Brighton boss Fabian Hurzeler says referee Michael Oliver instructed him he made a ‘mistake’ that aided Crystal Palace’s first objective.
The Seagulls’ winless run prolonged to a fourth sport as Palace took house the spoils within the M23 derby with a 3-1 victory on the Amex Stadium.
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A primary-half strike from Trevoh Calobah and Ismaila Sarr‘s double put the guests up 3-0, though an personal objective from Marc Guehi gave Brighton a late comfort.
Nonetheless, Hurzeler was left fuming over the build-up that led to Chalobah’s opener.
As Crystal Palace mounted a counter-attack, referee Oliver unintentionally received in the best way of Baleba.
The counter-attack ended with Palace profitable a nook, from which one other nook adopted.
It was from the second nook Chalobah slammed the ball into the roof of the online to present Palace the lead.
However talking after the match, Hurzeler revealed it ought to by no means have gotten to that time because of Oliver’s error.
“When the referee says after the sport it’s his mistake, I do not perceive why he does not cease the sport,” Hurzeler mentioned.
“Unbelievable for one thing like this to occur.”
Though Hurzeler might have complaints concerning the lead-up to Chalobah’s objective, there was little he might moan about concerning Sarr’s double.
Seagulls right-back Tariq Lamptey fully misjudged a excessive ball that allowed Palace’s Tyrick Mitchell to regulate the ball and whip in an inviting cross that Sarr headed house.
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Lewis Dunk turn out to be the following Brighton defender to serve up a expensive error when he misplaced a bodily problem towards Eddie Nketiah, permitting Sarr to brush the Seagulls skipper apart earlier than coolly slotting previous Bart Verbruggen for Palace’s third.
Nketiah had a golden likelihood to open his Premier League account for Palace after Guehi’s personal objective as all of Brighton’s defenders had been contained in the guests’ half.
Nonetheless, the previous Arsenal ahead’s chipped effort over the on-rushing Verbruggen landed huge of the objective.
Brighton had their probabilities all through, however a number of excellent stops from Eagles gloveman Dean Henderson stored them out.
Henderson’s best save got here when he produced a fingertip effort along with his left hand to show Julio Enciso‘s pushed strike previous the left submit.
The defeat to Palace marked the primary time Hurzeler had tasted defeat at house as Brighton supervisor.
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It was additionally the primary time in six video games Palace had recorded a win over Brighton within the league.
One other exceptional stat to emerge from the competition was the actual fact Brighton’s loss marked their sixtieth defeat of their final 180 Premier League fixtures, with 60 wins and 60 attracts rounding out the determine.
Hurzeler and his squad will look to keep away from their winless streak extending to a fifth match once they journey to the capital for a conflict towards West Ham United on December 21.
