Brighton dented Aston Villa’s Champions League qualification hopes with a late purpose within the 1-0 Premier League win on Sunday.
Villa headed to the South Coast realizing a win and Tottenham loss to Liverpool would assure them a spot within the subsequent season’s elite competitors however suffered a setback by the hands of Brazilian Joao Pedro.
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Either side had a purpose dominated out by VAR on the Amex Stadium, Brighton first by Pascal Gross, who was marginally offside earlier than handing over a cross from Simon Adingra on the left-hand facet.
The Villans then thought they took the lead by John McGinn however the Scotsman was additionally getting back from an offside place and it was accurately dominated out.
Ultimately, Brighton opened the scoring with lower than 10 minutes to go after Ezri Konsa shoved Adingra over within the field, prompting the referee to level to the penalty spot.
Pedro stepped up and noticed his preliminary effort saved by Robin Olsen, however he adopted up and headed dwelling the rebound.
A Joao Pedro end seals it for the Seagulls 🧊#BHAAVL pic.twitter.com/hTR5Qs6TDG
— Premier League (@premierleague) Could 5, 2024
The outcome means Brighton transfer as much as eleventh within the desk, overtaking Wolves and placing them inside two factors of ninth-placed West Ham, who bought thrashed 5-0 by Chelsea.
Unai Emery and Villa should wait to rejoice their possible Champions League qualification and can as an alternative flip their attentions to the return leg journey to Olympiacos within the Europa Convention League semi-final.
Brighton had been in poor kind coming into the match, failing to win of their final six below Roberto De Zerbi.
However the Seagulls dominated a lot of the match and began brightly, with Adingra trying probably the most harmful man on the pitch by far.
His finish product was letting the group down within the closing third and on the instances he did ship a top quality cross, the final touch within the field was nowhere to be seen.
Villa regarded most harmful on the counter-attack and their efficiency was maybe a mirrored image of a tricky match in midweek.
Ollie Watkins broke freed from Lewis Dunk on just a few events however by no means had a clear-cut alternative, which was not the case for the hosts.
Our Brazilian quantity 9! 🔥💫 pic.twitter.com/rVOn7ANorn
— Brighton & Hove Albion (@OfficialBHAFC) Could 5, 2024
Olsen was the only motive for retaining the scores stage for thus lengthy and he made a number of terrific saves from Adingra and substitute Julio Enciso.
Ultimately, it was the penalty that was the distinction and unsurprisingly it was Adingra who was the person to win it.
His tempo proved to be an issue for Konsa all afternoon and he bought goalside of the England worldwide on the proper second earlier than falling to the ground inside the realm.
Pedro may have breathed a sigh of reduction after placing the ball away regardless of Olsen’s preliminary effort to maintain the penalty out.
Villa rallied for the ten minutes added on on the finish of the sport however couldn’t salvage something and can head again to the Midlands empty-handed.
