Brighton vs Leicester City

Anthony Dabbundo gives his detailed thoughts, plus his top pick, for Sunday's Premier League match between Brighton and Leicester City.

Two new problems have sprouted for the Foxes in the striker and goalkeeping positions. Brighton excelled at home against bottom-half sides and completely dominated the midfield last season. The Foxes have three main issues plaguing them for the first five matches. This was a major vulnerability for the Foxes last season. The results finally came last season and the Seagulls have improved even further in this new season. Brighton was top half of the league in box entries and progressive passes last season.

Brighton and Leicester City face off on Sunday in an English Premier League showdown at Falmer Stadium. When these two teams faced off on January 23rd,

Leicester City knows they need to win this game, and they are going to do everything in their power to get it done. Jamie Vardy struggled in the midweek game, and it wouldn’t be shocking if he moved back to the bench. Brighton and Leicester City face off on Sunday in an English Premier League showdown at Falmer Stadium.

Alexis Mac Allister and Brighton and Hove Albion will take the pitch against Harvey Barnes and Leicester City today.

Leicester City is the last placed team in the league at No. 2 in the league with Arsenal. 4 team in the league with 10 points in five played matches.

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The defeat came soon after, on Tuesday (30), to Fulham, by 2 to 1, with Mitrovic and Dunk, against, scoring and increasing the lead, while Mac Allister scored. Leicester on the other hand is at the bottom, with only one point gained, being three below Nottingham Forest, West Ham, Aston Villa and Everton. Follow along with us all the details, commentaries, analysis and lineups for this Brighton vs Leicester match.

Sunday's encounter at AMEX Stadium will be the 42nd time that Brighton & Hove Albion and Leicester City have met in a competitive fixture.

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You feel Brendan Rodgers made the changes a little too late. 3:42PM. 80 min: Brighton & Hove Albion 4 Leicester City 2.

Keeping in line with Financial Fair Play regulations is apparently the main factor behind Leicester City's conservative approach to summer spending. Brighton hit back as Trossard is found on the left. You think he's got enough credit in the bank to avoid that and it's not his fault they've not been able to spend this summer, but, to coin an old phrase, football is a funny old game. He'll fit into the group and add competition in midfield. Brendon Rodgers' men are bottom of the table, without a win and it's all doom and gloom. It wasn’t his, but there was still time for further humiliation in the seventh minute of added time when Mac Allister curled a delicious free kick into Ward’s top right-hand corner. The second period seemed to have started with as bigger bang as the first when Alexis Mac Allister spectacularly fired past Ward from the edge of the area after Gross’s free kick was half-cleared. Thomas’s early yellow card was a blessing to his tormenter March and to illustrate just how fragile Leicester’s morale was, when Wilfred Ndidi’s wretched backpass was met by an equally wretched Ward touch Welbeck robbed nervy goalkeeper and clipped the ball onto the roof of the net. Enock Mwepu, hurtled forward and played a the perfect pass into the path of the onrushing and unchaperoned Moises Caicedo, who neatly slotted his first of the season beyond Danny Ward. Tielemans launched a long ball forwards, Lewis Dunk completely misread it and Daka ran on to carefully guide his season’s first past Robert Sanchez. It took them just 14 to take the lead. Brighton had 89 minutes to rescue the game.

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He curls a ball to the back post, March heads it goalwards from three yards out but the last touch may have been off Thomas. Leicester's goalkeeper Ward is having a bad day at the office. He turns and fires a shot at goal but Ward keeps it out. Then the referee, Tony Harrington, goes to his pitchside monitor and rules it out! What a turnaround! No side has conceded fewer Premier League goals this season than Brighton (3). He fires at goal but Ward does well to keep his effort out. If not, Brighton will stay in fourth for the time being. The Seagulls have picked up 10 from a possible 15 points whereas today's (Sunday) visitors have one point from their opening five matches. He was offside anyway. Gross fires a cross into the box from the right that runs through to Trossard on the left of the box. If Graham Potter's side emerges victorious from this 2pm encounter, they will stay fourth in the Premier League.

Graham Potter and Brendan Rodgers face off at the Amex Stadium with important Premier League points at stake.

