Brighton ended their six-game winless run with a comfortable Premier League victory over struggling Burnley.<\/p>\n
The result lifted the Seagulls up to eighth in the table, while the Clarets’ stay 19th and six points from safety, with their dreadful sequence without a win stretching to 11 matches. <\/p>\n
Even more damaging for Scott Parker and his side’s hopes of retaining their top-flight status, is that since 26 October they have collected just two points from the possible 33 on offer. <\/p>\n
And there was an inevitability about the outcome of this encounter once Georginio Rutter’s thumping low finish had put the hosts ahead in an uninspiring first half. <\/p>\n
While Yasin Ayari’s effort fortuitously deflected into the Frenchman’s path off 18-year-old Greek forward Charalampos Kostoulas – on his first top-flight start – the visitors could hardly complain about the 29th-minute opener. <\/p>\n
Burnley had offered little as an attacking force and fell further behind 66 seconds after the restart when Ayari drove a low strike into the bottom left corner with Lesley Ugochukwu guilty of a poor pass on the edge of his own penalty area. <\/p>\n
On a disappointing afternoon for the visitors, substitute Loum Tchaouna came closest to scoring but his header was headed on to the bar and away by the alert Ferdi Kadioglu. <\/p>\n
Had that dropped in, it may have offered Burnley hope heading into the final quarter. <\/p>\n
Instead there was a more celebratory feel to the closing stages, with Pascal Gross’ introduction a day after returning to Brighton from Borussia Dortmund, drawing huge cheers.<\/p>\n
The hosts almost added a late third from a Maxim de Cuyper free-kick that thudded against the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brighton ended their six-game winless run with a comfortable Premier League victory over struggling Burnley. The result lifted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-225789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225789","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=225789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}