The most impressive thing about Brighton...
Isn't necessarily the 7 wins in 10 games, including knocking Man United out of the Carabao Cup and 3 victories against sides playing European football this season in Arsenal, Villa and Sunderland.
But the fact they've done it without Mitoma, Minteh, Wieffer and Hinshelwood, for much or all of the campaign.
Especially coming after a summer in which they lost 2 of their 5 most used players from last season in Van Hecke and Welbeck, and Baleba too.
In the last decade clubs like Southampton and Leicester have struggled to replace their best players and maintain momentum, Brighton have turned it into an art form!
🚨 Brighton do not want to let Gruda leave on loan therefore would demand a very high loan fee, however Stuttgart are still making an attempt.
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All those people posting our scheduled games of “easy” games we were going to win.
This is why I don’t get carried away with so called “easy” fixtures.
There are no easy fixtures in the Premier Leauge. And even if there are, we’re not long term qualified enough to be arrogant enough to count these games as easy fixtures.
I see some headloss on here tonight, fairly expected.
But take a step back, we always lose to Fulham. We did the same even when we qualified for Europe under RDZ. So I don’t see the sky as falling.
I think some of our fans need to get away from this idea of “easy” run of fixtures though. It ends up being a double headloss every time when the team don’t live up to this false projected reality.
Tottenham looked in complete control at half time.
The second half was nothing short of a catastrophe for Ange Postecoglou's side.
Brighton were a team transformed in the second half — goals from Yankuba Minteh, Georginio Rutter and Danny Welbeck see them move up to sixth.