We absolutely deserved a point. Sitting back was tactical, and was working an absolute treat. Mitoma seemed to play much, much wider in the seocnd half and managed to latch on to young. First half, he was on the inside forward position, meaning Young really had to deal with Milner a fair bit.
It was tactically absolutely fine and if it wasn't for a huge slice of luck for them we'd have got all three. Dyche not making changes like he likes not too meant we we had so little in the final 15-20mins to try and kill the game.
This is my biggest gripe about today. Brighton had a lot of the ball, yet for most of the game it wasn't used effectively. We looked comfortable holding them back.
However, as we tired, the gaps became bigger, which let them stretch us more and more. We weren't able to close down and make those blocks and tackles.
Mitoma kept drifting towards the byline, and it became obvious they were going to run at a tiring Young. Gana was blowing out of his arse too, which didn't help.
We got deeper and deeper into our half. Now as I said on Wednesday night, I suspect that Dyche's mentality was, "
Why change a working thing?"
And I get this if you don't trust the players on the bench or whatnot compared to your first XI, but they were shattered. Their effectiveness waned by the minute.
Fresh legs could have allowed us to shore up the midfield and offer some form of outlay, which could have pushed Brighton further back from our goal.
For me, I'd have taken Dom off (who I thought did well based on little service) for Beto, and then dropped Docouré back and let Danjuma or Chermiti run.
Young needed moving from right back too, or at least pushing forward and letting Patterson drop in deep. It may not have made a difference, but leaving it didn't.
Dyche has done quite a few good things recently, as our form show, but today was two points most likely needlessly dropped because he's a rigid fool.
