, get a forward interested in getting his arse in the box, he’d have got on the end of that run and cross that Fred made. Martial, Cas and Eriksen also put crosses through their 6 yd box that should’ve been put away

Fred should start against Spurs imo. Bring Ericksen on in the later stages.

Seeing a few people defending DDG by saying the Brighton keeper didn’t save any either any.

Well firstly, he actually got within a couple of metres of some of them, rather than just immediately collapsing to the opposite side of the goal like David.

Secondly, he’s on about 20k a week and isn’t generally considered one of the best goalkeepers in the world. Rather than David on his £400k a week, who we’re still told is an elite keeper, with shot stopping one of his strengths.

We’ve clarified recently that the financial side of things influences expectations of performance, so I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect DDG to save a £#%&!ing penalty now and then, even if the Brighton keeper doesn’t.

Originally Posted by shenwen

Fred should start against Spurs imo. Bring Ericksen on in the later stages.

it's spurs, lads

Originally Posted by Denis Irwell

Was this the ref that allowed our winner vs city?

The winner wasn't remotely contentious. If you're talking about the equaliser he's supposed to give the goal and let VAR find a reason not to, they tried really bloody hard but the rules say it's a goal. Ref's interpretation didn't come into it.

Originally Posted by Whip Hubley

it's spurs, lads

they will be unrecognisable.

Originally Posted by Ethers

Seeing a few people defending DDG by saying the Brighton keeper didn’t save any either any.

Well firstly, he actually got within a couple of metres of some of them, rather than just immediately collapsing to the opposite side of the goal like David.

Secondly, he’s on about 20k a week and isn’t generally considered one of the best goalkeepers in the world. Rather than David on his £400k a week, who we’re still told is an elite keeper, with shot stopping one of his strengths.

We’ve clarified recently that the financial side of things influences expectations of performance, so I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect DDG to save a £#%&!ing penalty now and then, even if the Brighton keeper doesn’t.

Not saving a penalty in this shootout is forgiveable. Not saving one in the last 40 in shootouts (made up number but it's close to that) is just crazy. Cass was having to tell him to dance around to put them off and he still didn't do it. Literally 0 intimidation until their last penalty where he decided to stand on the spot before the taker put the ball down.

You've got to intimidate the opponent and try to get into their head. The ones who are good at it (like Martinez at Villa) have a much better chance of saving the penalty.

https://twitter.com/centredevils/status/1650445498350972930?s=46&t=bfVvPcxzFISmV5ixy0aAOQ

We’re far too £#%&!ing nice

Originally Posted by dunk

https://twitter.com/centredevils/sta...FISmV5ixy0aAOQ

We’re far too £#%&!ing nice

Weggy kiss of death

That's a final and semi he's won us now

Starting to love Weggy now everyone realizes he’s absolutely dog shit at football. It’s like he’s read a manual on how to endear himself to football fans and is ticking them off one by one. He reminds me of that girl who scored the winner for England, guaranteed he’s taking his top when he scores next.

Originally Posted by andyroo

The winner wasn't remotely contentious. If you're talking about the equaliser he's supposed to give the goal and let VAR find a reason not to, they tried really bloody hard but the rules say it's a goal. Ref's interpretation didn't come into it.

Oh, ok. All I was trying to do is establish if he was the ref in that game. £#%&! me, he’ll still be wary of being tainted like Howard Webb.

So that’s a yes, then.

Originally Posted by believe

Starting to love Weggy now everyone realizes he’s absolutely dog shit at football. It’s like he’s read a manual on how to endear himself to football fans and is ticking them off one by one. He reminds me of that girl who scored the winner for England, guaranteed he’s taking his top when he scores next.

Put Wout’s attitude and desire into Martial and you would have a player. Wout £#%&!ing loves it

I don’t think anyone every thought he was any great shakes as a player, just that he was giving his all and doing a job, and the results proved it. 18 straight starts, poor bloke was absolutely £#%&!ed