When one player costs more than the Amex: Brighton 1-4 Man City photos
Included in our Brighton 1-4 Man City photos are a lot of pictures of the Amex Stadium, which cost circa £90 million to build. There is also a photo of Jack Grealish, who this summer cost Sheikh Mansour £100 million.
When a club can go and spend more money on a single player than Tony Bloom did building a 31,000 seater stadium, it is hardly a surprise that such a disparity in score line was the result when Pep Guardiola brought his champions to Sussex by the Sea.
What was encouraging was the way that the Albion rallied. After falling 3-0 behind inside of 30 minutes to an Ilkay Gundogan tap in and a brace from the outstanding Phil Foden, Brighton looked to be on for an absolute pasting against scintillating opponents.
Instead, the Seagulls recovered and were the better team in the second half once Tariq Lamptey and Enock Mwepu had been introduced.
City were rattled and although there was never any real danger of a repeat of the Albion comeback seen in Brighton 3-2 Man City back in May, the visitors were worried enough to have Ederson booked for time wasting.
Alexis Mac Allister did score from the penalty spot after Mwepu was brought down by Ederson to make it 3-1 with 10 minutes remaining but it was City who got the game’s final goal via Riyad Mahrez in injury time.
City were a joy to watch in that opening 45 minutes as they ruthlessly punished mistakes from Robert Sanchez, Marc Cucurella and Sanchez again.
Grealish, Foden and Gabriel Jesus were an unplayable front three and with the outstanding Bernardo Silva doing things like 60 yard through balls from inside his own half, it was little wonder that the Albion struggled.
Sometimes, you just have to hold your hands up and say the better – and much more expensively assembled – team won.
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