As if earning a draw weren’t impressive enough, Brighton manager Fabian Hurzeler has claimed that his team is disappointed they did not defeat Arsenal when both clubs met in the Premier League this afternoon.
The Gunners faced a Brighton side that has made a fantastic start to the season, and the Seagulls proved they are more than just a hyped opponent.
Mikel Arteta’s side were the favourites heading into the fixture, but everyone knew that Brighton was an opponent to take seriously.
The Seagulls capitalised on Declan Rice’s red card to secure a draw, and they could have won the game, having dominated the closing stages.
However, Arsenal held on, and Hurzeler believes his team could have done more. He later admitted that they would still accept a share of the spoils as a fair reward.
He said, as quoted by Mirror Football:
“In the end it feels a little bit like disappointment, of course, we wanted to win the game but I think we should be satisfied with the point because it’s a fair draw.
“We dominated the game from the moment of the red card. We also created chances but we could have conceded a second goal to Arsenal near the end.”
Just Arsenal Opinion
Brighton gave a good account of themselves in that game, but going a man down made us inadequate to get a result.
We should bounce back in our next game against Tottenham, even though it will be a tough fixture for us.
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Amid the adversity suffered by the Gunners in the match. That saw the match officiating centrereferee sending off Declare Rice justifiably or unjustifiable in the match.
But even then, Arsenal being the bigger club side to Brighton in the match should have won it.
The Gunners’ game defending in the march SHOULD have hold their fort very tightly in the match. And not have allowed the Seagulls to breach their fort to equalize.
But after the Gunners have conceded the equalising goal to the Seagulls.
But I wonder what was it in the match that stopped the Gunners from producing a sublime attacking play to score the match winning goal and score it before the end of the match?
Saka SHOULD have won the match for us with a match winning goal opportunity by him. But not fluff his goal scoring chance that was begging to be buried in the back of the net by him.
Should us failed to beat Spurs next week. Us will fall behind Man City by 4 points if we play to another draw game at Tottenham. Because Man City could win their next match to garner 12 points.
So therefore, Arsenal SHOULD not start creating a tall order for themselves in points behind Man City to climb to close the gap on them.
Strangely enough, I suspect every supporter of The Arsenal are also disappointed that we didn’t win the game.
They were 12 against 10 in the field of play, Arsenal had it going on till the awful officiating. What a drawback.
With Haaland moving up the gears now for City, two points dropped was more than enough.
We need to put the Brighton game behind us and, as the JS Opinion says, bounce back against the “old enemy”.
*JA Opinion
Ha! We’ve all got disappointments over this game.
He should be. To not win with a Referee on his side is disappointing indeed.