{"id":39394,"date":"2020-06-06T20:47:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T03:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39394"},"modified":"2020-06-06T20:47:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T03:47:23","slug":"alireza-jahanbakhsh-is-still-top-of-the-supersub-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/06\/06\/alireza-jahanbakhsh-is-still-top-of-the-supersub-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Alireza Jahanbakhsh is still top of the supersub strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Argus – BRIGHTON, Albion’s pre-pandemic goal of the season was scored by a substitute.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It will take something special to beat it when the action resumes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alireza Jahanbakhsh\u2019s overhead kick to secure a point against Chelsea has put the Seagulls in credit in terms of goals scored by subs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But with up to 45 substitutions\u00a0yet to come for both\u00a0Albion\u00a0and their opponents, that might\u00a0change in the nine matches to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Premier League clubs voted by a large majority, though not unanimously, to allow five changes per team per match for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four teams near the wrong end of the table reportedly voted against the change but it is understood that Albion were not among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teams further up the table tend to be those with bigger budgets and bigger squads so, in theory, could make more use of extra changes available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Albion have made good use of tactical changes \u2013 both in terms of personnel and formation \u2013 under Graham Potter this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that will offer hope they can make the most of the situation with which they are now faced as a result of the latest Premier League meeting yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goals scored by subs is far from the only way to judge the success of tactical changes but Albion are in credit as far as it goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jahanbakhsh\u2019s special on New Year\u2019s Day was the Seagulls\u2019 fifth scored by a substitute in the league this season. They have conceded four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Potter made an early impression with his subs \u2013 at Watford on the opening day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Albion 1-0 up thanks to an own goal, Potter added pace in attack as he sent on Florin Andone and Neal Maupay for Glenn Murray and Jurgen Locadia on 64 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both subs scored inside the next 15 minutes to settle a 3-0 win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even more decisive was the contribution of the subs when Norwich City visited the Amex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albion had failed to make the breakthrough when Leandro Trossard went on for Pascal Gross just before the hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trossard opened the scoring and then provided the free-kick from which fellow sub Shane Duffy added the second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those are the five goals by subs recorded by Albion this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the stats do not show so readily is how Trossard, as sub, helped force the Lucas Digne own goal which secured the last-gasp 3-2 win over Everton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Had Digne not intervened, Glenn Murray would have turned the ball home \u2013 having come off the bench in place of Aaron Connolly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other than that, perhaps the most impressive use of subs by Potter was to salvage a 3-3 draw at West Ham from 3-1 down \u2013 and they should probably have gone on to win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was when he sent on Ezequiel Schelotto to offer more attacking potency down the right and Solly March as a double switch which also saw the team change shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trossard was supersub for a while and Steven Alzate has done well coming off the bench at times, helping offer a more confident retention of possession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those two have come on seven times apiece in the Premier League so far this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Connolly has eight appearances as sub but Murray leads the way with 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Potter\u2019s men have conceded important goals at the Amex to players who did not start the match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moussa Djenepo put Southampton ahead when they won 2-0 early in the season following Andone\u2019s red card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then Jeff Hendrick fired Burnley\u2019s late equaliser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dominic Calvert-Lewin put Everton ahead two minutes after replacing Alex Iwobi before the hosts came back to win that five-goal thriller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other goal conceded by Albion to a sub was at the Etihad and of no great consequence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was when Bernardo Silva wasted very little time in adding the final goal in Manchester City\u2019s 4-0 win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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