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Chelsea beat Brighton 4-3 to maintain perfect Premier League start
Chelsea maintained their perfect start to the new Premier League season as they held on to defeat Brighton in an entertaining match at Stamford Bridge. Romeo Lavia’s first goal in a Chelsea shirt handed the Blues a dream start in Xabi Alonso’s first home league…
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Chelsea maintained their perfect start to the new Premier League season as they held on to defeat Brighton in an entertaining match at Stamford Bridge.
Romeo Lavia’s first goal in a Chelsea shirt handed the Blues a dream start in Xabi Alonso’s first home league game in charge.
Brighton were made to pay for a costly error inside four minutes as Mats Wieffer did well on the goalline to block Joao Pedro’s header from a corner but goalkeeper Bart Verbruggen then fumbled to allow an easy tap-in for Lavia, reports the BBC
Their lead was doubled 10 minutes later when Morgan Rogers got the better of Brighton’s record signing Luka Vuskovic on the left and crossed in for Pedro Neto to get in front of Ferdi Kadioglu and prod home.
The Seagulls were caught out again in the 32nd minute. This time left wing-back Jorrel Hato beat Wieffer for pace and found Joao Pedro to make it 3-0 against his former club.
But the visitors valiantly fought back to give themselves a glimmer of hope.
They pulled one back before the break as Chelsea debutant Emi Martinez came off his line to deny Charalampos Kostoulas but Malick Yalcouye volleyed in the loose ball.
Brighton started the second half strongly and reduced the deficit further in the 63rd minute when Yalcouye played in Pascal Gross, whose shot took a big deflection off Joao Pedro to beat Martinez.
Cole Palmer eased Chelsea’s nerves with a brilliant individual goal, curling past Verbruggen from outside the box to restore his side’s two-goal lead in the 74th minute.
Brighton found a third goal from virtually the final action of the game as Gross headed past Martinez, but Fabian Hurzeler’s side could not complete their comeback.
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