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- Craig Mahood, Betting & Gaming Writer
- Updated: 20:47, 8 Feb 2025
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GEORGINIO RUTTER levelled for Brighton aft Bart Verbruggen's HOWLER gave Chelsea the pb successful their FA Cup 4th circular clash!
Brighton were smashed 7-0 by Nottingham Forest past play - but person lone named 1 alteration to that broadside and person got disconnected to the worst imaginable start.
Cole Palmer's speculative transverse backmost into the container saw Verbruggen get it each incorrect and concede to enactment Chelsea into the lead.
But their vantage was abbreviated lived arsenic Georginio Rutter turned successful a ace header to marque it 1-1 wrong 15 minutes.
- Kick-off: 8pm
- Brighton XI: Verburggen, Lamptey, Dunk, Georginio, Minteh, Welbeck, Baleba, Mitoma, Van Hecke, Veltman, Hinshelwood.
- Chelsea XI: Sanchex, Gusto, Tosin, Chalobah, Cucurella, Caicedo, Dewsbury-Hall, Neto, Palmer, Sancho, Nkunku.
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45+1 – Brighton 1-1 Chelsea
Palmer goes to unopen down a Dunk backpass and the defender puts his limb crossed Palmer to halt him.
I deliberation Palmer is forgetting there's nary VAR arsenic helium throws himself to crushed aft having an limb brushwood the broadside of his face.
He stays down for a fewer seconds earlier getting backmost to his feet.
45 – Brighton 1-1 Chelsea
Three minutes added connected astatine the extremity of the archetypal half.
43 – Brighton 1-1 Chelsea
Brilliant from Rutter who is excessively large and beardown for Tosin connected halfway.
He bursts distant down the left, Rutter, earlier getting to the byline and playing the shot crossed extremity wherever Cucurella has to enactment and boots it down for a corner.
41 – Brighton 1-1 Chelsea
Minteh is up and looks OK, Dunk doesn't look it.
He goes disconnected for much attraction earlier coming backmost on. It looks similar he'll effort and get done to fractional time.
39 – Brighton 1-1 Chelsea
He gets a mates of minutes worthy of attraction but it does look similar Neto volition beryllium capable to continue.
But Lewis Dunk present looks to beryllium struggling arsenic helium holds his side.
Minteh past besides goes down holding his knee. They're each dropping similar flies!
37 – Brighton 1-1 Chelsea
Two Chelsea players connected the platform arsenic the shot is enactment out.
Neto looked similar helium conscionable pulled up erstwhile tracking Mitoma backmost earlier Caicedo is bundled implicit successful a 50/50 challenge.
Caicedo seems OK but Neto is needing treatment.
From Isabelle Barker astatine the Amex
Tempers are already flaring aft Joel Veltman collided with Marc Cucurella who rolled astir with an oscar-award winning show - prompting handbags from some sides.
The originative geniuses among Brighton fans conjured up a masterpiece of "Marc Cucurella you're a ****" (it begins with a c and rhymes with punt).
This lucifer has the potential to get fiery.
32 – Brighton 1-1 Chelsea
Huge accidental for Chelsea!
Caicedo floats a large walk implicit the apical for Nkunku to tally onto wrong the box.
The shot doesn't rather travel down for him to onslaught to helium alternatively attempts to lob the shot successful Palmer's absorption and the Englishman's header backmost is loopy and onto the extortion of the net.
30 – Brighton 1-1 Chelsea
The Palmer escaped footwear deed the archetypal antheral but does spell down for a corner.
Brighton easy support that acceptable portion excessively and wide up to halfway.
28 – Brighton 1-1 Chelsea
Shocking situation from Veltman connected the agelong to level villain-of-the-night Cucurella.
The location fans liked that 1 - Cucurella did not.
Neither did the referee and the Brighton antheral is booked for that.
22 – Brighton 1-1 Chelsea
Minteh isn't blessed with his teammates.
He does ever truthful good to support possession and thrust down the close earlier getting the shot crossed extremity but cipher successful bluish and achromatic stripes is anyplace adjacent it to instrumentality vantage of his bully work.
20 – Brighton 1-1 Chelsea
Brighton deliberation they should person a escaped footwear 10 yards extracurricular Chelsea's box.
Nothing fixed and erstwhile Caicedo looks to break, he's brought down by Rutter who is past shown a yellow paper for that challenge.
From Isabelle Barker astatine the Amex
Brighton fans person their enactment chopped retired contiguous booing each ex-Seagulls subordinate who jumped vessel to articulation Chelsea.
They are booing everytime Marc Cucurella touches the ball, given his £62millon determination successful the summertime of 2022 arsenic good arsenic Robert Sanchez successful 2023 for £25million.
British grounds £115m transportation Moises Caicedo is besides connected the transportation aft helium joined the West Londoners from Brigthon astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic Sanchez.
After Bart Verbruggen's clanger helium mightiness beryllium connected his mode too!
GOAL DETAIL: Brighton 1-1 Chelsea
Terrific effect from the location broadside and a precise bully headed finish.
It comes down the Brighton close and the shot is laid backmost to Veltman connected the country of the area.
He bends it successful level and Rutter is each unsocial 8 yards retired to flick it goalward and into the acold country beyond the keeper.
All-square!
12 - GOAL! BRIGHTON 1-1 Chelsea
They weren't down for long, GEORGINIO RUTTER with the header!
GOAL DETAIL: Brighton 0-1 Chelsea
Verbruggen, Verburggen, Verbruggen. I'd sub myself disconnected if I was him.
Brighton are dilatory retired from the country and Sancho floats a transverse backmost to the backmost station for Palmer.
He volleys it, apt looking to prime retired a team-mate but it's played connected people and a regular drawback for Verbruggen with the shot bouncing to him.
Somehow, helium chucks it successful his ain nett astatine the adjacent post.
Lewis Dunk consoles him. But helium should truly beryllium hammering him. Chelsea lead!
5 - GOAL! Brighton 0-1 CHELSEA
Oh Verbruggen, what connected EARTH person you conscionable done!?
An implicit SHOCKER of a mistake and Chelsea lead!
4 - Brighton 0-0 Chelsea
Lightning interruption from Chelsea arsenic Lamptey commits and tries to triumph the shot connected halfway.
Neto breaks and it's 3v2 arsenic helium drives heavy into the Brighton fractional earlier trying to prime retired Sancho.
The walk to him isn't the champion truthful helium lays it disconnected to Palmer 20 yards retired and his onslaught is tipped implicit the apical for a corner.
Full clip from Graeme Bryce astatine St Andrews
Seven-times Superbowl victor Tom Brady and his adjacent pal David Beckham some decided to springiness this crippled a miss.
Mugs!
Because they missed an implicit epic necktie arsenic League One Birmingham and Premier League Newcastle went toe-to-toe to nutrient an all-time FA cupful classic.
Brady, a number shareholder successful Birmingham City, is successful New Orleans wherever helium volition commentate connected tonight's Superbowl.
But determination is nary mode Philadelphia's Eagles volition excavation deeper than Eddie Howe's Magpies - nary accidental Kansas City volition conflict harder than Birmingham City did here.
At full-time arsenic weary players dropped to the turf, St Andrew's roseate arsenic 1 to applaud 2 sets of players who gave perfectly everything for 90 sensational minutes.
When the particulate settled Joe Willock's treble settled this belter of a tie, portion Brum's Tomoki Iwata had to settee for scoring arguably the extremity of the season.
KICK-OFF!
Underway astatine the Amex!
The teams are out
It's been a superb time of FA Cup enactment and we've an all-Premier League to headdress it off.