A L B I O N G A Z E T T E - ( xxxvi )<\/p>\n\n\n\n
21 MARCH 2026 Looking to continue their mini-revival, the Albion welcomed last season's Champions Liverpool to the Amex for a Premier League fixture, the game being televised \"live\" on TNT Sports 1 and broadcast over the airwaves on Talksport and BBC Radio Sussex Sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Albion's last game saw them win 1-0 at Sunderland in the Premier on the 14 March and for\u00a0Liverpool's visit the Albion named an unchanged starting line-up from the Sunderland game. \u00a0It was only the third time Head Coach Fabian Hurzeler had named an unchanged line-up\u00a0during his time with the Albion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In their previous outing Liverpool had thumped Galatasaray 4-0 at home in a UEFA Champions League Round of16 Second Leg game on the 18 March, going through 4-1 on aggregate. \u00a0For their visit to the Amex, Head Coach Arne Slot had to make two enforced changes to his starting line-up from the Galatasaray game, with Giorgi Mamardashvili and Cody Gakpo coming in for\u00a0the injured pair Alisson Becker and Mohamed Salah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the reverse fixture earlier this season at Anfield on the 13 December 2025 Liverpool beat the Albion 2-0, with the goals coming from Hugo Ekitike 2 (1m & 60m). The teams also met at Anfield in the Fourth Round of the FA Cup on the 14 February 2026 when Liverpool emerged victorious by a 3-0 score-line, with the scorers being Curtis Jones (42m), Dominik Szoboszlai (56m) and Mohamed Salah (68m, penalty). \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The teams met three times last season. \u00a0On the 30 October 2024, at the Amex in the Fourth Round of the Carabao Cup it finished 3-2 to\u00a0Liverpool, with their goals being scored by Cody Gakpo 2 (46m & 63m) and Luis Diaz (85m), whilst Albion's goals came from Simon Adingra (81m) and Tariq Lamptey (90m). \u00a0On the 2 November 2024 in the Premier at Anfield Liverpool won 2-1, with Cody Gakpo (69m) and\u00a0Mohamed Salah (72m) netting their goals after Ferdi Kadioglu (14m) had put the Seagulls ahead. In the return fixture at the Amex on the 19 May 2025, the Albion won 3-2, with Yasin Ayari (32m), Kaoru \u00a0Mitoma (69m) and Jack Hinshelwood (85m) scoring for the Albion and Harvey Elliott (9m) and Dominik Szoboszlai (45+1m) replying for Liverpool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The visitors were unfortunate to lose leading goalscorer Hugo Ekitike to injury on 8 minutes, Curtis Jones substituting . \u00a0On 14 minutes the Albion took the lead following some slack defensive play between Liverpool's keeper Giorgi Mamardashvili and defender Ibrahima Konate, from the resultant throw-in Ferdi Kadioglu floated a cross to the far post where\u00a0Diego Gomez headed the ball back across goal where the evergreen Danny Welbeck\u00a0headed the ball home from close-range. 1-0<\/strong>. \u00a0 Keeper Mamardashvili then made a fine intervention when tipping away Yankuba Minteh's centre intended for Welbeck. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Half-time 1-1.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n First action of the second-half saw Kadioglu's shot from 20 yards out palmed away for a\u00a0corner by Mamardashvili and then Jan Paul Van Hecke's header cleared the bar, when he\u00a0should have done better. \u00a0On 56 minutes the Seagulls regained the lead when the lively Minteh fired a cross to the far post where the lurking Jack Hinshelwood was on hand to pass the ball across the face of the goal to Welbeck, who tapped the ball home. \u00a0It was\u00a0Welbeck's 12th goal in the Premier this season, his best ever haul. \u00a02-1<\/strong>. \u00a0 The\u00a0Albion left the field to a rousing ovation from their fans. