Jack Hinshelwood scored on his return from injury as Brighton came from behind to beat Brentford 2-1 at a wet Amex Stadium and move fifth in the Premier League.<\/p>\n
Hinshelwood came off the bench after missing Brighton’s past seven games with an ankle ligament injury to bundle home an 84th-minute winner.<\/p>\n
Igor Thiago gave Brentford a first-half lead from the penalty spot against the run of play, his ninth Premier League goal of the season and his seventh in seven games.<\/p>\n
Brighton were frustrated until the 71st minute when Welbeck escaped his markers to cushion home a volley from Yankuba Minteh’s teasing cross.<\/p>\n
Brighton looked the better side in the opening stages and were beginning to find joy attacking Brentford through the middle, only for Carlos Baleba to gift the visitors a penalty in the 29th minute which Thiago coolly converted.<\/p>\n
Thiago did superbly to hold up the ball on the right before finding the onrushing Dango Ouattara with a backheel, who baited Baleba into bringing him down in the box with a mistimed challenge.<\/p>\n
Georginio Rutter was the best of an average bunch in the first half for Brighton, and he thought he deserved a penalty when Yehor Yarmoliuk appeared to catch the back of his foot shortly after the break.<\/p>\n
The video assistant referee (VAR) did not get involved, but minutes later the in-form Welbeck wasted a glorious chance when he blazed over from 10 yards.<\/p>\n
Brighton cranked up the pressure with Minteh forcing Caoimhin Kelleher into a smart save at his near post, before Welbeck pounced for his seventh goal in seven league matches.<\/p>\n
Brentford were handed a chance to equalise deep into stoppage time when Kevin Schade was brought down in the box while trying to reach a cross, but Thiago saw his second penalty of the day saved by Bart Verbruggen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Hinshelwood scored on his return from injury as Brighton came from behind to beat Brentford 2-1 at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-154103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}