Is the point enough- time will tell, what is certain is that we were very fortunate indeed to get it. First half we were all over the place defensively and were lucky that Brighton could not finish. Time and time again they got behind us by playing simple balls wide or over the top and our defence was clueless. It could have been different if joffys hook goalwards in the first minutes had not hit Cooper to prevent us going ahead but after that we really struggled, despite the Burnley game going our way thanks to a, in my opinion, dubious Spurs penalty that lifted the roof in the West Riding pub. Brighton attacked at ease and cut us open but poor finishes and good keeping kept us in it. Then the inevitable happened, Rodrigo lost the ball, they attacked and Llorente was outmuscled by Wellbeck who finished well ( thankfully he missed a sitter of a header in the second half which would have killed us) Once in front Brighton stopped playing a bit and resorted, weirdly, to time wasting and acting and that gave us a lift and by the end of the half we had created a few chances - a great strike by Klich from a corner was well saved. Second half we were a bit more threatening with Klich having another shot saved, Raph hitting the bar with a free kick and then narrowly failing to connect to a brilliant cross by Rodrigo. The fans mainly stayed onside but Rod and Firpo did come in for some criticism. There was also a huge rendition of " Marcelo Beilsa " followed by some chanting "Radz time to go" and "sack the board"- a bit harsh in my view but they have got this season massively wrong. After that waccoe and ALAW reverberated around the ground as fans urged them on. Finally cometh the hour cometh the man - maybe if Bielsa had given him more of a chance in place of Robert's things would be different? - up stepped Joffy. A sublime piece of skill left defenders on the floor and his little dink was met firmly by Struik and we had rescued a point. Cue " limbs" as the kids say, as we all went mental celebrating a goal that may or may not matter. Like many on here I recall ' staying up' when we beat Brighton in 1982 and we know how that ended up So a much better attacking performance than most under Marsch as we did threaten but if we give Brentford the same amount of space down the flanks we will get nothing next Sunday ( who knows maybe a defeat would suffice) So it is out of our hands and in the lap of the gods but a point has at least given us a chance of staying up and that is better than nothing - down to the wire - come on Villa and then Newcastle Dave _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected]
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