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Final-score 2-1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Match stats<\/strong>: \u00a0 APPRAISAL<\/strong> \u00a0- \u00a0 An excellent win for the Albion, their fourth in five Premier League\u00a0outings. \u00a0A brace for 35 year-old Danny Welbeck, taking him to 12 goals in the Premier so far this season, his best ever return. \u00a0 Albion line-up (4-2-3-1):<\/strong>- \u00a0Bart VERBRUGGEN; \u00a0Mats WIEFFER, Jan Paul VAN HECKE, Lewis DUNK (Capt), Ferdi KADIOGLU; \u00a0James MILNER (Carlos BALEBA 76), Pascal GROSS; \u00a0Diego GOMEZ (Joel VELTMAN 90+1), Jack HINSHELWOOD (Yasin AYARI 83), Yankuba MINTEH (Kaoru MITOMA 76); \u00a0Danny WELBECK (Georginio RUTTER 83). Liverpool line-up (4-1-2-1-2):- <\/strong>\u00a0Giorgi MAMARDASHVILI; \u00a0Jeremie FRIMPONG (Rio NGUMOHA 63), Ibrahima KONATE (Federico \u00a0CHIESA 77), Virgil VAN DIJK (Capt), Milos KERKEZ (Andrew ROBERTSON 76); \u00a0Ryan GRAVENBERCH; \u00a0Dominik\u00a0SZOBOSZLAI, Florian WIRTZ; \u00a0Alexis MAC ALLISTER; \u00a0Cody GAKPO, Hugo EKITIKE (Curtis JONES 8). \u00a0 Referee:<\/strong> \u00a0Darren England (Doncaster). \u00a0 Possession: <\/strong>\u00a0Albion \u00a0- \u00a047%. \u00a0Liverpool \u00a0- \u00a053%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n BBC Sport Player of the Match<\/strong>: \u00a0Danny Welbeck (Albion).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Attendance:<\/strong> \u00a031680.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NEXT \u00a0GAME:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 11 APRIL 2026 - BURNLEY - AWAY - PREMIER LEAGUE - KICK-OFF 15.00.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jack Kaye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 25 March 2026. . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A L B I O N G A Z E T T E - ( xxxvi ) 21 MARCH 2026 BRIGHTON & ALBION 2 LIVERPOOL […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jack-kayes-football-reports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5706,"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703\/revisions\/5706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
BRIGHTON & ALBION 2 LIVERPOOL 1
PREMIER LEAGUE
at the AMERICAN EXPRESS STADIUM, FALMER.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Albion keeper Bart Verbruggen was then\u00a0called into action when deflecting a header from former Albion favourite Alexis Mac Allister away for a corner. \u00a0The Reds equalised on 30 minutes when Lewis Dunk's back header\u00a0was anticipated by the alert Milos Kerkez who lobbed the ball over Verbruggen and into the net to level matters. 1-1<\/strong>. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although they were in the lead the Albion continued to play on the front foot and keeper Mamardashvili made a superb save when tipping away a free-kick from Gomez and at the other end\u00a0Verbruggen did well to keep out an effort from Jones. \u00a0Minteh's shot then forced\u00a0Mamardashvili into making a good save before Hinshelwood failed to convert a great chance from close-in. \u00a0The last action of an interesting game saw Mamardashvili make another fine save when keeping out substitute Yasin Ayari's goal-bound effort. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Albion had 16 attempts at goal, with 7 on target and won 4 corners, free-kicks conceded - 11. \u00a0
LIverpool had 12 attempts at goal, with 5 on target and won 8 corners, free-kicks conceded - 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The fourth and final international break of the season now takes place and the players return to a trip to Burnley on the 11 April 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Subs not used: \u00a0Jason STEELE (G\/K), Olivier BOSCAGLI, Maxim DE CUYPER.\u00a0Charalampos KOSTOULAS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Subs not used: \u00a0Freddie WOODMAN (G\/K), Joe GOMEZ, Kieran MORRISON, Treymaurice NYONI, Calvin RAMSAY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fourth Official<\/strong>: \u00a0Tim Robinson.
VAR Official:<\/strong> James Bell.
Yellow Cards<\/strong>:<\/em> \u00a0
Albion: \u00a06 \u00a0- \u00a0Mats Wieffer, Lewis Dunk, Diego Gomez, Yankuba Minteh, Danny Welbeck, Fabian Hurzeler.
Liverpool: \u00a05 \u00a0- \u00a0Jeremie Frimpong, Ibrahima Konate, Federico Chiesa, Dominik Szoboszlai, Alexis Mac Allister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n