{"id":938062,"date":"2026-10-18T21:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T21:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/938062\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T21:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T21:42:09","slug":"free-scoring-brighton-continue-to-impress-and-entertain-as-they-thrash-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/938062\/","title":{"rendered":"Free-scoring Brighton continue to impress and entertain as they thrash Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not only are Brighton<\/a> scoring more than everyone else in the Premier League, they are netting better goals too.<\/p>\n

Centre-half Lewis Dunk won the Premier League goal of the month for September with a 35-yard stunner against Coventry<\/a>. Now, five weeks later, that has already been eclipsed.<\/p>\n

Step forward Seagulls team-mate Diego Gomez, who shot from the halfway line having seen Crystal Palace<\/a> goalkeeper Walter Benitez off his line during Brighton’s emphatic 5-0 win<\/a> over their rivals on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Benitez made a rapid dash back to his goal and produced a desperate dive but could not stop the ball going in just under the crossbar.<\/p>\n

“As soon as he struck it, I knew it was in. He’s taken the club goal of the season off me,” joked Brighton<\/a> skipper Dunk.<\/p>\n

“That’s the goal of the season so far, what a hit,” added former Premier League striker Efan Ekoku, part of the commentary team for BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra. “[It was] superbly struck and right over the head of the keeper from the centre-circle.”<\/p>\n

Gomez’s seventh-minute goal at the Amex put Brighton<\/a> 2-0 up and was from 51 metres, the furthest long-range Premier League goal since Wayne Rooney scored from 58m for Everton<\/a> in their 4-0 win over West Ham in November 2017.<\/p>\n

“When I scored, I didn’t know where to run, or what to do,” admitted 23-year-old Paraguay midfielder Gomez. “When I got the ball, I knew the goalkeeper was a little bit ahead. I was very happy with the goal.”<\/p>\n

Former Newcastle<\/a> goalkeeper and Match of the Day pundit Shay Given said the goal was “reminiscent of David Beckham [for Manchester United<\/a> versus Wimbledon in 1996]” and added: “I don’t even blame Benitez the goalkeeper.<\/p>\n

“We’re always talking about sweeper goalkeepers and you’ve got to be high up for the through ball and the defence playing a high line. I think his position was fine.<\/p>\n

“You’ve just got to take your hat off to Gomez. That is just a brilliant, brilliant goal.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not only are Brighton scoring more than everyone else in the Premier League, they are netting better goals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":938063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-938062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}