Furious Lewis Dunk destroys Brighton team-mates with comments on 7-0 thrashing

Brighton & Hove Albion suffered their heaviest decision successful much than fractional a period arsenic Nottingham Forest scored 7 unanswered goals astatine the City Ground connected Saturday

Brighton skipper Lewis Dunk deed retired astatine the Seagulls' "embarrassing" show successful their 7-0 decision astatine Nottingham Forest.

Dunk's first-half ain extremity acceptable Forest connected their way, and Nuno's broadside bounced backmost brilliantly from their 5-0 reverse astatine Bournemouth past clip out. Chris Wood stole the headlines with a hat-trick, portion Morgan Gibbs-White, Neco Williams and Jota Silva besides recovered the net.

The Seagulls had a accidental to ascent arsenic precocious arsenic eighth successful the array if results went their way. Instead, they are looking implicit their shoulders, and volition autumn into the bottommost fractional if Brentford bushed Tottenham connected Sunday.

It was Brighton's heaviest ever top-flight defeat, and their heaviest successful immoderate contention since the 1960s. Speaking to TNT Sports aft the game, skipper Dunk didn't mince his words.

"Everything [went wrong]. It was embarrassing," Dunk said. "We fto ourselves down. We fto the travelling fans down. We fto the fans astatine location down. We person to instrumentality it connected ourselves. It was america retired determination that performed similar that. We person to look ourselves successful the reflector and bounce backmost adjacent week.

"I don't deliberation we played with capable strength oregon wanted it enough. It's not bully to accidental arsenic a shot subordinate but we weren't bully capable today. As a full squad we didn't merit [anything]. It could person been adjacent more.

"We knew that we were coming present for a pugnacious game. They are flying successful the league and it is ever a pugnacious spot to come. That tough? Probably not. And that is connected ourselves. We person to enactment hard present and marque definite we don't fto ourselves oregon the fans down similar that again."

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Dunk said determination was thing for manager Fabian Hurzeler to accidental aft the collapse, insisting the squad volition person to enactment connected the grooming crushed to rebound. "Three games agone we were connected apical of the world again weren't we aft 2 wins successful a row?" helium added. "Now we're stone bottommost again."

Brighton's adjacent lucifer comes successful the 4th circular of the FA Cup, with Chelsea visiting the Amex Stadium. As luck would person it, their pursuing Premier League lucifer volition beryllium a c transcript of that fixture.

Forest are backmost connected their travels aft earning a seventh location leagie triumph of the season. They're up against League One broadside Exeter City successful the cup, followed by league trips to Fulham and Newcastle.

"It is each astir taking it crippled by game," Forest winger Anthony Elanga said successful effect to questions astir European qualifiaction. "We can't beryllium complacent. We person to support moving hard and proceed to fto our shot bash the talking and fto the fans proceed to believe."

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