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57 min: Chelsea are making use of stress with possession and the occasional cross into the field, however Brighton – defending in a low-ish block – haven’t afforded the guests any important possibilities.

55 min: Have at all times cherished Mitoma however must say I used to be shocked that Brighton rejected a £75m bid for Mitoma in January, particularly as they’ve Adingra in reserve. How flawed I used to be. The Japanese will flip 28 in Could, however apparently had no intention of leaving for Saudi Arabia. Good on him.

53 min: It’s been a sluggish begin to the second half. Chelsea’s Cucurella, previously of Brighton, remains to be getting booed each time he touches the ball. Caicedo, curiously, has escaped the identical remedy.

51 min: Proper on remedy, Minteh sprints away from Cucurella on Brighton’s proper wing, retrieves the ball and cuts the ball again to Rutter, who shoots excessive and extensive. The previous Leeds man had extra time than he realised.

49 min: Can somebody please inform me what has occurred to Simon Adingra this season? He’s such a expertise, however actually appears to be off it. I assume the emergence/arrival of Minteh has had one thing to do with it.

A 12 months in the past, nearly precisely to the day, Adingra was named younger participant of the match at Afcon 2023, and supplied the help for Ivory Coast’s profitable objective within the remaining. Now, he can’t get on this Brighton crew.

47 min: Baleba may be very harshly penalised for tackling Gusto. Chelsea have a free kick in a promising space, however Brighton step up and depend about 5 visiting gamers offside.

Peeeeeeeeep!

“My favorite teammate’s objective response is Sergio Reguilon to Eric Lamela’s rabona within the NLD”, emails George Ronczy.

Yep, that’s shout. Not a response to a objective, however Anthony Gardner’s response to a Adel Taarabt nutmeg (whereas the Moroccan was at Tottenham) is an all-timer. Gardner simply regarded away and stopped watching the sport in astonishment. Filthy.

Half-time studying:

Half-time: Brighton 2-0 Chelsea

48 min: After a sluggish begin through which he let Palmer have acres of area, Baleba has quietly been wonderful for Brighton, extinguishing fires round Brighton’s penalty field when Chelsea threatened to create a gap.

45 min: 4 minutes added on right here. Chelsea will need to nick one earlier than the half is out.

“The response of Mitoma’s teammates to that objective is sort of candy,” emails Tom Atkins. “There’s an actual disbelief and pleasure on their faces that jogs my memory of a objective scored by Dennis Bergkamp towards Sunderland in 1997, the place the pitch facet digicam clearly picks up Paul Merson laughing ‘what a f***ing objective!’”

One of many nice Premier League celebrations, this. Pure impudence.

For context, I might say Mitoma’s objective was higher. It’s one of the best objective I’ve seen all season.

44 min: Yellow card for Caicedo, who brings former teammate Mitoma down in midfield with an ill-timed slide. It was not with out pressure, however unintended and yellow might be the proper color.

42 min: Numerous good Chelsea build-up once more, however no scientific edge to the guests’ play. Neat interaction units up Gusto on the sting of Brighton’s field, and the proper again hits a left-footed shot excessive and extensive. All fart, no … you realize the remainder.

Chelsea have had 71% possession, and no pictures heading in the right direction.

40 min: “Can we play you each week?” taunt the Brighton followers?

GOAL! Brighton 2-0 Chelsea (Minteh 38)

CHELSEA GOAL DISALLOWED!

32 min: The great thing about soccer. Chelsea, by far the higher crew, discover themselves behind.

30 min: That Mitoma objective belongs alongside the Suárez objective v Newcastle when it comes to first touches immediately resulting in a objective. I can’t be advised in any other case.

Ooooooooooooh, good lord. What a objective. It’s route one stuff as Verbruggen hoofs one lengthy into the night time’s sky. Mitoma sprints ahead, watching the flight of the ball over his shoulder – and I imply actually from behind his again excessive of Mitoma’s head onto his proper foot. Mitoma cushions the ball prefer it a bean bag, like it’s the best factor on this planet and in a single motion, takes a contact away from the trailing Cholabah earlier than ending cooly previous Jorgensen. From first contact to nestling within the nook, the three wonderful Mitoma touches took a mere two seconds. However this objective is all in regards to the first contact, one for the ages. One-nil to Brighton!

