The possession means next to nothing. We play purposeful footy under Dyche and he takes a lot of risks. If anything we tend to lack the ball because we are actually being productive with it and trying to create chances. We aren’t playing tiki take crap and wasting 30 minutes doing f all on the edge of the box.
I don't see how you can assess any situation correctly and claim all factors are 'moot'. He's not even a year in. Poch also needs time starting from a better place than Dyche and we will see how long the aussies luck holds, they've been very lucky in more than a few games
indeed, but are you telling me that you don’t see the difference between the amount of time the Brighton centre half’s are in possession and influencing / dictating the flow of the game, compared to Everton’s centre half’s?
Hard to score when you don’t have the ball, how simple is that
If the problems are not 'moot', give something material and verbalise on details. None of the other teams have had a better starting schedule than ours did, and we completely threw it out the window. Now we are trying to snatch them from better teams. We should have got Tim Cahill on our staff before the start of the season then. lol
I didn't see any Brighton players "dictate" much at all tbh, they were so lacking in creativity than they had to sub off their highly rated young out and out striker and bring on one with a bit more skill and movement who might make his own luck.
We started from a position of two last day relegation fights, we have to sell to buy or wait until late in the window when teams will accept structured payments, we have an unbalanced squad with bloated contracts that are nightmare to move on from previous regimes, we have just sacked the entire board and had a failed takeover thanks to bills cronies and now another lingering takover starts. We've been a bottom 5 club for two seasons, poch and the aussie don't start from that position, we have less money to spend than them and the new management is not yet a season old.
Pickford had very little to do, unless they create chances and score goals then possession as a stat is nothing more than vanity.
It's not how long you have the ball, it's what you do with it when you do
The only caveat I will add against this is the players obviously had tired after a while and Brighton did start to threaten more, but for the most part Pickford was pretty carefree. Players probably should have been subbed but hindsight and all that. We were very solid and then the deflection happened
