Post Match report for the West Ham game - Saturday, 26th April 2025
PREMIER LEAGUE 24/25: Brighton V West Ham - 26/4/25 P34
* * * * * MEDIOCRITY IN MOTION WITH A TWIST * * * * *
RESULT: 3-2 ~ Ayari Mitoma Baleba . . (h-t 1-0)
VENUE: the Amex, Falmer - seventeenth home match of 34 fixtures to date . Sat 3:00pm.
BEFORE KICKOFF: Brighton fans welcomed Graham Potter back to the Amex, although this time around as head coach of another big London outfit in West Ham.
Albion were severely struggling for points since beginning of the run-in and currently our results record was lldl with five fixtures left to try and complete this campaign in more positive vein.
WEATHER: sunny . GATE: tba . ATMOSPHERE: gut churning rollercoaster of emotions
FABIAN HURZELER had experienced vocal dissent from travelling support last week but gave an explanation that suited his particular post-match review of events.
He did not want a happy-clappy culture anyhow.
FH collected training data & medical information to arrive at formulating a scratch match-day group.
INJURED: 4 Webster 14 Rutter 24 Kadioglu 29 van Hecke
SQUAD: 37 McGill (gk) 39 Rushworth (gk) . BAN: 9 Pedro
REHAB: 3 Julio 6 Milner. 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 5 Dunk 20 Baleba 30 Estupinan
. 7 March 26 Ayari 41 Hinshelwood 11 Adingra
. . . . . 33 ORiley . . . 18 Welbeck
SUBS: 22 Mitoma (63), 17 Minteh (63), 8 Gruda (82), 25 Gomez (82)
BENCH: 23 Steele (gk) 2 Lamptey 16 Cashin 34 Veltman 60 Tasker
GOALS:
1-0 - 13 . AYARI smacks in a fine strike for his first goal at this closing phase of the campaign.
1-1 - 48 . travellers overcome ponderous defending with attacking flourish to restore parity.
1-2 - 83 . Hammers hit the nail on the head and sucker punch locals with a headed goal out of nowhere.
2-2 - 89 . MITOMA grabs the leveller following an assist by Gruda as the game swings for momentum.
3-2 - 92 . BALEBA unleashes a worldy from range after going forwards with clear & obvious intent.
YELLOWS: Hinshelwood 80
CHANGES: 63 Mitoma & Minteh for Adingra & March . 82 Gruda & Gomez for ORiley & Hinshelwood
FIRST HALF: Seagulls go ahead inside fifteen minutes but toil to extend any advantage.
SECOND HALF: impetus is immediately taken by the away side who score early to level.
Hosts huff & puff but are never in control of ongoing happenings.
Iron snatch a late lead in nip & tuck from two average elevens.
Seagulls equalise at the death and net again in stoppage time to somehow seal the deal.
IN THE END: a frantic finish of critical moments with goals scored and eventually a domestic victory determined.
NUMBERS: poss 53%-47%, on target 9-4, off target 7-8, corners 8-1,
fouls 7-9, yellows 1-1, subs 4-2, shape 4231-352 . . . . . gd1 pt51 po9
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