Despite getting a point from the difficult match against Blackburn, the Brighton and Hove Albion manager Gus Poyet was extremely dissatisfied. He has said that his team are drawing too many games, and they need to start winning more matches if they are to achieve promotion at the end of the season. Brighton were one of the surprise challengers for the promotion spot during the early part of the campaign, but a poor run of form in the last few months has seen them slip out of the play-offs positions. There are currently five points below the top six, which will provide them the opportunity to compete in the play-offs at the end of the season.
David Lopez scored a goal late in the game against Blackburn to rescue a point from the match after the Blackburn striker Jordan Rhodes had given the opposition the lead. Despite taking a point from this match, Poyet was not satisfied because he thinks the club are drawing too many matches that would hamper their chances of finishing in the top six. This 1-1 draw with Blackburn was the 12th that the team had achieved in the 28 matches played this campaign. However, they have been defeated only on six occasions this season.
“I need to make sure that we don’t keep drawing and drawing because it’s too many. Do you know how many games we’ve lost this year? From 28 we’ve played we’ve lost six and we are not in the top six. How? Because we draw too many. It’s better from now on that we win one and lose one. I learned a lot from Tomasz because he didn’t make one mistake the whole season and then there’s his mistake at the end against Birmingham,” said the manager will also praising the goalkeeper Tomasz Kuszczak.