The Brighton Post
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Carlos Baleba shuts the door
Defensive actions: 38, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Bart Verbruggen keeps Brighton in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market25 Jan 2027
Mats Wieffer asks to leave Brighton
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market25 Jan 2027
Huddersfield Town come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Brighton did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
A defender's afternoon for Mats Wieffer
Defensive actions: 27. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Brighton
Bart Verbruggen was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Georginio Rutter runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match23 Jan 2027
Brighton find a way past Brentford
Brentford made Brighton work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
One of those days for Rhian Brewster
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.73, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
- Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Evan Ferguson’s exile
- Squad Georginio Rutter is carrying Brighton
- Squad Thomas McGill signs on for more