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Brighton snapped a six-match winless tally pinch a comfortable location triumph complete second-bottom Burnley.
Georginio Rutter gave Brighton a first-half lead earlier Yasin Ayari doubled nan advantage early successful nan 2nd period. Loum Tchaouna came adjacent to halving nan deficit, but Scott Parker’s struggling broadside stay six points adrift of Nottingham Forest successful 17th aft their hold for a convention triumph stretched to 11 games.
Brighton began nan time successful 14th position aft picking up 3 points from 18 disposable during December, while Burnley had collected 2 from a imaginable 30 making love backmost to October.
Charalampos Kostoulas, who made his first Premier League commencement arsenic portion of 4 changes from Tuesday’s 2-2 tie astatine West Ham, was denied a 10th-minute opener by a marginal offside.
Brighton continued to beryllium nan ascendant broadside and edged up successful nan 29th infinitesimal pinch their first effort connected target. After Ayari’s effort from nan separator of nan punishment area deflected disconnected Kostoulas, nan shot collapsed kindly for Rutter to slam location his 2nd extremity of nan play into nan bottom-left area from a tight angle.
Burnley, who made 3 changes from a 3-1 midweek nonaccomplishment to Newcastle, had grounded to triumph immoderate of their erstwhile 39 matches erstwhile conceding first successful nan Premier League, but did frighten to snatch an equaliser successful first-half added clip erstwhile Lucas Pires’s debased changeable was repelled by nan near limb of goalkeeper Bart Verbruggen.
Brighton doubled their advantage wrong 2 minutes of nan restart. The Burnley midfielder Lesley Ugochukwu conceded possession connected nan separator of his ain area, allowing Ayari to sidestep Bashir Humphreys and drill an angled decorativeness into nan bottom-left corner.
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• James Milner (pictured aft nan crippled pinch Fabian Hürzeler) has now made a Premier League quality successful each of nan past 25 almanac years since 2002, nan longest specified run. Only 2 different players person played successful much than 20 abstracted years successful nan title (Ryan Giggs – 24, Gareth Barry – 21).
• Pascal Gross made his first quality for Brighton since nan last time of nan 2023-24 play 1 twelvemonth and 229 days ago. The German is 1 of 2 players pinch 200+ Premier League appearances for Brighton (229, besides Lewis Dunk - 285) and has much extremity involvements successful nan convention than immoderate different subordinate for nan Seagulls (30 goals, 45 assists).
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Kostoulas thumped consecutive astatine nan Burnley keeper, Martin Dubravka, earlier Burnley almost pulled 1 backmost successful nan 67th minute. After Verbruggen flapped astatine Pires’s area from nan right, Tchaouna nodded towards nan unguarded net, only for Ferdi Kadioglu to nutrient a superb last-ditch clearance by heading nan shot against nan crossbar.
Pascal Gross, who rejoined Brighton from Borussia Dortmund connected Friday, received a rapturous reception from location fans erstwhile he was brought connected for nan last 19 minutes arsenic portion of a triple change. Gross’s chap substitute, Maxim De Cuyper, almost added a 3rd six minutes from clip erstwhile he rattled nan near station pinch a curling free-kick.
Burnley offered small successful consequence arsenic Brighton yet registered a first Premier League location triumph complete their opponents astatine nan seventh attempt.
