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Image source, Getty ImagesBrighton weren't at their best against Nottingham Forest, but they got it over the line.
The Seagulls had complete control in the first half and while it was an own goal that gave them the win, it would not have happened if it was not for Pascal Gross' superb delivery.
Brighton suffered after the break, but they limited Forest to half-chances and were lucky the visitors lacked a clinical finisher when they did find themselves with better opportunities.
After three straight defeats, it is just what Roberto de Zerbi's side needed to boost morale.
With a Europa League quarter-final all but out of their reach following Thursday's loss at Roma, Brighton can turn their attention to the Premier League and and claiming one of the European spots that are still up for grabs.
After a brilliant group stage performance in the Europa League, Brighton will not want their first foray into European football to be their last.
Image source, ReutersBrighton boss Roberto de Zerbi after the 1-0 win over Nottingham Forest: "We have suffered a lot and we are suffering from Thursday evening but we showed a fantastic [response].
"It is not a surprise with this group of players, I had no doubt. This was an important three points reaction after three defeats. Very important.
"It is important to keep the position in the table. We have the energy to fight to make another great result this season.
"We are fighting with a lot of problems this season, playing many games with a lot of problems but the level of these players in terms of human qualities is very high.
"We can play better, we played much better in the past, but now we are not in perfect physical condition or numbers of players.
"We are suffering and for that reason I am really played with what the players showed."
Brighton have completed just their third ever league double over Nottingham Forest, previously doing so in 1979-80 (top-flight) and in 2015-16 (Championship). The Seagulls haven’t conceded in any of their last four home league games against Forest.
Since the start of last season, Forest have lost 22 away Premier League games and conceded 73 goals on the road, both the most in the division.
Brighton remain unbeaten in their last 12 home Premier League games (W6 D6), with this just their second clean sheet in their last 17 league matches at the Amex Stadium (also a goalless draw with Wolves in January).
Nottingham Forest have conceded 18 set piece goals in the Premier League this season (excluding penalties), the most in the division.
No side has benefitted from more opposition own goals in the Premier League this season than Brighton (4 – level with Liverpool), while defender Andrew Omobamidele became the first Nottingham Forest player to put through his own net in a top-flight match since Des Lyttle against Liverpool back in December 1996.
Today’s meeting between Brighton (0.46 xG) and Nottingham Forest (0.68 xG) had a combined xG value of just 1.14 – the third-lowest total of any Premier League match this season.
Andrew Omobamidele scored an own goal to gift Brighton victory and dent Nottingham Forest's chances of Premier League survival.
The Forest defender turned Pascal Gross' curling free-kick into his own goal in the 29th minute.
Nuno Espirito Santo's side pushed in search of an equaliser after the break but a lack of quality in the final third meant they failed to salvage a crucial point.
The defeat leaves them just three points above 18th-placed Luton in the relegation zone, although the Hatters have a game in hand.
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Chris Sutton is making predictions for all 380 Premier League matches again this season, against a variety of guests.
For this weekend's games, he takes on The Zutons frontman Dave McCabe, who supports Liverpool, and Better Joy's Bria Keely, who is a Manchester City fan.
Sutton's prediction: 2-1
I am not sure if it is European football that has affected Brighton, but they are not the team they were last season.
Their home record is still pretty decent, with only one league defeat at the Amex Stadium, but I don't know how much Thursday's Europa League defeat at Roma will take out of them.
Nottingham Forest were very angry last weekend after blaming the referee for their last-gasp defeat by Liverpool - although that seemed a bit ridiculous to me because the winning goal went in a couple of minutes after they should have been given the ball from a restart.
Forest are probably still angry now, though, and I don't see their mood improving much here. I'm backing Brighton to pile on the misery for them.
Dave's prediction: 4-2
Bria's prediction: 0-1
Here are the key facts and figures before Sunday's game between Brighton and Nottingham Forest in the Premier League.
After their 3-2 win at the City Ground in November, Brighton are looking to complete a league double over Nottingham Forest for a third time, after 1979-80 (top flight) and 2015-16 (Championship).
Forest have failed to score in their past three league visits to Albion (D1 L2), since winning 3-2 in the Championship in 2014-15 under Dougie Freedman.
