Two goals scored, two points dropped: Brighton 2-2 Southampton photos
Well, we saw an Albion goal. Two in fact with these photos from Brighton 2-2 Southampton capturing the first thing Albion fans have had to celebrate at the Amex for 96 days.
Just two minutes of the 100th Not-a-South-Coast-Derby between Brighton and the Saints had elapsed when Danny Welbeck became the first Seagulls player to score a home goal since the 1-1 draw with Chelsea in mid-January.
Finally breaking their Amex duck seemed to give the Albion renewed confidence and they were much the better team throughout most of the first half.
More enterprising play from Welbeck led to Mohammed Salisu scoring an own goal which doubled Brighton’s advantage.
What a kind hearted chap Salisu is, knowing that the Albion struggle to score at home and so deciding to put the ball past Fraser Forster to reward Brighton for their enterprising start.
The Albion looked set to go into half time two goals to the good. That was until Marc Cucrella conceded a rather silly free kick front and centre of Robert Sanchez’s goal, 25 yards out.
Not what you really want to be doing when Southampton have a player with the set piece prowess of James Ward-Prowse in their squad.
The Saints captain did not need to be asked twice to take advantage of the opportunity, sending an effort through an admittedly woeful Albion wall to pull one back for the visitors at a crucial time.
Southampton went into half time buoyed by their goal. Whatever Graham Potter said to the Albion during the interval did not work as Brighton were woeful at the start of the second half.
It came as little surprise when the Saints equalised. Adam Webster gave the ball straight to Oriel Romeu and a couple of passes later, Ward-Prowse was striking his second goal of the afternoon past Sanchez.
Southampton looked the most likely winners after that, although Brighton did appear to have a perfectly good goal chalked off by VAR.
Pascal Gross had a fingernail beyond the Saints defence and a wobbly line drawn by VAR apparently proved the German playmaker was therefore offside.
A draw was ultimately the right result, but a frustrating one for the Albion who really should have won after taking a two-goal lead. The wait for a first Amex win of 2022 goes on, but at least we saw a goal.
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