EPL: Brighton holds Tottenham to draw

By Daily Sports on April 18, 2018

Harry Kane’s 26th league goal of the season could not get Spurs back to winning ways as Brighton earned a deserved 1-1 draw at the Amex Stadium.

His close-range finish, three minutes after half-time, was harsh on the Seagulls who had limited the visitors’ forward line before the break.

Brighton were handed an opportunity to level within moments of the opener when Serge Aurier bundled Jose Izquierdo over in the box, and a hand from Hugo Lloris was not enough to keep out Pascal Gross’ powerful spot-kick.

The draw takes Brighton eight points above the bottom three, while the result gives Chelsea a small chink of light for a top-four spot, with Tottenham eight points clear of the Blues having played a game more.

Brighton’s air of confidence was not what you would expect from a side four games without a win. They gave Hugo Lloris a scare when he fumbled Lewis Dunk’s header but the Frenchman gathered before he was punished.

Lloris’ errors have cost Spurs three goals in as many games but there was nothing too testing about Brighton’s efforts before half-time, and Matt Ryan was the busier goalkeeper, tipping a long-range effort from Lucas Moura and Heung-Min Son’s low shot behind.

Kane had been off-colour before the break, slipping as he fired a free-kick over and also finding row Z with a wayward long-range strike, but he did what he does best three minutes after the break.

Son did excellently to keep the ball in when it ricocheted off Lucas Moura, out-muscling Dunk before beating Ryan to the ball and inadvertently finding Kane, who smashed into the net via a deflection off Bruno.

Brighton needed just 18 seconds after the restart to find a route back into the game, when Izquierdo received a lovely reverse pass from Glenn Murray and was knocked to the floor by Aurier’s clumsy challenge.

Gross stepped up with Murray taken off penalty duties and smashed the ball beyond Lloris despite the France international’s best efforts.

Tottenham responded with Lucas Moura missing the near post and Shane Duffy diverting Christian Eriksen’s cross just beyond the far one with little idea where the ball would end up, but dropped points for the second game in succession to fall off the pace in the race for second place.

•Story (except headline) sourced from Sky Sports. Photo shows Spurs’ hot shot Harry Kane in action

Source Daily Sports

Posted April 18, 2018


 

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