GOAL! Brighton 1-0 Chelsea (Mitoma 27)

26 min: Palmer is beginning to pull the strings for Chelsea, twice enjoying by way of balls that may make Jason Statham shed a tear.

England supervisor Thomas Tuchel watches on from the stands. How will the German use Palmer in subsequent month’s internationals?

24 min: Mitoma has his first actual oppotunity to run at Gusto, however the Japanese stumbles simply as he enters Chelsea’s penalty space.

22 min: Neto has switched to the proper flank for Chelsea, and Sancho will play on the left. Lamptey, enjoying left-back tonight for Brighton, makes early deal with on Neto.

20 min: Madueke appears to be like like he has pulled his hamstring and goes to wish to return off! Chelsea’s harm woes proceed! Their solely attacker on the subs bench, Sancho, will come on.

18 min: Chelsea once more break down that proper flank, with Madueke springing away from Lamptey. Once more the ball is reduce to Palmer, fully unmarked on the sting of Brighton’s space once more, however the English playmakers skews uncharacteristically extensive! That was an actual probability! The place on earth have been Hinshelwood or Baleba?!

16 min: Lamptey, a former Chelsea participant after all, is clattered by Colwill however referee Chris Kavanagh waves play on! Fabian Hürzeler is livid on the sidelines, bouncing round on the sidelines like a kangaroo on an area hopper.

13 min: Massive probability for Brighton! Welbeck pounces on a free ball and races by way of on objective, albeit from an acute angle. Simply because the striker is shaping to shoot, Caicedo makes an enormous sliding deal with to ship the ball behind for a Brighton nook.

10 min: Cucurella upends Minteh and is probably a bit of fortunate to flee a reserving. The house crowd will not be greatest happy.

8 min: Chelsea haven’t carved out an apparent probability however they’re clearly within the temper. Palme, Madueke and Gusto have already created loads of promising openings with out making a golden probability. However it looks like a matter of time in the intervening time.

6 min: Palmer finds one other pocket of area, this time on the proper wing, turning Webster inside out however his cross is intercepted and cleared by the very proficient Baleba, who certainly already has this chant at Brighton?

4 min: A superb counter-attack from Chelsea! Chalobah is pinned proper as Brighton try a high-press however Chelsea discover their manner out of it as Madueke backheels cleverly to launch Gusto. The French full-back canters 60 yards up the proper full-back, with Hinshelwood unable to maintain up, earlier than a cut-back finds Palmer in oceans of area on the sting of Brighton’s space … the shot flies over.

2 min: One other former Brighton participant in Chelsea’s all-black away equipment tonight, Marc Cucurella, is roundly booed by the house followers each time he touches the ball. There are additionally some alternative phrases directed on the Spaniard as he goes to take a throw-in, that I received’t repeat right here.

Peeeeeeeeeep!

Former Brighton midfielder Moisés Caicedo is quietly having a fully barnstorming season for Chelsea. He has made extra tackles and interceptions mixed than another midfielder within the Premier League, accomplished extra passes into the ultimate third than another participant, received the third-most duels of any participant.

These are the highlights from final Saturday’s FA Cup conflict.

Danny Welbeck is Brighton’s captain tonight. What a participant he’s, seemingly getting higher with age.

Brighton supervisor Fabian Hürzeler speaks to the cameras:

Welbeck is a task mannequin for the younger gamers and everybody on the membership. He has feeling for depth and he is a good participant on the pitch.

Additional to these Chelsea factors, right here’s Jacob Steinberg.

So Brighton captain Lewis Dunk just isn’t match, as anticipated. Adam Webster is available in alongside Van Hecke. Joao Pedro is once more on the bench, and Wieffer can also be among the many subs after a nine-game absence.

From that squad, Chelsea actually don’t have a wealth of attacking choices. Nkunku actually struggled within the FA Cup final weekend towards Brighton, however Maresca persists/has no alternative right here. The one senior ‘attacker’ on Chelsea’s bench is Jadon Sancho and he’s after all a large man.

Fascinating that Chalobah will get the nod forward of Tosin Adarabioyo in central defence. It appears mad that Chelsea’s squad feels gentle after £1bn over spending because the Boehly period started.

The groups!

Preamble