Danny Welbeck scored twice to give Brighton a big win over champions Liverpool. Re-live this Premier League game with the best facts and Opta data in our Brighton vs Liverpool stats page.
Brighton & Hove Albion beat Liverpool 2-1 at the Amex Stadium on Saturday to boost their European prospects, while dealing another blow to Arne Slot’s side’s hopes of a top-four finish.
Fifth place is likely to also be a UEFA Champions League qualification spot again, but even that is far from certain for a Liverpool team now without a win in the Premier League in three games (D1 L2).
Brighton have won four of their last five league games (L1), as many as in their previous 18 matches in the competition (D7 L7).
A goal in either half from Danny Welbeck handed Brighton the points on a sunny day on the south coast, with Liverpool’s only positive moment of the game being Milos Kerkez’s equaliser.
Slot’s men looked tired compared to their hosts, having to manage injuries to key figures as well as playing this game just 62 hours after an energetic win over Galatasaray on Wednesday. This was their fifth loss follow a Champions League fixture this season (W4 D1).
Liverpool were already without Alisson and Mohamed Salah after both suffered injuries in midweek, and there was another big blow just eight minutes into this game as top scorer Hugo Ekitiké was forced off following a challenge from former Red James Milner. Curtis Jones replaced the French striker, but it threw Liverpool off after a bright start, ultimately leading to the hosts taking the lead in the 14th minute.
Giorgi Mamardashvili, in for the injured Alisson, carelessly passed the ball out of play for a Brighton throw. The Seagulls took it quickly, with Ferdi Kadioglu crossing to the far post for Diego Gómez to head back across goal and Welbeck to rise above Ibrahima Konaté and head in the opener.
It was Welbeck’s 11th Premier League goal of the season, his outright most in a single campaign in the competition, while it was also Gómez’s first assist in the Premier League in his 44th appearance.
Former Brighton midfielder Alexis Mac Allister almost levelled things with a fine header from a Dominik Szoboszlai cross, but Bart Verbruggen got down well to his left to push it behind for a corner.
Liverpool did equalise on the half-hour mark, though, and as with Brighton’s goal, it was sloppy play at the back that led to it. A long ball from the visitors was headed back to his goalkeeper by Lewis Dunk, who hadn’t realised Kerkez had run in behind him. The Hungarian deftly lifted his finish over Verbruggen and into the net to level things.
It was just Liverpool’s fourth goal in the first half of an away Premier League game this season; only Sunderland (3) and Wolves (2) have scored fewer.
It took just 10 minutes into the second half for Brighton to get back in front, and it came from a sublime ball from Yankuba Minteh was diverted back across goal by Jack Hinshelwood, allowing Welbeck a simple tap in. A lengthy VAR review determined the former Manchester United and Arsenal striker was just about onside.
Gómez came close to making it three, but his free-kick just after the hour was well saved by Mamardashvili, while Verbruggen made an equally impressive stop from Jones just two minutes later.
Cody Gakpo also forced a save from the Brighton goalkeeper late on, but Liverpool very much looked like a team that had all their main attacking threats out injured as they failed to find a way back into the game.
It was Liverpool’s 10th Premier League loss of the season, the first time they have been beaten as often since 2015-16 (also 10).
Defeat leaves the Reds’ hopes of playing in the Champions League next season in serious threat, while Brighton can continue to dream of European qualification themselves.
Our Opta match centre delivers you all the Brighton vs Liverpool stats from their Premier League meeting at the Amex Stadium on Saturday.
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Brighton vs Liverpool: Selected Post-Match Facts
Liverpool have conceded 42 goals in the Premier League this season, already more than in each of their last two campaigns (41 in 2023-24 and 2024-25), last conceding more in 2022-23 (47). All four of Liverpool defender Milos Kerkez’s Premier League goals have come away from home, while since the start of last season only Daniel Muñoz (14), Rayan Aït-Nouri (13), Jurriën Timber (12) and Gabriel Magalhães (11) have more goal involvements in the competition among defenders than the Hungarian (10 – 4 goals, 6 assists). Virgil van Dijk made his 265th appearance for Liverpool in the Premier League, all of which have been starts; it’s the outright most appearances for an outfield player at a club while starting all of them in the competition’s history, overtaking Des Walker’s 264 appearances at Sheffield Wednesday.Enjoy this? Subscribe to our football newsletter to receive exclusive weekly content. You should also follow our social accounts over on X, Instagram, TikTok and Facebook.
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