Vote for your November 2020 WAB Brighton Player of the Month

November 2020 turned out to be a pleasing month for Brighton & Hove Albion as they picked up a haul of five points thanks to some impressive individual player performances.

On paper, there looked to be three difficult fixtures and one easy one. In true Brighton style, it was that easy game against rock bottom Burnley at the Amex which provided the most disappointing result as the Albion failed to find a way past the Clarets despite having numerous opportunities to do so. Brighton 0-0 Burnley. Urgh.

Five days earlier and Graham Potter decided to name a starting XI without a recognised centre forward for the trip to Tottenham Hotspur. The Albion still managed to give a good account of themselves in going down 2-1 with the recalled Pascal Gross teeing up Tariq Lamptey for the Brighton goal.

Aston Villa away followed the international break with the Albion making history by winning at Villa Park for the first time ever. Danny Welbeck scored the opener via an ice cool finish which no other Brighton player would have had the composure to produce after running clear from halfway and dinking over Emiliano Martínez.

The winner came from Solly March with a brilliant curling effort from outside the box with his weaker right foot following a delightful across goal pass from Gross.

Yves Bissouma and Ben White meanwhile did an outstanding job in ensuring that England’s new golden child Jack Grealish had to resort to spending most of the afternoon throwing himself to the floor in a desperate attempt to con the referee into giving Villa free kicks. Matthew McConaughey he certainly is not.

A 2-1 win at fifth placed Villa was impressive enough but better was to come when Liverpool visited the Amex in the final game of November 2020 with the Albion holding the champions to a 1-1 draw.

Gross showed nerves of steel to covert an injury time penalty, taking himself onto one assist and two goals for November 2020 in the process – not bad for a player a lot of Brighton fans thought was too slow and not good enough prior to his return to the starting line up.

A point was the least Brighton deserved having outplayed their illustrious visitors for large parts of the game, sparking a marvellous meltdown from Jurgen Klopp. March, White and Bissouma were all superb again.

So yeah, good luck selecting a winner from these six candidates.

The candidates for WeAreBrighton.com November 2020 Brighton Player of the Month

Yves Bissouma
Brighton’s November matches against Spurs, Villa and Liverpool gave him the chance to test himself against some of the best midfielders in the Premier League. The fact that he continued to look like one of the best players on the park in all three of those fixtures tells you everything.

Pascal Gross
After hardly featuring in the Premier League in the first two months of the season, Graham Potter sprung something of a surprise by recalling the German for November’s opening fixture against Spurs. That decision has been thoroughly vindicated as he weighed in with two assists and that coolly despatched penalty against Liverpool.

Tariq Lamptey
Scored his first Premier League goal away at Spurs with the sort of clinical finish that has eluded most of Brighton’s actual strikers so far in 2020-21. He then tore Villa apart before an unfortunate late red card, which subsequently ruled him out for the Liverpool game. The champions should consider themselves very lucky that they did not have to deal with Lamptey running in behind them…

Solly March
He completed the double in October by being voted as our WAB Player of the Month and topping the scores in our Power Rankings. Showed no signs of slowing down in November, scoring the winner against Villa and giving a Liverpool a torrid time. There was even talk of an England call up in the middle of the month. You would have been sectioned for suggesting such a thing 12 weeks ago.

Danny Welbeck
Made his full Brighton debut in the draw with Burnley when he was denied twice by Nick Pope. Each week since he has looked sharper and fitter with the highlight of his November being that beautiful goal at Villa. A different class of centre forward to anything else that the Albion have, if he can stay injury free then he looks like being quite the signing.

Ben White
He has come on leaps and bounds after that testing opening month to his Premier League career and now looks completely at home at the highest level. His reading of the game against Villa and Liverpool in particular was excellent. In both those matches he pulled off the sort of perfectly timed last ditch tackles that if Virgil van Dijk makes are shown on Sky Sports News for the next week on loop.

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