Brighton have kept just three clean sheets in their past 31 Premier League matches. They have also lost two games by three or more goals already in 2024, only one fewer than they did in the whole of 2023.
Since the start of last season, no Premier League team has lost more games to a 90th-minute or beyond winning goal than Forest, with Darwin Nunez’s goal for Liverpool last time out the fourth-latest winning goal Opta has on record in the division since 2006-07.
Only Tottenham (four) and Luton Town (zero) have given fewer Premier League minutes to teenage players this season than Forest (eight). Conversely, Brighton have awarded more minutes to teenagers than anyone else (3,749), and the most by a side in a season since Southampton in 2013-14 (6,627). A teenager has appeared in their past 52 matches, with only Everton (69 between 1997 and 1999) and Arsenal (103 between 2004 and 2007) having longer runs of consecutive matches featuring a teenager.
Of players to play at least 500 minutes in the Premier League this season, three of the four players with the most successful passes per 90 minutes are Brighton defenders Lewis Dunk (98.7, second), Jan Paul van Hecke (90.5, third), and Adam Webster (88.9, fourth).
Image source, ReutersBrighton supporter Monica Fletcher was in Italy to watch the Seagulls lose 4-0 to Roma in the Europa League on Thursday, and spoke to BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast on Friday about the defeat.
"We went into this game with a lot of positivity, but Roma are on a great run," Fletcher said. "They've got a new manager and it felt really positive for Roma last night. Six months ago, people might have said Roma didn't stand much chance, but they were great.
"We've got to concentrate - we've got Nottingham Forest at the weekend, then Roma are back with us next Thursday and we'll play for pride - although some Brighton fans will say 'no, we can get five!'"
This is Brighton's first season competing in Europe, another landmark for a club that was playing in England's fourth tier at the turn of the century.
"I was at the game [in 1997] when we could have gone out of the Football League altogether," added Fletcher.
"We are pragmatists. Last season was fantastic, and then we lost a couple of midfield players [Alexis Mac Allister and Moises Caicedo] that we haven't really replaced.
"I think we're all a bit more nervous about not just going out of the Europa League. We went out of the FA Cup, our form in the Premier League is not quite so good. There are a lot of games to play and we don't have a big squad, so I think we're realistic."
We asked you for your thoughts on Brighton's 4-0 Europa League defeat at Roma.
Here are some of your comments:
Sam: They say there is no substitute for experience.... that is what happened. Roma haven't lost a two-legged European tie for two years and our lack of experience showed. Too open in midfield and easy to counter. If Europe never happens again, what memories we have got. Not much hope in the second leg but an early goal or two and who knows.
O: If the Albion want to become European regulars, then this is a huge step to knowing what life would be like competing at this level. And with the current injury crisis, along with balancing the Premier League with Europe, this is a forgivable result against such opponents like Roma.
Bob: Cannot express my embarrassment on such a trouncing. We should have turned up with a team willing to defend and make life difficult for them, pack midfield and hit them on the break. Naive selection, poor performance and we cannot blame it all on injuries and playing loads of games. As an amateur, I played three games a week, it cost me £10 and I worked on the Monday!
Alfie: A very naive defensive performance. Haven't learned any lessons all season about defending and being continually exposed on the counter attack. Huffed and puffed in attack without any real cutting edge. On another day, we could have scored two. Undone by a better side with a certain level of what-housery in their performance. Ref was very weak too.
Robert: The wrong game, at the wrong time, with the wrong squad. Roberto de Zerbi is out of sticking plasters to patch over the half-deck of squad player cards that he has been dealt. Despite that, we wasted so many chances to score and the 4-0 flattered them, but Roma fully deserved the win. It will take a season's best performance to now win - but it’s only half time.
Image source, Getty ImagesRoberto de Zerbi acknowledged Brighton's 4-0 hammering at Roma was a reality check for his Europa League novices.
The Seagulls' adventure in Europe turned into a nightmare at Stadio Olimpico after they conceded twice in each half to lose heavily in the club's first ever European knockout tie.
"We played our game. We gave our best. Maybe our best now is this performance," De Zerbi admitted. "I think Roma is much better in terms of experience to play this type of game and we suffer a lot. Too much I think.
