Tough schedule holds no fears for Albion

9:00am Tuesday 16th October 2012 in Albion By Andy Naylor

Gus Poyet believes anyone can beat anyone in the Championship Gus Poyet believes anyone can beat anyone in the Championship

Albion boss Gus Poyet has no fears about the daunting schedule ahead for his Championship challengers.

The Seagulls played five of the bottom six in the table in their opening ten matches and only leaders Cardiff among the top nine.

They return to action after the international break against mid-table Middlesbrough at The Amex on Saturday with their next run of ten games featuring six of the top eight.

Poyet told The Argus: “For me, with all respect to everyone, they are more or less all the same. The only difference is there are people with better players and on their day those players can create more problems for you either way, attacking or defending.

“But I think the league is showing it is really equal. Anyone can beat anyone at any time, so you cannot think that because you are playing a team at the top it’s going to be any different to one at the bottom. You never know.”

Full story in The Argus today

Comments(13)

Saul G P Tong says...
9:21am Tue 16 Oct 12

Tough one Saturday - I remember 'boro being one of the better sides at The Amex last season. Taking my dad for his first time at The Amex too :0) UtA

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Jonathan Mouette says...
9:53am Tue 16 Oct 12

I think GP is spot on - there are at least 12 teams, possibly more, in contention this season. Early season stats are very deceptive. When you have 9 points and the oppositon has 8 a win puts them 4 points behind and possibly in the bottom half of the table... and so what. If they are a good team - dare I say it, like Boro - the likelihood of them staying there is fairly remote. Just hope it is not at the expense of the Albion that they start the resurgence which will surely come. As you may have guessed fingers are very firmly crossed (which also makes it very difficult to type).

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pjwilk says...
9:55am Tue 16 Oct 12

All Brighton need to do is turn up and play committed football,no passengers please.Thought Jake Caskey had a poor game last night,seemed to stay as far away from the ball has he could,not a Div one footballer on this showing ,let alone a Championship.

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SMF20 says...
10:43am Tue 16 Oct 12

I think GP is spot on here. There really are no easy games in this division and each and every team is capable of beating the other so whether its Middlesbrough, Barnsley or Leicester, we should go into the game with no fears and a "Can Win" attitude. We have nothing to fear in this division.. yes we should be prepared for a battle every game but equally we need to be confident and know that when we are at our best, we really are amongst the best teams in the Championship. Uta

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BHArulz says...
12:36pm Tue 16 Oct 12

pjwilk wrote:
All Brighton need to do is turn up and play committed football,no passengers please.Thought Jake Caskey had a poor game last night,seemed to stay as far away from the ball has he could,not a Div one footballer on this showing ,let alone a Championship.
probably just had a bad game, seemed up tot the challenge when i have seen him play for the albion, especially against saints.

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Hugo-Worthing says...
1:25pm Tue 16 Oct 12

That game JFC played agianst Saints was a long time ago, and judging by last nights match, he is further away from an Albion recall.
Seeing that Oxford seemed to have the ball in the air a lot, maybe they are not the best team to gain experience with.
However he seemed disinterested, hardly involved apart from taking corners, and blasting a well placed free kick way up into the stand

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Gee Jay says...
1:36pm Tue 16 Oct 12

Tough batch of games. If we get through these with a 2 points a game average, we will have proved that Albion are true contenders.
Keeping injury free will be a major factor. As Basil Fawlty might say 'I've just stated the bleedin' obvious!'

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Jake-Forster-Caskey-Peng says...
1:41pm Tue 16 Oct 12

i am guessing not many albion fans will have seen all of the great games jfc has played for oxford this season. he looked great when he played for bha and will do better in a better team than oxford!

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There are seagulls in Islamabad says...
1:48pm Tue 16 Oct 12

hopefully the higher placed and more confident teams will come at us trying to win and not stick everyone behind the ball and therefore be more open and prone to conceding goals.....innit! yay!!

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Dr Baldhead says...
2:23pm Tue 16 Oct 12

Jake-Forster-Caskey-
Peng wrote:
i am guessing not many albion fans will have seen all of the great games jfc has played for oxford this season. he looked great when he played for bha and will do better in a better team than oxford!
I know he started well and then got injured which coincided with a dip in the team's form too. Can you give us a bit more insight?

Rather than saying that last night is evidence that JFC is further away from playing for BHA than we thought, I'd imagine that it was a game that will, in the long term,help his footballing progression to a higher level. All players have bad games and I notice that he has already acknowledged his dissatisfaction with his performance. How he responds to this in the next game will be telling...

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championshipgull says...
3:08pm Tue 16 Oct 12

The fact that we haven’t played the top teams can be offset by the fact that we have had injuries and new players getting accustomed to the team. We are dealing with very fine margins at this level with passing and positioning. It is going to take some players longer to settle, particularly in creative-midfield and forward positions.

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championshipgull says...
3:13pm Tue 16 Oct 12

Jake did play well against Southampton but four games later against Newcastle his form had for sure dropped off. He is at Oxford getting used to playing lots off games. In leagues 1&2 good players can get away with the odd off game, at the top of the Championship managers are looking for more consistency.

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BHArulz says...
5:47pm Tue 16 Oct 12

Just a reminder to everyone. There is a reason why jfc is at Oxford, its called honing your skills. I'll put money on the fact that hell come back and either move on to a bigger club or become a regular fixture at Albion. Almost every player starts in the lower leagues to develop physically but most importantly mentally.

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