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  • "Ive defended Barnes for a couple of seasons.. he does his job solidly, generally (or did up to the end of last season -top goalscorer remember?).
    However - he was awful yesterday - the lad looks lacking in confidence.
    At least he volunteered to TAKE a penalty. How many of the the Upper West would have had the bottle?
    That said - his penalty was poor, the rebound was awful - keeper lying on the ground to your left, where do you hit it? Low to the left? Aaargh!
    Some of the missed chances were laughable... CMS seemed to miss an open goal after the ball came off the bar, Orlandi looked far too casual (again!) for his effort that Bogdan saved....
    And those last seconds... I saw Bruno throw his hands up in the air celebrating the win as Kusczak cleared up field... where was he when the player burst down the left moments later? Had he assumed the match was over?

    Bitterly disappointing end.. it felt as if the football gods were having an almighty laugh at us, the circumstances were so farcical.

    Positives - APart from the finishing, and switching off with 30 seconds to go, we were terrific."
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Poyet rues goals that got away

Andrea Orlandi is upended Andrea Orlandi is upended

Gus Poyet admits Albion should be scoring a lot more goals.

The Seagulls blew a host of chances in their 1-1 draw at home to Bolton.

Proud Poyet felt his team were “fantastic” and said: “It’s not only the domination.

“It is the way we played, the way we stopped them playing, the quantity of chances.

“The penalty goes down as a triple chance.

“Hitting the post, the goalkeeper making saves. There is nobody to blame.

“Of course you get disappointed with plenty of things that can go another way but that is football and you need to accept it.”

Poyet felt the share of the spoils was unfair on his side.

He added: “It is unfair on everybody but the one who gets it worst is me.

“I pick the players, I pick the way we play, I convince them it is possible.

“It has been proven we are better than most.

“But there is a part I cannot do. I cannot take penalties, I cannot head the ball inside the six-yard box and I cannot tap in from three yards. That is individuals.

“It is a difficult part of the game. That is why top scorers are so expensive.

“At the moment we should have the top scorer in the division by far with more goals than Glenn Murray and Charlie Austin but we don’t.

“The rest is all there.”

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