Odysseas Vlachodimos

Um, Brighton probably have fun as well.

I mean, Vlachodimos is a big lad, isn't he? And Strike's a big lad.

But, um, again, you do need to press these teams and, and Chelsea's in the cup, so one of the lads will play anyway in that one.

So yeah, I think other than City, I'd be all right with, with playing any of the younger lads.

Seven minutes in, Laminia Mall takes a rip, rips a shot from 27 yards out.

It's curling to the far post, and Odysseus Flacodemos, the keeper, for Sevilla, just lays out to get enough of his fingertips onto it.

He did get it? That's crazy.

He did.

he had like four of them in this game.

And yeah, this one was the closest should have been a goal.

It's an amazing save from Odysseus.

But yeah, He was getting it from the crowd, Yamal was, throughout this game.

Doku with y- you know, attacking threat.

You've got Vlachodimos who's playing incredibly well, picking up defensive contributions regularly.

It just feels like almost trebling up on Brighton is the way to go because they're super cheap as well, so it's not like you're gonna have to spend loads of money on them.

So going for Verbruggen alongside either a Doku who of c- of course has taken a load of price rises, um, or Vlachodimos, who I think is actually where I'd go now given we're getting some news about Mitoma coming back.

Yeah.

I, I think we, if I was gonna invest now in a defender, I think it would be him.

And they've got a, they've got a tremendous formula.

There hasn't been a season gone by when I thought, "Oh, poor Brighton, they've lost another player." But they keep then churning out other players that they've found everywhere, and they've got a absolute gem up front, the Greek boy, Kostas.

He's outstanding.

Pascal Gross in midfield, and also the Croatian boy, Vlachodimos, at the back.

Among a lot of other, uh, wonderful performers, and a manager, a young German manager called Fabian Hürzeler, who is, is as good as any manager, in my opinion, in the Premier League.

And had a great week.

And no matter if it was in reserve team football, youth team football, or first team football, the first thing that any of the bosses used to say was that if you don't match their fight and their will over 20 minutes, they'll overrun you.

And Chelsea did it for the first 20 minutes, but unfortunately they didn't do it for the first 20 minutes of the second half.

He absolutely bossed Old Trafford against Manchester United during the week and was brilliant here again.

One of several Brighton players who was outstanding, the new center half, Vlachodimos, who they got in from Spurs, just his m- maturity of his game for someone so young.

Diego Gómez, De Kuiper, Pascal's strike, all really good.

Bart Verbruggen made the two saves that were asked of him with a minimum of fuss, and Arsenal were really bad.

Mm-hmm.

Vlachodimos is okay as well.

He just, uh, was suffering from cramp against Man United.

And Dunk was merely rested for that cup tie as well.