Graham Potter was delighted to vary an unwelcome narrative after Brighton halted an 11-match winless run by beating Brentford 2-0 within the Premier League.
Prime-scorer Neal Maupay sealed an overdue three factors for Albion with a surprising strike towards his former membership late within the first half following a nice Thirty fourth-minute opener from Leandro Trossard.
Brentford improved within the second interval however two excellent saves from Seagulls goalkeeper Robert Sanchez and an excellent goal-line clearance from Marc Cucurella helped finish a barren streak relationship again to September 19.
“As has been identified, it’s been fairly some time,” mentioned head coach Potter, whose facet had drawn eight of their earlier 11 top-flight fixtures.
“While we’ve been selecting up factors, that was vital for us tonight.
“We’re on the again of a bit of run that we’re annoyed with, which isn’t very good and to win was implausible, actually happy for the boys.
“We’ve solely misplaced three in that run, we’ve had lots of attracts and we’ve had lots of constructive performances.
“However the narrative is the narrative and it’s a must to cope with it. For the time being, we’re on 23 factors and that’s not a nasty return.
“While you don’t win there’s that statistic, that suggestions you’re getting, it’s a must to cope with it.
“The group has at all times been actually collectively, actually targeted and actually targeting what we’ve to do. That’s why it’s good tonight that we’ve that feeling.”
Victory for Brighton lifted them to ninth place, three factors above their opponents.
Trossard instinctively volleyed the opener over onrushing Bees goalkeeper Alvaro Fernandez following a pleasant by means of ball from Enock Mwepu.
Maupay – a £20million signing from the Bees in August 2019 – then thundered his seventh purpose into the highest proper nook from the sting of the 18-yard field simply eight minutes later.
Brentford boss Thomas Frank felt the quick-fire targets left his facet with an excessive amount of to do after the restart and rued an absence of innovative in entrance of purpose.
Sanchez saved effectively from Shandon Baptiste and Ethan Pinnock, whereas a header from the latter was additionally by some means saved out by the alert Cucurella.
“Second half we confirmed extra with out being implausible however positively extra and we had the probabilities to attain the 2-1 purpose that might have made it extra fascinating and put a bit of bit extra stress on Brighton,” mentioned Frank.
“Over the 90 minutes, I feel it was a reasonably even recreation that might have been a draw.
“However if you happen to look within the time-frames of when did they rating the (opening) purpose and after they received up 2-0, it was troublesome for us to come back again.
“On the day we simply didn’t have sufficient to shoot with or come again.”
Kaynak: briturkish.com
