“We HAVE to be beating Sunderland" | Sunderland vs Brighton Match Preview... Away End View

But that's what you should be doing at 21.

Um, but no, I'm excited for this weekend, mate, to be fair.

It feels like a long time since the Premier League was here.

It feels like a long time since Brighton were playing, to be honest.

That Arsenal game feels like an age ago.

You know, that 3-0 win over the champions, believe it or not, that was our last game of football, and I feel like that's just absolutely mental to say, really.

It feels like so long ago, and I don't feel like anyone's really spoken about it.

Everyone's kind of just been speaking about Spurs if any, if anything else about football.

Um, we've heard about Arsenal.

We've heard about all the big clubs.

But we haven't really heard much about the fact that we are sitting third in the Premier League.

We've won, won 3-0 against Arsenal, and now we're coming back to the game against Sunderland, which I do think is gonna be a bit of a tougher game if we're being honest.

But, um, I do think it's gonna be an interesting one.

How, how are you kind of feeling after this extended break?

Uh, well, first of all, I think this is one of the first times I've been able to say this and genuinely mean it, that I've missed watching my club, missed watching my team, and over the last couple years, you come back from an international break, it's like, "Oh, this rubbish again." It's like...

You know, last, last year we've, our form was so inconsistent.

In fact, to be fair, not even just last year, our form has just been insanely inconsistent over the last couple years.

But I feel like we're, we're starting to pick up some, some consistency with results, with performances especially.

I mean, even in the one loss so far this season, isn't it? One loss against Chelsea, we were, we were fine in that game.

We were better side.

Um, and I think Sunderland is a much different kind of test to Arsenal.

I think they play in a, in a different way to Arsenal, and if we do want to back up all this talk with, with Tony Bloom, um, about trying to achieve a, a top five spot, then we have to be beating Sunderland, and we have to be finding solutions against these teams that, that do defend deep.

Brobbel is a massive, massive miss for them because they do like to defend deep.

Um, but for the reasons that they typically tend to in- instead of try and play out of pressure or try to play tippy-tappy football as some call it, they, they just go along to, to Brobbel a lot of the time to escape pressure, and he's such a good outlet.

So the fact they're missing him may mean that they, they play a different way, play into our hands a bit more.