{"id":440623,"date":"2026-05-09T17:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/440623\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T17:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:16:11","slug":"brightons-red-hot-start-blows-away-wolves-to-revive-european-ambitions-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/440623\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton\u2019s red-hot start blows away Wolves to revive European ambitions | Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Brighton put their European push back on track by flying out of the blocks en route to beating relegated Wolves at the Amex Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Jack Hinshelwood headed home inside 35 seconds to register Brighton\u2019s fastest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/premierleague\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League<\/a> goal before the captain, Lewis Dunk, marked his return to the starting XI by nodding in the second only four minutes later. Yankuba Minteh completed the scoring late on as the Brighton head coach, Fabian H\u00fcrzeler, celebrated his new three-year contract in style.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Rock-bottom Wolves remain without a league victory on the road this term after enduring a 13th defeat from 18 away games \u2013 and 24th in total. After a dismal first-half display, Yerson Mosquera headed against the crossbar for Wolves in the second half, while Hwang Hee-chan struck a post, albeit the opportunity was flagged offside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">H\u00fcrzeler, who extended his deal to June 2029 on Thursday, urged his team to cut down on mistakes after last weekend\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/may\/02\/newcastle-brighton-premier-league-match-report\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3-1 loss at Newcastle<\/a> and was rewarded with a rapid start. Hinshelwood claimed the swift opener, thumping a header into the top-right corner following Maxim De Cuyper\u2019s cross from the left after the Wolves midfielder Andr\u00e9 conceded possession in his own half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Brighton doubled their lead with less than five minutes gone. De Cuyper again provided the assist, delivering an inswinging corner from the right for Dunk to escape the marking of Jo\u00e3o Gomes and emphatically nod in his first goal of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis Dunk (right) doubles Brighton\u2019s lead in the opening stages of the game. Photograph: James Marsh\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Wolves, without a top-flight away win since a 1-0 success at Manchester United in April last year, were thrashed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2023\/apr\/29\/brighton-wolves-premier-league-match-report\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6-0 on this ground<\/a> in 2023 and looked in danger of succumbing to a similar scoreline. Kaoru Mitoma fired wide and Danny Welbeck\u2019s header was kept out by Dan Bentley as the hosts threatened to increase their advantage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Rob Edwards\u2019s visitors failed to muster an attempt at goal during a woeful first-half display before being booed off by the travelling fans. Although Brighton were in complete control, they were twice almost pegged back in the opening 10 minutes of the second period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Mosquera went close to halving the deficit when he directed a Mateus Man\u00e9 delivery on to the top of the bar. The South Korea forward Hwang struck the base of the right post two minutes later and, while the offside flag was raised, replays suggested that the decision may have been overturned on review.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Adam Armstrong wasted another good chance for Wolves before Brighton\u2019s afternoon was soured slightly when Mitoma limped off with an injury which could end his season.<\/p>\n<p>Yankuba Minteh fires past Dan Bentley to seal Brighton\u2019s 3-0 triumph. Photograph: Paul Childs\/Action Images\/Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Brighton blew a two-goal lead in this fixture last season by conceding two late goals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2024\/oct\/26\/brighton-wolves-premier-league-match-report\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in a 2-2 draw<\/a>. Any prospect of Wolves snatching a repeat result was ended in the 86th minute when Minteh seized on a loose ball inside the 18-yard box to lash beyond Bentley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brighton put their European push back on track by flying out of the blocks en route to beating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-440623","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\/440623","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=440623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}