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  • Brighton vs Brentford match report

    Verbruggen stings Bees

    In a game in which, lacked quality at times, it was a moment of Brilliance from Ver Bruggen

    which gained the seagulls 3 points, in a feisty mid table clash.

    The 2nd top scorer in the prem, Thiago, proved to be a handful for the Brighton backline, who started without captain Lewis Dunk due to illness, with a lovely backheel to Ouattara leading to a rash tackle from Baleba giving the visitors a penalty in the 29th minute of the game, which Thiago comfortably tucked away, past Verbruggen.

    At half-time, the home side were meet with boos from the home fans, clearly not happy about the lack-lustre performance from the home-side in the pouring rain. Leading to a double substitution with Baleba, who struggled to get up to speed in the game and the booked Boscagli coming off. With Hinshelwood and Dunk coming on.

    The best chance for the Seagulls, came in the 55th minute with Daniel Welbeck spooning over his shot over the bar. Following great work from Yankuba Minteh.

    The bees struggled to get out of their own half in the second half, leading to a Brighton onslaught which eventually led to Danny Welbeck scoring in the 70th minute following a wonderful cross from Minteh, setting it up for the Premier League veteran, fresh of an England snub, from Thomas Tuchel.

    Eventually the pressure grew too much, leading to a late goal for the host side, with the returning Jack Hinshelwood, volleying a bouncing ball from the edge of the box past Kelleher, with the goal again coming from lovely work from Minteh on the right-hand side.

    The drama, however, would not end, with a late penalty for the visitors, following a pull in the box from substitute De Cuyper. This is incident was checked by VAR however the penalty was awarded.

    Thiago stepped up to the penalty, following mind-games from Verbruggen which resulted in a yellow card for the keeper. However, the result would not be the same with the Brighton goalkeeper providing a crucial stop, for which was his only 2nd ever penalty save. The seagulls getting a crucial 2-1 win putting them up to 5th in the table.

    Managers-

    Hurzler, on his 50th game, believed that the result was deserved, and if Welbeck keeps up his good form, he has a good chance of going to the world cup in the summer.

  • Salah vs Slot

    A civil war within Liverpool, similar to that of Ronaldo vs Ten Hag. If reports are true Salah is set to be left out of Liverpool’s travelling squad to Milan for a crucial game on the 9th December.

    A picture of Salah’s mural

    However, this situation is far more complicated than the Ronaldo situation. With Liverpool’s third highest goal scorer signing a lucrative contract in the summer, running until 2027,

    This in combination with the reigning champions struggling down in 9th place this season, following a 6 goal draw with relegation threatened Leeds United. In which the Egyptian remained on the bench despite the Reds struggling.

    This led to a remarkable interview with the forward, in which he accused to club hierarchy of ‘throwing him under the bus’

    He also refused to rule out the possibility of the upcoming game this weekend against Brighton of being his last game for the reds saying ‘he does not accept the situation and he has done so much for the club’

    This combined with the growing pressure on Arne Slot, leaves the club in an impossible decision. Do they sack the man who won the premier league so comfortably only last season. Or they do they let a premier league legend leave to Saudi Arabia.

    A growing number of Liverpool fans want to manager to be sacked after a poor title defense in which they are realistically not going to retain their title.

    This situation is definitely one to keep an eye on, especially with AFCON about to start meaning the forward will be unavailable for at the most 29th with the tournament starting on the 21st of December potentially running to January 18th.

    No matter what happens questions have to be raised with the sporting director of Liverpool with both Salah and Van Dijk both not reaching the same heights of last season after getting their lucrative contracts in the summer.

  • What could i less of

    Daily writing prompt
    What could you do less of?
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    I could do less panicking and fear over my actions. I used to grew up thinking everything was binary, that you were either right or wrong. Whilst in some situations this is correct but in wider society things like emotions, reasoning and past experience play a big factor in the way people act.

    Also feel I sometimes treat others as binary as that they either are good or bad. I am attempting to change this view that I hold. Therefore it is something I could less off.

  • Vigar’s law and its importance

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