{"id":812718,"date":"2026-10-24T19:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T19:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/812718\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T19:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T19:42:19","slug":"brighton-hove-albion-3-0-west-ham-united-maisie-symonds-stunner-secures-wsl-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/812718\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton &#038; Hove Albion 3-0 West Ham United: Maisie Symonds stunner secures WSL win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Maisie Symonds scored a spectacular long-range strike as Brighton beat West Ham to earn their second league win of the season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In blustery, soggy conditions on the south coast, the Seagulls skipper broke the deadlock in the 29th minute, with her speculative right-footed effort from 10 yards outside the box swerving into the top corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brighton nearly doubled their lead in chaotic fashion immediately after the break, back-tracking West Ham defender Ines Belloumou deflecting the ball just wide of the post, before putting the game to bed with two goals in three minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fran Kirby slid in the second at the back post, before Kiko Seike dinked a cute finish over Constance Picaud-Inconnu for her fourth goal of the season in the 66th minute. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emily Murphy had a late strike chalked off for offside for what would have been her first for the club. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Failing to register a shot on target until added time in the first half, West Ham&#8217;s best chance fell to in-form striker Viviane Asseyi, but she headed wide after Chiamaka Nnadozie could only parry Leila Wandeler&#8217;s long-range effort. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Victory moved Brighton up four places to eighth, while the Hammers slipped down to 12th following a fifth defeat in seven matches. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maisie Symonds scored a spectacular long-range strike as Brighton beat West Ham to earn their second league win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-812718","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812718","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=812718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}