Post Match report for the Brentford game - Saturday, 19th April 2025
PREMIER LEAGUE 24/25: Brentford V Brighton - 19/4/25 P33
* * * * * ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK * * * * *
RESULT: 4-2 ~ Welbeck, Mitoma. (h-t 1-1)
VENUE: the GTech, Brentford - seventeenth away match of 33 fixtures to date . Sat 3:00pm.
BEFORE KICKOFF: Brighton fans returned to the metropolis but just north of the river this time around.
Greater London was not a happy hunting ground and travelling support had no anticipation for this situation to improve.
WEATHER: nice . GATE: 17,083 . KIT: yellow . ATMOSPHERE: vocal dissent built in the away end.
FABIAN HURZELER was in a fix from wanting European participation and the realisation that qualifying points were crucial over coming weeks as games ran out during the run-in.
FH did not make excuses for lack of squad depth, injuries or other influencing factors but put out a team in good faith.
INJURED: 2 Lamptey 4 Webster 14 Rutter 24 Kadioglu 34 Veltman
SQUAD: 37 McGill (gk) .
REHAB: 3 Julio 6 Milner 23 Steele . OOL: 10 Enciso 28 Ferguson
LEFT: 15 Moder 32 Peupion 44 McConville 45 Boaitey 46 Ifill 47 Samuels 48 Turns
STARTING SHAPE: 4-2-3-1
TEAM . . . . . . . . . 1 Verbruggen
. 27 Wieffer 29 van Hecke 5 Dunk 30 Estupinan
. 17 Minteh 20 Baleba 41 Hinshelwood 9 Pedro
. . . . . 33 ORiley . . . 18 Welbeck
SUBS: 7 March (65), 22 Mitoma (65), 26 Ayari (77), 25 Gomez (77), 11 Adingra (89), 16 Cashin (110)
BENCH: 39 Rushworth (gk) 8 Gruda 60 Tasker
GOALS:
1-0 - 9 . hosts net early when opening up visitors shape with a thru ball and shot.
1-1 - 45 . WELBECK headed home on the stroke of halftime from a Wieffer cross.
2-1 - 48 . hosts again score early in the session with Dunk defecting the ball.
3-1 - 58 . hosts stretch the lead via a cannon off van Hecke.
3-2 - 81 . MITOMA finishes a Hinshelwood pass.
4-2 - 95 . hosts finish off hapless visitors from a set piece.
YELLOWS: Welbeck 40, Estupinan 94, van Hecke 97 . . . RED: Pedro 61
CHANGES: 65 March & Mitoma for Minteh & ORiley
77 Ayari & Gomez for Welbeck & Baleba . 89 Adingra for Wieffer . 110 Cashin for van Hecke
FIRST HALF: locals take the lead inside 10 minutes.
Travellers toil to equalise until just prior to the interval.
SECOND HALF: locals lead once more from the restart.
Then go two up just before the hour mark.
Albion receive a straight red card just over the hour mark.
The away outfit get a goal back with ten minutes to the ninety.
Locals score a fourth in stoppage time.
Van Hecke is carried off almost at the death.
IN THE END: well beaten by Bees who kept inserting the stinger while their victim accordingly suffered pain.
NUMBERS: poss 46%-54%, on target 8-3, off target 8-9, corners 4-8,
fouls 7-11, yellows 3-3, red 0-1 subs 5-6, shape 4231-4231 . . . . . gd0 pt48 po10
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