The Brighton Post
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Yankuba Minteh runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Lewis Dunk, 34, rolls back the years — 7.95
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.95 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Carlos Baleba is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Bart Verbruggen in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Brighton this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A late step up for Bart Verbruggen
At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Kaoru Mitoma falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
Nils Ramming counts the days
“I watch every Brighton game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Queens Park Rangers runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
The chances came and went for Georginio Rutter
11 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
Market28 Sep 2026
Bart Verbruggen linked with a move away
The name of Bart Verbruggen keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Brighton say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- Match Brighton draw a blank against Brentford
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Ferdi Kadıoğlu
- Loan watch Amario Cozier-Duberry keeps scoring at Bolton Wanderers