Brighton Cruises To 5-0 Win Over Sheffield United After Holgate’s Early Sending Off – News18

SHEFFIELD, England: Brighton took full benefit of Mason Holgate’s early sending off by cruising to a 5-0 win over final-place Sheffield United within the Premier League on Sunday.

Sheffield was coming off simply its third league win of the season in opposition to Luton final weekend however any hopes of getting consecutive victories ended with Holgate’s reckless studs-up deal with on Kaoru Mitoma, which was upgraded to a straight crimson card after a VAR examine within the thirteenth minute.

Facundo Buonanotte and Danny Welbeck then scored inside a 4-minute span to place the guests 2-0 up by the twenty fourth, earlier than three late objectives within the second half — together with two by current Africa Cup of Nations winner Simon Adingra — padded the scoreline.

Some extent would have lifted Sheffield out of final place and above Burnley, however the loss left Chris Wilder’s facet nonetheless rooted to the underside. Brighton moved above West Ham and Newcastle into seventh.

The 2-1 win at Luton had given Wilder’s group faint hopes of escaping relegation however any likelihood of constructing on that momentum disappeared with Holgate’s horror deal with, as he lunged in on Mitoma and caught the Japan worldwide above the knee together with his studs raised.

Referee Stuart Attwell initially confirmed Holgate only a yellow card for the problem however rapidly modified his thoughts after being referred to as over to look at the replay on the sideline monitor.

The subsequent blow got here rapidly as Lewis Dunk met a Brighton nook with a header again throughout objective, and Buonanotte was readily available to push it over line within the twentieth. Four minutes later, Welbeck doubled the lead by slotting residence the rebound after goalkeeper Wes Foderingham had blocked a shot by Mitoma.

United thought that they had a lifeline close to the top of the primary half however Ben Osborn’s objective from shut vary was disallowed for offside.

Mitoma was concerned in Brighton’s third as properly after his cross from the left was poked into his personal web by Sheffield defender Jack Robinson within the seventy fifth. And simply three minutes later, Adingra netted the fourth by turning residence one other cross from the appropriate with a properly-struck volley.

Adingra, in his first recreation again from serving to host Ivory Coast win the Africa Cup, netted his second within the eighty fifth when his shot from a good angle took a deflection and looped into the online.

Sheffield has now conceded 65 objectives in 25 Premier League video games, probably the most ever at this stage of the marketing campaign.

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