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We asked for your thoughts after Saturday's Premier League game between Chelsea and Brighton at Stamford Bridge.

Here are some of your comments:

Chelsea fans

Fossie: What a rotten performance. They totally lost the narrative in the second half. If you can't keep 11 players on the pitch, you don't deserve to win. The players losing their heads does not help anything. Maresca really needs to shake this lot up. Two weeks in a row is awful.

Femi: No disrespect to Maresca but I think he is a mediocre coach. Imagine having expensive players at your disposal yet not knowing how to tidy up your defence and conceding a lot of goals to individual errors. He also hasn't instilled discipline into his players, who can't stop picking up red cards. Chelsea should go for a more experienced coach.

Jason: Maresca's in-game tactics are poor. He takes off pace and creativity, and it doesn't work. It's too early to start talking about sacking him, but he needs to improve or the axe will be hovering!

John: No decent transfer policy at Chelsea, no decent goalkeepers, no decent central defenders and a very inexperienced manager. We could be easily relegated!

Brighton fans

Sarah: The first half was a bit lacklustre but I'm so happy for Welbeck - he really needed that and so did we. Dunk played well too. What's going on with Simon Hooper? He missed the obvious red for Chalobah and the clear penalty for the kick to Minteh's head. You could see the contact, so how VAR ruled no contact is a mystery. It should've been 4-1 but we will take the win.

Pedro: We played as a team and, as so often happens, we were at our best in the final third. Welbeck must be wary of earning the title of 'super sub' because that's exactly what he was in this match.

Tim: A great result that shows Hurzeler can make a difference with his substitutions. The referee seemed like he was Chelsea's 12th man but we still managed to assert ourselves in the end.

Chris: It feels like Brighton have turned a corner this week. The atmosphere was electric in the away end of Stamford Bridge. I've now seen nine goals during two away games in just four days. Up the Albion!

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There is an argument that Marc Cucurella is one of the best defensive left-backs in the league, but Yankuba Minteh gave him plenty of headaches over 90 minutes.

His power, speed and skill caused Cucurella all sorts of trouble and ultimately led to Danny Welbeck's equaliser.

Minteh's whipped cross for Welbeck broke down Chelsea in the 77th minute - after Chelsea head coach Enzo Maresca had tried to shore up his 10-man side by throwing on defenders Benoit Badiashile, Malo Gusto and Josh Acheampong along with defensive midfielder Romeo Lavia.

It started a sweet comeback for Brighton, who have sold more than £260m worth of players and staff to Chelsea since Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital bought the Londoners in 2022.

Seagulls owner Tony Bloom's recruitment set-up continues to unearth talents capable of competing against teams such as Chelsea, even when Chelsea keep taking their best players.

When asked whether the results will mean Chelsea sign more of his players, Fabian Hurzeler replied: "I'll have to talk with Tony. We should avoid the changes!

"It's football. You have to accept it. That's the normal business, so it's more about finding solutions and getting results."

The Austrian manager also deserves credit for his substitutions, bringing on not just Welbeck and Maxim de Cuyper to score the goals, but Mats Wieffer and Brajan Gruda to provide assists.

However, the next Brighton talent to become a target for the top clubs could well be their unplayable winger Minteh.

Brighton manager Fabian Hurzeler spoke to BBC Match of the Day after his side took all three points against 10-man Chelsea: "In the first minutes we suffered, then we conceded the goal and started playing football. We created chances, we were better out of possession, and after we conceded we played okay."

On making the most of Chelsea's red card: "Sometimes when you are one man up it gets more and more difficult because the other team only tries to defend. We stayed patient, we stayed calm, we played from left to right, we opened the gaps and we had some good moments."

On Danny Welbeck's brace: "I'm very happy for him because he is always there. He is a great leader and he got the reward for everything he is doing for us and himself."

On recording three wins in a row against Chelsea: "It is good, but every game is very tough against them. They are a great football team and they have great individual players. It's always an opportunity to prove who we are and it's a big challenge for us."

On whether this result can act as a springboard for the rest of the season: "When you only look at the results, maybe you can say yes. But if you look regarding the performance, maybe you can say no. The games are very tight. There are always small margins that make the difference, the small margins were on our side in this match.

"I'm sure that we can get into a good run and get into a flow. First of all, it's about hard work and staying together."

Goalscorer Maxim de Cuyper also spoke to Premier League Productions after the win: "We had some good moments, they had their moments, but we felt in the dressing room that we could still make a turnaround.

"How we started the second half was brilliant. The red card is in our favour, but it is part of the game. It is an advantage. If everybody plays 100% you have an advantage, otherwise you don't.

"We tried to keep on pressing high, tried to change the play a lot to get them running and we got the result."

On scoring his first Premier League goal: "It's amazing. You see the crowd going wild and it is the best feeling in football."

Did you know?

• Danny Welbeck has been directly involved in seven goals (5 goals, 2 assists) in eight Premier League games against Chelsea for Brighton - more than against any other side in the competition.

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