Post Match report for the Bournemouth game - Saturday, 13th September 2025
PREMIER LEAGUE 25/26: Bournemouth V Brighton - 13/9/25 P4
* * * * * DROWNED IN DORSET * * * * *
RESULT: 2-1 ~ Mitoma . (h-t 1-0)
VENUE: Vitality Stad, Boscombe - second away match of 4 fixtures to date . Sat 3:00pm.
BEFORE KICKOFF: Brighton fans travelled westwards after the international break for this first leg of our regular south-coast derby.
The campaign was in the stop-start phase of opening weeks and regaining momentum depended on depth in the squad.
WEATHER: mild . GATE: tba . KIT: blue & white . ATMOSPHERE: not a lot of fun on the sand
FABIAN HURZELER had seen the wider squad shaken & stirred over the summer transfer window period and appeared quite happy with the outcome.
FH now had in total 26 remaining Prem players, plus talented U21s on fringes to bolster match-day squads as necessary.
SQUAD: 19 Kostoulas 38 McGill (gk)
INJURED: 25 Gomez 27 Wieffer . REHAB: 4 Webster 7 March .
OOL: 3 Julio 16 Cashin 28 Ferguson 32 Sarmiento 33 ORiley 39 Rushwood (gk) 40 Buonanotte
LEFT: Lamptey Estupinan Pedro Adingra Enciso Offiah Mullins Barco
STARTING SHAPE: 4-2-3-1
TEAM . . . . . . . . . 1 Verbruggen
. 34 Veltman 6 van Hecke 5 Dunk 29 de Cuyper
. 11 Minteh 20 Milner 13 Hinshelwood 22 Mitoma
. . . . . 10 Rutter . . . 18 Welbeck
SUBS: 26 Ayari (3), 24 Kadioglu (24), 8 Gruda (66), 9 Tzimas (66), 17 Baleba (66)
BENCH: 23 Steele 14 Watson 21 Boscagli 42 Coppola
GOALS:
1-0 - 18 . locals were gifted the ball around the area and took full advantage with a pot shot.
1-1 - 48 . MITOMA heads his campaign first from a cross by Minteh.
2-1 - 61 . blunders at the back give Ref an easy decision to blow for a spot kick.
YELLOWS: Dunk 30, Rutter 57, Milner 63, Baleba 73
CHANGES: 3 - Ayari for Hinshelwood . 24 - Kadioglu for de Cuyper
66 - Gruda, Tzimas & Baleba for Rutter, Welbeck & Milner
FIRST HALF: visitors lost two players to injury inside the first half hour.
In between hosts opened scoring.
Travellers could not get into gear and huffed & puffed.
SECOND HALF: Seagulls equalise early into the period.
Then concede a penalty around the hour mark.
Kick & rush followed fruitlessly from end to end until well into stoppage time.
IN THE END: a poor display by the away outfit that by default hands all points to locals.
NUMBERS: poss 52%-38%, on target 5-2, off target 8-4, corners 4-4,
fouls 16-10, yellows 4-4, subs 5-5, shape 4231-4231 . . . . . gd-2 pt4 po12
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