Post Match report for the Wolves game - Saturday, 9th May 2026
PREMIER LEAGUE 25/26: Brighton V Wolves - 9/5/26 P36
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RESULT: 3-0 ~ Hinshelwood Dunk Minteh . (h-t 2-0)
VENUE: the Amex, Falmer - eighteenth home match of 36 fixtures to date . Sat 3:00pm.
BEFORE KICKOFF: for our penultimate game at Falmer we hosted a side already relegated but one that had caused us problems at times, although might miss them in the immediate future.
WEATHER: summer . GATE: tba . ATMOSPHERE: tedium bookended by excitement
FABIAN HURZELER was enjoying popularity at the moment and signed an extended contract offer from Tony & Paul.
FH arranged reports & details from squad analysis to formulate the optimal match-day group.
SQUAD: 3 Julio 38 McGill (gk)
INJURED: 25 Gomez 27 Wieffer . REHAB: 4 Webster 9 Tzimas 28 Ferguson
OOL: 8 Gruda 14 Watson 16 Cashin 32 Sarmiento 39 Rushworth (gk) 40 Buonanotte 42 Coppola
STARTING SHAPE: 4-2-3-1
TEAM . . . . . . . . . 1 Verbruggen
. 24 Kadioglu 6 van Hecke 5 Dunk 29 de Cuyper
. . 11 Minteh 17 Baleba 30 Gross 22 Mitoma
. . . . . 13 Hinshelwood . . . 18 Welbeck
SUBS: 34 Veltman (58), 10 Rutter (76), 26 Ayari (76),7 March (88), 19 Kostoulas (88)
BENCH: 23 Steele 20 Milner 21 Boscagli 33 ORiley
GOALS:
1-0 - 1 . HINSHELWOOD heads home following a de Cuyper cross after work by Mitoma.
2-0 - 5 . DUNK heads his first for two terms from a de Cuyper assist at a set piece.
3-0 - 86 . MINTEH knocks in a third to seal the deal.
YELLOWS: 34 Mitoma
CHANGES: 58 Veltman for Mitoma
76 Rutter & Ayari for Welbeck & Baleba . 88 March & Kostoulas for de Cuyper & Hinshelwood
FIRST HALF: hosts go two ahead in the first five minutes.
The display gradually deteriorates.
SECOND HALF: around the hour mark locals make an alteration for injury.
The game begins to peter out.
Blue & white score late in the afternoon.
IN THE END: three points from a contest that will not live long in memory as elite entertainment.
NUMBERS: poss 72%-28%, on target 6-1, off target 7-4, corners 7-1,
fouls 9-11, yellows 1-2, subs 5-5, shape 4231-3421 . . . . . gd10 pt53 po7
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