However, they finally got their third through Trossard just past the hour, before Mac Allister converted from the penalty spot and then scored a superb free-kick in stoppage time to add a fifth. [Leandro Trossard](/topic/leandro-trossard)’s second-half finish and Alexis Mac Allister’s double – a penalty followed by a stunning late free-kick – condemned the struggling Foxes to a fifth-successive [Premier League](/topic/premier-league) defeat. But they were outclassed for the duration of the second period and have now taken just one point from a possible 18, leading to a ‘Rodgers Out’ banner being unfurled in the disgruntled away end at full-time. [Terms of use,](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/user-policies-a6184151.html) [Cookie policy](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/cookie-policy-a6184186.html) and [Privacy notice.](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/privacy-policy-a6184181.html) Meanwhile Leicester are bottom and they'll face Aston Villa next time out. [Privacy policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en) and [Terms of service](https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en) apply. It was 2-2 at the break, with Brighton coming from behind to take the lead, before being pegged back by Daka before half-time. By clicking ‘Register’ you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our The hosts’ thought they had re-taken the lead straight from the restart, when Mac Allister fired home a superb strike, but it was ruled out for offside by VAR. [Leicester City](/topic/leicester-city) failed to ease mounting pressure on manager [Brendan Rodgers](/topic/brendan-rodgers) after their winless start was extended by a thumping 5-2 defeat at high-flying [Brighton and Hove Albion](/topic/brighton-and-hove-albion). [Alexis Mac Allister stars as Brighton thrash shambolic bottom side Leicester](https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/brighton-leicester-result-final-score-alexis-mac-allister-b2159540.html) The visitors were level at half-time at the Amex Stadium thanks to Patson Daka after a Luke Thomas own goal and a Moises Caicedo strike overturned

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Mac Allister's corner from the left goes over Ward, who gets a touch on it and the ball goes out for another corner. The Leicester midfielder gets dispossessed by Mwepu who drives with the ball before playing it wide to Caicedo. and today he's dropped to the bench Leicester took the lead through Iheanacho under a minute in but Brighton hit back with two goals through Thomas' own-goal and Caicedo. Mwepu is deemed to have interfered with play in the build up to the goal. Leicester may have been in trouble if the full-back got a cleaner touch on it! Grob whips in a corner which was headed for goal but the Leicester goalkeeper tips it over. Brighton levelled through a Thomas own goal – the defender deflected a Solly March header into his net after being meekly beaten by him to a Trossard cross – and then led through Caicedo when Maddison was careless in losing possession. A performance of the gutless. But maybe there is a lesson here - if a manager spends an awful lot of time complaining that his squad isn’t up to the job, then what does that same squad think of their manager when the window shuts? This wasn’t a performance where you look to the players he might have signed through sunnier windows, or what other clubs of their stature have spent. What of the journey to that increasingly familiar destination?

Brighton vs Leicester live: The Seagulls will try to rebound from their first lost of the Premier League season when they host the winless Foxes on Sunday.

It’s hard to disagree with Rodgers’ assessment that Leicester are a worse off side now than when the transfer window opened, when so many other mid-table and bottom-half sides did plenty of business to get better. Of course, as has been the case for the entirety of Brighton’s time in the Premier League, the goals aren’t yet flooding in at the other end of the field, leaving the margins much too fine on far too many occasions. The results are down to me, I am the manager, and we need to go away and work even harder and get that first win.” Justin and Thomas are good going forward so maybe the idea will be to go to a three-CB set at some point, but at constructed? But the investment and relative strength of two newly-promoted clubs and a pair of wins for the third seem to indicate that we’ve reached an age where a more traditional Premier League club could go down this year. Someone weird is going down this year, and Leicester has to internalize that: The Foxes won the Premier League in recent memory and have been to European competition more than once.

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Mac Allister was given his time to shine again and stepped up to crack home Brighton’s fourth from the spot on 71 minutes before whipping a peach of a free kick into the net in the dying seconds. Brighton were bossing it and another blow was inflicted on Leicester as Trossard was shoved over by Ndidi down the byline and Harrington pointed to the spot. A host of Albion players were on the wrong side of the Leicester defence as the free-kick came in so there was a delay with getting the lines up to properly check the offside. Trossard picked up the pieces by linking up with Gross before darting in the box and unleashing a low drive into the far corner on 64 minutes. There was another blistering start to the second-half with Brighton looking as though they had nudged back in front with a third goal on 47 minutes. But what came next was the ultimate capitulation as Brighton hit back with a leveller from Solly March, thanks to a Luke Thomas deflection and a goal from Moises Caicedo within just five minutes of each other.

Alexis Mac Allister hit a double as Brighton piles yet more misery on Leicester.

“You don’t tend to see anything like this number of dodgy calls in Serie A or Ligue 1.” March has a touch and splats a rising shot that is pushed round the near post by Ward. 80 min A corner is spilled by Ward, who is relieved to grab it at the second attempt. He cleverly allowed the ball to run across his body to make the angle for a flicked pass to Trossard in the area. If they can’t, then the decision on the pitch should stand. The home side recovered from the shock of conceding after 51 seconds to dominate a very open game, with Alexis Mac Allister scoring twice and having a screamer ruled out by VAR. He protects the ball on the edge of the area, despite being surrounded, and eventually finds March to his left. If it looks like a howler in full speed replay then VAR intervenes, otherwise it stays in its hole and the on-field decision stands.” They are certainly one of the most likeable. “The only way I see it having any value is giving VAR a short time limit, say 20 seconds, to overturn the decision using full speed replays. Their fantastic start to the season puts them fourth entirely on merit: a point behind City and Spurs with the same number of games played. Leicester stay bottom, having lost five games in a row.

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The boys were fantastic.” You can’t hide behind a rock.” You have got to tell each other. Rodgers’ men were all over the place at times. The omens are not good. But the former