Danny Welbeck headed a shocking late equaliser as Brighton & Hove Albion held Crystal Palace to a 1-1 draw on Thursday, denying the house aspect a primary victory at Selhurst Park since Sept. 3 in a disappointing end result for either side.
Brighton’s English striker #18 Danny Welbeck (centre L) headers the ball to attain the equalising purpose throughout the English Premier League soccer match between Crystal Palace and Brighton(AFP)
“I think we lost two points,” Brighton supervisor Roberto De Zerbi instructed Sky Sports. “It is because we made too many mistakes, especially in the first half. In the second half we played with more energy, to find the chance to score.”
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Brighton, who’ve simply two wins in 12 league video games, climbed to eighth within the desk with 27 factors after 18 video games. Roy Hodgson’s Palace, who have been coming off a shock draw at Manchester City final weekend , are fifteenth on 18 factors.
“As a group we are a bit disappointed because we wanted to come here and get the three points,” Welbeck instructed Sky. “I feel like we should be a bit higher in the table with the way we’ve performed and there have been some results that got away from us. It happened again tonight.”
Palace appeared to be heading in direction of victory after Jordan Ayew scored simply earlier than the break in a colorless first half when Brighton keeper Bart Verbruggen hesitated and gave up possession. Michael Olise despatched in a pinpoint cross to the again submit that Ayew dove to go in.
But Brighton responded with 14 second-half photographs and Welbeck, who entered the sport after halftime, scored with a superb header within the 82nd minute — his sixty fourth Premier League purpose — to silence the Palace crowd.
With his again to the web, Welbeck leapt excessive to ship it into the highest nook, turning round to observe the flight of the ball.
“I am still making my way back from injury but I felt good and have been feeling good all week,” Welbeck mentioned. “I was just trying to make an impact. To get the goal is good but I am disappointed not to get the three points.
“It’s good to be again on the scoresheet,” he added. “(But) we need to be getting three factors extra persistently.”
It was remarkably the fifth successive time this clash has ended 1-1 at Selhurst.
The Seagulls almost got the winner in what would have been a bizarre goal when Palace keeper Dean Henderson rushed out to punch the ball away, but bounced it hard off Welbeck’s head and backwards toward the net. It rolled just wide of the net.
“It’s irritating, we performed a very good first half, I do not bear in mind them having clear minimize possibilities,” Palace defender Joachim Andersen told Sky.
“But Danny Welbeck scores a incredible purpose, that is simply high quality with them. We performed an honest match, however simply received drained within the second half.”
(Reporting by Lori Ewing, modifying by Pritha Sarkar)
Source: www.hindustantimes.com
