{"id":195711,"date":"2025-10-12T21:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T21:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/195711\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T21:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T21:22:07","slug":"maelys-mpome-brighton-defender-up-and-about-after-being-knocked-out-at-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/195711\/","title":{"rendered":"Maelys Mpome: Brighton defender &#8216;up and about&#8217; after being knocked out at Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vidosic said that concern from Mpome&#8217;s team-mates may have had an impact on their performance as Brighton chased an equaliser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brighton trailed after Marisa Olislager&#8217;s own goal in the first half but improved and forced several saves from Arsenal keeper Daphne van Domselaar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But they failed to create many openings after Mpome&#8217;s injury, with the home side coming closer to scoring in the final moments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s never nice to see your team-mate get hurt,&#8221; Vidosic said. &#8220;Maybe that did play a part, fatigue as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We tried to push everyone as much as we could in a safe way, but maybe it took the rhythm out of the game with the 10-minute pause.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mpome joined Brighton from WSL champions Chelsea in the summer and was making her fifth league appearance for the Seagulls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vidosic said that concern from Mpome&#8217;s team-mates may have had an impact on their performance as Brighton chased&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-195711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}