Playoffs - Wendies v Brighton

Texas Jack

15 point gap in League was it

The top 3 were so much better than the rest all 3 should of been promoted.believe this is how it works in Serie B if the points difference is so much bigger between 3rd and the next team.

Anyways. Love the playoffs

Goalfest here I'm hoping

Wendies to sneak a first leg advantage

Bobby Baccala

Some tempo already. Hope it's a cracker.

Texas Jack

Brighton close then post

Bobby Baccala

What a strike.

Texas Jack

Lol at Wendies

Texas Jack

not given

derm0j073

Brilliant finish, what the fcuk, ruled offside.

Kiwi_knock

Very delayed decision there.

Bobby Baccala

Poor refereeing, the attacker should have been given the benefit of the doubt if it was that unclear in the first place.

ebbsy

Disgusting decision. Linesman was running back to the halfway line as well ? Wtf

Texas Jack

Holloway will combust at half time over

ebbsy

The officials could only have been guessing what's going on, and that is a dangerous thing in these playoffs.

derm0j073

ebbsy wrote: »

The officials could only have been guessing what's going on, and that is a dangerous thing in these playoffs.

As much as it pains me to say it, I think they made the right call.

derm0j073

That's an amazing goal. Come on.

Kiwi_knock

Great goal.

Bobby Baccala

What a goal!!!

Minderbinder

Appalling goalkeeping

Corholio

They got the decision right in the end, I suspect the linesman thought Hooper touched the ball and the Ref must have saw that he didn't. It was the correct decision and there's no room for benefit of the doubt in a case like this to be honest when he was acres offside.

Minderbinder

ebbsy wrote: »

Disgusting decision. Linesman was running back to the halfway line as well ? Wtf

ebbsy wrote: »

The officials could only have been guessing what's going on, and that is a dangerous thing in these playoffs.

Utter rubbish.

Paully D

Delighted to see Ross Wallace on the scoresheet. Always thought of very highly for his performances at Sunderland.

Kiwi_knock

Big opportunity for Towell.

luckyboy

Richie Towell on now ...

Minderbinder

Come on Richie! Make yourself a hero.

Texas Jack

Brighton have showed Wednesday a whiff of their arse here

Very surprised if this doesn't finish 3-0

Kiwi_knock

Some injury curse

Utopia Parkway

Couldn't get much worse luck in your biggest game of the season than Brighton are having.

Mars Bar

Knockaert looks to be in quite a bit of pain.

Texas Jack

4 injuries to your best 4 players in 57 minutes

couldnt make it up

Friday 13th

Kiwi_knock

Wednesday have to go for it, should look to wrap up this tie tonight.

tinofapples

Gotta feel for Hughton, 2 key suspensions coming into the game, 3 injury substitutions before the hour mark and now Knockaert off injured.

Texas Jack

.goal

Kiwi_knock

Very composed finish.

derm0j073

This is brilliant, another great finish. Please score 1 more.

Texas Jack

Hope someone pushes Kirkland over

Minderbinder

This must be up there with the worst play-off performances ever from Brighton. I mean the sheer drop in performance from regular league games is astonishing. I think there's a psychological element to the injuries too. They haven't turn up. They've given up.

I think this game confirms my belief that the winners of the other semi-final are going up.

derm0j073

Very happy with that, roll on Monday. Feel for Houghton, really unlucky injuries wise.

Corholio

It's amazing when a team just misses out on automatic promotion the effect it has on them in a play-off. They really missed Dunk and Stephens especially tonight. They started alright and had a few chances but when the injuries started coming it would be hard for any team already missing important players to cope. Even at 1-0 they were doing ok and Wednesday weren't creating a whole lot, they'll be a bit disappointed to concede the 2nd goal the way they did. Still, an early goal in the 2nd leg will change a lot, especially if the likes of Knockaert will be fit enough, although it looked unlikely.

Utopia Parkway

Minderbinder wrote: »

This must be up there with the worst play-off performances ever from Brighton. I mean the sheer drop in performance from regular league games is astonishing. I think there's a psychological element to the injuries too. They haven't turn up. They've given up.

I think this game confirms my belief that the winners of the other semi-final are going up.

In fairness they lost 4 players to injury before an hour was even up along with the suspensions beforehand. Think it's pretty harsh to have a go at them in those circumstances. Don't think I've ever seen a side suffer 4 quick successive injuries.

acquiescefc

You do realise the term 'Wendies' is hilarious to us.

Brighton bottled it, tried to cheat and time waste away 90 minutes til they got what was inevitable.

The disallowed goal was a joke, the linesman gave nothing, the ref gave nothing, until the Brighton players started waving their arms at the linesman. Decisions should be made by officials and not from ganging up on the lino.

Brilliant atmosphere at Hillsborough, one of the best, up there with the Kaiserslautern and Chelsea Semi games, the phone lights across the ground which was totally spontaneous was something ill never forget.

Shouldve won it there and then. Still a job to do on Monday tho, Carlos is a class bloke who doesnt get much wrong.

Minderbinder

acquiescefc wrote: »

You do realise the term 'Wendies' is hilarious to us.

Brighton bottled it, tried to cheat and time waste away 90 minutes til they got what was inevitable.

The disallowed goal was a joke, the linesman gave nothing, the ref gave nothing, until the Brighton players started waving their arms at the linesman. Decisions should be made by officials and not from ganging up on the lino.

Brilliant atmosphere at Hillsborough, one of the best, up there with the Kaiserslautern and Chelsea Semi games, the phone lights across the ground which was totally spontaneous was something ill never forget.

Shouldve won it there and then. Still a job to do on Monday tho, Carlos is a class bloke who doesnt get much wrong.

Brighton definitely bottled it. But I don't know where the cheating came out of? I remember a Wednesday player diving trying to get a penalty near the end. Brighton were obviously going to try to waste time when they were down to 10 men. The disallowed goal was the correct decision.

Enjoy your victory and stop looking for things to complain about.