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Brighton’s fantastic start to the season continued as they recorded a 5-2 victory over Brendan Rodgers’ sorry Leicester side.
Kelechi Iheanacho opened the scoring only for a Luke Thomas own goal and a tidy Moises Caicedo finish to put Brighton in the driving seat. However, Patson Daka levelled up the scores to complete a chaotic 45 minutes.
After the restart, Leandro Trossard put Brighton 3-2 up after a nicely-worked move and shortly afterwards, the Belgian won a penalty which Alexis Mac Allister put away.
Seconds before full-time, the Argentine got his second of the game, scoring a glorious free-kick to send Brighton into party mode and Leicester into despair.
Seagulls boss Graham Potter was understandably thrilled and was full of positives about the performance.
He said: “It’s a fantastic afternoon for us, amazing win. Our players were incredible, to have a bad start and recover like we did and score two goals to get back into it.
“The response was fantastic, the boys stuck to the task and played well. Little bit disappointed with the two goals we concede but i’m not going to be picky when you score five.”
Rodgers’ position is under question but he issued an emotional message to the fans straight after the game.
He said: “Keep supporting the team. This is a team that needs the support more than never.
“If they’re nervous when the teams passing out from the back, that will make the players anxious.”
Did you know?
Brighton are unbeaten across their last seven home league matches, which is their longest home unbeaten run in the top-flight since August-November 1982, another run of seven games.
Leicester have conceded 16 goals after six matches this season, their most at this stage of a campaign since 1983-84 (16), when they lost each of their first six games in the top-flight but managed to stay up.
Brighton have scored five goals in a top-flight match for the first time, in what was their 364th game at this level.
Despite taking the lead inside a minute, Leicester trailed after 15 minutes — it’s the earliest they’ve ever trailed in a Premier League game in which they scored the opening goal.
Trossard has scored six goals in his last 12 appearances in the Premier League for Brighton, which is twice as many goals as he had scored in his previous 24 matches in the competition (three).
Leicester’s Iheanacho has scored 15 goals and provided a further five assists in his last 25 starts for the club in the Premier League.
