PREMIER LEAGUE : FRIDAY – 29/11/2024 (PHOTO – DOWNES CELEBRATES)

WHAT AN EXPLOSIVE MATCH THIS WAS LAST NIGHT, BETWEEN BRIGHTON AND SOUTHAMPTON!  BRIGHTON’S KAORU MITOMA SCORED A BLINDER AT 29 MINS. WITH SOUTHAMPTON’S FLYNN DOWNES EQUALISING WITH A STUNNER AT 59 MINS., WITH 22 SHOTS IN TOTAL AND 5 ON TARGET FOR BRIGHTON, AND 10 SHOTS, WITH 2 ON TARGET FOR SOUTHAMPTON, WITH BOTH SIDES TRYING THEIR ABSOLUTE BEST TO SCORE THE WINNER!  SO MUCH SO, THAT IN THE 67TH MINUTE, SOUTHAMPTON’S CAMERON ARCHER SCORED A CRACKER, ONLY FOR IT TO BE RULED OUT BECAUSE HIS TEAM-MATE ADAM ARCHER WAS DEEMED OFFSIDE.  IT TOOK OVER 4 MINUTES FOR VAR TO LOOK AT IT, AND THE JURY IS STILL OUT AS TO WHETHER IT WAS THE CORRECT DECISION OR NOT! ( YOU LOOK AT IT AND SEE WHAT YOU THINK.) SO THE GAME CULMINATED IN A 1 – 1 DRAW, AND BRIGHTON NOW GO ABOVE MAN CITY IN THE PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE!  IT WAS A VERY FEISTY GAME, WITH 16 FOULS ON THE SOUTHAMPTON SIDE, AND 20 FOULS ON THE BRIGHTON SIDE, WITH HURZELER SEEMINGLY WAVING A YELLOW CARD AT MARTIN, IN THE FIRST-HALF, AND AFTER MORE PROTESTS LATER, MARTIN GOT THE HUMP, WITH MUCH MANAGER ARGEY-BARGEY ENSUING, UPON WHICH TIME, THE REF. ENDED UP WAVING YELLOW CARDS AT BOTH OF THEM!  A BIT OF GOOD, OLD-FASHIONED PASSION!

PREMIER LEAGUE : BRIGHTON AND HOVE ALBION VS SOUTHAMPTON 29/11/2024

BY AMANDA WATERS