Kaoru Mitoma scored one of the goals of the season, and Yankuba Minteh won twice as Brighton repeated the FA Cup over Chelsea with a win in the Premier League in the afternoon.
Japan International Mitoma opened the scoring in the 27th minute with a piece of excellent individual ability.
There was a slight risk when Brighton goalkeeper Bart Verbruggen started the ball forward, but Mitoma skillfully controls it in his right foot before skipping in the Trevoh Chalobah and bent a right shot in the lower right corner.
‘One touch of the skies’
Brighton’s Kaoru Mitoma puts the hosts in front with an outrageous target
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Minteh then scored a goal in each half to see Brighton in a comfortable victory as they repeat their 2-1 win six days ago.
It was a miserable night for Chelsea, whose fans did for the exits for a long time before the final whistle.
Chelsea has no spark attack
Chelsea was playing without a recognized center forward – Nicolas Jackson and Marc Guiu are absent through injury – with Winger Christopher Nkunku to ask again to play more centrally in a false nine role.
It was a regular Enzo Maresca that worked last weekend with little success and failed tonight.
Nkunku worked hard, but with little joy, as Chelsea had plenty of ball without threatening to move on.
This proved to be in the first 17 minutes with Cole Palmer wasting twice obvious opportunities, shooting his first attempt high over the bar and cutting the second horrible wide target.
Brighton was much more decisive in the last third, with Mitoma showing the Londoners how to be from Brighton’s first real chance.
Visitors initially answered to go back. Pedro Neto was shot before the Portuguese wing saw an effort to block Adam Webster, who stands for an injured Brighton Captain Lewis Dunk.
From the corner that emerged, the cross of Malo Gusto was directed by Enzo Fernandez, but the Argentine midfielder’s attempt was blocked for a hit at the back of Joel Veltman.
Minteh grabs his first
Brighton drove the storm and made it 2-0 seven minutes before halftime. The neat interaction allowed Georginio Rutter to escape the left, and when his cross was partially blocked by Levi Colwill, Danny Welbeck took the loose ball and fed Minteh who entered the Marc Cucurella and burst into the house.
Minteh doubles Brighton’s advantage!
Rutter and Welbeck in accumulation
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Palmer remained a regional figure-the international England that looked like the form of the early season-and without his detection, Chelsea was sluggish.
This meant that the game fell until it broke out in life again after 63 minutes.
Over the game
Colwill believed he had escaped, but referee Chris Kavanagh threw his protests and Welbeck and Minteh combined again before Gambia’s wing entered the unfortunate Cucurella before shooting Filip Jorgensen.
‘It’s like Jörgensen wasn’t there’
Yankuba Minteh gets the second and puts Brighton three goals ahead
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Veltman hit a position late, his shot hit Jorgensen on his face before recovering upright and Verbruggen did well after Webster diverted a cross to his own goal.
Brighton moved to the eighth as a result, while Chelsea remains fourth.