"We are not used to playing this competition and today we paid everything. We paid [for] a squad not so long, we paid to play away in this stadium, we paid with too many injured players and for us, it is the first time so we have to improve.
"We have to progress and if we want to compete in this level, from the owner to the coach to the players we have to progress to reach one level higher."
Jonathan Jurejko
BBC Sport journalist
Image source, Getty ImagesBrighton's journey over the past few decades has been a meteoric one from the depths of despair to the euphoria of Europe.
A thumping by Roma - one of the great Italian clubs and a stalwart of European competition - was a brutal reality check.
Bad days at the office have been rare for Roberto de Zerbi, whose style of play and tactical acumen has seen the Italian linked to the likes of Manchester United and Bayern Munich.
But a return to his homeland was a humbling experience.
Roma boss Daniele de Rossi - a close friend of De Zerbi and someone from a similar coaching cloth - set up his side to smother Brighton high up the pitch and stop them playing from the back in their usual manner.
It worked a treat. Defensive errors allowed Roma to go 2-0 ahead before half-time and, although Brighton gamely searched for a way back into the game, the Giallorossi's quality proved too much.
Brighton have now lost three games in a row for the first time under De Zerbi, who has food for thought after watching his team outclassed.
Image source, Getty ImagesFormer Brighton striker Warren Aspinall speaking to BBC Radio Sussex after the Seagulls' defeat by Roma:
"To go through we have to win 5-0, can we do that back at the Amex? It's going to be tough that is for sure.
"We didn't play too badly, but every mistake we made they punished.
"Simon Adingra played well, Tariq Lamptey played well, those are the pluses for Brighton. For me, Danny Welbeck has got two chances in the first half, another in the second half, we've hit the post, Facundo Buonanotte had a chance, Lewis Dunk had a chance, but they're not getting punished.
"Roma were getting chances and they're punishing them, that is the difference.
"Before the game I said whoever scores first will win the game and it will be by some number and I was correct.
"You come to these places and maybe there is a lesson to be learnt here that, okay, you concede two, but you go out in the second half and say 'we're not conceding anymore and if we get a chance at the other end we will see if we can take it, but we'll take them back to the Amex and see what we can do'.
"If you do that then you can go and win the game, but this tie is over now at 4-0. It's been shocking defending."
Here are the key facts and figures after Thursday's game between Brighton and Roma in the Europa League.
Brighton's 4-0 defeat tonight was the heaviest suffered by an English side in Europe since October 2019, when Tottenham Hotspur were beaten by five goals against Bayern Munich in the Champions League (2-7).
Brighton have lost three consecutive games across all competitions for the first time under Roberto De Zerbi, while it's the first time the Italian has been beaten in three straight games as a manager since January 2020 (a run of three in charge of Sassuolo).
Paulo Dybala's opener was the first goal Brighton have conceded in the Europa League since October 2023 (v Marseille), ending a run of 441 minutes without conceding in the competition for the Seagulls.
At the age of 19 years and 75 days, Brighton's Facundo Buonanotte became the youngest Argentinean player to start in a Europa League knockout stage game.
Brighton's first foray into European knockout competition ended in a first-leg thumping at a resurgent Roma which leaves them looking unlikely to reach the Europa League quarter-finals.
Two Seagulls defensive errors in an entertaining first half did the damage before Roma took full control after the break.
The hosts took an early lead when Paulo Dybala slotted in the first after Brighton were undone by a long, straight pass from Leandro Paredes.
Albion gradually grew into the game, hitting the post through Simon Adingra's deflected cross while Danny Welbeck forced an instinctive save from Roma keeper Mile Svilar.
But they fell further behind when Lewis Dunk's poor touch was pounced on and punished by Romelu Lukaku just before half-time.
Brighton continued to play boldly and bravely after the break as they searched for a way back into the game.
However, they were hit by a sucker punch when Gianluca Mancini slid in a third, and quickly conceded again through Bryan Cristante's header.
Roberto de Zerbi's side continued to try and salvage something to take back to the Amex Stadium, but were unable to narrow the deficit before the second leg next Thursday (14 March).
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